Cutting across Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, Lookout Mountain Parkway is a perfect 120-mile detour, regardless of your destination. If you have a little spare time before you need to reach your destination—whether you are traveling for your own personal adventure or on business—make sure you travel at least some stretch of this road filled with [...]
Truck Routes: Blue Ridge Parkway
With the exception of 1949, the Blue Ridge Parkway has been the most visited component of the National Park System every year since 1946. This stretch of road connects the Shenandoah National Park with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Linking these two national parks, the Blue Ridge Parkway passes through 29 counties in Virginia [...]
Truck Routes: Route 1
Route 1 (US-1) is a major highway that can take you more that 2,300 miles from the very tip of Florida up to the northeastern coastline of Maine. Running adjacent to the Atlantic coast, Route 1 is a much more scenic route than Interstate 95 which is situated to the west. The Southern leg of [...]
Best Road Trips: Route 1
Route 1: The Atlantic Highway Last week, we highlighted one of the most scenic drives in the country, Route 101, the Pacific Coast Highway. This week, we’re taking a look at another beautiful trip, this time on the opposite coast: Route 1 runs the entire length of the East Coast, from Fort Keith, Maine at [...]
Best Road Trips: Route 101
Trucking services can sometimes be a slo0g–try driving straight through the middle of the country sometime and see how sick you get of corn fields and nondescript highways–but driving around the United States can also lead to seeing and visiting some amazing places. We’ll be looking at some of the country’s best road trips in [...]
Trucking Heroes: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though our 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, never drove a truck himself, he is, in many ways, responsible for the lifeblood of the trucking services industry–and the nation’s economy as a whole. It was President Eisenhower who, inspired by Germany’s new Autobahn network, championed the creation of a similar system for the United States: the [...]
Trucking Heroes: Merle Haggard
Few country musicians have lived the life quite like Merle Haggard. From day one, when Haggard was born in a boxcar his father converted into a home, Haggard has had a lifetime of experiences to draw on. Even his surname seemed to hint at the kind of man he’d become. After his father died of [...]
Notable Truck Stops: Part II
Continuing our list from last week, here’s a few more of the best truck stops to visit in the Unites States, whether you work in trucking services or not. Alamo Casino (Sparks, Nevada): There are few things the state of Nevada likes more than gambling, so it may not surprise you to learn the state’s penchant [...]
Notable Truck Stops
The United States has a large and intricate network of truck stops to help expedited shipping and overnight shipping drivers get their loads across the country, but as anyone who’s ever undertaken their own road trip knows, truck stops are pretty useful (and can definitely be interesting) for regular driver as well. With that in [...]
The Longest Trucking Route Ever?
If a client needs expedited shipping on a load, the trucking company has to do whatever it takes to get the shipment where it needs to go in the appropriate amount of time. Usually, that means using multiple drivers to keep the shipment moving continuously, even overnight, as we often do at Quick Transfer. Sometimes, [...]
