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Channel 19
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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CSA 2010 â questions of accountability, fairness
A video interview with driver Steve Bugg about this Georgia-based carrierâs experience in the CSA 2010 pilot test program. CSA 2010, set to go online nationwide, changes the model for safety rating and enforcement in many ways for both carriers and drivers. Bugg questions the very basis of the program, at the same time acknowledging the legitimacy of his carrierâs new strict approach to driver speeding warnings, tickets and more, given the new regime.
March 4, 2010
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Saying goodbye to Michiganâs Te-Khi and Tekon independent truckstops
Soft freight and high fuel got you down? Youâre not alone. Though business for the nationâs truckers has picked up since the extremely slow period we all saw last year, difficulties continue for many, and for two independent truckstops in Michigan the pressures were just too much. Writing in the Battle Creek Enquirer, Andy Fitzpatrick told a [âŚ]
March 3, 2010
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Runner for truckersâ health passes halfway mark
Itâs been a wild haul for Jasmine âJazzyâ Jordan, the 17-year-old Olympic-caliber cross-country runner who recently reached the halfway, 1,500-mile mark in her run across the U.S., carried out to raise awareness for truck driver health and health-insurance availability. You will remember Jazzy from my post in November, about her appearance on the Internet radio show TruckStar. [âŚ]
March 2, 2010
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The costs of waiting out the storm
Beth Brelje, writing in the Pocono Record of Pennsylvania, visited with several truckers waiting out a snowstorm in a Wal-Mart parking lot off I-84. Such waits have been legion for the nationâs haulers this season, with record amounts of snowfall hitting places where a snow deluge is not such a common thing. It may be [âŚ]
March 1, 2010
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Truck driver/author Tim Costello remembered in NY Times
I missed the news of the passing Tim Costello (pictured) in late December last year. Coming across it via the website of the New York Times, which had ran a nice roundup in the paper of his life and work, Iâm struck as always by what so many individual haulers are able to accomplish in addition to keeping [âŚ]
February 26, 2010
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Ruan Transport founder remembered at memorial ceremony
The $2 bill, you may not have known, was a calling card of Ruan Transport founder John Ruan, who passed away at age 96 on Sunday, Feb. 14, and was remembered fondly by many in a lighthearted tribute ceremony in Des Moines attended last week Thursday by more than 600 people. After the celebration, reported [âŚ]
February 25, 2010
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Word from the Magic Man: âLetâs get this show on the roadâ
In the November issue of Truckers News, my editor and colleague Randy Grider wrote about Michael Mooney (pictured) in his lead column, âMagic Man.â Mooney, a performer based in Cartersville, Ga., is deft with all manner of magicianâs tricks, but he also has a compelling story to tell, which he never misses the opportunity to do. One [âŚ]
February 24, 2010
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Piling on â overweight fines reaching new heights
If the headline seems too outlandish to be true of a truck that actually had some sort of permit â âTruck bound for drilling site 49.7 tons overweightâ â think again. Enforcement officers in Towanda, Pa., reported the Star-Gazette of Elmira, N.Y., have cracked down hard of all manner of weight infractions due to, some [âŚ]
February 23, 2010
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Nashville driver reaches out to targets of hate graffiti
This story, published in the Nashville, Tenn.-based daily City Paper, highlights the efforts of a truck driver to represent the best of his community to a group of Somali immigrants and their house of worship. When the Al-Farooq Islamic Center, a community meeting hall and mosque, was tagged with the words âMuslims Go Homeâ and a cross [âŚ]
February 22, 2010
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Remembering a genuine American â Yellow Freight driver Karl Krueger
It is with sadness that I that I relay news reports that confirm the death of a true American â Karl Krueger of Sioux Falls, S.D. (pictured), a union driver for Yellow Freight who made his mark on the trucking world and general public with a campaign for the presidency of the United States. A five-rig [âŚ]
February 19, 2010
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Another drop in the âNo Truck Parkingâ bucket
Fayetteville, N.C., Observer reporter Myron Pitts put out a clarion call in a recently published editorial for the North Carolina DOT to do the prudent thing to increase safety outside the Motiva Enterprises fuel terminal in the area and add at the least a turning lane for trucks backing up waiting for entry on Shaw Mill Road. The article, [âŚ]
February 18, 2010
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