email address: highwayboundrvt@gmail.com
About Me
Hey, I’m Jen.
I’ve spent the last eight years driving a truck across all 48 continental states, which means I’ve seen a pretty good chunk of America through a windshield — usually while looking for somewhere to park a 70-foot vehicle that apparently nobody planned parking for.
I’ve hauled through snow-covered mountain passes, brutal summer heat, middle-of-nowhere back roads, major cities, construction zones that never seem to end, and more truck stops than I could possibly remember. Somewhere along the way, trucking stopped being something I did for a paycheck and became a pretty big part of who I am.
Which is funny, because this was not the original plan.
Before trucking, I was a retail manager.
I hated it.
Not in the polite “it just wasn’t for me” kind of way. I mean I genuinely hated just about everything about it — the stress, the endless nonsense, the long hours and that wonderful feeling of waking up every morning already annoyed about going to work.
Eventually I reached the conclusion that there had to be something better out there.
Turns out, there was.
I climbed into a truck and found a career that gave me something I hadn’t really had before: independence, challenge, purpose and the freedom to see a ridiculous amount of this country while getting paid to move the stuff that keeps it running.
Trucking certainly isn’t easy. Anybody who tells you otherwise has probably never spent six hours sitting at a receiver wondering whether everyone inside the building forgot you existed.
But I love this industry.
I love the people in it, the independence that comes with the job and even some of the absolute insanity that seems to follow trucking wherever it goes.
That’s ultimately why I created Highway Bound.
This site isn’t meant to be another trucking publication written from an office by somebody explaining to drivers what life on the road is supposedly like.
I’m already out here.
Highway Bound is where I take trucking news, FMCSA regulations, freight-market changes, new technology and whatever other strange thing the industry manages to come up with this week and look at it from the driver’s side of the windshield.
Sometimes that means digging through reports and government documents.
Sometimes it means asking whether the latest “great idea” from the industry actually makes any sense once a real truck and driver are involved.
And sometimes it just means looking at the latest bit of trucking chaos and saying what everyone else out here is already thinking.
The goal here isn’t to tell drivers what to think. It’s to give you the facts, add some real-world trucking perspective, call out the nonsense when it deserves it, and hopefully make this industry a little more interesting to talk about along the way.
Whether you’ve been driving for twenty years, just got your CDL, own a truck, drive for a company, or you’re simply trying to understand why truckers complain about parking so much, you’re welcome here.
This is Highway Bound.
Trucking news, industry commentary, stories from the road — and occasionally a little sarcasm when the situation clearly calls for it.
Which, in trucking, is pretty often.