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Excerpting ‘Roll On,’ a novel by Fred Afflerbach
The book is out, owner-operators. And what a book it is, telling the story, as I’ve written here, of owner-operator Ubi Sunt, an old-school “bedbugger” and child of the orphan trains facing down in the early 1980s an incoming rush of new faces, new ways of doing business, new pressure from his family to settle […]
April 17, 2012
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Colin Stuart’s ‘Working Class,’ shown in Knoxville this weekend
Just as I was wrapping up my time at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show this past Saturday, April 14, what would pull into the lot at Knoxville, Tenn.’s Chilhowee Park on East Magnolia but this stupendous custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, the usually heavy-hauling (he had on a load of pallets Saturday) Working Class of Harvard, […]
April 16, 2012
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New hotel-search iPhone app from Booking.com
Need a hotel last-minute on the road? The new free Booking.com Tonight app for the iPhone taps into the Booking.com website‘s global listings for more than 200,000 hotels and other accommodations and offers some built-in price discounts for many, the company says. The app’s geared toward last-minute bookings and thus may be particularly useful for drivers. Simple, […]
April 15, 2012
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Scenes from the Southeastern Regional Truck Show
It was a great day out at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tenn., for Neil Trucking independent owner-operator Robert Neil (pictured) of McDowell, Va., who hauls flat freight in large part for Rockingham Steel of Harrisonburg, Va. He’s showing his duo of respective 1985 (gold) and 1986 (white, pictured below) […]
April 14, 2012
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Latest job rankings: ‘Truck driver’ gains to 128
Next time you encounter a bear with an attitude, remember you may well not be dealing with a happy man — or woman, as it were. As a highway hauler, your occupation is ranked far ahead of “Highway Patrol Officer” and “Police Officer” in CareerCast.com’s top 200 job rankings this year. Smokey Bear came in […]
April 13, 2012
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The debate over fighting broker fraud
The high-profile case of fraudulent broker Kulwant Singh Gill, who last week was sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to his carrier victims, has owner-operators and industry watchers debating just how to solve the problem of fraud in transportation for once and all. A big part of that debate is […]
April 12, 2012
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NFI driver delivers third roadside baby
I was all set this morning to write about the debate over the appropriate strategy toward dealing with fraud in the trucking industry from crooked poseur brokers and the like (tune in tomorrow for more on that), but sometimes a story hits that is just too good and/or unbelievable to pass on. Today, that story […]
April 11, 2012
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Owner-operators’ road trip guide from Atlas
Atlas Van Lines’ King of the Road operator survey, conducted earlier this year, garnered close to a couple hundred responses to questions running the gamut of operational details and preferences for various businesses delivering services to drivers the nation over. Favorite coffee? Dunkin Donuts. Best fast food? Subway. Biggest difficulty on the road? Eating right, […]
April 10, 2012
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Some L.A. port truckers voting for union representation
Employee unions can be tools toward giving workers a stronger basis in decisions regarding their collective interests, just as small-business associations can help to give collective voice to small business interests. Where the line between the two is blurred, however, there may well be unintended consequences of legal moves in either or the other direction. […]
April 9, 2012
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Cummins introduces iPhone app with 3-D engine views
The latest in the trucking-related smartphone apps world is a nifty program offering 3-D views of engine componentry and systems from the folks at Cummins. It’s geared toward connecting technicians with careers with the diesel engine manufacturer, but I imagine there are plenty of you who’d get a kick out of the the app’s features […]
April 8, 2012
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Owner-operator on the guv’s blog
Owner-operator Paul Ahles utilized the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s program for low, 4 percent financing of auxiliary power units to purchase the APU on his truck today, and as a participant in the program he was featured recently on Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s blog, available at this link. Ahles called the choice to purchase the PowerCube […]
April 6, 2012
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Tackle, oil patch service and a joke: Channel 19 Thursday round-up
Win Bass Pro Shops gift certificate from VIPro TruckForce networkFor the fish-happy among you (weather’s been good for it over much of the nation, that’s certain), ongoing through the end of May, operators utilizing the VIPro TruckForce network of shops for maintenance can enter to potential win one of 25 $150 gift certificates to Bass […]
April 5, 2012
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A note from Schneider on their Dallas facility
I received the note below just now from the folks at Schneider National. Luckily, none of the company’s personnel at their Dallas-area facility were injured or killed when yesterday’s tornadoes tore through, as has been reported elsewhere — and buildings on the property sustained no damage; personnel are back to work to day picking […]
April 4, 2012
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Get the Xtra Lease size/weight guide in free download
I first came across Xtra Lease’s wonderfully comprehensive annual size and weight guide back in late 2010, when covering the grand opening of the company’s new Nashville terminal location, following the flooding that made its old location on the banks of the Cumberland River a wreck. The guide is a great resource, not only for […]
April 4, 2012
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Bee haulers: Michigan needs you
If Mark Longstroth, writing in the Western Farm Press last week, is right, early Spring growth over much of the U.S. East and Midwest has bee haulers in overdrive trying to keep up with demand for hives to pollinate fruit trees in groves far and wide. “Most of the bees that pollinate Michigan fruit crops […]
April 3, 2012
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Cubby Buddy toolbox maker’s new storage system for load bars
Hensley Inc.-leased owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (pictured), with a Great Dane dry van and Freightliner tractor and a unique line of tool-box systems for owner-operators you may well recall me writing about here back in January, has added yet another patent-pending storage system to the repertoire of his growing Cubby Buddy side business. The business and Zehrer […]
April 2, 2012
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Red alert: Get your uniform or else!
Now that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has begun to reach its long regulatory arm into your daily dress, drivers are sounding off in record numbers. “This is just taking it too far,” said owner-operator Bob Mandible of Blue Gill, Ohio, of the new red shirt requirement, joining the fast-growing chorus. “The agency has […]
April 1, 2012
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Behold the Red Giant — Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo
Just what is that motorcycle doing in front of Two Rivers, Wis.-based owner-operator Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo “Red Giant?” When I visited with Dax this past week (you may recall his rig from my coverage of the Nashville Chrome & Class show last year) at the tail end of my tour through Minnesota […]
March 30, 2012
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