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Introducing the ‘American Idol of clean energy’
Not the first time the budding-popstar world of American Idol has crossed paths with trucking in this blog, the singing competition, a veritable reality-television institution now entering its 10th season, has gotten so entrenched in the cultural imagination that it’s already in the business of showcasing the kitsch items marking its history, an area once […]
January 19, 2011
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Moving business headed South
That’s not as bad it sounds. Van operators, take heed. Today’s news comes on the heels of a blog post by the folks at Penske Truck Rental, detailing the top 10 moving destinations in the country. Two of them are places I’ve left in the past — Chicago (in 2006) and Charlotte, N.C. (1998). I […]
January 18, 2011
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Toll evasion = life sentence for Chinese ag hauler
After public outcry over the severity of the life prison sentence handed down to a hauler of agricultural commodities for evading road tolls in China, the Chinese government is reportedly revisiting the sentence and has put court officials who handed it down under investigation themselves, according to this AP report on the subject. The hauler, […]
January 17, 2011
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Michelin Iphone, Android roadside service apps join Blackberry functionality
The further CSA gets in ongoing rollout, the more critical repairing noncritical vehicle defects is going to get for both owner-operators and company drivers, potentially counting as they do against the former’s safety ranking in the Vehicle Maintenance BASIC and the latter’s employment history. More and more, service shops and OEM parts manufacturers are making […]
January 14, 2011
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Revisiting the oil bubble, as diesel continues up, up, up
In the July 2008 issue of Truckers News, I reported on huge and speculative, long-only investment positions in commodities markets then contributing to the dramatic rise in crude oil and other commodities prices. Oil topped off at an historic high of near $150 a barrel that month, and if you were around trucking then I […]
January 13, 2011
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Got snow?
Here in the Southeast (though in Nashville I’m approaching the region’s northern edge), it’s been uncommonly wintry this week, as you can see from this pic, taken at the Love’s on Trinity Lane at I-65. Further South, things have been much worse, though, evidenced in part by Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based driver Vernon Cook’s 24-hour wait […]
January 12, 2011
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Fair or foul?: A trucking story on Onion satirical news site
Sandwiched between satirical headlines like “Fully Validated Kanye West Retires to Quiet Farm in Iowa” and “Virgin Mary Statue Crying for No Good Reason” today on TheOnion.com was this one: “Modern-Day Cowboy Rides 18-Wheeler Full of Entenmann’s Products Westward.” Satirical newsmag The Onion has long been known for its lampooning of the mainstream press and, […]
January 11, 2011
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‘Recognition from the DOT’: uShip’s viral parody of ‘Social Network’ movie trailer
Perhaps you’ve seen it. The Social Network film about Facebook’s founding told the story of company cofounder Mark Zuckerberg’s success “taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.” The film’s trailer, which pairs a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” with scenes from the film, was expertly parodied by the folks at uShip […]
January 7, 2011
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‘American Trucker’ premieres on SPEED channel Feb. 24 — with a familiar face
Imagine my surprise when, upon clicking over to a YouTube preview of SPEED’s upcoming “American Trucker” series, I came upon a familiar face within the first several seconds. That face was Sparta, Wis.-based Paul Sagehorn (pictured here with his father, Craig), owner-operator of two classic pop-culture Kenworths, one employed in the filming of the Movin’ […]
January 6, 2011
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Hats off for heroes at Fort Sam Houston. . .
My Truckers News Exit Only column this month details the long efforts of Marten Transport driver Candy Bass to grow a program she designed several years ago to send a positive message to wounded veterans of U.S. wars — namely, that American truck drivers haven’t forgotten about them. This year the annual program of hat […]
January 5, 2011
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Skydiving to the ark: A Channel 19 2010 ‘Year in Review’
It’s been a banner year for dramatic, contentious, weird and/or humorous trucking news here on the Channel 19 blog. I can’t possibly predict how 2010 will be remembered years down the line, but read through the lens of this blog, well, it was nothing short of tumultuous, containing the highest of highs and the lowest […]
December 31, 2010
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Truck Centers Inc.: ‘We have a winner’
Remember the “12 Days of Truck Centers Christmas” sweepstakes I posted on back in late November? Well folks, we have a winner, the Illinois-headquartered dealer network reports. Or “winners,” I should say, as the grand prize winner was chosen from a month’s worth of daily giveaways to drivers from 12 different states stopping into any […]
December 30, 2010
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New trucking thriller from former tank-hauler manager
Set in Charleston, W.Va.’s “Chemical Valley” just after deregulation of the trucking industry, former Quality Carriers and Mason & Dixon lines (among others) rep Rowland Henry Judge’s Acid Stained Steel is a murder-mystery thriller of a novel, says Judge. But that’s not all, he adds. It combines those page-turning attributes with an examination of “the effect […]
December 29, 2010
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Driver hours changes: Bummer of a proposal?
Expectation among many haulers leading into FMCSA’s Dec. 23 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change drivers’ hours of service regulations was that at least some larger degree of sleeper berth flexibility would be reintroduced in order that, as so many have put it to me over the past year’s worth of debating the issue, “truck […]
December 28, 2010
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Former long-hauler makes N.Y.C. Met opera debut
Carl Tanner (pictured) worked as a long-haul driver before making moves toward pursuing a career in what New York Times writer David Belcher painted as his calling in a piece published in the Times yesterday, available online here. Tanner, by the terms of his contract as stand-by in the role of Dick Johnson in Puccini’s […]
December 27, 2010
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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — truckstop edition
“The only real difference between you and me — I do it in one night; you do it constantly.” –Santa Claus at the truckstop, to a fellow hauler in the fuel line Merry Christmas, all. Here’s a little vid from the folks at driver training outfit Driver Solutions to give you a little holiday chuckle. […]
December 24, 2010
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Texas technicians rope Rush rodeo grand prizes — vids and more from the event
Sorting though the rich experience that was Rush Truck Centers’ Tech Skills Rodeo, held last week in San Antonio, is I’ve found a task best approached over weeks rather than days. If you missed the results, read on, or see my story from last week here. It’s impossible to get it all into the space […]
December 22, 2010
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Auto-texting, safety-minded app available for Android, Blackberry
On the heels of the Department of Transportation’s proposed rule to ban handheld cell phone use by commercial drivers, I’ve been hearing from haulers who object to being singled out on the issue, as seems to be the modus operandi of this department when it comes to driving behavior of late. Given the predominance of […]
December 21, 2010
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