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Business

Book of photo essays spotlights essential nature of trucking, down under and beyond

Australian photographer/author Alice Mabin’s exceptional story is one of near-tragedy turned to new appreciation of the essential nature of trucking in all modern economies — her new book, “The Driver,” trumpets that message.

April 10, 2017

Business

Is your gut in order?

Does Wendy enjoying exercising? Grumpy cat answers, but the MATS2GATS Fitness Challenge is increasingly motivational for her and many others in practicing better health.

April 10, 2017

Channel 19

New book from a familiar hand: Overdrive’s own Wendy Parker

Something that had to happen here on Overdrive, but of course: The debut of George & Wendy Show writer Wendy Parker’s “100,000 Miles of Crazy: Adventures from the Road with George and Wendy.” The book’s out now, a compendium of the best of her blog’s first year.

March 14, 2017

Channel 19

Out now: ‘The Bison & the Butterfly’ — rollicking sequel to former owner-operator Fred Afflerbach’s ‘Roll On’ novel

A road novel of the classic sort, the new book builds on the foundations laid by its predecessor — Afflerbach’s empathic, often hilarious, moving depiction of two generations of men coming back together through lived experience after separation and loss is a master turn in the literary arts.

February 23, 2017

Life

Owner-operator Glenn Keller’s new book delivers a catharsis

Keller’s “Moving My Mountains: A Journey to Peace From Codependency” chronicles his lifelong struggles with codependent tendencies — the truck as a ‘security blanket,’ a ‘safe space’ — toward an ultimate peace through faith.

February 1, 2017

Life

Driver Todd McCann puts the ‘Trucker Dump’ podcast/blog between book covers

And more. 19-year veteran driver McCann has spent time organizing the book as an effective introduction to the world of long-distance trucking, capturing his whimsical and sometimes sarcastically humorous voice.

July 6, 2016

Channel 19

Monday round-up: 15L option in the making for Cat trucks, another ‘ghost fleet’ debuts

Interesting news bits in a Jack Roberts interview with Caterpillar about its split with Navistar on Cat trucks. And: Tip on the new “Ghost Fleet” novel war-gaming a near-future China-U.S. conflict, techno-thriller style.

August 3, 2015

Life

New kids’ book from 28-year trucking veteran

Jeffrey Otersen’s “Little Truckers: Feeling Scrappy” book for young readers tells the story of a classic living legend of a rig among the trucks of the Shamrock Lucky trucking company in Truckington, Ohio.

February 17, 2015

Channel 19

Two new books for the kids

One from close to home — children’s book “Papa Doug Hauls Strawberries and Smiles” from the TN Trucking Foundation — and former driver Susan Burton’s “My Auntie Susan Drives a Big Truck.”

February 10, 2015

Channel 19

‘Ghost Fleet’ becomes reality in new comic

The new “Ghost Fleet” comics series builds on the notion of such a fleet of “elite combat-trained truckers” hauling no-touch, no-look cargo. One of them “takes a forbidden peek at his payload” and “uncovers a conspiracy that will change his life forever!”

December 4, 2014

Business

Kenworth T880 promotes literacy

This Kenworth T880 features a 52-inch sleeper and a special Seattle Mariners theme — Aug. 26, it plays a part in a Paccar fund-raising effort outside Safeco Field in support of the Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program in Seattle.

August 26, 2014

Channel 19

Truck stop operator’s new novel set during the ‘Great War’

Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s “The Meaning of Names” interrogates the reality German-American communities in the U.S. were confronted with following the outbreak of World War I.

May 27, 2014