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Meredith Ochs talks big trucks on NPR
Meredith Ochs, known best for her cohosting slot with Chris T. on Sirius Road Dogās āFreewheelināā show, talked a bit about her love of rolling in rigs on NPRās Fall Music Preview back in September. (Weāve gotten behind a bit on our All Songs Considered free podcast subscription, sorry.) She and Chris have in fact [ā¦]
December 26, 2008
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Merry Christmas from Paul Hartley/ADD Media
You might recognize the credit in the title from the pages of Overdrive. Hartleyās our resident photographic genius, the man responsible for the Pride amp; Polish beauty shots youāll find most years in our calendar. The image above is his specially designed Christmas card, the text of which reads, ā>Visions of sugar-plums might be fine [ā¦]
December 24, 2008
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Dressed for success
Itās been a while since we checked in on Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year Henry Albert (pictured with his wife, Karen), whoās in a yearlong test-drive of the Freightliner Cascadia and is blogging about his experiences here. Along the way heās gotten upwards of 7 mpg on certain legs, stopped in at the great [ā¦]
December 23, 2008
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Amen
For this salute in the Amarillo, Texas, Globe-News, we give the big thumbs-up. The editorial, posted Friday to the newspaperās 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. [ā¦]
December 22, 2008
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DOT special treatment for Christmas
The U.S. Department of Transportation reported Thursday on Transport Secretary Mary Petersā announcement that U.S. military airspace lanes will be open to St. Nick this Christmas Eve. āWe know Santa Claus must adhere to a really tight schedule to get to every house on his list,ā said Secretary Peters as she presented Santa his Christmas [ā¦]
December 19, 2008
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Christmas bonus
Itās 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 nationās citizens, the number one request from the truck drivers of said nation cuts to the core of the trucking business. Thatās right, lower fuel prices topped our eTrucker.com [ā¦]
December 18, 2008
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Fun with spammers
āBeer Runner,ā a regular poster to Truck.Net, has been having some fun with spammers. And ā>no I donāt have anything better to do,ā the poster wrote yesterday. All the same, the fun sounded quite fun: āLast night I got another spam asking me for all my information just so I can collect millions of dollars. [ā¦]
December 17, 2008
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Book by Chilean truck driverās 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 [ā¦]
December 16, 2008
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Give the gift of hauling
ā>Trucker gifts abound onlineā 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 [ā¦]
December 15, 2008
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āEnergy for saleā 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. Itās called āBig Olā Trucker Energy Juice,ā and itās aimed directly at you, in case the name wasnāt explicit enough. With a active-ingredient makeup somewhat similar to the ubiquitous [ā¦]
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 youāre talking to a human who can, theoretically at least, be reasoned with. Some of the nationās 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 [ā¦]
December 11, 2008
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The one that got away comes back
In Buna, Texas, mechanic Joe Richardsonās 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 [ā¦]
December 10, 2008
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Bless the Virgin, bless the truck
Chicago owner-operator Freddy Lagunes, pictured, dressed up his white 1994 Freightliner to give a frigid yet festive commemoration parade with close to 80 of his fellow Hispanic truckers to the day of ā>La Virgen de Guadalupeā this Sunday in the windy city. The celebration, whose central day is Dec. 12, originated in Mexico when ā [ā¦]
December 9, 2008
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The perfect diet for stranded truckers
ā>I-70 in Eagle County [Colorado] was closed over 43 times last winterā due to snowy conditions, according to a report from the Vail Daily published Friday. The Colorado DOT, accordingly, has finished the first phase of a series of new parking facilities along the corridor that, including the basic facilities, come with ā>gift bagsā for [ā¦]
December 8, 2008
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Coop back open
Louisianaās I-10 westbound scale between Lafayette Parish and Breaux Bridge in St. Martin Parish is now back open after almost two yearsā and $200,000 worth of repairs, reports Steven Landry (not to be confused with the well-known custom-truck owner-operator of the same name) at the blogger-post-footerā>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of [ā¦]
December 5, 2008
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A little āanarchic neopopulismā goes a long way
In an article posted to the History News Network, University of Georgia history prof Shane Hamilton looks at last monthās presidential election through the lens of themes hit upon in his new book about the 20th century coalition of independent truckers and agribusiness that contributed largely to the deregulatory political climate of the 1970s and [ā¦]
December 3, 2008
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In case you didnāt know already
The Howād They Build That? DVD series launched Nov. 18, with the first two behind-the-scenes documentariesā subjects self-evident from their titles. Big Truck and Fire Truck offer, respectively, a ā>visit the International Truck Assembly Plant in Springfield, Ohio, which has been in operation for over 100 years and has built more than 5 million trucks,ā [ā¦]
December 2, 2008
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Worldās sexiest truck
Car-maker Maserati is hyping itself as the āworldās sexiest car, scientically speaking,ā on the back of results of a recent study, conducted by British luxury car insurer Hiscox, āin which participants were asked to listen to the sound of a variety of cars, from exotics to economy models,ā says the company. āThe sound of a [ā¦]
December 1, 2008
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