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Take it to another channel
“Here’s the deal: talk all you want. Spout all the hate you want. Talk about your cat or your toenails or your mother’s underwear, but take it to another channel. Channel 19 is not your own personal radio station.”
May 28, 2014
Channel 19
Running in reverse: Channel 19 year in review, part 3
The ruckus that was the “Ride for the Constitution” and ongoing confusion over CARB’s emissions rules, irritation with CSA and a slight hope for hours flexibility rounded out 2013. Happy early New Year, drivers. Hang on tight…
December 31, 2013
Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 3
September-December 2012 on the Channel 19 blog — one operator reaches a milestone, amid ongoing industry conversation, weird-weird trucking news and …. Happy new year, drivers!
December 31, 2012
Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 2
Counting down the memories — May-August 2012 on the Channel 19 blog, when things heated up in more ways than three.
December 29, 2012
Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 1
Counting down the memories, of a fashion — if Channel 19 was all you read from January-April 2012, you couldn’t be criticized for thinking trucking was a wonderfully strange place to be.
December 27, 2012
Business
Notes on (barely) reaching new heights
What happens when Wendy Parker scales a mountain in her husband’s formerly native Phoenix? There’s a lot of “fear and trembling” involved — a lot of laughter, too.
November 7, 2012
Channel 19
Oil/gas boom in N.D. generates owner-operator opportunities
A report from an NPR listener bemoaned truck traffic in his native Watford City, N.D., associated with the oil boom — but that boom is proving golden for many owner-operators.
July 26, 2012
Channel 19
Awesome trucks and the fruits of debate: Two events upcoming
Round-up of two events upcoming: the big 2nd Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention meeting Oct. 27-28 and the ATHS Cookeville, Tenn., truck show Sept. 27-28.
July 25, 2012
Channel 19
Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption
The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries — […]
July 24, 2012
Channel 19
What’s cool about being a truck driver? Video contest details
The Minnesota Trucking Association is holding a video contest offering $1,000 to the winning entry that best answers the question “What would be cool about being a truck driver?”
July 24, 2012
Channel 19
Diesel exhaust listed by WHO as cancer causing agent
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, has formally categorized diesel exhaust as cancer-causing but fails to recognize advancements in diesel technology in the developed world.
July 23, 2012
Channel 19
Two custom ’80s Petes for the cabover fanatics
These two Peterbilt 362s, owned by Dustin Kunkel and John Bradford, respectively, we caught out at the Crossville, Tenn., show of the ATHS Music City Chapter.
July 21, 2012
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