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Channel 19: Page 143
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
‘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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
‘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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
‘Virtual deputies’ log long border hours
South Texas-based truck driver Robert Fahrenkamp made an appearance on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered news program yesterday in a piece about Blueservo.net, the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition’s effort to ramp up illegal immigration enforcement along the border by enlisting citizens. Fahrenkamp, a regular watcher of the Blueservo.net webcams (a still from one is […]
February 25, 2009
Channel 19
Kenworth featured in ‘Fortune’ mag
Fortune magazine’s Tech Transformations series last week detailed the supercomputing power harnessed via the web as part of truck maker Kenworth’s efforts to design the ultra-fuel-efficient T660 tractor currently on offer. Senior writer Jon Fortt leads with a chronicle of the exposure of the seemingly mundane mudflap to intense design effort. “>Most people don’t spend […]
February 24, 2009
Channel 19
Monster mash
Considering that a majority of truckers polled recently at eTrucker.com think space aliens may have visited sections of U.S. highway, it’s easy to imagine that a few drivers in big rigs may have felt an energy rush Monday morning when they and other motorists along Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas, slowed down after seeing digital […]
January 30, 2009
Channel 19
High-culture sailing… I mean, trucking
It’s not often truck drivers and truck driving show up in the New Yorker, a magazine associated most often with upscale urban types and lonely fiction writers. Until recently, the last time to my recollection was writer John McPhee’s ride with tank-hauling owner-operator Don Ainsworth, published in February 2003, which later was included in McPhee’s […]
January 29, 2009
Channel 19
A long-haul legend
A new book by former Truckers News staffer and contributor James Beach chronicles the history of Peterbilt trucks, from the birth of the diesel engine to the recent end of production of the flagship Model 379. Featured on the hardcover’s front is the Outlaw Customs “Dead Man’s Hand” 2001 custom 379, which won best limited […]
January 28, 2009
Channel 19
Poetry of the road
The Huffington Post has this story about the Australian Red Room Company poetry group’s search for three Australian haulers to collaborate with three mainstream poets on poems about life on the road. Red Room’s “Dust Poems” project hinges on a live event at the Overflow in Olympic Park in Sydney March 21 and, according to […]
January 27, 2009
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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