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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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New Autocar/White antique truck books
divdivFrom the folks at Iconographix in Wisconsin come two new collections of photography of, respectively, Autocar and White trucks of the 1950s, both out last week. Large-format perfect bound softcover books with excellent photo reproduction quality, the books, says Nichole Schiele of Motorbooks, the primary distributor, says the collections are great for enthusiasts of trucking […]
May 18, 2009
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The Channel 19 counting method
Local news outlets around the nation have been full of them lately, stories detailing the difficulties for drivers and owner-operators far and wide. You’ve seen some mentioned here (extended wait times between loads and the attendant difficulty keeping up with truck payments, operators shut out of ports), and the stories are remarkable to my mind […]
May 14, 2009
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Big hearts, many miles, sweet songs
May 13, 2009
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Tennessee DOT making waves
May 12, 2009
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Trucker tribute song and vid
May 11, 2009
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Bouncing back
May 8, 2009
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