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Business
Do it right, even if itâs ugly
Bit of tribute to the open-deckers running high, wide, heavy, ugly: âSometimes you get to be Elvis, and sometimes youâre Jed Clampett, but both of them pay the bills. Do it right, even if itâs ugly.â
February 3, 2017
Channel 19
âOne out of every six Americans killed on the job is a truck driverâ
Thatâs directly from a Department of Labor blog post about workplace-death stats, explored here. And: One operatorâs reliable truck is anotherâs âdream gearâ â one driverâs wisecrack âcomment of the weekââŚ
August 18, 2016
Voices
Tarping safety: âDonât become a statistic this yearâ
âBe careful,â notes owner-operator Pete Zimmer in this dispatch on tarping safety and the need for better safety practices at some load locations: âItâs no secret that drivers are forced to tarp loads that are in unsafe conditions.â
February 25, 2016
Channel 19
New one-truck portable tarping system
Owner-operator John Rodriguez, with business partner Willie Lancon, designed the Roller Rak portable tarping machine following a couple falls while tarping that could have been disasters.
March 25, 2013
Business
Giant potatoes! Hammerheads!
âWeâve seen some weird things on flatbeds. Hell, weâve seen some weird things strapped to four-wheelers, like the giant hammerhead shark we saw on the roof of a Honda AccordâŚ.â
March 1, 2013
Overdrive Extra
The âTime Banditâ electric cargo-strap roller
Sometime flatbedder and former small fleet owner Johnny White finds inspiration in day-to-day problems â that might not be the best way, however, to describe the occasion that spurred him on to his latest solution, the new TimeBandit electric cargo-strap winder (pictured). As he tells it, âI was up in St. Cloud, Minn., when it [âŚ]
July 3, 2012
Channel 19
Move some tarps, get some tarps
If the Tarps Plus company has its way, you may well in future take a load of its tarps and get paid in, well, tarps. Check out this story on the San Francisco Chronicleâs website, which quotes Tarps Plus president Michael Stein on the âno-brainerâ that is a new program looking to barter company tarps [âŚ]
June 4, 2012
Voices
Channel 19
A dose of trucking humor, oddities and coverage in the media.
August 1, 2010
Channel 19
Las Vegas newspaper columnist delivers âhalf-heartedâ trucker saluteâŚ
Itâs not exactly a big 10-4, but in her âRoad Warriorâ column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal a week ago, Adrienne Packer detailed her stateâs latest addition to the growing nationwide effort to pair state troopers with truckers to target four-wheelersâ unsafe maneuvers around big trucks for citation. While Packer reflects a somewhat common feeling [âŚ]
June 1, 2010
Channel 19
Flatbedders, had enough of tarping? . . .
You might recommend the folks at Fast Wrap to your shipper customers, who do the kind of work you see in the picture here, a wrap of a jet engine. Theyâve got mobile crews in more than 60 locations around the country who do the work, and the wrapping material is then recycled by the folks at [âŚ]
April 30, 2010
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