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A growing spectacular: The Vancouver Island truck lights parade
The Vancouver Island Equipment Owners Association’s Christmas Truck Light Parade and Food Drive takes the cake for the most brilliantly extravagant of the Christmas truck parades.
December 2, 2011
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Air Force drivers haul the Iraq withdrawal
They’re “working overtime now with the 31 December deadline,” says Melissa Milner with U.S. Air Forces Central. Last week, she notified me of a special feature on their website detailing the hauling efforts of the Air Force’s 70th Medium Truck Detachment, charged with moving massive amounts of materiel out of Iraq before the end of […]
December 1, 2011
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Channel 19
Power to win: Do you have it?
We know Sugar Ray Leonard’s got it. He delivered a “Power to Win!” keynote (pictured) to the 2011 VIPAR Heavy Duty Annual Business Conference, held in October in Tuscon. The network of parts distributors benefited well from Sugar Ray’s message, which drew parallels between the stores of various qualities it takes to run a successful […]
November 30, 2011
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$50,000 reward for some missing …
They’ve been gone a few years — a grand total of 175 of them, mostly between the ages 3 and 7 years old now, according to a story published yesterday at the website of AgWeek. They were the property of cattleman James Larsen, whose father, incidentally, was a trucker. ATTENTION LIVESTOCK HAULERS: in two ads […]
November 29, 2011
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Operation Roger, Susanne Spirit get some national ink
Growing for a long moment, the Operation Roger network of volunteer haulers making themselves available to connect adopted pets with new caretakers — or to reunite lost pets with their owners — free of any charge got some ink this month. The MSNBC cable network did a story on them, and we’re happy to report […]
November 28, 2011
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About truckin’ time: Tony Justice record in stores Dec. 6
“It’s about truckin’ time,” says Tony Justice, East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and the songwriter behind the upcoming “On the Road” album (I wrote about it last month here). It’s due out in all Pilot Flying J stores Dec. 6. It’s a trucking album by a trucker and for truckers, Justice notes, and stay tuned on […]
November 26, 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Some well benefited from a rise in rates over the year, particularly in flatbed, but how about thankfulness for 3-D trailer graphics…
November 24, 2011
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Driver action on sleep apnea, CSA, EOBRs, cross-border trucking
Regular readers will recall my post from last month following the first annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention, which spurred on driver advocate Frederick Schaffner to be a presence in D.C. at the November meeting of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committtee. There, a large part of the discussion was devoted to standards for […]
November 23, 2011
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Heads-up: NY Times on truckers’ health
The U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, devoted significant ink to many truck drivers’ moves toward improving their health in their Monday edition. The primary feature, by Abby Ellin and well-illustrated with pictures of many of the drivers she talked to, charts a rise in concern among industry associations, trucking companies, truck stops […]
November 22, 2011
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The next generation of trucking fanatics
Jeff and Lynette Lynd of Ft. Collins, Colo., sent in this picture of their six-year-old great niece, Zoe, relaxing before going to bed with her princess blanket, fishing pillow and her favorite magazine, Overdrive (our 50th anniversary issue). “She got really excited when we got the current issue,” Lynette says. “She had to read it […]
November 20, 2011
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John Deere pedal car grand prize in Trucker Charity benefit raffle
And what’s best about it all is that the proceeds will go toward benefiting trucking families in need at Christmastime via Trucker Charity’s Christmas Group. Tickets to enter the raffle for the car (pictured), which was donated by Freedom Air Filters, can be purchased through Paypal via the Trucker Charity website for $3 for a […]
November 18, 2011
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Heads-up on new partnership that could change the leasing game
This month in Overdrive, I examined a couple different alternatives to traditional leasing models carriers and their advisers are exploring for ways to avoid what some see as long-term growing challenges to the independent contractor business model. Two models in particular stand a chance to take hold in the future, one being the conversion of […]
November 17, 2011
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Cabover extra in ‘Real Steel’ film to be auctioned Dec. 8
Joyce Smith, co-owner of Ron Smith Trucking of Breckenridge, Mich., shuttered the company about a year ago, a month after her husband passed away. The small fleet’s equipment will be auctioned off on Dec. 8 at their place in nearby Wheeler. Among the 17 tractors on offer (among livestock, flatbed and other trailers as well […]
November 16, 2011
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Stowaway diary: Keep an eye on your roof fairing in Laredo
What’s wrong with this picture? Taken by owner-operator Henry Albert, with whom we just checked in last week, it shows a desperate attempt by a couple to stow away on a rig on its way from the border zone into the U.S. interior. A testament to the value of drivers looking out for each other, […]
November 14, 2011
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Mack Trucks on ‘Made in America’ TV Tues., Nov. 15
The Made in America series will feature Mack Trucks in an episode Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Mack continues to build every truck it sells in North America — and every truck it exports — in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Made in America host George Motz (pictured with a Mack Pinnacle tractor) and […]
November 13, 2011
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‘Talented truckers’ TV show looking for … talented truckers
A television production company has a rather off-the-wall idea it’s helping one of the major cable channels develop — it wants to create a talent-competition-type series (a la American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, et al) that plays out on location at, well, a truck stop. And in the spirit of radio truck driver talent […]
November 12, 2011
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New vid for ‘I am the flag,’ by Ron Terry
On this Veteran’s Day, a new video care of owner-operator Howard Salmon — the tune, “I am the flag,” appears on his and Ron Terry’s “These Trucks Are Made of Gold” record and consists of a somber reading of the Terry poem by the poet himself. As its title suggests, it’s a poetic narrative of […]
November 11, 2011
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Jason’s Law: Time for action is now
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unanimously approved a two-year transportation authorization bill (S. 1813, or MAP-21) extending current funding levels and making other enhancements that could lead, said Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, to new jobs. Of chief interest for trucking advocates is the inclusion in this bill of Jason’s Law, intended […]
November 10, 2011
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