Tag: local trucking

Business

Can’t sneak away from trucking

In which Wendy steals off at 4 a.m. from her daughter’s hospital bedside for an illicit smoke in an underground parking garage, only to find out “you can’t do anything without a trucker. Not even sneak off to smoke a cigarette.”

February 20, 2017

Voices

Ali Cetin presents ‘Why I have a dash camera’

Toronto, Ontario-based local trucker Ali Cetin compiled this collection of evidence of just why the operator runs with a dashcam in all his company’s trucks.

February 7, 2017

Business

Cargomatic freight service adds New York to its regional mix

Connecting “shippers and truckers in real-time” via its smartphone app and back-end service, Cargomatic’s official launch into the New York City metropolitan market was announced today.

August 12, 2015

Channel 19

Leaving long-haul: Operators migrate to oil/gas

I talked to a pair of recently former team owner-operators late last week who, like owner-operator Mike Mace, leased to Reed Trucking, have truly rediscovered their old love of trucking — in this case as company drivers in service operations surrounding new natural gas wells enabled by hydraulic fracturing technology. The strong demand for capacity in […]

May 29, 2012

Channel 19

‘Roll On, Truck Driving Girl’: Introducing trucker-songwriter Lisa Godino

Harmony, N.J.-based Lisa Godino (pictured) is a self-proclaimed “folk artist just trying to make a little noise anywhere I can,” she says. It’s not always easy, as the kind of noise she’s talking about isn’t of the Class 8 diesel variety but music, and with “50 hours a week’s worth of trucking, it’s difficult to […]

March 8, 2012