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Doyle Blackerby writes his life in trucking
The Gadsden Times in Alabama published a rich story this past Sunday by correspondent Harry D. Butler about a great American original in Doyle Blackerby, 38-year commercial hauler, born in lower-state Leeds, Ala. His career followed the development of the interstate highway system, beginning just out of the Army in 1950 (where heâd served as a driver) [âŚ]
April 14, 2010
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New video: The perils of promising to run with JazzyâŚ
âPromising to run with Jazzy is like making a promise to God, but God will forgive you if you break your promise.â âLee Jordan, small fleet owner and father of 17-year-old runner Jasmine âJazzyâ Jordan, currently running across the U.S. to benefit the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund And so, for those who [âŚ]
April 13, 2010
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Newtonâs laws of motion at work on NYSE?
Every driver knows, at least intuitively, Newtonâs third law of motion, right? Or is it the first? In any case, it typically runs something like âfor every action thereâs an equal and opposite reaction,â and is meant to describe momentum and the interaction of objects. The wheels and tires, propelled by the truckâs engine, give [âŚ]
April 12, 2010
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Amid industry discussion of EOBR rule, smartphone logging apps proliferate
Though the FMCSAâs just-published limited-mandate and performance-standards rule for electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs) for logging did next to nothing to open up the market for tools beyond the paper log and expensive devices tethered to the truckâs ECM, smartphone applications with similar functionality continue to proliferate. The UDrove app and online storage service, released earlier this year (functional [âŚ]
April 8, 2010
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Third timeâs the charm? Feds say no to tolling I-80 in Penn.
A development that could mark the end of a long saga (you could make a case that it goes back to the 1980s â heck, even that it begins prior to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System itself) happened yesterday with the third federal rejection of an application by the state of Pennsylvania for authority [âŚ]
April 7, 2010
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In praise of a good scale
A scale can be the bane of a truck driverâs existence, turning a long-held friendly rural-shipper relationship sour when an inaccurate estimation of cargo weight is found faulty 50 miles down the road at the nearest weigh point.
April 6, 2010
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Trucking through hours-of-service flexibility and EOBRs
With a new rule mandating electronic on-board recorders for a boosted number of hours-of-service (HOS) noncompliant carriers, the ongoing HOS listening sessions and FMCSA review of the current hours rule and the expectation among industry parties that an across-the-board EOBR mandate may be in the offing several years down the road, the issue of work time [âŚ]
April 5, 2010
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Mack plant on âAmerican Loggersâ tonight
The Discovery Channelâs âAmerican Loggersâ series, as you may remember, features in part the Pelletier Logging family, whom I last wrote about here when their friendly business rivals the Crawfordsâ played one particularly funny battery-powered prank on them of an early March morning. Before that, I happened upon pictures from the Discovery crewâs filming at [âŚ]
April 2, 2010
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New play brings ârespectâ for drivers to the stage
âItâs been more than 30 years since Hollywood had White Line Fever,â wrote Denver Post Theater Critic John Moore in this article, ââDieselsâ Fuels Respect for Truck Drivers,â about the Denver Center Theatre Companyâs production of their in-house-written new play, âMama Hated Diesels,â that premiered March 25 and is running through early May at the Stage Theater in Denver. And, Moore [âŚ]
April 1, 2010
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J marks the spot: Running with Jazzy in Nashville, Tenn.
Or, actually, Donelson and Hermitage, both part of Metro Nashville, and then into Mt. Juliet briefly on a trek that was a personal best for me in terms of uninterrupted, long-distance running. I achieved 4.6 miles over the course of the first 50 minutes Jasmine âJazzyâ Jordan ran Tuesday morning. The 17-year-old is on her way [âŚ]
March 31, 2010
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Long-haul quilting bee
This blog, in addition my Exit Only column in Truckers News, has been in part devoted to the off-highway pursuits of the nationâs haulers. Itâd be impossible for me to count the drivers Iâve talked to engaged in advocacy, trucking image-buiding efforts, music, arts, new-media activities and so much more. But the Wall Street Journal [âŚ]
March 29, 2010
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Donât miss the âClass Actâ on the show lot at MATS
âClass Act,â a 1995 Peterbilt 379 (pictured) in the Paul K. Young Memorial Truck Beauty Show competition ending today in Louisville, isnât your typical truck show entry. Itâs not the creation of an owner-operator, custom shop, fleet or dealer. The folks who beautified this truck, in some cases, donât even have their driverâs license. âClass [âŚ]
March 27, 2010
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Highlighting cargo theft
One week after St. Patrickâs Day, on Wednesday my hometown newspaper, the Rock Hill, S.C., Herald, reported that a locked trailer hooked to driver Barry Cousarâs tractor, parked at the Lake Marian Truck Stop on U.S. 21 at I-77, was burglarized. Bandits made off with $28,000 worth of green highlighters, prompting reporter Kimberly Dick to ask the [âŚ]
March 26, 2010
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Volume 3 of âTruckers Tracksâ â and a new song for Jazzy Jordan â debuts
When Doug Jones moved to Nashville, Tenn., from Delaware in the 1990s, he was a musician, but the guitar and harmonica player was in town at the invitation of longtime friend and former late-80s-era Allman Brothers keyboardist Johnny Neel, who had launched his Straight-Up Sound Studio on Nashvilleâs south side to do session and production [âŚ]
March 24, 2010
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Local fame for Goodyear highway-hero finalist
The Gloucester Times of Gloucester, Mass., reported on the heroic achievements of one of the townâs own this weekend â Stephen Page, driver for Pit Bull Trucking, was on I-80 July last year near Clearfield, Pa., when he noticed fire along the roadside and inspected it to find a tractor pulling doubles on having run [âŚ]
March 23, 2010
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Monday-morning wake-up call
I imagine many readers will have already taken note of the horrifying video of the Rona Williamsâ Renault Clio hooked sideways to the front bumper of a big Arclid Transport cabover running at highway speeds on the UKâs A1 freeway for a minute or more before the rigâs driver noticed heâd been involved in an accident, [âŚ]
March 22, 2010
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Beating the Dutch â women truckers fire at Guinness World Record
Iâd bet you didnât know it, but the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of female truck drivers was set by an all-woman truck convoy held in 2004 in the Netherlands. At least so say the folks trying to beat it at the Mid-America Trucking Show next week. As reported on several blogs and [âŚ]
March 19, 2010
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âA door just openedâ: Jasonâs Law gains steam
What might well go down in history as the biggest trucking story of 2009, at least as goes driversâ efforts to push for industry change for the better, is that of Jasonâs Law, named after N.Y.-based driver Jason Rivenburg after he was robbed and gunned down while parked at an abandoned grocery in South Carolina. [âŚ]
March 17, 2010
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