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Tag: Discovery Channel
Life
Boating never stops for âDeadliest Catchâ fisherman
Edgar Hansen will be featured in our October Celebrity Series Live Chat, sponsored by Delo. Stay tuned for more information.
August 30, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Worldâs Toughest Trucker contestants at Great West
Drivers Jason Johnson and William Carlos âL.A. Rookieâ Weekley (pictured) will be joining representatives of the Truck It Smart load matching service at their booth in Las Vegas at the Great West Truck Show, beginning Thursday. Not only have both drivers proven they can hang hauling loads in the Australian Outback and in the Himalayas, [âŚ]
June 12, 2012
Channel 19
Worldâs Toughest Trucker â premiering on Discovery Monday
Since I wrote briefly last Friday about this TV show, one in a long line of trucking shows to have debuted over the last year, Iâve garnered a little more info. Not least among it is the fact that Overdriveâs own new blogging owner-operator, Landstar expediter Phil Madsen, was himself approached last year by the [âŚ]
February 10, 2012
Channel 19
Flying high, running low: Friday Channel 19 news round-up
Big birds to fly by truckWriting on the New York Times blog yesterday, Matthew L. Wald delivered a little unexpected news about a flock of young whooping cranes currently settled down for the winter about 45 miles southwest of Decatur, Ala.: they would travel the last leg of this yearâs winter journey, led in large [âŚ]
February 3, 2012
Channel 19
âDeadliest Catchâ star to sign autographs at Louisville trucking show
The âDeadliest Catchâ TV show on the Discovery Channel, chronicling the lives of fishers on Alaskan King Crab boats, might seem as far removed from the world of long-haul trucking as itâs possible to be. But in a short couple weeks at the Mid-America Trucking Show at the Chevron Delo booth No. 14140, drivers from around [âŚ]
March 16, 2011
Channel 19
Tow-truckers echo long-haulers on Discoveryâs âWreck Chasersâ
In many ways, tow-truckers are the absolute opposites of long-haulers. The tow-truckers of the Discovery Channelâs new âWreck Chasersâ series, on a three week trial run that began with two half-hour episodes Monday, are trying to beat their competitors to the sight of a wreck, of course. In Philadelphia, among whose tow-truckers the story is [âŚ]
November 4, 2010
Business
Freightliner hybrid to haul âMythBustersâ equipment
A 2010 Freightliner M2 106 hybrid dry van will haul equipment for the Discovery Channelâs show, âMythBusters,â Daimler Trucks North America announced. The business class hybrid is equipped with selective catalytic reduction emissions technology, an Eaton parallel hybrid-electric drive unit and is compliant with the Environmental Protection Agencyâs emission standards. For details go to Freightliner [âŚ]
October 7, 2010
Channel 19
Meet the North Carolina âSwamp Loggersâ
Working his operation from Jacksonville, N.C., Bobby Goodson, owner of Goodsonâs All-Terrain Logging, is one of several pioneers of the method of âshovel loggingâ heâs become somewhat famous for today, thanks to the Discovery Channelâs âSwamp Loggersâ series. The reality show, depicting Goodson and crewâs work in the low-country swamps, helped propel the Discovery Channel to near the top prime time [âŚ]
June 30, 2010
Channel 19
The grand gesture â rival Maine log-hauling families spar
The Pelletiers and the Crawfords of Maine are known far and wide for their success in the log-hauling business in the north woods, the Pelletiers the subject of the Discovery Channelâs American Loggers series, which I wrote about in December when they took delivery of a couple new Mack Titans. The Crawfords, meanwhile, deserve and [âŚ]
March 10, 2010
Channel 19
Mack Titan to be featured in âAmerican Loggersâ TV series
When the Discovery Channel was looking for a company to feature in its new âAmerican Loggersâ television series, they turned to Gerald Pelletier Inc., a family-owned and operated business thatâs been working the rugged and remote North Maine Woods for three generations. This season marks the second for âAmerican Loggersâ and the Pelletiers. Airing on [âŚ]
December 17, 2009
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