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Baltimore columnist: âCanât avoid jackknifing? Donât be a truck driverâ
Michael Dresser, writing in the Baltimore Sun after the deluge of snow that blanketed the East Coast over the Super Bowl weekend, singled out several jackknifed rigs and their drivers in the Baltimore area as âPublic Enemy No. 1.â One such jackknifing incident, he writes, turned I-95 into a parking lot for the entirety of [âŚ]
February 17, 2010
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Trucking industry self-policing, Montana-style
Howâs this for taking matters into your own hands? After a few truck accidents on Montana highways 93 and 35 around Flathead Lake in the western section of the state, one of which spilled several thousand gallons of gasoline into soil precariously near the body of water, the public called for a ban of all [âŚ]
February 16, 2010
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Olympic downhill skiing, brought to you by dump trailer
Ice road trucking it isnât, but I couldnât help but notice in opening television coverage of the Winter Olympics, ongoing around Vancouver, B.C., an exceptional shot of a tractor pulling a dump trailer loaded with nothing but pure white snow. Thatâs right, while the U.S. has had no short supply of the white stuff this year, getting the [âŚ]
February 15, 2010
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Continental HSR rides well on uneven terrain in Super Bowl ad
If you saw Budweiserâs âHuman Bridgeâ ad during the New Orleans Saints decisive defeat of the Indianapolis Colts to claim victory in last Sundayâs Super Bowl contest, you may have missed one key piece of the spot, a split second shot of a Bud truckâs tires rolling over the human bridge (pictured). Says Continental Tireâs Jackie Pobiega. [âŚ]
February 12, 2010
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Owner-operatorâs record hits Roots Music charts
Iâll bet Overdrive October 2009 Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon, an independent you may likewise remember from a couple posts (here and here) late last year about his part in the Convoy for a Cure festivities in Texas, is having a good old time watching news of all the snow folks all over the country are suffering [âŚ]
February 11, 2010
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OO dispatcher takes on truck brokerage industry
Straight into battle with a large piece of the trucking world goes Mr. Paul Todd, an Augusta, Ga.-based owner-operator dispatching service provider and the subject of my February Exit Only column âSurrounding the Middlemanâ in Truckers News (follow that link for the story). Toddâs the author of the Industry of Thieves book. Released last year, Toddâs book makes the case [âŚ]
February 10, 2010
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FMCSA finally listening to drivers?
On the subject of the hours of service, my entire time covering the trucking industry has been to the ever-more-visible backdrop curtain of calls (to really mix metaphors) to introduce some sort of flexibility into the current, rigid 14-hour window for drivers to take short sleeper berth periods and not risk losing valuable driving hours. The [âŚ]
February 9, 2010
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Interviewing Overdrive 2010 Trucker of the Year Mike Crawford
Always a pleasure, it is, to get a call from Mike âMustangâ Crawford (pictured), the Prime-leased owner-operator who is Overdriveâs 2010 Trucker of the Year (follow that link for my story about him in our February edition). I got one such call just last week. Crawford told me about his truckâs recent inadvertent inclusion in [âŚ]
February 8, 2010
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Wild game cooking classes spawned by ice-roads coincidence
As Todd L. Disher quipped last week in the lead of his piece for Alaskaâs Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper about Carlile Transportation driving instructor Phil Kromm, âitâs only natural an episode of âIce Road Truckersâ would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game.â Kromm, see, is an avid propane griller of wild [âŚ]
February 5, 2010
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Truckers key in averting mix-up in Granite Falls, Wash., bypass
In the Everett, Wash., Daily Herald newspaper late last week a story appeared about two roundabouts being constructed on a new bypass of the growing Granite Falls, Wash., community in the central part of the state, very near vast National Forest areas. According to the storyâs writer, Bill Sheets, truckers were instrumental in pointing out a fatal flaw [âŚ]
February 4, 2010
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Fillmore, Ill., trucker carves wooden truck models with lifelike detail
Profiled in the Dectaur, Ill.-based Herald-Review, Jeff Miller is a truck driver who wields a wood-carving knife with considerable skill, building wooden models of classic truck-tractors.
February 2, 2010
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Satirical news mag picks up on texting ban ironies
Humor mag The Onion is known for picking apart the news of the day, and the news business, in often satirically cutting fashion â in a story published years ago in its pages it ran a picture of an orange-jumpsuited prisoner wearing a crown of thorns with the headline âChrist kills two in abortion-clinic bombing.â It [âŚ]
February 1, 2010
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Conway Truckload VP Randy Cornell jumps out of plane
Though itâs unclear how exactly this is a safety-improvement motivator, Randy Cornell, safety VP with Joplin, Mo.-based Con-way Truckload, sky-dived from 10,000 feet after the fleetâs drivers met a safety challenge to get its âaccident rate down by a creditable 34 percent in just five years,â as reported at HandyShippingGuide.com and elsewhere. âThe figure equates to less than 8 accidents per [âŚ]
January 29, 2010
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More local fame for driver/songwriter Larry Morris
The Missouri-based Daily Dunklin Democrat newspaper once again featured a driver I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville late last year. Campbell, Mo.-based Double G Trucking hauler Larry Morrisâs âCotton Fields to Nashvilleâ song was selected as the title track for a Johnny Cash tribute record, a coproduction of TRS Music Group and Plush [âŚ]
January 28, 2010
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Ban eating while driving too?
Though the writer played it as an example of distracted driving, could it be an argument for more flexibility in the hours of service? Whatever the case, given todayâs news that a nationwide texting-while-driving ban is in the offing, I guess it couldnât be helped that Joseph Rose of the Oregonian newspaper wrote on the Hard Drive blog [âŚ]
January 26, 2010
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Blow dealt to industry âbad actorâ
As someone who talks to proud and professional owner-operators and company drivers on a daily basis, Iâm no stranger to a particularly common sentiment: the notion that the actions of a very few within the trucking industry strike huge blows to the collective image of the many. Whether itâs a criminal broker-fraud scheme, a big [âŚ]
January 25, 2010
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25-year-old trucker makes it past âAmerican Idolâ judges
At American Idol auditions in Orlando, Fla., 25-year-old Matt Lawrence breezed past the judges with a soulful rendition of Ray LaMontagneâs âTrouble.â What most viewers might not have noticed was Lawrenceâs occupation â heâs a manager with his fatherâs trucking company in Starke, Fla. Less sanguine, perhaps, is the fact that heâs also done time [âŚ]
January 22, 2010
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New indexing tool helps OOs/carriers determine what freight rates âshouldâ be
Tools like Transcoreâs Rate Index Pro and Internet Truckstopâs Fuel Desk Plus have in recent years offered for users of the load board services and other subscriber owner-operators access to real-time load market data along individual lanes and in specific regions, leading to a broker-carrier negotiation situation where, for the first time in history, individual [âŚ]
January 21, 2010
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