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‘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
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VID: Cracking Evel’s safe with Robb Mariani, Brad Wike
And, most importantly, small fleet owner Wike’s lead mechanic Frank Phipps (pictured), who did the vast majority of the heavy lifting with a blow torch and drill, Wike himself with the plasma cutter, at Wike’s place of business in Lincolnton, N.C., on Saturday. As with many such endeavors, the process of it all was much […]
February 20, 2012
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Enter winter trucking photo competition, win cash
While Truckers News‘ monthly photo contests have gone on hiatus, the folks at job placement organization Truckers America have picked up the torch and are offering a cash incentive for haulers who can enter with the best winter trucking photo you have. With a snowy system passing through the Midwest and bearing down on the […]
January 12, 2012
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FMCSA’s hours rule justification includes, well, guess who…
You can imagine my surprise yesterday when, just as I’m perusing portions of the new hours rule’s full text in preparation for a story or two I’m putting together for Truckers News and Overdrive, I get an email from a colleague making note of the fact that none other than my own reporting is sourced […]
December 29, 2011
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October photo challenge: Interiors
Our October photo contest prize is publication in the magazine and a copy of Ben Long’s “Complete Digital Photography” guidebook. Find entry rules in the notes section of our Facebook page or at our Flickr.com group.
October 3, 2011
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Remembering 9/11 as anniversary approaches: A trucker’s story from ground zero
This month’s issue of Truckers News commemorates the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a look at how the trucking business has changed as a result of the disaster. The areas impacted largely include load security and driver background scrutiny, but also camaraderie, drivers looking out for one another, pay, and other factors. A […]
September 9, 2011
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Koch & Sons driver’s adventure at Minn. driving championships
Driver John Borman and I haven’t met in person, but via the monthly photo contests I help host for Truckers News and, before that, our monthly featured photo from the magazine’s Flickr.com photo-sharing group, I’ve become well-acquainted with Borman as not only a great photographer but a consummate professional. When he asked if I’d be […]
August 12, 2011
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More tornado aid coming from the trucking industry
It keeps coming. If you missed the feature on the trucking industry’s response to this spring’s horrendous series of devastating tornadoes in Truckers News‘ current issue by Caroline Taylor, click through this picture from the magazine (taken in the city of the magazine’s headquarters, Tuscaloosa, Ala.) for the full feature. Since it was written, various […]
July 6, 2011
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‘Medically certified’ — join us for radio show Wednesday to probe driver health regs
At 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow evening (Wed., June 22) I’ll join Truth About Trucking Live hosts Allen & Donna Smith as well as my colleague Max Kvidera for a special show probing the issues raised by the current, June Truckers News cover story Kvidera and I penned about state and federal regs for driver […]
June 21, 2011
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Truckercising through the years with FedEx Freight driver Joe Martin
It’s been a long time since I was introduced to driver Joe Martin (pictured, with Ice “Road Trucker” Alex Debogorski), creator of the Truckercise DVD. My colleague at Truckers News Carolyn Magner wrote about Martin in 2008 as part of a series of health profiles that year. Martin produced the DVD based on exercises he’d been […]
May 17, 2011
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Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification
It’s been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others — including a large coterie of truck drivers — to force owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., to give up their caged Bengal tiger, Tony. The latest efforts including a lawsuit filed this week […]
April 15, 2011
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Outside the truck: Ultrarunner to tame the ice roads
Starting Wednesday, reports the Toronto Sun, ultrarunner Alicja Barahona will attempt a 240-mile round-trip haul between Inuvik, north of the Arctic Circle, and Tuktoyaktuk on the shore of the Arctic Ocean on the ice road that is the frozen McKenzie river in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Made well-known for the truck travel there when the History Channel […]
April 4, 2011
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