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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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Study probes trucker talking and texting

Results from a study released today by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, and financed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, made their way into the New York Times and numerous other mainstream media outlets yesterday. One upshot?: texting while driving should be illegal, said researchers, no exceptions. The study tracked more than 100 drivers […]

July 28, 2009

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Whoops!

Will Climb for ReceiptA coal hauler filed suit against his fleet, claiming they pressured him to fake his scale receipts by performing a complex climbing maneuver, during which he was injured. “On the day in question,” reported the West Virginia Record newspaper, “[William] Calhoun says he pulled up on the automated scale to find it […]

July 27, 2009

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‘My Truckin’ Luck’

Such is the name of a new boardgame designed by Blackfoot, Idaho, resident and potato hauler Randy Cox. The Idaho State Journal reported on Cox earlier this month, and in that story Cox described what amounts to a $45,000 investment in the project. Players likewise roll the dice to see how far they can advance […]

July 24, 2009

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Second Poll

July 23, 2009

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Virginia rest area closures hit the mainstream

The long-planned Virginia rest area closures, which began last week, have been on the trucking radar for months now, ever since the tragic murder of N.Y. hauler Jason Rivenburg in South Carolina focused driver efforts on raising awareness about the dearth of overnight parking in spots nationwide. But yesterday, July 22, a feature on National […]

July 23, 2009

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Truck stop chain CEO’s vacation home featured in ‘Traditional Home’

iBy land, sea or air/i could be the motto of Pilot Travel Center CEO Jimmy Haslam III. Not only does the truck-stop tycoon know a lot about trucking lanes, he also has a bird’s-eye view of one of American history’s great maritime centers. Featured in the June/July issue of iTraditional Home/i magazine, Haslam’s vacation home […]

July 21, 2009

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Latest at-fault auto

Thursday last week a pretty common thing with uncommon results happened on I-75 on the “9-Mile Curve” section through Detroit. A wreck ended up destroying a Honda Civic, a tractor pulling a tanker, another tractor-trailer and a large section of bridge over the freeway, which succumbed during the subsequent fire. As the Detroit Free Press […]

July 20, 2009

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A salute from Good magazine

With the first of the month came this post to the website of Good magazine — a charitable magazine about “good” things, generally (they match subscription prices with a contribution to the charity of your choice) — about photographerrtist John Bakos‘ series of truckstop portraits (one is pictured here) taken mostly in the Northeast. It’s […]

July 17, 2009

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If you thought our roads were bad…

A fascinating look at the state of roads in Russia comes this week from span style=”font-style: italic;”L.A. Times/span writer Megan K. Stack — link here — and it’s told largely from the point of view of that country’s truckers, who paint a picture of a world where, once you leave major cities, you’re running on […]

July 16, 2009

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The truck-grinch that crashed Christmas

Shoppers at the back of a Christmas supply store in St. Pete Beach, Fla., may have wondered if Rudolph’s nose was off-track yesterday afternoon when they heard what must have been a one big noise. It could have sounded like a deer-guided sleigh and a jolly old elf gone wrong, but it was really a […]

July 15, 2009

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When the white collar turns blue

This AP Story, picked up by the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, drips with the sort of unintended condescension often seen in mainstream media’s brushstroke treatment of the subject of working, but all the same it presents a fascinating portrait as its jumping-off point: a Bear-Stearns purchasing manager laid off in July of last year after […]

July 14, 2009

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White Pine Paving's 'Change Order' 2000 W900L, revisited

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