Truck driver accessories are a must for a comfortable truck driving life on the road. Here are our favorite trucking gadgets that make truck driving life easier, and for under $100 each.
Practical Hand Tools for Truck Driving
The right tool at the right place and time is a beautiful thing. If you’re an experienced driver, you’ve probably found there’s a way you like to set up for the road. It’s always to have a tool or gizmo that makes your day a little easier.
Pin Puller
Having a pin-puller is a matter of safety as much as convenience. This is an unassuming tool that does a simple job. You can find others but this one is longer, less expensive, and it has a better rating.
United Pacific Chrome 31″ Fifth Wheel Pin Puller
Pre-Trip Inspection Tool
Not to be outdone, this minimalist tool fits in your shirt pocket. It gives you several tools to complete your pre-drive inspection. It has gauges to measure your tire and brake wear, as well as windshield chip size.
Telescoping Mirror
A telescoping adjustable mirror with a 360-swivel joint and LED illumination to inspect those hard-to-see places in your vehicle’s drive train and suspension, is a must. It saves you from clambering around under your truck in darkness and bad weather.
Telescoping LED Lighted Inspection Mirror
Communication on the Road
Bluetooth Headset
Headsets allow truck drivers to talk and drive at the same time ensuring safety. This inexpensive wireless headset by Comexion features a mute function, clear sound, noise cancelling and comfortable to wear.
Comexion Wireless Bluetooth Headset
Comfort in the Cab
Anything that makes work easier for commercial truckers is good for everyone. It’s an uncompromising lifestyle with few home comforts. Truckers need all the productivity supporting accessories they can get.
Gear Rack
Which truck driver doesn’t have multiple devices? When your dashboard has a limited area to accommodate GPS trackers, smartphones, and whatever else you want in reach, a gear rack helps to hold them all within an arm’s length.
Trucker Tough Dashboard Gear Rack
Tablet Holder
A secure tablet holder and mount is great to have in your truck. This floor tablet mount by Akron features a spring-loaded holder on a 22-inch aluminum arm. A pivoting gooseneck on this mount makes it optimal for viewing your device.
Seat and Back Cushion for Truckers
Truckers need every possible aid to long periods behind the wheel. After all, if you’re driving 10 to 13 hours per day, it takes a toll on your lower back and sciatic nerves. This seat and back cushion made by Everlasting will help to alleviate tailbone pressure and improve back comfort.
Everlasting Seat and Back Cushion
Laptop Holder and Tray
The EcoNour laptop multi-worktable attaches to your steering wheel. Use it as an eating table or work desk. The fit depends on your wheel. However, it’s a great idea if you’re short on eating time at the truck stop or filling in paperwork.
Cooking on the Road
These last three apply if you don’t have the latest in sleeper cabs. Finding good food on the road can be tricky. Although truck stops dining options are improving cafeteria fair, you sometimes still need to cook in the cab.
If you travel one route repeatedly over many months or years, the dinners, buffets, and fast food of the same old roadside restaurants don’t cut it. If your vehicle doesn’t have the kitchen facilities of an extended sleeper cab, these portable inventions can help make the most of what space you do have.
Portable Stove
It’s like a lunch box that heats your food. It’s literally the size of a tackle box, but it serves a purpose. The RoadPro does an excellent job of heating frozen food, soups, stews, or assorted leftovers. It plugs into truck 12-volt power outlets and reaches 300 degrees on its highest setting. Foil liner pans that fit atop the heating element keep the stove interior clean (Packs of 30 liners available).
Portable Fryer
If you love a cab-full of the smell of bacon and eggs in the morning, wherever you are, this is your frying pan for the road. It’s small but suitable for the trucking lifestyle, specifically designed to use inside a vehicle cab.
Portable Cooler and Warmer
OK, so, if you have a fully modern sleeper cab, it probably has more accessories than a Winnebago. But, if your ride isn’t quite a mobile palace, you might want to store food in a cooler and then heat it. If you’re making trade-offs for space, This 27 Quart Dual Cooler and Warmer is a single-unit solution for both. It works both with domestic AC and vehicle 12V DC, with power chords included.
Ivation Electric Cooler and Warmer
Other Truck Driver Gadgets to Consider
What Useful Trucking Gadgets Work for You?
These may not be essential to professional trucking, but each one might help out in a pinch. Trucking is a solitary profession. Unless you’re in a driving team, you need every labor-saving device you can get.
What truck driving accessory is your favorite?
Geoff is a freelance writer at TruckersTraining.com with 20+ years of experience driving trucks and buses, dispatching, supervising, and training commercial driving teams. His expertise is writing topics on the transportation and trucking industry, and information technology trends.
