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Channel 19
Ocean’s Eleven, anyone?
In last week’s edition of the alternative newsweekly the Nashville Scene, one of the feature stories told the tale of an area long-hauler who, in a move somewhat reminiscent of the plot lines of certain Hollywood crook-as-ingenue-type flicks, attempted to sell two big-box casinos a major fix to a security problem. As writer Brantley Hargrove […]
November 12, 2008
Channel 19
A modest proposal
The state of California’s Air Resources Board made headlines recently when proposals for new truck, bus and greenhouse-gas-emissions regulations were announced, posted to CARB’s website and opened up for comment. “California has posted proposals online that, if passed, will impact more than 400,000 state-licensed trucks, 500,000 out-of-state trucks operating in California and more than a […]
November 11, 2008
Channel 19
Guitar man, take 2
Cliff Douglas doesn’t call himself “Guitar Man” on the CB for nothing. The 49-year-old former long-haul driver, based near Vail, Colo. — now a driver for the Colorado DOT — this summer released a batch of inspired tracks on his “Truckin’ Country” CD (http://www.cliffdouglas.com/>). “I did love Jerry Reid,” he says of the famed “East […]
November 10, 2008
Channel 19
Just deserts for Brit TV personality
UK truckers get their revenge on BBC2 talk show host Jeremy Clarkson in a new computer game, out from Glasgow-based development company T-Enterprise. Clarkson, the host of auto-news show Top Gear, caused a stir of controversy among UK truckers this week after running a tractor-trailer through a brick wall for a stunt on the show. […]
November 7, 2008
Channel 19
Trucker for pres… excuse me, state assemblyman
Owner-operator Bill Ingram, leased to Meyer Bros. in Elk Mound, Wis., earlier this year transformed his 2001 Freightliner FLD (pictured) into a sort of campaign bus as part of his efforts to win the presidency of the United States. As with most such small independent runs, there was a YouTube video to go along with […]
November 5, 2008
Channel 19
Joe the trucker?
While John McCain chose an aspirational plumber as his campaign’s last prevailing symbol, he might have been better served by choosing a small-business owner-operator. Freight’s down, credit’s tight, and the independence most operators cherish is falling out of reach for many. Take Colorado trucker Brian Johnson, who “>didn’t vote early because he was on the […]
November 5, 2008
Channel 19
Necessary intervention
The 60 Minutes “Coming Home” segment Sunday concerned vets returning from overseas to find their jobs disappeared, in contravention of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, or USERRA. Con-way Freight vice president Dave Miller was interviewed about the strain the company’s support of its 50 called-up reservist and National Guard drivers and other […]
November 4, 2008
Channel 19
Eastbound and down
Either Illinois Senator Barack Obama or Arizona Senator John McCain is on his way to the White House, folks, it’s sure. If truckers had their choice, they’d send McCain, according to a poll of eTrucker.com readers, more than 60 percent of whom said in recent weeks that they’d likely vote for the Republican. Tracking the […]
November 3, 2008
Channel 19
Truckstop gourmet: take two
After blogging about the public radio program The Splendid Table’s laudatory remarks on the cinnamon rolls at Johnson’s Corner in Loveland, Colo., this latest bit of news feels perhaps more down to earth. At an Iron Skillet restaurant on the other side of the country — in the Petro at I-285 and Bankhead Hwy. in […]
October 31, 2008
Channel 19
A little hanky tanky
“Hang 12” is the motto behind the new Hanky Tanky clothes hanger, a 12-garment hanger aimed in part at long-haul truckers looking to maximize cab storage space — and keep the jeans wrinkle-free. As for the name, it springs from the hanger’s origins in the mind of one Chrissie (pictured, with hanger, and truck) wanting […]
October 30, 2008
Channel 19
E-mail is the new CB?
Tired of Inbox SPAM telling you the Swiffer kills your cat, or forwards from friends you thought you knew pledging belief in the Skunk Ape? Ohio trucker Suzanne Roquemore recently joined the Facebook group “>Check snopes.com before you send me this crap!”>, which brings together a community of SPAM and disinformation-weary humans. “I HATE getting […]
October 29, 2008
Channel 19
Trucks of Hollywood
With the late-September announcement of an impending second season of NBC’s Knight Rider television actiondventure show, after the 1980s show of the same name, a flurry of hunting activity has been ongoing at Overdrive HQ. We wondered: Where’d the auto carrying rig that the original show utilized, with Michael Knight’s K.I.T.T. car “>disappearing” up its […]
October 27, 2008
Channel 19
Casualty of the day
The health-care advocates folks at GuaranteedHealthCare.org, a project of the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee, last week highlighted the story of Dallas-based owner-operator Lyle Schiele (pictured), who lost his health insurance after illness led to surgery led to downtime and loss of a lease contract. “>In February 2006,” Schiele wrote as […]
October 27, 2008
Channel 19
PBS redux
All week long, the folks at the News Hour With Jim Lehrer have been airing their “America in Gridlock” series on infrastructure issues in America, offering a good look at what your elected officials see as the road toward renewal of battered blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name […]
October 24, 2008
Channel 19
Frontline cameo
Specialized auto hauler Reliable Carriers makes a cameo appearance this week in PBS Frontline’s two-hour “>Heat” documentary — airing this week, on most stations this past Tuesday, and you can watch it online here (the segment in question is No. 7). The doc, about global warming, doesn’t mention the trucking industry directly, but a Reliable […]
October 23, 2008
Channel 19
Turns out we don’t have a monopoly on heroism
Peter Hanne, a New Zealand teenager, is being commended in that country’s press for his dramatic rescue of truck driver Paul Clarke, whose tractor-trailer combo had been pushed by mighty winds in the Waioeka Gorge, south of Opitiki, into a mishap that had it hanging on the edge of the Gorge for a full 45 […]
October 22, 2008
Channel 19
Got wheelbase
New Jersey-based truck tricker Richie Acosta of East Coast Large Cars tooks 1st place in working bobtail at the truck beauty contest at Mid-America a couple years ago. The winning rig was his Project 350, named after the 2005 Pete 379 extended hood’s mammoth double-frame factory wheelbase (photo courtesy Acosta here). This year, Anthony Fischkelta […]
October 21, 2008
Channel 19
Where did you learn this one?
The Billings, Mont., Boy Scout troop 9’s website pays tribute to the Trucker’s Hitch rope knot, or Lorry Knot in the UK, offering clear instruction, too, perhaps for any of you with a loose load and an emergency dearth of straps or chains. Marked by its strength and ease of untying, the troop 9 site […]
October 20, 2008
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