This article stresses the importance of a professional line of communication between truck drivers and their dispatchers. It also explores the reasons for frequent breakdown of communication and understanding between the two. This philosophy and insight can be applied to almost any business situation.

America's highways and interstates are buzzing with over 3.4 million big trucks. Thousands of truck driving schools are dotted across the country, and tens of thousands of students pass through their doors each year. The trucking lifestyle is an integral part of American culture and many people, from all walks of life, are hitting the highways to escape the daily grind of a mundane existence, or to seek a new adventure. This article provides a candid glimpse, from a long-haul trucker's perspective, of a lifestyle that more and more Americans are choosing.