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Channel 19
Say ____ to electronic logs, Take 2
Itās time to play fill in the blank again on the Channel 19 blog. Itās been nearly Ā 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 [ā¦]
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 Roadyās/OTR Pro Fuel Card booth ā 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, [ā¦]
August 26, 2011
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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 carrierās new TrueChoices benefits program, the company also is highlighting driversā and owner-operatorsā health needs via a new blog. Steering Your Health today features a great recipe for Mexican Crock Pot chicken, cooked in-cab, [ā¦]
August 25, 2011
Channel 19
Live load visibility with a simple, free smartphone app
Owner-operators, thereās 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 [ā¦]
August 24, 2011
Channel 19
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 Seatonās penis after finding cancer during a routine circumcision-type procedure to relieve inflammation ā doing so without, apparently, telling Seaton he was doing it. Thatās all Iāll say, aside from that [ā¦]
August 24, 2011
Channel 19
From a left-coast operator on the Virginia quake
Thought Iād 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 motherās office as far South as Rock Hill, S.C.). A west-coaster posted on Truckers Newsā Facebook page a couple reminders of basic advice to haulers worried [ā¦]
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 [ā¦]
August 23, 2011
Channel 19
Long-haul literary: Former owner-operatorās memoir of the life
Marc Mayfield (pictured) didnāt set out to write a book when, after a lot of college ā āsome of it was wasted time,ā he says ā and several less-than-successful, half-hearted career choices, he jumped into a job choice heād long ago entertained as a possibility. āI really enjoyed driving big trucks,ā he says, which is [ā¦]
August 20, 2011
Channel 19
Phone app for getting around GATS in Dallas next week
If youāre saying āMan I sure could have used that last year,ā I can assure you youāre not alone. The new Great American Trucking Show app for various smartphone platforms, put together by the showās owners (Randall-Reilly Business Media & Information, publishers of Overdrive)Ā with Core AppsĀ and sponsored theĀ Cummins Engine Corp.,Ā puts an interactive, searchable map of [ā¦]
August 18, 2011
Channel 19
The future Lady McCartneyās trucking roots
Did you know the daughter of New England Motor Freight Chairman and CEO Myron Shevell also happens to hold the distinction of being engaged to none other than famous Beatle Sir Paul McCartney? Itās true, at least if we are to believe the New York Observer, who published a story about Shevell (pictured) and her [ā¦]
August 17, 2011
Channel 19
Service deal at Midwest Pete dealer promotes safety with savings
If you missed the news yesterday, the network of Peterbilt dealers in Sioux City Truck Sales has jumped in with support of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationās āBuckle Up in Your Truckā safety campaign. Big deal, right? Well, yes. The dealer is putting its money where its mouth is on this one. In the [ā¦]
August 16, 2011
Channel 19
The Keys Truckersā āLetter to Capitol Hillā
File this one under āmodest proposal.ā Seems Keys Truckers Jan and James (pictured) McCarter are always involved when a nice slab of satire graces the blog here, not to mention good music. In any case, last week was a banner in both quarters. Amid the weekās run of comments surrounding our top-10 trucking songs poll [ā¦]
August 15, 2011
Channel 19
The most important moment in owner-operator history?
Gearing up for next month here, folks, OverdriveāsĀ 50th-anniversary special issue, in which weāll look at owner-operator history, a significant portion of which is contained in the various legislative and regulatory developments that have underpinned the very ability of self-employed people to run the roads in big trucks. Today weekend weāre asking you to name the [ā¦]
August 14, 2011
Channel 19
Koch & Sons driverās adventure at Minn. driving championships
Driver John Borman and I havenāt met in person, but via the monthly photo contests I help host for Truckers News and, before that, our monthly featured photo from the magazineās Flickr.com photo-sharing group, Iāve become well-acquainted with Borman as not only a great photographer but a consummate professional. When he asked if Iād be [ā¦]
August 12, 2011
Channel 19
One dispatcherās public salute to the American truck driver
In case youāve missed news of this one, which has made the rounds of various email blasts and blogs, itās one of the best high-profile salutes to owner-operators and drivers Iāve come across in mainstream media of recent memory. Written by Minnesota-based fleet manager Dan Hanson and published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it [ā¦]
August 11, 2011
Channel 19
A window on FMCSAās CSA driver-enforcement authority goals
I thought Iād share a document leaked earlier in the year ā specifically in May, and to the Transportation Weekly publication ā that purported to be a draft highway bill whose genesis was within the Obama administration. It contains a 12-page section headed by āDriver Safety Provisions,ā beginning on p. 366, that seems to further [ā¦]
August 10, 2011
Channel 19
Overdrive top 10 songs streaming online this week
Longtime trucking radio host āBig Alā Weekley have put together a two-hour program that will stream from the Dispatch Me Home Radio website 24-7 throughout the week. Itās all starting, well, now, and featuring a run through trucking history via our Top 10 Trucking Songs of all-time poll. Ā If you missed the polling results last [ā¦]
August 9, 2011
Channel 19
Scale It: The platform-scale axle-weights app, designed by a driver
John Christner Trucking driver Jerry Wilks is the programmer/developer of an application that, if youāre packing an iPhone and find occasion to use platform scales, could be of great use. Launched early in 2010, the Scale It app for the iPhone is a quick cheat that allows you to input the different weight readings you [ā¦]
August 8, 2011
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