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Operator to train in CNN’s Fit Nation program this year
“I was on my way back to Texas and didn’t have a webcam,” says Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller about the circumstances in which he filmed what has become a winning entry to take part in CNN’s 2012 Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge. “I pulled off the interstate, went into a Walmart and bought what […]
January 28, 2012
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Heads-up: NY Times on truckers’ health
The U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, devoted significant ink to many truck drivers’ moves toward improving their health in their Monday edition. The primary feature, by Abby Ellin and well-illustrated with pictures of many of the drivers she talked to, charts a rise in concern among industry associations, trucking companies, truck stops […]
November 22, 2011
Channel 19
Foiling the truck-hackers, winning the triathlon
What’s next, “Truckhacking?” If this doesn’t lend new urgency to the technical standards FMCSA’s mulling for EOBRs, I don’t know what does. Craig Trudell reported yesterday in Bloomberg BusinessWeek on a team of “carhacking” researchers out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington, who found during a study that they […]
October 14, 2011
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Phone app for getting around GATS in Dallas next week
If you’re saying “Man I sure could have used that last year,” I can assure you you’re not alone. The new Great American Trucking Show app for various smartphone platforms, put together by the show’s owners (Randall-Reilly Business Media & Information, publishers of Overdrive) with Core Apps and sponsored the Cummins Engine Corp., puts an interactive, searchable map of […]
August 18, 2011
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Prime driver hauls in national swimming championship
Leased owner-operator Siphiwe Baleka, with Springfield, Mo.-based Prime Inc., won two national championships at the 2011 U.S. Masters Swimming Spring Nationals in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday, April 29. Baleka, who joined Prime three years ago, won first place in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle with the second fastest times of the year. He also […]
May 25, 2011
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Outside the truck: Ultrarunner to tame the ice roads
Starting Wednesday, reports the Toronto Sun, ultrarunner Alicja Barahona will attempt a 240-mile round-trip haul between Inuvik, north of the Arctic Circle, and Tuktoyaktuk on the shore of the Arctic Ocean on the ice road that is the frozen McKenzie river in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Made well-known for the truck travel there when the History Channel […]
April 4, 2011
Business
Truckers discuss real-world health problems
Truckers reviewed health problems and challenges of coping with them at an international conference on driver health in Baltimore.
November 10, 2010
Channel 19
Fitness and health to be big themes at GATS
Named for the laudable goal of launching truck drivers writ large past the statistical driver’s average age of death (less 61 years, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 years younger than the average American), the 61+ Driver Health Awareness Walk of 2010 will take place Aug. 28 at the Great American […]
August 11, 2010
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J marks the spot: Running with Jazzy in Nashville, Tenn.
Or, actually, Donelson and Hermitage, both part of Metro Nashville, and then into Mt. Juliet briefly on a trek that was a personal best for me in terms of uninterrupted, long-distance running. I achieved 4.6 miles over the course of the first 50 minutes Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan ran Tuesday morning. The 17-year-old is on her way […]
March 31, 2010
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