Last updated: November 14, 2026 Getting a job offer from a trucking company feels great after weeks of searching. But here's something a lot of new and experienced drivers learn the hard way: the offer letter almost never tells the whole story. Pay per mile, home time, equipment, benefits — these all sound simple on paper, but the real numbers only show up once you're three months into the job and checking your settlement statement with confusion. That's exactly why you need a list of questions to ask before accepting a truck driving job. Recruiters are trained to sell you on the good parts. It's your job to dig into the details they'd rather skip over — starting with the very first question for phone interview screening and continuing through the full set of phone screen interview questions a recruiter asks you, all the way to the moment you're deciding whether to sign. Below are twenty questions to ask a recruiter that separate a solid trucking career from...
Last updated: November 15, 2026 Most truckers meet IFTA and IRP the hard way. A letter arrives. Or an officer at a scale house asks for a cab card nobody remembers ordering. Or the first quarterly fuel tax return is due in nine days, and the person who was supposedly "handling all that" turns out to be no one at all. The same story plays out a dozen ways, and it always ends with somebody paying more than they needed to, simply because nobody sat down and explained how the two systems fit together. So let's do that. This guide covers the International Fuel Tax Agreement and the International Registration Plan side by side, in plain English, with one fake-but-realistic truck running through both so you can see actual numbers. It's written for owner-operators, small fleet owners, drivers leased onto a carrier, and anyone about to buy their first rig. If you've ever typed "IRP trucking" or "IFTA trucking" into a search box at 11 p.m., it...