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âTruckerâ somersaults truck â on purpose
The BBC reported this weekend that New Zealand-born Rhys Millen, 36, was the first âtruckerâ 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, Iâd guess. Visit Millenâs own site here.
January 6, 2009
Channel 19
Dieselâs not down everywhere
International news has centered this weekend and today on a large driver strike â involving â>tens of thousands,â here.
January 5, 2009
Channel 19
Smokestack blues
In the trucking business, diesel stacks can come in many shapes and sizes âmodified, chromed-up, hidden behind fairings, and all sorts of things. From the factory these days, though, they all share a common attribute â the gas coming out of them holds little resemblance to the sooty, particulate-laden belching commonly seen in all sorts [âŚ]
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 [âŚ]
December 31, 2008
Channel 19
Double-mind the blind spots in Houston
âWhat Do They Call âChutzpahâ in Texasâ 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. [âŚ]
December 30, 2008
Channel 19
Breaker breaker
Anybody hear this blogger this morning, 8-9 a.m. EST with Mark Willis on the âLoading Dockâ show, Sirius Channel 147? (It immediately precedes, incidentally, the â>Freewheelinââ 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 [âŚ]
December 29, 2008
Channel 19
Meredith Ochs talks big trucks on NPR
Meredith Ochs, known best for her cohosting slot with Chris T. on Sirius Road Dogâs âFreewheelinââ show, talked a bit about her love of rolling in rigs on NPRâs Fall Music Preview back in September. (Weâve gotten behind a bit on our All Songs Considered free podcast subscription, sorry.) She and Chris have in fact [âŚ]
December 26, 2008
Channel 19
Merry Christmas from Paul Hartley/ADD Media
You might recognize the credit in the title from the pages of Overdrive. Hartleyâs our resident photographic genius, the man responsible for the Pride amp; Polish beauty shots youâll find most years in our calendar. The image above is his specially designed Christmas card, the text of which reads, â>Visions of sugar-plums might be fine [âŚ]
December 24, 2008
Channel 19
Dressed for success
Itâs been a while since we checked in on Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year Henry Albert (pictured with his wife, Karen), whoâs in a yearlong test-drive of the Freightliner Cascadia and is blogging about his experiences here. Along the way heâs gotten upwards of 7 mpg on certain legs, stopped in at the great [âŚ]
December 23, 2008
Channel 19
Amen
For this salute in the Amarillo, Texas, Globe-News, we give the big thumbs-up. The editorial, posted Friday to the newspaperâs site, narrates a recent emergency at a TravelCenters of America location on I-40 in North Texas where truckers played a large part in coordinating search-and-rescue efforts as a TA employee looked for her missing daughter. [âŚ]
December 22, 2008
Channel 19
DOT special treatment for Christmas
The U.S. Department of Transportation reported Thursday on Transport Secretary Mary Petersâ announcement that U.S. military airspace lanes will be open to St. Nick this Christmas Eve. âWe know Santa Claus must adhere to a really tight schedule to get to every house on his list,â said Secretary Peters as she presented Santa his Christmas [âŚ]
December 19, 2008
Channel 19
Christmas bonus
Itâs official: one week prior to the arrival of one large bearded man in a red hat and hauling a grab bag of stuff for the nationâs citizens, the number one request from the truck drivers of said nation cuts to the core of the trucking business. Thatâs right, lower fuel prices topped our eTrucker.com [âŚ]
December 18, 2008
Channel 19
Fun with spammers
âBeer Runner,â a regular poster to Truck.Net, has been having some fun with spammers. And â>no I donât have anything better to do,â the poster wrote yesterday. All the same, the fun sounded quite fun: âLast night I got another spam asking me for all my information just so I can collect millions of dollars. [âŚ]
December 17, 2008
Channel 19
Book by Chilean truck driverâs son takes on border violence
Amid ongoing examinations of life and violence along the U.S.-Mexican border and the shifting relationships among warring drug traffickers, regular folk and the symbiotic economies of both nations, a novel by the son of a Chilean truck driver that many are calling the best book of 2008 has ignited the imaginations and hearts of readers [âŚ]
December 16, 2008
Channel 19
Give the gift of hauling
â>Trucker gifts abound onlineâ is the headline of a recent short piece by Jill Dunn at Overdrive sister news site eTrucker.com. The story catalogs several online spots offering some trucking-related gifts and/or inexpensive items. Among the retailers mentioned is GlobalTrucker.com, which has available a wide array of 12-volt items (heating pads, chargers, electronic and kitchen [âŚ]
December 15, 2008
Channel 19
âEnergy for saleâ redux
A new energy drink is billing itself as a healthy alternative to the old standbys of coffee, colas, cigarettes, sharp pinches to the cheek or thigh. Itâs called âBig Olâ Trucker Energy Juice,â and itâs aimed directly at you, in case the name wasnât explicit enough. With a active-ingredient makeup somewhat similar to the ubiquitous [âŚ]
December 12, 2008
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And you thought you had it bad
Next time your dispatcher dictates a route to you, thank heaven youâre talking to a human who can, theoretically at least, be reasoned with. Some of the nationâs cattle ranchers are experimenting with a device similar to an electrified dog collar to eliminate the expense of building long fences to keep their herds within the [âŚ]
December 11, 2008
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The one that got away comes back
In Buna, Texas, mechanic Joe Richardsonâs high-school ring was found last week inside the gullet of an 8-pound bass caught in Lake Sam Rayburn, where Richardson lost the ring while fishing just a couple weeks after his graduation in 1987. The fisherman who who pulled up the catch tracked Richardson down after examining the engraving [âŚ]
December 10, 2008
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