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Interviewing Overdrive 2010 Trucker of the Year Mike Crawford
Always a pleasure, it is, to get a call from Mike “Mustang” Crawford (pictured), the Prime-leased owner-operator who is Overdrive’s 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 truck’s recent inadvertent inclusion in […]
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 Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper about Carlile Transportation driving instructor Phil Kromm, “it’s only natural an episode of ‘Ice Road Truckers’ would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game.” Kromm, see, is an avid propane griller of wild […]
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 story’s writer, Bill Sheets, truckers were instrumental in pointing out a fatal flaw […]
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 — 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 “Christ kills two in abortion-clinic bombing.” It […]
February 1, 2010
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Conway Truckload VP Randy Cornell jumps out of plane
Though it’s 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 fleet’s drivers met a safety challenge to get its “accident rate down by a creditable 34 percent in just five years,” as reported at HandyShippingGuide.com and elsewhere. “The figure equates to less than 8 accidents per […]
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 Morris’s “Cotton Fields to Nashville” song was selected as the title track for a Johnny Cash tribute record, a coproduction of TRS Music Group and Plush […]
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 today’s news that a nationwide texting-while-driving ban is in the offing, I guess it couldn’t be helped that Joseph Rose of the Oregonian newspaper wrote on the Hard Drive blog […]
January 26, 2010
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Blow dealt to industry ‘bad actor’
As someone who talks to proud and professional owner-operators and company drivers on a daily basis, I’m 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 it’s a criminal broker-fraud scheme, a big […]
January 25, 2010
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25-year-old trucker makes it past ‘American Idol’ judges
At American Idol auditions in Orlando, Fla., 25-year-old Matt Lawrence breezed past the judges with a soulful rendition of Ray LaMontagne’s “Trouble.” What most viewers might not have noticed was Lawrence’s occupation — he’s a manager with his father’s trucking company in Starke, Fla. Less sanguine, perhaps, is the fact that he’s also done time […]
January 22, 2010
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New indexing tool helps OOs/carriers determine what freight rates ‘should’ be
Tools like Transcore’s Rate Index Pro and Internet Truckstop’s 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 […]
January 21, 2010
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‘Truck’ front and center in MA Senate victory
National media, at the behest of the candidate/soon-to-be-senator himself, are putting a GMC Canyon pickup at the center of his (some say) upset victory over the Democrat running against him for Senator Edward Kennedy’s former Senate seat in Massachusetts. If eTrucker.com polls we conducted in August and December are any indication, it’s appropriate that a […]
January 20, 2010
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Have truck, can’t hunt
Over-the-road drivers deal with all manner of annoyances, some rising to the level of outright injustice — I think immediately of the numerous times I’ve watched a fellow auto-driver cut across three lanes of traffic at 70-plus mph within mere feet of a rig’s front bumper, to name just one — but writing in the Montana newspaper Billings Gazette, reporter Brett French recently uncovered one such injustice that might take the cake for most downright silly.
January 19, 2010
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iPhone app as dealer lot
The folks at CommercialTruckTrader.com have introduced the latest in iPhone apps from the heavy duty trucking industry, and with it comes the following slick, simple, well-soundtracked video, detailing the app’s truck-searching and social functionality. And thinking about on the past year or so, which saw at least three trucking-related iPhone apps detailed in these pages — […]
January 15, 2010
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One Arrow driver’s story, through the eyes of the Schneider National hauler who picked him up
Nacogdoches, Texas-based Schneider National driver Robin Reese recently told me a story that ranks among the absolute most positive I’ve heard to come out of the bankruptcy of Arrow Trucking, which before officially filing as bankrupt late last week abruptly ceased operations a few days before Christmas, leaving drivers the nation over in the lurch and […]
January 13, 2010
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UPS hauler weighs in on foggy driving
In Gary Richards’ Monday “Roadshow” column in the Silicon Valley Mercury News paper, Richards called on Aptos, Calif.-based UPS trucker Dan Casas to help answer the question of a writer about the safety of closely following a big rig in fog to get through a dangerous drive. Casas was gracious and knowledgable in his reply.
January 12, 2010
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South Pole ice roads redux
More pictures from South African Antarctic research expedition — now that’s extreme intermodal.
January 11, 2010
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Owner-operator ‘Singin’ Sam’ Little launches campaign for governor of Alaska
“Singin’ Sam” Little has dedicated one of the Kenworths in his Little Country small fleet to pull parade floats and other materials during his own 2010 campaign for the governorship of Alaska. The sometime country singer Little has also issued a new record, “Truck Driver for Governor,” that features a tune updated from his original […]
January 8, 2010
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