About The Truck Project

The Truck Project is an independent transportation publication. It exists to explain how heavy vehicles work, how freight moves, and how both of those things shape the roads that everyone else uses.

Much of the available writing on trucking is trade press aimed at people already in the industry, or incident coverage that arrives after a crash and leaves once the road reopens. This publication sits in between: explanatory work for readers who want to understand a braking system, a bridge weight formula, or a corridor traffic count without being sold anything.

What we cover

• Commercial trucks. Vehicle classes, weights, and mechanical systems. What separates a semi from a box truck or a straight truck, and what a commercial braking system has to do that a car's does not. More in Trucks.
• Road safety. Vehicle behavior and safety rules: stopping distance, blind spots, driver fatigue, and underride. More in Road Safety.
• Freight infrastructure. How heavy trucks use the Interstate system and what axle weight and spacing mean for bridge limits. More in Freight.
• Texas highways. The state's freight corridors and the planning role of I-35. More in Texas.
• Truck history and culture. The practical constraints of treating a truck body as a mobile space. More in History.

How the reporting works

The method is source-led and explanatory. An article starts from primary material: federal regulations, agency crash and inspection data, state transportation department counts and plans, engineering standards, manufacturer specifications, archival records. The job is to read those documents carefully, say what they establish, show the reader where to check, and stop at the edge of the evidence rather than filling the gap with a plausible guess.

That means the writing is document work, not field work. There are no test drives, no instrumented measurements, no ride-alongs behind any of it. Every article carries the sources it rests on, and the editorial policy sets out how facts, estimates, and opinion are kept apart.

Attribution

Articles are published under the byline The Truck Project Editorial Team. There are no individual staff bylines, and the publication does not claim professional standing, licensed expertise, or first-hand experience in the trucking industry. What is offered instead is a visible chain of citation: the documents are named on every page, so a reader can check the argument against the source rather than against a résumé.

Current status

This is the first edition of The Truck Project. Its editorial contact is hello@thetruckproject.com. The contact page covers inquiries, and corrections explains what a report of a factual error needs to contain. The privacy page distinguishes website activity from email correspondence.