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Klos Custom Trucks photo book
It makes a great coffetable book at “280 photos splashed across 112 glossy pages,” says photographer Robbie “Dingo” Rose, whom we’ve written about in this hall previously (you’ll remember this post about Dingo’s YouTube resume shot to further his down-under trucking career). These days he drives for McColl’s Transport in the Australian state of Victoria, […]
November 2, 2009
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DGX acquires parts of C&H Freight
October 30, 2009
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Convoy for a Cure postmortem — a resounding success
With $13,000 raised and more than 30 trucks and many good times, the Convoy for a Cure event, dedicated to breast cancer awareness and fund-raising, at Willie’s Place last weekend can no doubt be called a success, says Overdrive‘s October Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon. Salmon (pictured here with fellow country singer Kathy White) […]
October 30, 2009
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Launch of YouTubeTrucking.com
Texas regional hauler Texomatic (www.twitter.com/texomatic, http://www.texomatic.com/>) is fed up, he says. “I am sick and tired really of minimal, zero, exposure on the national, regional or industry stage for all of us drivers…who make videos and put them out on YouTube.” Minus a story he says appeared in Road King magazine, little industry attention has […]
October 27, 2009
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New iPhone app from trucking insurer
Since the introduction of the iPhone Trucker app earlier this year, more trucking-related endeavors have entered the area where mobile communications technology and business intersect. The latest iPhone app is Trucker1, what developer 1st Guard Corporation is calling “the first mobile application developed specifically for owner-operators,” now available via the iTunes App Store. And, significantly, […]
October 26, 2009
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Draggin’ wagons — the music video
Blast from the recent past, today. You might remember my post about trucker and frequent YouTube video-er Stephen Adams, aka TruckerSteve: In it, I remarked on TruckerSteve’s sometime associate in YouTubing DriverGeoff, a hauler whose Twitter posts were marathons in repetition and general good humor — blasts about his location, generally — that took the […]
October 22, 2009
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Remembering bygone days
Mike French, 25-year veteran of Dart Transit, recalled vivid memories and colleagues of days long gone in the October issue of Advantage Digest, the fleet’s newsletter for their owner-operator contractors. Contractors, as a good-natured work force, are some of the constants in a changing world, he writes. “Contractors even connected to my family. I don’t […]
October 21, 2009
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‘Hags’ won’t rag fleet by name
“Highway Hags” Stace and Hedon, company team drivers for a “super-large-mega-important transportation firm,” blog on anything from mechanical how-to to more standard blog fare at highwayhags.com. Their employer decided “they would rather not take advantage of all the free publicity to be gained from being mentioned prominently in drivers’ blogs,” writes Hedon on highwayhags.com. “On […]
October 20, 2009
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That great vinyl sound — in the cab
Ever wished you could dust off those earthy old Hank Williams 45s your dad left you and take them for a spin pulling produce cross-country in the old Pete? And, of course, actually listen to them? For a while in the 1950s, then again in the early 1960s, the folks at the ookworld.com site tell […]
October 19, 2009
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Trouble at ground zero for economic recovery
This week, two new wrinkles quickly scaled over and cracked along the surface of what many have seen for some time now as the forefront of economic recovery and roadway safety — bridge infrastructure and the potential to both expand and maintain it as our roads age. 1. NEW YORK. That’s right, the state that’s […]
October 15, 2009
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Ochs Trucking driver channels his inner Ken Patera
If you’re younger than, say, 35, it’s doubtful you remember the finishing move of professional wrestler Ken Patera, active in the 1970s, ’80s, and into the ’90s. Suffice it to say that Missouri-based Ochs Trucking driver Jason Poirrier is at least old enough to deploy Patera’s signature full nelson, minus the pro’s classic swing, as […]
October 14, 2009
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Driving while smoking: the cutting edge of in-cab distractions
Not only did one truck driver in Ontario this weekend likely enter the history books as the first hauler ticketed for smoking in his cab in contravention of a provincial piece of legislation-turned-law called the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, he may well stand at the vanguard of the recent hyper-attention to in-cab distractions provided by the […]
October 13, 2009
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October Trucker of the Month live at Convoy for a Cure USA
In all the effort spent to get to the reality of one particular independent owner-operator’s business and life as a musician, I somehow missed one important detail: Overdrive October Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon, whom you’ll remember from this post from last week, is performing live at the Convoy for a Cure for breast […]
October 11, 2009
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‘Trucker’ released in theaters Oct. 9
Friday, Oct. 9, is the release date for “Trucker,” a so-called “small indie film” that thus will see a limited release, but perhaps it’s in your area. The press for the movie, at least as run with in many outlets, traffics in some stereotyping — “Michelle Monaghan is transformed from a hard-drinking, hard-living trucker” into […]
October 8, 2009
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Texting re-redux — new consumer survey on DWT
That’s right: it’s just a hash mark away from DWI, and according to DOT, reaction times are roughly equivalent to those of a driver at the 0.08 alcohol limit. A study by the online electronics retailer and product-review site Retrevo puts the share of automobile drivers who frequently “text, use Facebook, or Twitter” while behind […]
October 7, 2009
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Going back to Cali
A little California dreaming today, folks. A new story in the Riverside-based Press-Enterprise details the low volumes of pre-holiday freight coming through the L.A./Long Beach ports this year, but that’s just one of the state’s many trucking-related problems. The reefer unit and port-serving trucks emissions rules come online at the end of the year, and […]
October 6, 2009
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Trucker appreciation at Johnson’s Corner Truckstop
Apologies to haulers who passed through Denver yesterday for not catching this earlier — I was undoubtedly distracted by other things on my computer. In any case, the Loveland, Colo., truckstop Johnson’s Corner celebrated their driver-appreciation day by offering various entertainment through the day and, most significantly, doling out free dogs, burgers and soft drinks […]
October 1, 2009
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Getting out of hand?
When I wrote Friday about the media ramp-up to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s so-called “distracted driving summit,” which begins today, noting the broad definition of on-board technology in some safety groups’ analyses of in-cab distraction, little did I know that the New York Times would follow with a more supposedly in-depth look at the […]
September 30, 2009
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