Product Reviews on Items
Marketed and Sold to Truck Drivers

Have you ever wished you could read product reviews on items marketed to and sold to truck drivers, particularly at truck stops, before you plunk down your hard-earned money? Then you've come to the right place.

Through this website, we provide real world tips that help professional truck drivers save hard-earned money and personal reporting about products and services for use on the road.

On this page, we will link to specific items that we have personally tested, including those we have used in the trucks we have driven. We provide the pros and cons.

We are also asking for your product reviews of items marketed to or used by truckers, those for your own personal use and those for use in your truck. All professional truck drivers use products in the course of their work. What have you found that works or doesn't? Review it! If you're like us, you've walked around in the chain truckstops and seen lots of items for sale in the travel stores. You've been around long enough to know that some of those items just look cheap -- even though they may be sold at what seems like a premium price! Some items may indeed be sturdy, durable, long-lasting and worth the cost while others aren't worth a plugged nickel.

Here's our list of product reviews that we have personally written (linked) and plan to review (not yet linked):

• 12 volt DC inverter
• 12-Volt Tornado Fan.
• Aluminum forms holder
• Arctic Breeze Truck AC
• Bubba Keg
• Coleman ice chest
• The Enforcer king pin lock
• Debbie Meyer^™ GreenBags^®
• Freightliner Cascadia
• Krud Kutter
• Mountain House Freeze Dried Scrambled Eggs with Bacon
• Mountain House Freeze Dried Beef Stew
• Nighthawk Ultralight
• Pot-n-Pop
• PowerHunt 12 volt products
• Presto Kitchen Kettle (hot pot)
• Seagate Portable Hard Drive
• Siphon pump
• Snapware
• Thermoelectric cooler
• Thetford Porta Potti 365
• Tire pressure monitoring system
• The Trucker's Friend: National Truck Stop Directory
• Trucker's Workstation ™ Laptop Stand by Cyber Trucker

For truckers looking to publish their own e-books, Vicki reviewed an Amazon Marketing Book by Shelley Hitz.

We are seeking product reviews from professional drivers on all sorts of items. (By the way, we believe that if a trucking product manufacturer makes a claim, we believe that truckers deserve substantiation of it.)

While we will be expanding this list (and do not endorse any product listed below), we would especially like to have product reviews on the following:

• 12-volt products:
  • bunk warmers and heaters
  • cooking appliances
    • RoadPro Portable Stove
    • Tracker Lunchbox Oven
  • coolers (for food)
  • fans
    • RoadPro Portable Fan
  • insulated cups and thermoses
  • inverters, power adapters and battery guards
  • truck accessories
• Aerodynamic improvers
  • Airtab aerodynamic fuel economy savers and vortex generators
• Auxiliary Power Units (APUs):
  • Carrier
  • Dynasys by Hodyon
  • Go Green APU
  • ThermoKing
• Barjan products
• Bostech Fuel EGR Coolers
• Call Capture cellular signal amplifier
• CB radios:
  • Cobra (all models)
  • Galaxy
  • Uniden
• Cigarette smoking cessation/replacement products:
  • Filtrim
  • Nicorette
  • NJOY
  • Smoke Away
• Cooking appliances:
  • Max Burton Digital Stove to Go Digital Cooker
• Energy bars, meal replacement bars, snack bars:
  • Detour
  • FiberOne
  • Kashi GoLean
  • Lean Muscle
  • Marathon Energy
  • MET-Rx
  • Nature Valley Granola
  • Power Bar
  • Supreme Protein
  • South Beach Living
  • Special K Protein
• Energy shots or drinks:
  • 5-Hour Energy
  • Amp
  • Full Throttle
  • HYPE
  • Monster Energy
  • Red Bull
  • RockStar
• Entertainment options:
  • VuQube
• Exercise programs:
  • "Truckercise"
  • Road-Fit
• FireStik^® antennas
• Food products:
  • Heater Meals
• Fuel additives:
  • Envirotabs
  • Diesel Boost Plus by NorthingtonEnergy
  • FPPF Fuel Power
  • Howes Lubricator
  • Power Service Diesel 9-1-1^®
• Fuel Shark
• GPS units:
  • Cobra
  • Garmin
  • Magellan
  • PC Miler
  • Rand McNally
• Innovation Factory Truckers Friend
• Lubricants
  • Lucas Fifth Wheel and Slider Lube
  • Lucas Upper Cylinder Lubricant
  • U.S. Lube Oil Enhancer
  • U.S. Lube Upper Cylinder Lube & Injector Cleaner
• Lug nut torque indicators
• The Mud Flap Jack
• Nap Zapper Anti-Sleep Alarm
• Neck wrap products
• Personal hygiene items:
  • Klenz XXL Shower in a Towel
• Security devices:
  • king pin locks
  • glad hand locks
  • trailer door locks
• Smell Zapper Odor Eliminator
• Strap winding products
  • Easy Belt Roller Pull Cord Strap Winder
  • Time Bandit Electronic Cargo Strap Winder
• Trailer Locking Pin Locator
• TruckFridge (all models)
• TyrFil (R) polyurethane tire fill
• Truck Spec^® products

We make a distinction between products like this that don't come equipped on a truck and truck parts. Just because you don't see an item listed doesn't mean that you can't write a review about it. If you are interested in providing a product review, please see the information under our money saving tip below.

Please note: We also have pages where drivers may review truck parts, truck services and truck stops.

* Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports

Money saving tip: If you have ever pulled up product reviews or customer ratings on a website to see what the editors, experts or users have written, you know that people sometimes take great pains to give the pros and cons of using various items to encourage or warn future buyers, as the case may warrant. The magazine Consumer Reports contains "reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory."* In this case, you are the consumer; you do your own product testing. Just because an item may be sold in a truckstop -- supposedly for use in trucks -- does not mean that it will work well in trucks. If you find something particularly appealing or disturbing, your review can mean the difference between a sale and a pass at the store by a fellow driver. Think of it as either a personal recommendation (like a money saving tip) or a personal warning like you would give face-to-face. Did you know that you as a professional truck driver can write a review -- like the one on or linked from this page -- to help other truckers in the worldwide trucking community? You can even earn money in so doing.

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