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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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Now that’s a ‘hot load’
A story in the July 5 Leaf Chronicle, the newspaper of Clarksville and Fort Campbell, Tenn., gave new meaning to the term “hot load,” oft used by dispatchers to the chagrin of truck drivers certain to be waiting in line outside a shipper’s facility in the near future. As intrepid Leaf reporter Ann Wallace wrote, […]
July 13, 2009
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Biggest tractor-trailer cake in the world
In celebration of two anniversaries at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree today, an 8-ft.-long cake built as a semi will be served up to an estimated 2,000 people at 2 p.m. The anniversaries: the Jamboree’s 30th, and the 45th of location for the mass mastication event: the “biggest truckstop in the world,” Iowa 80 in Walcott. […]
July 10, 2009
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Give that man a CDL!
Little did South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford know how common was the feeling he revealed to his Argentinean mistress in one of several e-mails released by The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. Describing an early morning excavator session on his farm in one, all of which are available here, he wrote, “To me, and I […]
July 9, 2009
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Good Karma
Birds aren’t the only animals who tweet. Karma, perhaps the most popular trucking dog on social microblogging site Twitter, has drawn quite the following. At last count, the young German shepherd had 1,150 followers, thanks to his aadoption by trucker/blogger Desiree Wood (@truckerdesiree on Twitter). Donna Smith of the askthetrucker.com posted in May about Wood’s […]
July 8, 2009
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One fine RV
Talk about a final ride in style. Recently retired owner-operator Howard Brinson, who worked up to and beyond his 80th birthday, with the help of an owner-operator friend and colleague turned his vintage 1984 Peterbilt 359 (pictured) into a motor home of absolutely stunning character, wouldn’t you say? Yes, that’s a 1976 Airstream travel trailer […]
July 7, 2009
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Got wheelbase: Project 351 redux
Since I reported on Anthony Fischkelta’s Project 351 Kenworth W900 in October last year, the 351-inch wheelbase tractor has made the rounds of various shows and has gotten the YouTube treatment yet again. Here’s the latest, a pass-and-salute on the freeway that will give you an idea of what this big truck and its reefer […]
July 6, 2009
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Not your father’s air-cleaner canister
Though the urns resemble somewhat scaled-down versions of the chromed canister you’ll find on either side of the cowl of classically styled Petes and Kenworths, they’re sealed to protect your loved one’s cremated remains from the elements as you “keep their memory alive and in the wind,” says biker and Final Ride Urns proprietor Steve […]
July 3, 2009
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