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K-Crossing coordinates
April 7, 2009
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O/O couple ‘pays it forward’
April 6, 2009
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Washington Post backs truckers?
An online chat between readers and Washington Post blogger and columnist Marc Fisher about a column he wrote on the March announcement of plans to close several rest stops in Virginia yielded this remark from the driver, no doubt, of a four-wheeler:br Marc,You missed out on a little yet interesting aspect of the Virginia rest […]
April 3, 2009
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Pure Grain’s ‘Truckin Song’
Headed up by OTR driver Chris Taber, the Cincinnati by way of Nashville band Pure Grain blends honkytonk with traditional country, blues and rock ‘n’ roll toward a hard-driving sound exemplified by “Truckin Song” (check out the video via the link or embedded below, featuring Taber in a Freightliner). The song is from their upcoming […]
April 2, 2009
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Wacky world trucks
British auto insurance portal Quotezone.co.uk hosts a list of the “10 Wackiest Trucks in the World,” which include this “Big Rig Jig” sculpture by New York artist Mike Ross, built from two repurposed tractors and tankers and displayed at the 2007 Burning Man Festival in Nevada. Also included in the list, notably, are a shot […]
April 1, 2009
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Long-haul heist
Well, not exactly, but what might be the next best thing is the story of 43-year-old tow driver Ollie Ray Whitworth of Fort Worth, Texas, and his 18-year-old son, Ollie Ray Jr., who were directed out of their two truck at gunpoint in the yard of Abandoned Vehicle Enforcement, 6831 Old Randol Mill Road in […]
March 31, 2009
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New highway hero
“I don’t wear a cape, I don’t have a mask. I can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound. I’m no hero.” Such were the words of Pennsylvania-based trucker George Lantzy in a March 18 broadcast segment from ABC 7 news in Arlington, Va. (video is embedded below). He was responding to reports hailing him […]
March 30, 2009
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Ice road drivers on ‘Today’ show
Seems no one can get enough of the truckers who run the ice road to diamond mines in far northern Canada. If you hadn’t gotten enough of the ice road truckers via the History Channel’s TV show, check out the video below, which ran on NBC’s Today program this morning. blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog […]
March 27, 2009
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New ‘Trucker’ app for iPhone
Allen Smith, webmaster of the TruthAboutTrucking.com site/blog and author of the e-book of the same name, has introduced the Trucker app for the iPhone, now available in a “>Lite” version via Truckerapp.com and the Apple online store. The app combines social and business functions, including a Twitter button, mileage and routing applications, a special trucking […]
March 26, 2009
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No ‘speeding ticket frenzy’ in Michigan
Contrary to the dire warnings of a widely circulated e-mail, says the Michigan Department of Transportation, there is no 31-day speeding-ticket bonanza in the offing on the Great Lakes State’s highways. The e-mail is a version of a sort of serial hoax foisted upon truckers and other citizens as early as 2005, according to Snopes.com. […]
March 25, 2009
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Local news
Draeger Oil Co. fuel hauler Bob Stickney of Antigo, Wis., was featured in the “Day in the Life” series of reports on local WSAW news channel 7. Right with him throughout the story, in which reporter Liz Hayes got the opportunity to ride along in his daycab, was his dog Willow, a bernice mountain dog […]
March 24, 2009
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For fear of a turkey
On authority of the Associated Press, turkeys have turned into trucker chasers. See this report in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune about a recent incident in Jackson, Mich., in which a trucker falls just short of chicken-dancing away from three uncommonly aggressive birds outside the Tri-County International Trucks dealership and service location. As the AP reports, […]
March 23, 2009
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What’s your mpg walking?
Brad Templeton, founder of Internet publishing pioneers ClariNet Communications Corp., recently posted to ”Holy cow: Walking consumes more gasoline than driving!” — elucidates the high volume of petroleum use in U.S. agriculture and animal husbandry toward quantifying an average walking mpg of about “>42 miles per gas-gallon of fossil fuel,” Templeton writes, based on petroleum […]
March 20, 2009
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Spring greening
I’ll be away from the computer today, folks, gone to NYC to (hopefully) claim an award with Truckers News editor Randy Grider in the Neal Awards best special issue category — our “green issue” is one of three finalists. Wish us luck, eh? Since we’re talking about green trucking… As part of the package of […]
March 19, 2009
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Worst roads redux
This message incoming from owner-operator Zak Hargraves, who I talked to about the problem of roads in America on the occasion of Overdrive‘s 2008 Worst Roads survey and attendant story (out this past January), which begs the quesiton: did we miss it? “>The worst road in the U.S.?” Hargraves asks. “For sure it is I-78 […]
March 18, 2009
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Driver featured in Denver Post
Independent owner-operator Jorge Orozco Sanchez of Firestone, Colo. (pictured with his wife in a Denver Post file photo), was featured Saturday in the Post in a story about nominations for this year’s Goodyear Highway Hero award, to be awarded at MATS Thursday. The Post wrote about Sanchez in October last year, when he rescued four-year-old […]
March 17, 2009
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‘Truck stop from the future’
The March edition of tech magazine Wired featured this photoshop creation by Daniel Salo — the first in the magazine’s long-running “>Found” series, in which Wired editors presented their “>best guess at what lies over the horizon,” since they turned the concept over to enterprising readers (follow this link for several of the other design […]
March 16, 2009
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Trucker’s tragic death highlights parking need
The day prior to the Thursday funeral of Jason Rivenburg, the Schoharie County, New York, trucker felled last week by a bullet in an apparent robbery while he was parked off I-26 in South Carolina, a sizable convoy of trucks was escorted by police around the New York state capitol building in Albany. The convoy […]
March 13, 2009
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