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Channel 19
Prominent coverage of truckstop chaplain
Chaplain Joe Hunter’s Truckstop Ministries, Inc., organization just got a bump in attention — at least from people outside the trucking community. CNN ran a story about Hunter and his ministry on their site, part of their “Road Warriors: Traveling Tactics” series of special reports. Read it here; it’s an interesting piece about an exuberant […]
September 29, 2009
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Ohio owner-operator drives away with sweepstakes rig
It was quite the scene at Randally-Reilly Publishing headquarters in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday. The publishers of Custom Rigs magazine — whose parent mag is Overdrive — flew in the winner of its first-ever sweepstakes, John Lacusky of Ohio, to pick up the Chrome Shop Mafia-detailed Sequel, a 1998-model International 9400 he won when his name […]
September 28, 2009
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Commercial driver texting ban gets media legs
In advance of U.S. DOT’s finally scheduled “distracted driving summit” next week, it might come as no surprise that the alliance of safety groups known as Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (saferoads.org) held a press conference and announced their petition to DOT to restrict or outright prohibit the use of electronic devices while running […]
September 25, 2009
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Meet TruckerDesiree
The subject of my “Exit Only” column in this month’s Truckers News was one among many lights of a new cadre of social-media-savvy advocates in the trucking community. Desiree Wood (pictured) is her name, and though she sometimes (somewhat — but only somewhat — facetiously) calls herself a renegade, she’s got her own and other […]
September 24, 2009
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Truckers pitch in to foil suicide attempt
In Overdrive‘s home base of Tuscaloosa, Ala., yesterday, several truckers pitched in to help police foil a suicide attempt on the I-20/59 bridge over MacFarland Blvd. A nice gallery of pictures from the scene show, among other choice images, police unrolling an inflatable catch device atop two dry vans parked under the overpass. Picture here […]
September 23, 2009
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Lighthouse comes to N.C. truckstop
If the shine on the stainless in their new chrome shop wasn’t enough to get your attention, the Kenly 95 TA Truckstop in Kenly, N.C., has unveiled a 65-ft. lighthouse to send a beacon to all haulers traversing the highly trafficked I-85 corridor in the Southeast. Part of the Iowa 80 Group, Kenly 95 continues […]
September 22, 2009
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Changing Channels
A not-so-modest proposal from licensed ham operator and truck driver for breaking the Channel 19 cacophony Delaware-based Metro…
September 22, 2009
Channel 19
‘Horsepower’ host tries hand at diesels
Navistar’s Maxxforce engines and their 2010 emissions technologies might be the only heavy-duty diesels to have ever had their own television show — the new Maxxforce TV website debuted in the last couple weeks and features Qamp;As with drivers around the country in quiz-show style, complete with cash and prizes.In the first episode, one Illinois […]
September 21, 2009
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And you thought CA was tough on diesels
With all the fire on owner-operators of diesels coming out of the Golden State, one wouldn’t be unjustified in feeling a little picked on (the skinny on upcoming California deadlines for reefers and trucks serving ports you can find here). But perhaps you can take heart (or bile, depending on how charitable you’re feeling today) […]
September 18, 2009
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‘Truckin’ Life’ magazine founder remembered
Truckin’ Life is Australia’s premiere trucking magazine for owner-operators: in certain ways, it shares with its American counterpart in Overdrive a defining mission, clear from the tagline that adorns its cover, “The voice of the Australian trucker.” Truckin’ Life‘s founder, Malcolm B. Johnson (pictured, courtesy Truckin’ Life), suffered a heart attack July 31 and passed […]
September 16, 2009
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Blind driving just around the next corner?
Today’s topic of note calls for a modification of the last line of novelist Ralph Ellison’s 1950s book Invisible Man, which concludes with the book’s protagonist a little closer to visibility perhaps than when he started setting down his story. In this case, a technology may well make the revised sentiment a possibility, which has […]
September 15, 2009
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Air cargo pilots looking for the bathroom
Pilots for air-cargo company Amerijet are on strike, alleging already bad and deteriorating working conditions. Among those conditions, detailed by a couple striking pilots interviewed by an independent journalist in the video below, via YouTube, is the fact of the small bags the pilots must use to relieve themselves, then storing the bags at the […]
September 14, 2009
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Latest engine-brake quandary
Engine brakes — followed in a close second by idling — might be the No. 1 bugaboo of localities around the nation when it comes to trucking. They’re loud, residents say, a veritable scourge to peaceful living, and have been approached occasionally by attempted bans of trucks from long-used routes in different areas around the […]
September 11, 2009
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One truck cranks with football season
The equipment truck for the University of Alabama football team, a 2004 International 9900 decked out with Crimson Tide insignia, triggered almost as much hoopla as a season-opening kickoff when it pulled into a dealership in the veritable heart of the heart of Crimson Tide country (and the home of Overdrive offices), Tuscaloosa, Ala., for […]
September 8, 2009
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Convoy for a Cure, across North America
The Convoy for a Cure organization jumpstarted last year on the efforts of a Quebecker long-haul driver looking to raise money and awareness, respectively, for breast-cancer research and the challenges of its sufferers. The first, all-female-driver convoy subsequently took place in Ontario, Canada, and inspired others in both Canada and the U.S. Upcoming this October […]
September 7, 2009
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Owner-operator couple raises money for breast cancer victims
Owner-operators Tom and Debbie Berkel (pictured) had the only truck at the Great American Trucking Show festooned with hot pink roses and sugar-pink ribbons. The couple’s 1995 Kenworth W900L was a popular exhibit that ended up enlisting $825 in raffle ticket donations for the American Cancer Society’s breast cancer awareness campaign.The Berkels, leased to Mercer […]
September 4, 2009
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Learning to conduct — on the rail trail
My “Learning to drive” post from last week about the then-upcoming Blueprint America series special on the rail/truck debate garnered thoughtful comments that, since the special’s release, appear that much more prescient. “Little” David Obermark, who blogs here, noted the historical precedent for the inadequacy of rail to handle increased volumes of freight — at […]
September 3, 2009
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Behind the superhero — trucking minds at work
Brothers Nick and James Ventrillo are a pair of former truckers — they ran XX Trucking, out of Las Vegas, earlier this decade — at opposite ends of the IQ spectrum. The longer-term hauler of the two, Nick, has an astoundingly high 200 score. In the pair’s first work of fiction, part of their self-styled […]
September 2, 2009
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