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Channel 19
Mack CEO on āUndercover Bossā this weekend; Overdrive editor on magazineās 50th anniversary
Mack prez works from the trenches Class 8 trucks come to CBS reality-TV seriesĀ Undercover Boss this weekend,Ā featuring Mack Trucks President & CEO Denny Slagle. The broadcast will be from 9-10 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Eastern and Pacific. In making the episode, as with others in the series, the company president went undercover to work side-by-side [ā¦]
February 14, 2011
Channel 19
TyroneMalone.net adds a Facebook page; more on driver pay
Since I wrote about TyroneMalone.net site proprietor andĀ owner-operator Ken Harris in the October edition of Truckers News and in Overdrive in smaller form around the same time, Harris has continued to make strides keeping the memory of onetime diesel showman Tyrone Malone and his apocryphal Bandal Diesel Racing Team alive. Most recently, heās launched a [ā¦]
January 28, 2011
Channel 19
Does less mean more? Driver pay in the CSA era
My feature in the January edition of Truckers News investigated a dynamic more and more fleets and their drivers are seeing coming to fruition as freight markets slowly return and, consequently, recruiting staffs expand and fleets begin to hire again. Nothing new there during a recovery, particularly, and the slow pace of this one might [ā¦]
January 26, 2011
Channel 19
Tony āthe truck stop tigerā ā calls from the driver community to uncage him
Nearly two years have passed since I first wrote about efforts by animal-rights activists (post from January 2009 originally on old Channel 19 blog home on Blogger.com)Ā to require Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin to relocate the caged Bengal-Siberian tiger on the site of stop. Itās been there as an attraction to [ā¦]
December 6, 2010
Channel 19
CSA 2010 Driverās Handbook now live
You may have seen it out at the truckstops already, but if not, I thought Iād take a moment today to alert you to our CSA 2010 Driverās Handbook, now online in an interactive digital version. Combining reporting from Overdrive and Truckers News editors (from myself to Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter and others) with [ā¦]
November 17, 2010
Channel 19
Complimentary advertisementā¦ and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC
Driver with a lens-load of cool Itās been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, āI am also sending this to Geico Insurance.ā He [ā¦]
October 8, 2010
Channel 19
Live online CD release party for āWhen the Big Rigs Donāt Rollā
Join the www.AsktheTrucker.com proprietors this Wednesday for a live online exclusive release event for a new record aimed squarely at the politically conscious among you. āWhen the Big Rigs Donāt Rollā is its title, and the country musicians/songwriters behind the 10 songs on the CD, David Ayers and Barry Allen, have birthed several winners in [ā¦]
August 16, 2010
Channel 19
āNo Parkingā ā another day in the trucking headlines
As the folks with AsktheTrucker.com report a soon-to-be-released musical paean to the truck parking legislation known as Jasonās Law, there are at least two new blows to truck parking availability worldwide: The first comes from Arnold, Mo., where state rep and former truck driver Tim Meadows was on record supportingĀ an aggressive local ban on truck [ā¦]
July 12, 2010
Channel 19
Jasonās Law support continues to grow
Monday, June 28,Ā was the day supporters ofĀ the Jasonās Law trucking parking safety and security legislation were callingĀ for aĀ united front fromĀ theĀ community of drivers and others in the industry toward its passage; I was on the road most of the day,Ā and Iād be willing to bet others were in similar situations and missed that call. Among thoseĀ requesting [ā¦]
June 29, 2010
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