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Channel 19
Modest proposal: Ban all motorized transport already!
Buddy Wennersā December 2011 modest proposal for the Department of Transportation to dispense with all the rigmarole and āban truck drivingā ā penned in response to news of the handheld cell ban and otherwise the blizzard of new regs coming down the pike ā yesterday got some kudos from commenter Zach Bell. Itād be exciting, [ā¦]
June 21, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Lucky 13: Natural gas engines performing well in ready-mix
Chicago-based Ozinga Ready Mix drivers report plenty of power and responsive shifting from 13 Cummins-Westport natural gas-powered Kenworth mixer trucks now in operation, moving fromĀ its Chinatown Plant near downtown. āSince city officials are trying to reduce emissions from trucks that operate in downtown Chicago,ā says Tim Ozinga, company communications director, āwe thought placing all of [ā¦]
April 21, 2012
Channel 19
Owner-operatorsā road trip guide from Atlas
Atlas Van Linesā King of the Road operator survey, conducted earlier this year, garnered close to a couple hundred responses to questions running the gamut of operational details and preferences for various businesses delivering services to drivers the nation over. Favorite coffee? Dunkin Donuts. Best fast food? Subway. Biggest difficulty on the road? Eating right, [ā¦]
April 10, 2012
Channel 19
A salute to women truckers at MATS
Women in Trucking honored 67 women who had driven one million accident free miles, 36 who had reached two million safe driving miles, fifteen with three million mile records and seven women who had attained four million safe driving miles during their careers at MATS in 2012.
March 28, 2012
Channel 19
Evel Knievelās driver and the 1973 Overdrive interview
Unearthing the history behind Evel Knievelās 1970s touring operation with former driver Mike Draper. Bonus: Videos of the old Mack haul rig, currently undergoing restoration.
March 12, 2012
Channel 19
Southeastern Regional truck show one month hence
Mid-America had to start somewhere. āowner-operator Ted Bowers, president of the American Truck Historical Societyās Smoky Moutains chapter The show about which Bowers had those thoughts for me is a joint venture with his ATHS chapter and several others in the Southeast, and itās coming up quick: April 13-14 in Knoxville. Bowers made his comparison [ā¦]
March 11, 2012
Channel 19
āRoll On, Truck Driving Girlā: Introducing trucker-songwriter Lisa Godino
Harmony, N.J.-based Lisa Godino (pictured) is a self-proclaimed āfolk artist just trying to make a little noise anywhere I can,ā she says. Itās not always easy, as the kind of noise sheās talking about isnāt of the Class 8 diesel variety but music, and with ā50 hours a weekās worth of trucking, itās difficult to [ā¦]
March 8, 2012
Channel 19
Worldās Toughest Trucker ā premiering on Discovery Monday
Since I wrote briefly last Friday about this TV show, one in a long line of trucking shows to have debuted over the last year, Iāve garnered a little more info. Not least among it is the fact that Overdriveās own new blogging owner-operator, Landstar expediter Phil Madsen, was himself approached last year by the [ā¦]
February 10, 2012
Channel 19
āCourtesy not necessarily contagiousā: UPS driver after 50 accident-free years
Ohio resident and UPS driver Ron āBig Dogā Sowder (pictured) started his career with UPS in 1962 after serving in the Navy and answering an employment ad. On January 25, the driver marked 50 years hauling for the company ā all of it without an accident. Sowderās 4 million-plus safe miles have made him the [ā¦]
January 30, 2012
Channel 19
āMonkey gougerā Jimmy Ardis beats the odds to 4 million safe miles
Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis of Sumter, S.C., leased to Moultrie, Ga.-based Sapp Trucking, learned to drive āin a 1971 International 4070 cabover with a 250 Cummins in it,ā he says, running to the West Coast and back. Heād driven farm tractors prior to that. āI pretty well had it mastered by the time I went over [ā¦]
January 26, 2012
Channel 19
FMCSAās hours rule justification includes, well, guess whoā¦
You can imagine my surprise yesterday when, just as Iām perusing portions of the new hours ruleās full text in preparation for a story or two Iām putting together for Truckers News and Overdrive, I get an email from a colleague making note of the fact that none other than my own reporting is sourced [ā¦]
December 29, 2011
Channel 19
Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban wonāt work
As if hearing the plethora of truck driversā objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem of motorist distraction on the highways, the National Transportation Safety Board formally recommended that all personal electronic devices be banned from use while [ā¦]
December 15, 2011
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