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Channel 19
Tippin tips his hat
blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name featured in Overdrive: The Voice of the American Trucker. Todd Dills (
[email protected]
) is its author.
January 23, 2009
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Tipping the tax man
With President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Reserve having made a mistake that most owner-operators could have helped him avoid, we pause now before the impending vote by the Senate Finance Committee on whether to confirm Timothy Geithner to the post to issue a recommendation and a question:br /br /1. Truck owner-operators or […]
January 22, 2009
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March 24, 2025
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One day later
It’s official, folks. Though most truck drivers, according to our eTrucker.com polls taken just prior to the election, didn’t expect to vote for Barack Obama, he’s taken the reins of the government. However, if like that of many of your fellow citizens your mood is upbeat a day after the inauguration, we thought you might […]
January 21, 2009
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New trucking novel
Inge Auerbacher, author of several memoirs relating to her survival of the Terezin concentration camp in Nazi Germany before and during World War II, is now the author of a madcap trucking suspense novel, Highway to New York: A Lady Truck Driver Adventure. The story’s protagonist, Lisa Stack, drives a Freightliner and runs with the […]
January 20, 2009
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Can you tell the difference?
If it weren’t for Chicago’s United Center behind Terry Berry’s 1990s-era Passport auto-hauling Peterbilt, it’d be pretty difficult to determine which pic showed a 60-footer and which a mere five-footer. What started out as “a hobby” of one Chicago Class 8 truck enthusiast, says De-Elegant Model Truck Fleet founder Kuenn McClinton, is now a family […]
January 16, 2009
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Rhapsody for rerouted rigs
The shortest truck bypass on record may be the 0.9 mile route connecting U.S. 441 South around Micanopy, Fla. Denizen and archivist Diane Cohen, who waged a 6-year grassroots campaign to preserve the antebellum brick buildings on the town square, persuaded the state legislature to approve the bypass, built in 1992 for $425,000. Prior to […]
January 15, 2009
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Beverage preferences
The same year that a renegade truck owner-operator hauled a load of Coors beer to Georgia for the benefit of moviegoers in iSmokey amp; the Bandit, the AFL-CIO, joined by the Teamsters union, launched its 1977 boycott of Coors beer, citing antiunion practices. Joining that boycott at the behest of then San Francisco Teamsters local […]
January 14, 2009
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A tiger in Louisiana — and we’re not talking LSU football
Louisiana scored a threepeat first in the Worst Roads category in Overdrive’s Highway Report Card survey this year, mostly for the reported awful condition of many sections of I-10 within the state’s borders, where recent battles of animal rights activists have hit the highway running. At exit 139 on I-10 sits the Tiger Truck Stop […]
January 13, 2009
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Bama-magic, or lack thereof
Alabama state troopers teamed up with over-the-road truckers in the state in December to enforce highway laws. According to perennial results in Overdrive‘s Highway Report Card survey, the latest out this month on p. 24 of the magazine, the effort was a long time coming. Alabama, with only a single full-service scale house (on I-20 […]
January 12, 2009
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Keystone confusion
In last year’s Highway Report Card survey, the watchword on the highways in the Keystone State was drama, as the perennial Worst Roads winner in Overdrive‘s annual survey waged a much-protested campaign to toll the second major east-west thoroughfare through the state, I-80. This year, the feds denied the state its application to toll the […]
January 9, 2009
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Don’t mess with Texas
Texas has been on a five-year winning streak in the Best Roads category in Overdrive‘s Highway Report Card survey, out this month (in the digital magazine, flip to p. 24). That doesn’t mean, however, that its high-traffic highway network hasn’t seen a disproportionate share of controversy in recent years. Just a couple days ago, though, […]
January 8, 2009
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One jarring ride through Detroit
It’s January, which means it’s “>Worst Roads” time for us at Overdrive, and “>Worst Roads” week here at the Channel 19 blog. Our yearly Highway Report Card survey, approaching its second full decade of existence, gives our owner-operator readers the chance to rank states and segments according to their level of washboarding, hobby-horsing, potholes, tolls, […]
January 7, 2009
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‘Trucker’ somersaults truck — on purpose
The BBC reported this weekend that New Zealand-born Rhys Millen, 36, was the first “trucker” to here shows that Millen mucked up the landing a bit but that, yes, he did flip that little truck. Next up: Pete 379? Not hardly, I’d guess. Visit Millen’s own site here.
January 6, 2009
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Diesel’s not down everywhere
International news has centered this weekend and today on a large driver strike — involving “>tens of thousands,” here.
January 5, 2009
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Smokestack blues
In the trucking business, diesel stacks can come in many shapes and sizes –modified, chromed-up, hidden behind fairings, and all sorts of things. From the factory these days, though, they all share a common attribute — the gas coming out of them holds little resemblance to the sooty, particulate-laden belching commonly seen in all sorts […]
January 2, 2009
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Jim Harper could have been Ron Carey?
When former Teamsters president Ron Carey passed away earlier this month, reading the obituaries I was struck by the differing trajectories of two men whose beginnings closely resembled each other. UPS driver Carey rose to the position of Shop Steward in his Queens, N.Y., local in 1956 looking to improve member services (a decade later […]
December 31, 2008
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Double-mind the blind spots in Houston
“What Do They Call ‘Chutzpah’ in Texas” is the title of a blog post from a week or so back over at the Social Services for Feral Children blog about a case against Texas box-truck driver Lance Bennett recently filed by a woman convicted of DUI after a crash she and Bennett were involved in. […]
December 30, 2008
Channel 19
Breaker breaker
Anybody hear this blogger this morning, 8-9 a.m. EST with Mark Willis on the “Loading Dock” show, Sirius Channel 147? (It immediately precedes, incidentally, the “>Freewheelin’” show with Meredith Ochs we blogged about last week.) Thanks to all the folks who called in to talk about year-end maintenance and tax issues, the subject of Truckers […]
December 29, 2008
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