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Optimus Prime returns flame-heavy as ever
Fans of classic big rigs, the first Transformers movie or both may be thrilled to find out that Autobot leader Optimus Prime returns to Earth in heavy metal as a blazingly blue Peterbilt with hot-red flames in his summer’s sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” to save Sam Witwicky from the evil Decepticons. Peter Cullen […]
July 2, 2009
Channel 19
On-highway politics, take two
When the Springfield, Mo., neo-Nazi National Socialists group moved to adopt a section of the West Bypass around the town from Farm Road 142 to West Sunshine (and thus have their organization’s name plastered on signage along the road), state legislators exercised a tactic they’d employed before, as evidenced by this “Rosa Parks Highway” sign […]
June 30, 2009
Channel 19
J.B. Hunt driver John Coster-Mullen on film
Since I wrote about the J.B. Hunt driver whose book Atom Bombs essentially reverse-engineered the first atomic bombs in the May edition of Truckers News and in this space here, John Coster-Mullen has made some strides getting the book out to the scientific community, and the bombs’ designs thus in the historical record. Featured in […]
June 29, 2009
Channel 19
‘Ice Road Truckers’ iPhone app now available
The Truth About Trucking folks don’t have the only truck-driving-related app for the iPhone anymore: the folks behind the ‘Ice Road Truckers’ television reality drama have released a lite version of their own app (out in full version June 28), which admittedly probably isn’t of much use to you as a diversion or much else. […]
June 26, 2009
Channel 19
Australian trucker’s resume includes more than just hauling
This 1989 Kenworth W900L is one of a few built and painted to resemble a KW used in the filming of the James Bond flick “License to Kill,” brought back up to pristine condition and customized by the folks at Klos Custom Trucks in Geelong, Australia, and photographed by Truckers News Photo Group member and […]
June 25, 2009
Channel 19
Trucking from the roots up
Score an at least partial victory for drivers and owner-operators this week. Many had a whole lot to do with the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board’s recent decision to go ahead with proposed closures of 19 rest areas in the state but to suspend the two-hour parking time limit, which has seen truckers hassled on their […]
June 24, 2009
Channel 19
Trucker a ‘walking miracle’
Local refuse hauler Robert Jay Leffer (pictured with his son, Robert Jr.) of Sanford, N.C., is slowly getting better in the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in the Triangle area, where he’s being treated for wounds sustained during a January accident when a reckless driver caused his truck to overturn and catch fire on I-40 […]
June 23, 2009
Channel 19
Hometown Spreckels, Calif., cafe not just for truckers
But I’m sure they’re happy, if the Tamp;A Cafe in Spreckels, Calif., just south on Salinas on the Tanimura and Antle produce company’s campus is anything like it was described at TheCalifornian.com by food writer Ricardo A. Diaz. Diaz was writing for the local news audience — “…today my Volvo is darting around semis and […]
June 22, 2009
Channel 19
Urine disposal, or ‘P bottle’ redux
Trucker Fernando Rimando puts a cap on an ongoing back-and-forth on the Truckers News letters page we noted in this post from March, about proper disposal of bottles of urine at truckstops. Rimando’s e-mail to the office spells his process out in detail, and came with this quite illustrative picture. I read a lot of […]
June 19, 2009
Channel 19
Truck fleet combats high diesel prices
In case you needed a reminder as diesel prices inch upward, at the the Northeast Pennsylvania Logistics amp; Transportation Industry Partnership’s Go-Green Seminar today (held at Sands Spring Country Club in the town of Drums) Marketing VP Gerry Coyle for the intermodal, LTL and flatbed truckload carrier companies of the Evans Network offered further evidence […]
June 18, 2009
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Traffic blows up
Mathematicians at MIT have built a model to describe “how and under what conditions” so-called “phantom traffic jams,” those without any obvious cause like a wreck or disabled vehicle, form on the roadways. An article about the research into “jamitons,” as the researchers dub traffic jams of this type , appeared at the MIT news […]
June 17, 2009
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
‘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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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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