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Channel 19
New technology: Hydrogen-injection for fuel mileage boost
A Q&A in the Richmond (Virginia) BizSense magazine published Monday revealed an interesting new technology coming into the trucking world. Related to the hydrogen fuel-cell idea, the technology has been created by Marz Industries of Ashland, Va., BizSense reporter Michael Schwartz wrote. Marz Industries president Eddie Miller has been working on it for several years […]
September 14, 2011
Channel 19
Overdrive’s Lucinda Coulter on Big Al’s show this week
Tune into Big Al Weekley’s Dipatch Me Home Radio streaming broadcast this week for an interview with Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter about the magazine’s 50th anniversary special coverage and her place in it. A prime place it is. Coulter headed up our Overdrive Retro website for more than a year preceding the anniversary issue, […]
September 13, 2011
Channel 19
‘Where’s the love’ for truckers? Dr. Love has the answer
Or at least he knows where it’s not: I-55 South into Hammond, La., from the No. 46 milemarker about 15 miles to I-12 (much smoother). Dr. Love, or truck driver B.G. Love, takes online viewers on a tour down this road in a video posted in June to the blog for his “Lovology” project, a personal […]
September 12, 2011
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
Texting temptation: A little ditty — and more — to help you resist
A little good humor today — with a safety message to boot. Admit it: We’ve all been tempted when it comes to texting while driving, right? What will it hurt to answer the spouse’s question with a quick “N-O” or, yes, the opposite? Next time that thought fires in your head, Winnipeg, Manitoba-based high school […]
September 8, 2011
Channel 19
Diesel price is up: One operator’s response
Driving habits can do a lot for fuel efficiency, as we know, but there are other ways of dealing with the continued high cost of fuel, up another 5 cents nationally last week. Seeing the gross inflation of crude markets that has been part and parcel of the world commodities markets in the past four-five […]
September 7, 2011
Channel 19
A novel ‘hot load’ strategy
Next time somebody tells you they’ve got a “hot load” and you best to do everything and more in your power to get it there on-time, you may do well to point the speaker in the direction of a new story in the National Law Journal. In it, plaintiff’s attorney Kent Emison goes to great […]
September 4, 2011
Channel 19
My talk with the $25,000-winning ‘Navigator of the Year’
I got the grand opportunity to meet an owner-operator at the Great American Trucking Show last week who holds something of a grand distinction of being the only OO I know who’s had a $25,000 check written to him just for being who he is. That owner-operator is St. Louis-based Edward Crumer (pictured), leased to […]
September 2, 2011
Channel 19
Channel 19 news round-up: flooding, radio, TSE, petition…
Vid tour through I-680 flood damage As Missouri River floodwaters receded from flood stage this month after a long summer of high water, Iowa DOT officials finally got a look at I-680 at the I-29 interchange, and the damage done to both roadways is just stunning (pictured courtesy of Iowa DOT; more info on detours/outlook […]
September 1, 2011
Channel 19
Freewheelin’s top 10 trucking songs after 1985
With Overdrive‘s September 50th anniversary issue hard on the way, and considering folks at the Great American Trucking Show got a sneak peak at the 50 top technical milestones John Baxter and oiur editorial crew put together, I thought I’d offer up a little for you. You’ll recall our all-time top ten trucking songs, of […]
August 31, 2011
Channel 19
Electrification of truck stop spaces revives
As fuel prices spiked in 2007-08, a large majority of truckers’ anti-idling interest was focused on dedicated auxiliary power units, which market expanded dramatically with a profusion of new manufacturers. This time around, with the economy still somewhat shaky, owner-operator and fleet interest in up-front investment in full-function APU technology may be taking a back […]
August 30, 2011
Channel 19
Say ____ to electronic logs, Take 2
It’s time to play fill in the blank again on the Channel 19 blog. It’s been nearly a year since the above headline graced this hall above a post about a rash of legislative proposals to mandate electronic logs for the entirety of interstate truckers and certain low-cost electronic logging options out there. In the […]
August 29, 2011
Channel 19
Scenes from GATS
Great times abound in Dallas at the Great American Trucking Show, not the least of which is this nifty Plinko board at the Roady’s/OTR Pro Fuel Card booth — the new card offering flat off-the-top per-gallon discounts to small fleets and owner-operators (with a $4 a month membership fee) at more than 700 stops currently, […]
August 26, 2011
Channel 19
New health blog from the folks at Con-way Truckload
Attendant to news that Con-way TL-leased owner-operators will be able to access relatively low-cost health/dental and other insurance offerings via the carrier’s new TrueChoices benefits program, the company also is highlighting drivers’ and owner-operators’ health needs via a new blog. Steering Your Health today features a great recipe for Mexican Crock Pot chicken, cooked in-cab, […]
August 25, 2011
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Live load visibility with a simple, free smartphone app
Owner-operators, there’s been no shortage of talk about the profusion of truck-tracking devices and the relative problems they could cause, given ongoing hours-of-service/EOBR issues and discussions. But the simple fact of the matter is that allowing shippers and consignees a real-time window into your location could be a quite simple way to engage potential direct-freight […]
August 24, 2011
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Driver loses vital organ at Kentucky hospital
Trucker Philip Seaton is locked in a battle with a Kentucky doctor whom it appears may be attempting to cover his tracks after amputating Seaton’s penis after finding cancer during a routine circumcision-type procedure to relieve inflammation — doing so without, apparently, telling Seaton he was doing it. That’s all I’ll say, aside from that […]
August 24, 2011
Channel 19
From a left-coast operator on the Virginia quake
Thought I’d share a brief item related to the 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered between Charlottesville and Richmond, Va., and felt up and down the East Coast (including in my mother’s office as far South as Rock Hill, S.C.). A west-coaster posted on Truckers News‘ Facebook page a couple reminders of basic advice to haulers worried […]
August 23, 2011
Channel 19
Owner-operators remembering Chance Rogers at GATS
A fixture at truck shows for years with his owner-operator grandfather Jim Rogers, leased to Fikes, young Chance Rogers passed away July 11 after a long battle with bone cancer. Several owner-operators and drivers have banded together in the Truckers United for Charities group to honor Chance by raising money for a memorial fund in […]
August 23, 2011
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