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Business
Rising from the frozen planet
Down and out at an Alabama distribution center in the ice — and how just a little bit of goodwill goes a long, long way.
February 2, 2014
Business
Iced in: Interstates in Atlanta, Birmingham gridlocked due to impassable conditions
Chunks of some major Interstates in Atlanta and Birmingham have been closed or at a standstill for nearly a full day due to snow and ice. Here’s road closure information, along with photos from the scenes.
January 29, 2014
Business
Farmer’s Almanac of winter doom: Pack your chains, drivers
Latest get-rich-quick scheme: Full-service tire chain changing lane. “Just remember, people thought the Wright Brothers were crazy, too.”
August 28, 2013
Parking
Snow, wind play havoc on plains
Snow prompted Wednesday evening closures of I-70 in Kansas among other roadways.
December 20, 2012
Channel 19
J.J. Keller-sponsored musher wins Iditarod
The folks at trucking-industry publisher J.J. Keller & Associates announced this morning the awesome culmination of the company’s investment in young competitive musher Dallas Seavey (pictured from the trail), who came out on top in the Iditarod Alaskan sled-dog race finish Tuesday. With the win, Seavey’s Keller-sponsored team’s performance allowed him to become the youngest […]
March 17, 2012
Channel 19
Enter winter trucking photo competition, win cash
While Truckers News‘ monthly photo contests have gone on hiatus, the folks at job placement organization Truckers America have picked up the torch and are offering a cash incentive for haulers who can enter with the best winter trucking photo you have. With a snowy system passing through the Midwest and bearing down on the […]
January 12, 2012
Channel 19
Snow, snow, more snow; making the most of it
A Pilot Flying J stop on I-70 in Warrenton, Mo., is the subject of reporting on National Public Radio today, and I’d bet you can guess the subject matter. Hear audio of the story, which will be available at about 7 p.m. ET this evening. Suffice to say that truckstop employees Terri Brackney and Greg […]
February 2, 2011
Channel 19
Got snow?
Here in the Southeast (though in Nashville I’m approaching the region’s northern edge), it’s been uncommonly wintry this week, as you can see from this pic, taken at the Love’s on Trinity Lane at I-65. Further South, things have been much worse, though, evidenced in part by Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based driver Vernon Cook’s 24-hour wait […]
January 12, 2011
Channel 19
The costs of waiting out the storm
Beth Brelje, writing in the Pocono Record of Pennsylvania, visited with several truckers waiting out a snowstorm in a Wal-Mart parking lot off I-84. Such waits have been legion for the nation’s haulers this season, with record amounts of snowfall hitting places where a snow deluge is not such a common thing. It may be […]
March 1, 2010
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