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Curtain falls on new scale house inspection technology, opens on EOBRs
I just finished a visit with Lieutenant James A. McKenzie and troopers at the Greene County, Tenn., scales on I-81, where among other events I had the perhaps unfortunate occasion to witness an oversize hauler being put out of service due to a brake inefficiency. But perhaps more interestingly, today is the day, McKenzie said, […]
January 31, 2011
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TyroneMalone.net adds a Facebook page; more on driver pay
Since I wrote about TyroneMalone.net site proprietor and owner-operator Ken Harris in the October edition of Truckers News and in Overdrive in smaller form around the same time, Harris has continued to make strides keeping the memory of onetime diesel showman Tyrone Malone and his apocryphal Bandal Diesel Racing Team alive. Most recently, he’s launched a […]
January 28, 2011
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Willie’s Place to be Willie’s no more
Perhaps you’ve heard the news. On Jan. 31, the Willie’s Place truckstop in Carl’s Corner, Texas, will reportedly see it’s last day under current ownership. The stop filed for bankruptcy last year, and since then efforts to refinance a large loan with a New Jersey bank have failed, resulting in the impending transfer of ownership to […]
January 27, 2011
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Does less mean more? Driver pay in the CSA era
My feature in the January edition of Truckers News investigated a dynamic more and more fleets and their drivers are seeing coming to fruition as freight markets slowly return and, consequently, recruiting staffs expand and fleets begin to hire again. Nothing new there during a recovery, particularly, and the slow pace of this one might […]
January 26, 2011
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Whole ‘lot of squealing’ on Missouri highway ramp
Yesterday, reported KMBC TV in Kansas City, Mo., a highway resounded with “a lot of squealing” after a hauler on the ramp from I-435 North to I-35 turned over rounding the curve, spilling a load of live pork. A few of the pigs reportedly perished but a larger number escaped the trailer’s confines. KMBC gave […]
January 25, 2011
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Trucking effort in Wash. state to find child
As we know, dry vans have uses ancillary to hauling freight, not least among them their advertisement potential. You need only look to this month’s Overdrive to find evidence of that in a pic of sister mag CCJ‘s yearly Five Flashiest Fleets’ winner. A fleet headquartered in Washington State is using a similar tactic toward […]
January 24, 2011
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Making your voice heard on roads, hours
ROADS | The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a group whose name pretty well describes it, is calling on highway users to add input to their preparations to take highway/transportation funding recommendations to Congress. Yesterday, they began a six-week campaign via their Facebook and YouTube pages to collect ideas/input from “travelers, […]
January 20, 2011
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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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