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Border backups
A recent report in the Maktoob Transport Business journal noted a huge hold-up for truckers driving into Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates as Saudi officials reportedly began fingerprinting all drivers coming into the country, allegedly part of ongoing Saudi efforts to stem drug-trafficking. It was interesting in light of ongoing congestion issues on […]
June 16, 2009
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A great guy still going
Overdrive Trucker of the Year for 2005, Ted Chapman (pictured), made it into print again — this time for his adoration of the Peterbilt trucks he has driven in his more than 7 million accident-free miles and 50 of the 70 years the company has been in business. Chapman, along with owner-operators Ronald Colvin, Steve […]
June 15, 2009
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N.H. ‘truck museum’ puts classics up for auction
Heavy-equipment operator Richard Kemp of Hillsborough, N.H., passed away in September of 2007 at age 76, but his informal truck museum, with a collection of seveal vintage Macks, Internationals, Sterlings and other trucks and pieces of equipment, lived on past his death as a stopping point for collectors and part-time truck and vintage equipment enthusiasts […]
June 12, 2009
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‘Our trucks can move a ton of freight…’
You’ve heard the ads, running typically something like this: “our trains can move a ton of freight 436 miles on just a single gallon of fuel,” as goes a frequent one aired on National Public Radio by CSX. I’ve tried to reverse-engineer what I’ve guessed to be the logic in the underlying calculation here and […]
June 10, 2009
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NASCAR = Medieval Joust?
I’ve heard the old “modern day gladiator” description of a NASCAR driver, a comparison that calls up ancient Rome, but Wall Street Journal writer Amy Chozick in May called attention to Northern Michigan University prof Karyn Rybacki’s essay in the book The Sporting World of the Modern South in which she makes a perhaps more […]
June 9, 2009
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The aggro lead — USA Today’s latest
“Debate is heating up over an issue likely to strike terror in the heart of any driver,” wrote Larry Copeland in the lead of a USA Today story last week. He wasn’t talking about terror among truckers, though, only those who had ever “spied an 18-wheeler looming in the rearview mirror as [they scrambled] into […]
June 8, 2009
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One for the little guy
From the blog of Bruce Smith, editor of Overdrive sister magazine Custom Rigs, Wednesday came this piece about the Bow, New Hamphire, Berube’s Truck Accessories 6th Annual BBQ and Truck Show-Off, upcoming June 28, 2009. “They tell their customers to leave their wallets in their pockets,” Smith writes, “and the trailers parked at home. Just […]
June 5, 2009
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Sleep apnea, trucking and Swift driver Kenneth Armstrong — at MSNBC.com
Swift driver mentor Kenneth Armstrong is the lead source in JoNel Aleccia’s story this week on MSNBC.com about fleet efforts to address sleep apnea among their drivers to face down what many see as coming government regulation of drivers with the condition. The story, not a bad look at the subject in spite of its […]
June 4, 2009
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Cross-border trucking — a ‘comical tragedy’?
So says San Antonio Express-News columnist David Hendricks, finding hilarity in the fact that current transportation secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. President Barack Obama (as they attempt to restart some version of U.S.-Mexican cross-border trucking) both voted against the cross-border demonstration project while in Congress; tragedy in the fact of the hurt U.S. exporters are […]
June 3, 2009
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Thomas the truckstop dentist
A special to CNN by author Bob Greene celebrated the ingenuity of one Dr. Thomas Roemer, a dentist formerly in private practice in Davenport, Iowa. Roemer, Greene wrote, has managed to survive the downturn and the attendant downward pressure of dental demand through what Greene dubs “individual inventiveness and ingenuity.” Roemer’s dental innovation was to […]
June 2, 2009
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Rotella show hits the road
The Shell Rotella road show launched this past week with an appearance at the Great Lakes Truck Show in Dundee, Mich. The company’s tractor-trailer (pictured) will be making stops in several locations through the spring and summer. Among the highlights: **The Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck beauty contest, June 18-20, at the Oak Grove 70 Petro, […]
June 1, 2009
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Trucker of the year
It’s not often a trucker gets the front-page treatment in a mainstream newspaper’s business section, but such was the case for James Loveland, Willie Shaw Express driver and 2009 Truckload Carriers Association Company Equipment Driver of the Year, an award partly sponsored by Truckers News, after Loveland appeared on the cover of our May issue. […]
May 29, 2009
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TruckerSteve and friends
Trucker Stephen Adams (pictured) — also a seasoned blogger, podcaster and videographer — posted this short film (below) to YouTube recently. He describes it as a project embarked upon to “practice working with my new equipment,” basically, but the suspense created is nearly palpable. There’s quite a bit of humor at his site, TruckerSteve.org, of […]
May 28, 2009
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GeoWoodstock VII
This past weekend at the GeoWoodstock VII event in Bell Buckle, Tenn. (my first-found personal cache, let it be known, an “event cache” the 3.5-inch Teletype WorldNav GPS navigator led me to without flaw), I got to meet one of the biggest trackable “travel bugs” out there. Pictured, it’s the Freightliner driven by Wisconsin-based D.J. […]
May 27, 2009
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Bringing a trucker home
Shawna Hicks wrote us last week with a request. Her father, Allen, of Orem, Utah, was missing. Before we could get word out about the search, he was found deceased in a Hagerstown, Md., truckstop. She asks that able parties donate to a fund that has been set up to bring him home to be […]
May 22, 2009
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Bring on the COEs
The show-truck landscape in the United States is undoubtedly dominated by the conventional tractor. By and large, too, though aerodynamic packages have seen play in some recent custom creations (perhaps most notably in the International ProStar Mayh, customized in large part by the folks at Elizabeth Truck Center in New Jersey), these trucks tend to […]
May 21, 2009
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Video blogging to lose weight
Trucker Steve Jennings of LaFollette, Tenn., is on a quest to lose weight, he tells us — and not just us. He’s chronicling said quest on YouTube. Follow his progress here on his channel or on his profile pages at CDLofit.com and facebook.com. The first such vid (below), posted just last week, follows Jennings on […]
May 20, 2009
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Music for ‘Hard Times’
Volume 2 of the CD series Truckers Tracks, dubbed “Hard Times,” is out now from Nashville’s Spec Records, brainchild of musician and producer Doug Jones. When Doug Jones moved to Music City in the 1990s he was following the tracks of his friend Johnny Neel, the famed keyboardist who did a stint with the Allman […]
May 19, 2009
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