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What do stimulus money and beef jerky have in common?
We’re not exactly sure of the answer to this pressing question here on the Channel 19 blog (other than, perhaps, that both come with a large dose of time in the preparation), but here’s what prompts it: I blogged last December about a Colorado program to provide haulers stranded in the state’s mountain passes in […]
August 31, 2009
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Trucks ‘Made of Gold’ by Hawaiian owner-operator
When we wrote about country singer Leland Martin in July and his partnership with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association to raise money for care packages to send to U.S. troops stationed overseas, little did we know that Hawaii resident (though he runs the lower 48 through most of the year) owner-operator Howard Salmon’s These Trucks […]
August 27, 2009
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Overdrive editor gets blogged
If you think you’re into your equipment, get over to the blog of Minnesota-based photographer Chris Grey, a friend of Overdrive contributing editor Paul Hartley, the best big-rig photographer I know. Grey recently got a taste of Hartley’s work shooting heavy trucks in his photo business on a dual shoot at a Minnesota International dealership. […]
August 26, 2009
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Truck driving championships like life, really
Werner driver Timothy Dean told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the “hardest part” of competing in the American Trucking Associations-sponsored National Truck Driving Championships, held last week in Pittsburgh, was the wait. Like a hauler sitting outside a shipper’s gate, or on a dock waiting to get loaded, the competitors’ anticipation of of their turn to […]
August 25, 2009
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Learning to drive
New York PBS station WNET correspondent Miles O’Brien (pictured, right) recently went through the motions of learning to drive a tractor-trailer at Shore Tractor-Trailer Training in New Jersey. He wasn’t out to probe the intricacies of training or the flood of new trainees from other industries in a down economy, though. His piece in the […]
August 24, 2009
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Media shoutout to independent high-dollar car haulers
Last week in Monterey County, Calif., enthusiasts and wealthy buyers flocked to the area for Classic Car Week events, and among the out-of-state revelers were the truckers who brought various collectors’ items to the event. Monterey County Herald reporter Laith Agha took the occasion to write an appreciative story about a few them, a group […]
August 21, 2009
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Seatbelt turns 50
A week ago today was the 50th anniversary of what Volvo is calling the “most important automotive safety device ever, the three-point seatbelt.” It was first used in a Volvo four-wheeler, a PV544 delivered in Karlstad, Sweden, five decades ago and today — because the company gave free use of its patent from the time […]
August 19, 2009
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Honor and goodwill in a placemat
Independent Amarillo, Texas-based owner-operator Buster Beverly Jr. designed the placemat pictured here to cover a circumstance that became increasingly common after he and High Plains Tire amp; Diesel in Amarillo began to turn his trailer into a rolling “thank you” to returning vets of current U.S. wars and other survivors of battle. He tells the […]
August 17, 2009
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Great Recession = ‘Wealthy free spenders’ learning from the majority
Truckers tuned to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program Wednesday heard a newsy repetition of the reality they’ve been coping with for more than a year in reporter Frank Morris’ “Economic slump hits nation’s truckers” story from KCUR in Kansas City. In the story, veteran truckers Dee Jones and Mac Shepherd weighed in on the […]
August 14, 2009
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Penske tractor hauls U of M solar car racing team
A Penske tractor is the truck of choice for the University of Michigan Solar Car team. The UM Wolverines, of the famous Maize and Blue, are based in Ann Arbor, Mich. Students prepared for the World Solar Challenge (a five-day race across the Australian Outback to be held in October) by conducting a U.S. mock […]
August 13, 2009
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Russian immigrant sentenced in large trucking fraud case
Monday via Wired magazine came a story about the sentencing of 34-year-old Russian immigrant, hacker and Asberger’s syndrome sufferer Viachelav Berkovich, who managed to operate a profitable but fraudulent trucking business “over a three-year period,” wrote Wired reporter Kevin Poulsen. Berkovich and his codefendant in the case, Nicholas Lakes, also a Russian immigrant, had managed […]
August 12, 2009
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A recovery of one’s own — grassroots indicators
Fort Gratiot Express owner-operator Cliff Hagedon was featured last week on Public Radio International and WNYC’s The Takeaway program in a segment on economic indicators with a human life behind them. Hagedon noted increasingly favorables ratios of available trucks to available loads on public load boards in any given area as evidence that the economic […]
August 11, 2009
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Waupun Truck-N-Show celebrates 20th anniversary
The Beaver Dam, Wisc., Daily Citizen newspaper reported on the successfully pulled off 20th installment of the Waupun Truck-N-Show in Waupun, Wisc., this weekend. Part of the draw of the annual event is the Ride of Pride convoy of trucks that hits the streets of the small town Saturday. This year, the parade included nearly […]
August 10, 2009
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Distracted transport secretary announces distracted driver summit
In the wake of the publication of results of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute’s analysis of long-haulers’ texting behavior while driving, the calls for a nationwide ban on the practice have now reached the metaphorical level of deafening, one might say. It’d be pretty easy, thus, for you to have missed a somewhat timid announcement […]
August 6, 2009
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Obama ‘on Ice Road Truckers’
Unless you’re talking about dissatisfaction with rising government expenditures, such as the prevailing view over on CDLofit surrounding pending health care/insurance legislation, or Teamsters’ campaigning efforts, you don’t hear the words “Obama” and “truckers” associated in media very often. Late-night comedy shows are another story. Check out this post on PurePolitics.com detailing a night’s worth […]
August 5, 2009
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Pure Grain — "Truckin Song" video redux
Since we reported on Pure Grain front man and sometime trucker the ‘Carolina Kid’ Chris Taber here at the blog, the band’s made its trucking show debut at the Expedite Expo in Wilmington, Ohio; released its second record, Out of the Storm; and re-shot the video for their “Truckin Song,” which you’ll find below, in […]
August 4, 2009
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Vintage Kenworth motor coach returns to Mt. Rainier
Two men from Gig Harbor, Wash., have rescued a 1937 Kenworth Motor Coach from the rust heap of history. So reported the Seattle Times newspaper July 21. Art Redford, 69, “who founded Honey Bucket, the portable-toilet business with the instantly recognizable name,” reported the Times, even remembers the vehicle’s original purpose: to drive tourists to […]
August 3, 2009
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Interviewing the 2009 Great American Trucking Family
This month’s issue of Truckers News features the Great American Trucking Family for 2009, the Valdepenas of San Bernardino, Calif., who’ve been trucking for four generations. Truckers News editor Randy Grider took footage of part of his interview with Ralph Valdepena Jr. on his visit with the family out west earlier in the summer. The […]
July 29, 2009
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