Tag: Transport for Christ

Overdrive Extra

Dealing with holiday stress? You’re not alone

Gary Buchs on support at work on the road: “It’s not hard to find someone who will help, confidentially, on the highway working or parked at the truck stops.” Also, an update from Buchs on his retirement plan, put into action in October this year and “fully functional” …

December 16, 2019

Channel 19

Short documentary look inside lives touched by a Transport for Christ mobile chapel

It’s rare to see a close look at the realities of the lives of individual drivers and owner-operators anywhere outside the trucking press. Here find a look at Andrew Cohn’s short documentary “Destination Park,” centered around a Transport for Christ mobile chapel in Grand Rapids.

August 21, 2019

Voices

Roadside Attractions

An outlaw is riding into cowboy country, there’s a new dame on the Dalton, tornadoes take down some rigs, truckers say not to human freight and other industry news items are featured.

July 1, 2011

Channel 19

Transport for Christ truck rally this Fri-Sat

The Transport for Christ organization’s efforts to connect with and spread the good news to and of the trucking industry extends far beyond their mobile chapels and efforts to unite drivers in the fight against humna trafficking, which I wrote about several weeks ago. They’re rewarding the greater community of drivers and owner-operators again this […]

June 13, 2011

Channel 19

Mexico’s big human-smuggling bust; Truckers Against Trafficking makes industry headway

Technology makes a dent As this photo, released by the Mexican state of Chiapas and making news around the nation yesterday, makes abundantly clear, the issue of human smuggling is a multivalent and complex one. The photo shows would-be migrants to the U.S. in a van trailer in southern Mexico, caught in Mexican authorities’ X-ray […]

May 20, 2011

Channel 19

SuperShowRigs.com documents truck show stars — the rigs

If you missed it, get over to Overdrive sister magazine Custom Rigs‘ website for John Riccio’s story about the recent Transport for Christ Truck Rally at the Lebanon Valley Expo Center in Lebanon, Pa., which “has rocked Lebanon for the past 29 years,” Riccio wrote, himself the proprietor over at SuperShowRigs.com, a veritable treasure of […]

July 13, 2010