Tag: Big Al Weekley

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Drivers’ safety conversation continues
If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]
December 20, 2011
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Modest proposal: ‘Let regulators have what they want’
Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wenners’ modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, “ban truck […]
December 12, 2011
Big Al
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About truckin’ time: Tony Justice record in stores Dec. 6
“It’s about truckin’ time,” says Tony Justice, East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and the songwriter behind the upcoming “On the Road” album (I wrote about it last month here). It’s due out in all Pilot Flying J stores Dec. 6. It’s a trucking album by a trucker and for truckers, Justice notes, and stay tuned on […]
November 26, 2011
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Dispatch Me Home radio network launches
Host Big Al Weekley will broadcast via online radio bluegrass and country music, trucking news and live interviews in an expanded format.
November 21, 2011
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Online trucker network launches Monday
The host of the online radio trucking  program “Dispatch Me Home” is starting an online network of the same name with additional music and other programming. It will launch at 10 a.m. CST Nov. 21, says host Big Al Weekley. The network is based at www.DispatchMeHomeRadio.com. Weekley produces the network with Bruce Wieser, known as […]
November 18, 2011
Big Al Weekley also drives long-haul.
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Overdrive’s Lucinda Coulter on Big Al’s show this week
Tune into Big Al Weekley’s Dipatch Me Home Radio streaming broadcast this week for an interview with Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter about the magazine’s 50th anniversary special coverage and her place in it. A prime place it is. Coulter headed up our Overdrive Retro website for more than a year preceding the anniversary issue, […]
September 13, 2011
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Channel 19 news round-up: flooding, radio, TSE, petition…
Vid tour through I-680 flood damage As Missouri River floodwaters receded from flood stage this month after a long summer of high water, Iowa DOT officials finally got a look at I-680 at the I-29 interchange, and the damage done to both roadways is just stunning (pictured courtesy of Iowa DOT; more info on detours/outlook […]
September 1, 2011
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Overdrive top 10 songs streaming online this week
Longtime trucking radio host “Big Al” Weekley have put together a two-hour program that will stream from the Dispatch Me Home Radio website 24-7 throughout the week. It’s all starting, well, now, and featuring a run through trucking history via our Top 10 Trucking Songs of all-time poll.  If you missed the polling results last […]
August 9, 2011
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Updating the top 10 trucking songs of all time
Ten years ago, we asked, you told, then voted. Here are those results. Likewise a call to action: What song would you nominate, either on this list or not, for the No. 1 trucking song of all time today? Drop us a comment toward an updated top 10 for 2021!
August 4, 2011
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