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Channel 19: Page 116
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Analyst: Blame Fed’s liquidity flood for high oil/diesel
The good news is that skyrocketing oil prices, like slasher movies, are truly frightening only the first time you watch one. They get less scary with repetition. But being less scary doesn’t change the basic facts. Markets need both hedgers and speculators to function properly. When they lose balance, they no longer function according to […]
May 5, 2011
Channel 19
Open call Wed. with Anne Ferro hosted by Trucking Solutions Group
Rick Ash, chairman of the driver/owner-operator-led Trucking Solutions Group — with members ranging from such Channel 19 familiar faces Jeff Clark (Truckers News Marathon Trucker columnist), Henry Albert (Overdrive‘s 2007 Trucker of the Year) and Linda Caffee (team expedited hauler with her husband, Bob) — reports the TSG will host a call tomorrow, Wed., May […]
May 3, 2011
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Ohio small fleet providing tornado relief
Buddy Allen of the 15-truck New Era Trucking fleet in North Ridgeville, Ohio, is calling on Northeast Ohio residents to help fill a 53-foot dry van’s worth of non-perishable food, water and other goods to haul south to assist residents affected by last week’s tornadoes. WKYC-TV News Channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, reported yesterday on […]
May 3, 2011
Channel 19
A message from Randall-Reilly president
The below comes from Overdrive and Truckers News publisher Randall-Reilly’s president and CEO Mike Reilly (pictured), a good man I’ve gotten to know over my years with the magazines. Thankfully, all Tuscaloosa- and other Southeast-based Randall-Reilly employees survived the storm. My thoughts continue to be with, as Mike well puts it, “many in our community […]
May 2, 2011
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Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts third; ‘Trucker bombs’ a misnomer, police say
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts in third A Penske Logistics-sponsored IndyCar, driven by Ryan Briscoe, made a position 4 start and no. 3 finish yesterday in the Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300, presented by Nestle, on the exciting street track in the Brazilian capital. The new car’s shown here undregoing “final preparations for shipment to Brazil at the […]
May 2, 2011
Channel 19
Tornado caught on owner-operators’ webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick […]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
Braving the storm — two haulers’ Birmingham tornado stories
“I just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,” Overdrive Trucker of the Year Dan Heister told me this morning. Heister (pictured) was loaded heading south on I-65 bound for Saginaw, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, when he could see the big tornado that made its way into Cullman, Ala., around 3 p.m. that afternoon. “I […]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. I’m based off-site in […]
April 28, 2011
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Popular Mechanics seeks ‘Worst Road’ nominations
Make your voice heard! No, I’m not talking about the proposed mandate of electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance (for more about that: comments are open through May 23). Popular Mechanics editors are seeking out the “worst road in the USA,” they say at the magazine’s website. Who better to nominate it than […]
April 27, 2011
Channel 19
Freight on your smartphone: TransCore app on the way
Coming in just a couple weeks is the My DAT Truck Stop app (pictured) from freight matching service provider TransCore, operator of the oldest load-board service out there in the DAT boards. My DAT will be initially released for Android phones, providing drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcore’s DAT network, […]
April 26, 2011
Channel 19
The great tomato heist — Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight
I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasn’t consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. “The high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,” reporter […]
April 25, 2011
Channel 19
EOBRs controversy over the national airwaves missing extant/emerging solutions
Wednesday, National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program ran this piece on the issue of the proposed federal mandate for electronic on-board recorder use for hours-of-service monitoring. If it goes into effect, virtually all interstate haulers will be required to use an EOBR for logs. You can still comment on the proposed EOBR rule, through May […]
April 22, 2011
Channel 19
Waste-haul fleet — and more — featured in latest ‘Severe Service’ Overdrive supplement
Bridgeport, Conn.-based Enviro Express, providing solid waste collection, transfer and recycling services for several area municipalities, is in the process of converting most of its fleet of tractors to liquefied natural gas (LNG) power with a recent purchase of 18 Kenworth T800 LNG tractors. A dozen of the fleet’s trucks were displayed at the December […]
April 20, 2011
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Truckster app ‘by and for drivers’
From the Maine Morning Sentinel newspaper comes news of the former hauler, 42-year-old Leigh Gagnon, who created and launched in 2009 the Truckster app for the iPhone and Android phones. Available for $3.99 in the Android market and iTune App Store, the multifunction app provides a searchable platform to the majority of truckstops the nation […]
April 19, 2011
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TA Petro: ‘For drivers by design’
Last week when I wrote about my brief meet-up with expediters Phil and Diane Madsen, I mentioned the pair’s assessment of updated showers at TravelCenters of American locations systemwide, with particularly high marks for the La Vergne, Tenn., location where we met. As I noted in that post, the improvements were begun last year, as […]
April 18, 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
Channel 19
‘Something new every day’: Meeting Phil and Diane Madsen
Phil and Diane Madsen haul expedited in this 2006 Volvo with 132-inch ARI sleeper and 16-foot box. Over the past several years, I’ve called on the pair several different times for perspective on all manner of topics, from truck maintenance/warranty issues to unique hauls to examples of the many owner-operators out there taking to the […]
April 14, 2011
Channel 19
‘Is it a 10-speed?’
What’s that line at the end of the Canadian slapstick classic Strange Brew? It’s on the tip of my tongue… Oh wait, I remember. The McKenzie Brothers, Bob and Doug, played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, are given the keys to a big rig loaded with beer after saving the brewery’s day by averting an […]
April 12, 2011
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