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Channel 19
Humor in all places: Weigh stations, auto hauler suppliersâŚ
Thatâll be $5, driver When we quizzed operators via Overdriveâs Facebook page about their funniest weigh-station memories, moving van hauler Robert McConnell didnât hesitate: âMany years ago at a Colorado scale, when you used to have to go in and get your little yellow paper, a fellow mover was there and, when asked what he was [âŚ]
April 30, 2012
Channel 19
Excerpting âRoll On,â a novel by Fred Afflerbach
The book is out, owner-operators. And what a book it is, telling the story, as Iâve written here, of owner-operator Ubi Sunt, an old-school âbedbuggerâ and child of the orphan trains facing down in the early 1980s an incoming rush of new faces, new ways of doing business, new pressure from his family to settle [âŚ]
April 17, 2012
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Roadside Attractions
New life for old classics, Loveâs connect app, the Aurora Borealis and more industry news and oddities are featured.
April 1, 2012
Channel 19
Former operatorâs novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents
Fred Afflerbach didnât set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. âThe owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are [âŚ]
March 13, 2012
Channel 19
My talk with the $25,000-winning âNavigator of the Yearâ
I got the grand opportunity to meet an owner-operator at the Great American Trucking Show last week who holds something of a grand distinction of being the only OO I know whoâs had a $25,000 check written to him just for being who he is. That owner-operator is St. Louis-based Edward Crumer (pictured), leased to [âŚ]
September 2, 2011
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