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Lisa Kelly returns with new Ice Road Truckers series
Kelly is appearing in the third and fourth installments of a special series on SiriusXMâs Road Dog Trucking Radio Channel 128 this weekend, May 25 and 26, at 8 p.m. EDT both days.
May 21, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Behind the scenes with Lisa Kelly
A couple weeks ago, as the Mid-America Trucking Show was winding down in Louisville, my friends at Volvo Trucks grabbed me in the media room and asked if Iâd be interested in doing an exclusive interview with Ice Road Trucker star Lisa Kelly as she test-drove a Volvo VN tractor. Volvo was helping Lisa spread the word [âŚ]
April 5, 2013
Overdrive Extra
âShipping Warsâ hotshot reality TV show extended
The Shipping Wars reality TV show, launched earlier this year and featuring the work of several hotshot owner-operators competing for earnings by bidding on and moving freight from the uShip.com online marketplace, hasnât exactly lit up the trucking world with interest in the manner of, say, the Ice Road Truckers show at its height, but the [âŚ]
April 25, 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
Business
The worldâs toughest trucker I am not
Why I declined the invitation from The Worldâs Toughest Trucker TV show.
February 4, 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
âShipping warsâ TV series starts tonight on A&E
The Austin American-Statesman reminds us that the latest in the phenomenon of truck-driving reality-TV series debuts tonight, with back-to-back half-hour episodes of âShipping Warsâ occupying the 9 p.m. (ET and PT) hour on A&E. The debate over whether the show will be a boon to the image of drivers in the public imagination has already [âŚ]
January 10, 2012
Channel 19
A&Eâs new âShipping Warsâ series trailer vid â and the operators featured
Thereâs a new reality-TV series coming January 10, with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m., EST and PST, to the A&E network. You may have heard a little about it already here in Overdrive. The trailer vid for the Shipping Wars show is embedded below, and I thought Iâd take a moment to introduce [âŚ]
December 21, 2011
Channel 19
Mack CEO shined as plant worker on âUndercover Bossâ
This past Sunday, as we wrote here last week, Mack Trucks CEO Denny Slagle appeared on the popular CBS show Undercover Boss disguised in a mustache, cap, and toupee. Slagle (pictured, right) struggled to install front covers straight on 11-liter engines at the Hagerstown, Md., engine plant, took corners too fast driving a high-lifting fork [âŚ]
February 22, 2011
Channel 19
Mack CEO on âUndercover Bossâ this weekend; Overdrive editor on magazineâs 50th anniversary
Mack prez works from the trenches Class 8 trucks come to CBS reality-TV series Undercover Boss this weekend, featuring Mack Trucks President & CEO Denny Slagle. The broadcast will be from 9-10 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Eastern and Pacific. In making the episode, as with others in the series, the company president went undercover to work side-by-side [âŚ]
February 14, 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
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