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Wedding air horns are sounding…
From the website of the British Evening Star daily come the pictures here, of Robert White (in the first one) and his bride Kathleen and her father, Bernard Martin — and, of course, the on-highway tractors that served in lieu of a limo in the service. As Kathleen told the newspaper, “It was Rob’s idea […]
December 7, 2009
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Correcting the record on DWT
That’s “driving while texting,” of course, the latest and greatest among local and national media fouls when it comes to trucking. Fortunately, yesterday South Dakota Trucking Association President Myron L. Rau took the time to correct the misstatements made by Dustin Murphy in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper about the apparently increasing number of […]
December 4, 2009
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Reckoning a ‘tsunami of freight’ as a very bad thing
I don’t intend to do so, fyi, just passing on a bit of eye-opening reporting that recently appeared at the website of the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper. Even as freight volumes around the country are at extremely low levels, putting the hurt to trucking companies small and large, reporter James Pilcher (or, more likely, his editor) […]
December 3, 2009
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Is there a ‘war on trucking’ afoot?
Such was the question Michael Regan, board member of the National Industrial Transportation League (NIT is primarily a shippers’ group), aimed to answer in his piece in Logistics Management magazine. There, he detailed a recent conference call about the state of freight transportation with logistics professionals. Is there a war? he was asked on that […]
December 2, 2009
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‘Going Wrong’? — what Sarah Palin’s autobiography has to do with you
Not much, really, unless you happen to be reading it and enjoying its critique of media lassitude and political bias, with the exception of a mention of VHF radios and conversations with truckers held from Palin’s Alaskan back porch. The mention of truckers comes via Craig Medred, who offered this critique of Palin’s “Going Rouge” […]
November 30, 2009
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Songwriter Larry Morris drives big trucks to Nashville
Campbell, Mo.-based trucker Larry Morris (pictured), who drives for small fleet Double G Trucking, is also a songwriter, and his crowning achievement in that arena is now available — “Cotton Fields to Nashville” is the name of the tune, which you can hear here: http://www.cottonfields2nashville.com/>. I wrote about him in the December issue of Truckers […]
November 25, 2009
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NPR correspondent gets "worst roads" lesson from owner-operator
Yesterday on National Public Radio’s banner afternoon news program, All Things Considered, correspondent Ina Jaffe detailed her ridealong with one Randy Park, who drives for Apex Logistics. They ran down a stretch I-10 in California that Overdrive readers last year named among the worst in the country, singling out the state for No. 4 in […]
November 24, 2009
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Texas trucker narrowly escapes the ultimate disaster
I may have spoken too soon, Friday, when I made reference to one Brazilian truck accident as one of the most bizarre of truck crash results ever photographed. A Nov. 12 story in Wyoming’s Powell Tribune newspaper included a picture equally terrifyingwe-inspiring. The piece told the story of Texas-based hauler Otis Hall, whose wrong turn […]
November 23, 2009
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Bridges and trucks colliding, around the world
This scene at this link might take the prize for most bizarre of truck accidents, at least those photographed for posterity. Thankfully, looks like the driver was rescued. It’s a scene on a Brazilian bridge sent my way from photographer Igor Alecsander (he didn’t take the accident pictures), whose acquaintance I made while researching part […]
November 20, 2009
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Do you have Zonkatude? New novel by trucker chronicles band’s 40-year career
Jim Funkhouser, aka J. Gale Morrison, has been a truck driver “for 22 years,” he says. “I am thinking about making a career out of it!” All the same, via the website thezonks.com, he’s begun to market his first novel, We Were the Zonks, about the career of a lately reunited band, first active in […]
November 17, 2009
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Trucking stars on the rise through running — and talking
In October, Truckers News Editor Randy Grider wrote about the extraordinary saga of one Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan, a 16-year-old Olympic-caliber runner who began a cross-country run Sept. 1 to bring awareness to the difficulty many truck drivers experience in obtaining proper health care. This month, she was a guest on boat hauler and internet-radio host […]
November 13, 2009
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Four-wheelers get their fair share
In all the hubbub surrounding the CSA 2010 safety initiative from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which the agency hopes will improve safety among motor carriers and drivers of large trucks when fully implemented, an only tangently related program has gone virtually unnoticed in trucking circles. And no, I don’t think it’s a looming […]
November 12, 2009
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Poetic salute from unlikely quarters
Ann Campanella (pictured) is a journalist-turned-poet whose collection Young amp; Ripe, published by the folks at Charlotte-based Main Street Rag this year, chronicles via short verse the spirit of youth. Her “Six Days on the Road” poem was featured Oct 9 this year in the daily Writer’s Almanac from National Public Radio, read by Garrison […]
November 11, 2009
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Owner-operator takes delivery of first Lonestar Harley special edition
Twenty-year trucking veteran and current owner-operator Chris Hawker, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle enthusiast, took delivery in late October of the first Harley special edition of the International Lonestar Class 8 tractor (pictured). In a ceremony in Milwaukee, Wis., Hawker was presented the keys to the first production unit and launched on the “maiden voyage” in Navistar’s […]
November 10, 2009
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From outside in: Top 10 things learned in a rig on the highway
Joan Duggan Connell (pictured) penned this lead letter in the Speakout department of this month’s edition of Overdrive. While we had to run it in short form due to space limitations of the section, for my money its original form is worth some additional attention, likewise the unique character of its author. Connell’s more an […]
November 6, 2009
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Latest stowaways in UK
The London-based Sun newspaper reported last week on seven men and likewise seven teenagers reportedly from Iraq and Afghanistan discovered in a tanker full of corn starch bound for a town in the Wiltshire region. The story — headlined “Trucker’s a-maize-ing find” — is played for its shock value, hinging on the stunning photograph of […]
November 5, 2009
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Trucking; the key to Afghanistan stabilization
At least economically, anyway — such is the viewpoint of Washington Post defense correspondent, ForeignPolicy.com blogger and Fiasco author Tom Ricks, expressed in a relatively recent missive on the subject here, titled “Keep on Trucking, Afghanistan.” “The key to economic reconstruction in Afghanistan,” Ricks writes, “would be restoring its traditional role of carrying goods from […]
November 4, 2009
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I-80 tolls in PA: Third time’s a charm?
News surfaced last week that Pennsylvania had once again applied for federal approval to add tolls to I-80 within the state’s borders under a pilot program for tolling existing interstates (as a means of road funding when all other options for road rehabilitation were exhausted). The Pennsylvania Fifth District congressional seat, formerly occupied by John […]
November 3, 2009
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