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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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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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