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Pre-employment screening in the CSA 2010 era
It’s not all about DAC anymore. With CSA 2010 carrier scores in six of the seven violation categories in CSA 2010 set to go public beginning in December, carrier attention to inspection reports has ramped up to a high level — for drivers, a primary piece of the regulatory puzzle in all of this is […]
October 5, 2010
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A coffee for St. Christopher
What says trucking more than a good cup of coffee? Though I haven’t done much coffee-related reporting since the March 2008 Truckers News story probing haulers’ coffee preferences, I suspect that with the turmoil we’ve all seen in the economy since that time, the 16 percent of drivers reporting they made their own brew on […]
October 4, 2010
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A driver so good the shipper gave him his own desk
Talk about burying the lead: The Osakis Review, a paper published from Osakis, Minn., ran a great profile of resident Larry Herzog (pictured, by Greta Petrich), who runs beef destined for McDonald’s customers’ stomachs for carrier Hensley Trucking, also of Osakis. In the profile, Herzog spends due time stressing the difficulties he faces daily in […]
October 1, 2010
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Say ____ to electronic logs
Outside of leased owner-operators reacting to strong encouragement, for lack of a better phrase, from their lessor fleets, I’ve yet to actually speak to an owner-operator who’s voluntarily adopted an electronic logging platform that conforms to the federal definition of an EOBR, i.e. essentially an electronic logging system that is tethered to the engine’s electronic […]
September 30, 2010
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Still ‘dressed for success’ — Henry Albert’s opening salvo at GATS PIB
Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year, independent owner-operator Henry Albert (pictured, right, with our current Trucker of the Year, Mike Crawford), delivered an opening salvo at Overdrive’s Partners in Business seminar Friday, Aug. 27, at the Great American Trucking Show in an address that elucidated the effects of a very-small adjustment in his business that, […]
September 29, 2010
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Dangerous roads — for animals — cataloged in California, Maine
The last time Truckers News addressed the subject of dangerous roads, you might forgive us for having focused on the obvious, the treacherous mountain passes, cold and snowy winter roads and congested urban centers that make the job of the nation’s truck drivers a sometimes harrowing adventure. Researchers and other users of the California and […]
September 29, 2010
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Having the cake and rolling it too
You may remember our reporting on the “Biggest tractor-trailer cake in the world” on the occasion of Iowa 80 Truckstop’s Walcott Truckers Jamboree’s big anniversary more than a year ago now — the confection, an 8-foot-long creation, still probably holds the title, but we’ve gotten word via the Birmingham News of another (pictured, by the […]
September 27, 2010
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One week left in Sept. Truckers News photo contest
The contest asks for pictures of “Truckstop scenes,” such as this night shot I took in the early a.m. Wednesday, at a Georgia Pilot on the way back from Atlanta with Western Express driver Derek Dorsey. The prize, in addition to publication in Truckers News, will be something of a “field guide” to the basics […]
September 23, 2010
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Former Arrow Trucking driver advocate Donna Creekmore needs your help
At the collapse of her employer, Arrow Trucking, just days prior to Christmas in 2009, she was there when stranded drivers the nation over needed her help getting home — Arrow driver advocate “Momma” Donna Creekmore was up for much of four days straight in those heady times, though her own troubles were beginning as […]
September 21, 2010
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The case against locking the trailer; Sioux City salute
Cargo theft is on the rise, we report this month in Truckers News, and truckers using rear adjustable bar locks on their vans may be an ever-more-frequent reality. But for every argument there’s an at least somewhat valid counterargument, and one hauler’s unfortunate truck fire on I-70 in Indiana near Terre Haute points to the, […]
September 20, 2010
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It’s true — ‘Sexiest Trucker Alive’ did go to the Himalayas: ‘IRT: Dealiest Roads’ premieres
They were speaking truth over at Esquire mag when, as I wrote here in June, they noted that their annointed “Sexiest Trucker Alive,” Ice Road Truckers star and Alaskan Dalton Highway hauler Lisa Kelly (pictured), was in the Himalayas filming a television show. It was announced today that the new History Channel series “IRT: Deadliest […]
September 17, 2010
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NASCAR truck series driver Caitlin Shaw honoring truckers going ‘green’
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Caitlin Shaw, pictured, at 21 years old has taken on quite a task that is also something of a promotion and meant specifically to honor the nation’s haulers — particularly, she says, those many individuals “who have made a difference in the environment, whether it be a large change, […]
September 17, 2010
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Brit newspaper catches hauler unawares, mouth (and hands) full
Yes, the photo is real, the driver moving quickly down the M25, which circles London, and yes, he appears to be eating cereal, using both hands. As Ted Thornill of the Metro free newspaper (available in 16 British cities) wrote, “He clearly doesn’t care much for the Highway Code. It firmly states that you should ‘avoid […]
September 15, 2010
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Small-biz trucker finds his niche with versatility in Battle Creek, Mich.
Jim Wood of Maverick Express in Battle Creek, Mich., was interviewed by the Battle Creek Enquirer newspaper, the talk published in the exceedingly rare (in newspapers) Q&A format. Remarkable results for the trucker, whose boss at the carrier he worked for in his mid-30s told him, as he told the story to Enquirer reporter Andy […]
September 14, 2010
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Congestion diary: And you thought we had it bad. . .
Next time you’re sighing or beating your steering wheel over some mammoth traffic jam on your way into Atlanta, Chicago, L.A. or other American city, consider this: Two successive 60-plus-mile traffic jams, some lasting more than an entire week, have plagued the Beijing-Tibet Expressway into China’s capital city in the past month, highlighting some congestion […]
September 13, 2010
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‘Never forget’: 9/11 remembered by owner-operator Dick McCorkle
Perkins Specialized leased owner-operator Dick McCorkle (pictured) was there, or at least within a few miles of there, when jet airliners were flown into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center complex on Sept. 11, 2001. Specifically, he’d just delivered to a trade show at 42nd St. and 7th Ave., near Times […]
September 10, 2010
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Speeding ticket insurance?
A new service offers “Prepaid Traffic Tickets,” investments as a sort of hedge against the likelihood of getting a speeding or other ticket in a specific amount of time in the future — all while stressing that it does not in fact condone or encourage folks to speed. Basically, the company issues a voucher to […]
September 9, 2010
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APU rebates, Leslie train horns for East Tennessee’s Sams Trucking
Check out my story in the September Overdrive magazine on various financial incentives — rebates, grants, various low-interest loan programs — state governments are making available to owner-operators and carriers to encourage the purchase of idle-reduction technologies like APUs, cab heaters and the like, and you’ll find in the lead this pic of the new […]
September 8, 2010
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