What is Bobtail Truck Insurance?
The practice of driving an 18-wheeler vehicle without any trailer is called bobtailing. It is also known as deadheading in the US. Operators who are semi owners and make deadhead trips occasionally without or with dispatch are often required by the respective motor carrier to get special coverage, which is called Bobtail truck insurance.
“Semi-trucks” is the second name of big rig trucks. These are usually the monster trucks that are dominating the renders and roads, making all the vehicles insignificant which are surrounding it. However, these oversized vehicles have been formed with the combination of a tractor unit which is linked with the sheer size of a semi-trailer. The immense size of this vehicle is making it impossible to ignore.
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There is nothing quite as exhilarating and liberating as the open road. There is nothing but you, your vehicle, pavement, and your favorite podcasts to keep you company. Some of us carry vehicle commander “which really just fancy term for “guy in the passenger seat,” others bring our canine friends with us.
A bug shield or a bug deflector refers to an accessory that helps to keep insects away from the windshield of your vehicles. This device gets attached to the front (mostly to the hood) of the vehicle, which creates a slipping effect lifting all the debris over the windshield.
It’s the turn of the new decade and so much is changing in the world. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir becoming the first all-female International Space Station spacewalker. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had a baby, The Toronto Raptors won their first NBA Championship, and Jeff Bezos is still the richest man in the world. Naturally, so is the world of trucking changing at a rapid pace. Demand for trucking has grown with ever-growing requirements in the economy, more produce, market accessibility and the e-commerce boom all contributing to its cause. Business is booming and don’t we all like that?
So, your sitting in your captain's seat riding down interstate 20 about to start (hyperbole alert) the absolute most isolated stretch of concrete maybe in the world. You know which one I’m talking about, the distance of road between Dallas Fort Worth and El Paso, Texas.
Now, I’ve made cross-country trips countless times and…. my god that is a long, difficult part of cross-country trips.
Since watching Terminator as a child, I have always been both fascinated and unreasonably terrified at the thought of technology taking over the world.
Of course, Skynet never actually took over the world and threatened to unseat the human race as the world's most dominant species. But I’ve got to imagine this is how life must have looked in the fictional world created by James Cameron in the 1984 blockbuster hit, with Google taking the torch from SkyNet.
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