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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
Channel 19
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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Stretching stereotypes
Grammy-winner Marcy Marxer wrote her 1997 “Ballet Dancing Truck Driver” song as part of an educational package encouraging children to develop worldviews devoid of stereotypes. Elementary school teachers have sung the ballad at education conferences with sing-around-the-campfire enthusiasm. But a steel-toed boot-wearin’ honky-tonk-blues-loving lumper of the Red Smith era might switch radio stations before he […]
March 12, 2009
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‘I love Jerry Reed, man!’
Such were the words of HBO’s Eastbound and Down comedy series’ cocreator Danny McBride when asked about the show title’s connection to the recently deceased singer in an interview with Ign.com. About Kenny Powers (played by McBride), an out-of-work MLB relief pitcher who becomes his hometown high school’s PE teacher, Eastbound and Down is set […]
March 11, 2009
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UK truckers dance
After one Romanian trucker defied logic when he shot a video of himself dancing (quite excitedly and nimbly) about his cab while barreling down a Dutch highway, then sending the video out to media, apparently, and prompting a police search for him, London’s Mirror newspaper solicited other “>dancing trucker” videos, some of which are now […]
March 10, 2009
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Dream spills?
It’s no laughing matter when a truck tips onto its side, but since two February accidents in Utah saw the rigs’ drivers walk away uninjured, we couldn’t help but note the timing of the accidents — within hours and miles of each other around Salt Lake City — and the definite harmony of their spilled […]
March 9, 2009
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‘Never in trucking history’
Such was the estimation of Jerry Spires of Spires Trucking in Miramar in South Florida, when he was called on by Associated Press reporter Scott Sonner to comment on a Golden Eagle that crashed through the windshield of one of his trucks. Piloted by Matthew Roberto Gonzalez of Opa Locka, Fla., the rig was rolling […]
March 6, 2009
Channel 19
This look scary to you?
Trucker Jeff Clark sent in a note to Overdrive and Truckers News‘ offices objecting to what he called National Public Radio’s Here amp; Now program host Robin Young’s “>unabashed usage of the term scary trucks“> in a segment Wednesday discussing expansion of rail infrastructure capacity. Young was interviewing Philip Longman, senior fellow of the New […]
March 5, 2009
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New vistas, old practices
New Zealand postgraduate student in Antarctic geology Kurt Joy took this pic while on location on the frozen continent. It pretty much sums up life for the researchers there, he says: “I spent a month down there working on the glaciers about 300 km south from McMurdo Station. P bottles in Antarctica are a way […]
March 4, 2009
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Side-view writing
Vanessa Leigh Hoffman (pictured, below) began her new book, Rear View Mirror, in the cab of her fiance Joe Cicciaro’s 1988 Peterbilt. On runs with tomatoes originating near Cicciaro and Hoffman’s home in St. Pete Beach, Fla., to Texas, where Cicciaro loaded beef in his 53′ spread-axle reefer to take back east, Hoffman encountered several […]
March 3, 2009
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Update: Tony the tiger will stay
Owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., have won their battle at least temporarily to keep their tiger on the premises. Since we blogged about the case in January, Iberville Parish councilmembers voted 11-1, FoxNews.com reported, to allow truck stop owner Michael Sandlin to qualify for “>a permit from the Department of […]
March 2, 2009
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Channel 19 live on national TV
From Comedy Central’s satirical news and commentary show the Colbert Report With Stephen Colbert comes the video below, based on a incident I blogged about in October, when Texas-based Dan Linscomb was arrested after being charged for a second meal because he allowed a companion to have a few bites of his food from the […]
February 27, 2009
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Memorializing the Alaskan ‘haul road’
In a Feb. 12 report for the Fairbanks, Alaska, Daily News-Miner, Jeff Richardson tells the story of a commemorative plaque dedicated to the truckers of the Dalton Highway, or the “>haul road,” as it’s known to most residents, connecting Fairbanks with the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. The commemoration now graces the site of the Fairbanks […]
February 26, 2009
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