Report: Highway conditions improve
State highway conditions are the best they’ve been in 19 years, according to Reason Foundation.09.07.10
| The program is designed to raise awareness of brakes and brake issues. 09.07.10
| The First Observer component is to recruit and train industry volunteers to report suspicious activities. 09.04.10
| Since the beginning of March, trucking companies have added 12,700 jobs, according to the preliminary numbers. 09.03.10
| A coalition proposed a short-term 10 percent tax credit buying Class 8 trucks with 2010 engines. Channel 19
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Massachusetts soda delivery driver bags $50,000
September 7, 2010
His name is Scott Matthews, and in case you missed the original television airing Sept. 1, you can check him out competing with a game partner in Atlanta Falcons cheerleader ...
Driver ‘health movement’ hitting stride
September 3, 2010
On the blog of the U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a shout-out was posted yesterday to the Heathy Trucking Association of America and the Trucking Solutions Group 61+ Driver Health Advisory ...
Stand-up treadmill desk begs question…; cargo theft connection to Jason’s Law?
September 2, 2010
In the P.R. copy blasted out with announcements about the new TrekDesk Treadmill Desk, the company talks about the dangers of the "sedentary lifestyle," noting studies of various characters that ...
Reporting cargo theft — balancing act in more ways than one…
August 30, 2010
Tune in Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern for the Truth About Trucking online radio program with host Allen Smith. My fellow Truckers News/Overdrive Senior Editor Max Kvidera and I will be ...
Rolling out to Dallas ‘Too Hot to Trot’ 5K
August 27, 2010
Well, folks, I finished -- no surprise to regular readers, I'd guess, since you've seen a little proof I can do some long-distance running. Get over a couple miles, though, for me, ...
Put your CD player in ‘Overdrive’ — hauler Joe Lee Smith reissues record
August 26, 2010
Sitting outside Overdrive sister mag CCJ's Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference in Dallas yesterday and typing away on a story, one of the presenters, with whom I've talked in years past, walked by ...
In defense of food transport
August 24, 2010
Tip of the hat to Marathon Trucker Jeff Clark for this one (and, readers, if you'll be at the Great American Trucking Show, beginning this coming Thursday, join Clark and ...
Tune in tonight!
August 23, 2010
It's going on a year since I chatted with Daniel Audet of Truckstar Radio for my Truckers News "Exit Only" piece about TruckStar Radio, his online radio show. Audet, formerly ...
Wiper blades with a cause
August 20, 2010
The folks behind the AutoTex Pink wiper blades tell me the blades are sized to fit 85 percent of heavy-duty trucks on the road, as well as all manner of ...
Honeybees get revenge on bear
August 19, 2010
North Carolina Wake County Sheriff's Deputy Brandon Jenkins had to sit in his cruiser for upwards of 15 hours yesterday after a truck driver under a load of honeybees had ...

