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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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The 5,000-mile pet-rescue haul
Musician Susanne Spiritâs shows three times weekly at the TravelCenters of America-East location in Ontario, Calif., are a combination of country performance and public outreach to and from the nationâs truckers, with one of their prime components offering pet-adoption services to drivers, finding loving, rolling homes for those cast away. Spirit and co. recently found a [âŚ]
March 16, 2010
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Anonymous trucker heroism after officerâs high-speed injury
When Eastern Adams County, Pa., officer Richard H. Phillips, 40, caught the back end of a tractor-trailer at the intersection of U.S. 30 and state road 94 south of Harrisburg in rural eastern Pennsylvania, he was in pursuit of a small car flying eastbound on 30 for unreported reasons, and when his vehicle burst into [âŚ]
March 15, 2010
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Allis-Chalmers on-highway engines? â Ted Streitâs restoration adventuresâŚ
Mercer leased owner-operator Ted Streit also happens to be the owner of a shop doing custom and restoration work in Suring, Wis., called Fast Transport. More than a year ago, he called me up after seeing some coverage of fellow Wisconsin resident (Sparta) and owner-operator Paul Sagehornâs restoration of two original TV KWs, one from the Movinâ [âŚ]
March 12, 2010
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Driver-led health walk at MATS; video interview with O/O Dick McCorkle
At the âItâs a Teams Lifeâ blog home of expediters Bob and Linda Caffee, youâll find all manner of good information about the business of trucking, from the singular point of view of this versatile and experienced couple. But a recent item caught my attention, as it reminded me of three fairly recent conversations Iâve had with [âŚ]
March 11, 2010
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The grand gesture â rival Maine log-hauling families spar
The Pelletiers and the Crawfords of Maine are known far and wide for their success in the log-hauling business in the north woods, the Pelletiers the subject of the Discovery Channelâs American Loggers series, which I wrote about in December when they took delivery of a couple new Mack Titans. The Crawfords, meanwhile, deserve and [âŚ]
March 10, 2010
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Watermelon Slimâs on-the-road âEscape From the Chicken Coopâ
Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill âWatermelon Slimâ Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And âI was an above-average harp player,â he says of his early years making music, his first record of work-song blues coming out in 1972. But when he hears what young blues players like Craig Lawler and Jason Ricci can [âŚ]
March 8, 2010
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Staring down coming CARB regs
A great story in the California-based Porterville Record highlighted the difficulties being faced by a particluar 5-truck fleet in Ducor, Calif., Andromeda Transport, owned by Dave Schwartz. Schwartz (pictured, right, with his mechanic), as he told reporter Sarah de Crescenzo, considers himself a âmodern-day environmentalistâ in his commitment to keeping his older trucks in tip-top operating [âŚ]
March 5, 2010
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