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Mike Landis: Managing sticky situations in food-grade liquid bulk
The independent fell into his current dedicated hauling for a tank fleet based near his hometown in Lititz, Pa., hauling reefer freight in a trailer he owned. A mutual associate recommended his Landis & Sons one-truck business years ago to the tank fleet. Now, “They almost dispatch me as if I was one of their trucks.”
May 10, 2019
Business
Dennis Holliday: A ‘smart’ move to hazmat chemical tanks
Dennis Holliday started trucking in the early 1980s in a GMC Astro cabover, hauling for North American Van Lines. Like most household movers, he was involved in a lot of the loading and unloading. He says he didn’t get into liquid-bulk tank hauling until he “got smart.”
May 6, 2019
Business
Think tank: A closer look at liquid bulk hauling
Owner-operators who consider pulling a tanker after other trucking niches often don’t look back after enjoying higher earnings, shorter waits and less physical demand.
May 3, 2019
Overdrive Radio
How-to: Custom walk-in storage at the front of a dry van; bulk tank niche explored
Daniel and Phyllis Snow detail their four-foot walk-in storage compartment they built into the front of their dry-van trailer, accessible from the tractor’s deck catwalk via a door assembly, to house tools and other supplies. Also in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast: liquid-bulk-tank insights from owner-ops Mike Landis, J.D. Howard.
April 26, 2019
Business
Fla.-based Oakley Transport giving away pickup
The company’s new awards program, called “Safety’s Super Sweepstakes,” is intended to award “outstanding safety and performance” with an ultimate prize for the grand champion of a brand-new 2020 GMC Sierra pickup truck.
December 6, 2018
Channel 19
Telling ’em what you really think …
Check out what owner-operator (and singer-songwriter) Bill Weaver has to say and have a laugh on us with Charlie's A-Z, LLC, photoshopped truck.
May 24, 2018
Business
Alert: FMCSA says these crude tanks must be repaired, retested before hazmat use
Affected tanks have a capacity of 8,400 gallons, 8,717 gallons and 10,500 gallons, and are primarily used for the transportation of petroleum crude oil, FMCSA says.
May 11, 2016
Channel 19
Performance-based brake testers (PBBTs) and liquid freight
If you haul liquid bulk, whether in a tanker or in totes, the difficulty of obtaining accurate weights at each wheel end with a PBBT during inspection often produces errors in readings. For Brake Safety Week 2020: a focus on chafed hoses.
May 3, 2016
Channel 19
BulkLoads board buys CoopsOpen app
The CoopsOpen app allows users to simply update station statuses as they pass scales — joining ScaleChek and Overdrive’s own Trucker Tools with similar functionality.
February 27, 2014
Channel 19
Saturday round-up: Defining ‘dream girl’; Four-wheeler ed; Christmas already?
Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi says she’s a “truck driver in a model’s body,” Linde North America educates budding four-wheelers on sharing the road, and … Snap-On hopes it’s Christmas — yes, already.
November 17, 2012
Channel 19
Story in NY times tars oil field exemption
I’ve been at work covering the uptick in oil field work surrounding new drilling techniques that have been enabling new oil and gas wells to explode in a number of areas around the country, from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale area, the Eagle Ford in Texas, and the Bakken in North Dakota, Montana and parts of Canada. […]
May 18, 2012
Channel 19
Crude hauling in N.D., Texas with former expediters
A story in this month’s Truckers News followed the transition of the former FedEx Custom Critical expediting team of Mark Kathrein and Wendy Wing (pictured) into a crude-hauling operation in North Dakota. Just as the May magazine was going to press, as mentioned in the story, the ultra-rugged, cold climes of North Dakota gas-and-oil-well trucking […]
May 12, 2012
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