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Tow-truckers echo long-haulers on Discoveryâs âWreck Chasersâ
In many ways, tow-truckers are the absolute opposites of long-haulers. The tow-truckers of the Discovery Channelâs new âWreck Chasersâ series, on a three week trial run that began with two half-hour episodes Monday, are trying to beat their competitors to the sight of a wreck, of course. In Philadelphia, among whose tow-truckers the story is [âŚ]
November 4, 2010
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Reefer-unit pioneer to be honored tomorrow
News from Thermo King today is that Frederick McKinley Jones, a company pioneer in the development of portable refrigeration units, will be honored  for his contributions to science and technology at the Tekne Awards gala Wed., Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Jones passed away in 1961, but his âinvention of portable [âŚ]
November 2, 2010
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Trucking up out of the water with Nashville fleets
While the story of the disastrous flooding my hometown experienced last May is still being written in many respects (the downtown TravelCenter of America location, as youâll note from the picture, is still closed), there have been some recent bright moments. Vice President Tim Smith with TCW told me a couple weeks back his carrierâs [âŚ]
November 1, 2010
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Collective trucking effort donates caps for wounded soldiers
When Marten Transport driver and 3 milion safe miler Candy Bass (pictured) saw a documentary on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center a few years ago, she was so affected by the scenes detailing the lives of wounded veterans that she determined to do her part: 1) She wanted to do something that would be [âŚ]
October 29, 2010
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YouTubing truckers hit NPR Charlotte station
Julie Rose of Charlotte, N.C., NPR affiliate WFAE.org (a voice I remember from my times south of the city in Rock Hill, S.C.) picked up on the phenomenon of the YouTube community of truck drivers with a story, available at the WFAE.org site this past Monday, that features some familiar faces. Among them was included good [âŚ]
October 28, 2010
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Trucking to the Bowl Championship Series
Five trucking sponsors have partnered to make possible a college football bowl game to be held on December 18 in Boise, Idaho, with a 5:30 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN. With the Truckload Carriers Association, broker organization the Transportation Intermediaries Association, the Healthy Trucking Association of America and Women in Trucking, uDrove, a provider of smartphone-centric [âŚ]
October 27, 2010
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Truckingâs newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .
A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. Weâve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery driversâ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers [âŚ]
October 26, 2010
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Allen Smith, others at Memphis Trucking Expo Oct. 23
Itâs a banner month for first-time trucking shows in my home state of Tennessee. After Nashville last week, not to be outdone, of course, is Memphis, the site of the first annual Memphis Trucking Expo, presented by the folks at Worldwide Transport and Permit Service. If you missed Jan McCarter and Doug Jones (pictured) in [âŚ]
October 22, 2010
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How much of your business goes to the trash?
The folks over 40mpg.org, the site of an advocacy organization working to make â40 miles per gallon the standard for all automobiles in the United States,â makes note of recent automakersâ trumpeting of operations changes making certain of their U.S. plants zero-waste facilities, most notably Subaru and Honda. Which sent my computational brain into immediate [âŚ]
October 21, 2010
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Novelist takes literary achievement to the truckstop
Beyond the spotlight of trucking industry news in July this year a novelist was hard at work promoting a book, her first, in which one of four main characters is a long-hauler turned local delivery driver struggling to maintain a connection to his son. Whatâs more is where the writer was promoting the novel. Making three [âŚ]
October 20, 2010
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Nashville Rush Chrome & Class show winners
Friday I reported from the site of the first annual Chrome & Class Truck Show at the Nashville location of Rush Truck Centers just east-southeast of downtown in Smyrna. If you missed it, read about the first day at Nashville Rush, a story largely about the Eady family of truck owners/builders from Hillsboro, Ala., and [âŚ]
October 19, 2010
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âWorkinâ Classâ â a new trucking tune from Leland Martin
Itâs named after owner-operator Colin Stuartâs âbig olâ Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,â country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine â âWorkinâ Classâ is the latest in Martinâs catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for [âŚ]
October 18, 2010
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Live from the first-annual Nashville âChrome & Classâ truck show
Rex (left) and Hayden Eady are the father (owning and operating) and son (building, along with Haydenâs older brother Hayward) pair behind the 1996 custom-built Peterbilt 379 pictured. The Pete, powered by a Caterpillar 3406B and 15-speed tranny, was responsible in large part, says Hayden, for the rechristening of the latterâs Hillsboro, Ala.-based Haydenâs Truck [âŚ]
October 15, 2010
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Oh driver where art thou?
Dear driver, I have been hearing there is a shortage of you. Is it because all the owner-operators are succumbing to that CSA 2010 bug and electronic logs? Or are all those newfangled hybrid trucks themselves cross-breeding with a new monster species of broker to drive them out of business? Or, just maybe, since whether [âŚ]
October 14, 2010
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Vitality in strange cargo â operating tables, diners, sea turtles and more. . .
If you havenât seen it out on the truckstop racks, check out the digital edition of the October Truckers News for a fun feature profiling several haulers who move some of the more unique truckloads out there, including honeybees, Lance Armstrongâs prize-winning bicycles and two of my contributions to the package, loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings [âŚ]
October 13, 2010
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Haul Road to the Himalayas: Interviewing Lisa Kelly
The current âIRT: Deadliest Roadsâ season of the âIce Road Truckersâ reality-TV series franchise on the History Channel aired its second episode last night, after a launch the previous Sunday that garnered 3.4 million viewers. It pits North American drivers from past seasons, as well as a new face, against the incomparably rugged terrain and [âŚ]
October 11, 2010
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Complimentary advertisement⌠and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC
Driver with a lens-load of cool Itâs been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, âI am also sending this to Geico Insurance.â He [âŚ]
October 8, 2010
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âPersonal and poetic meditationâ on American trucking
The creators are art photographers Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido, a husband-wife team who a couple years back, NPR reported last week in their âPicture Showâ feature, took up the trucking life for a time to get a clearer understanding of the world. The result, a photographic exhibition at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New [âŚ]
October 7, 2010
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