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One man’s bailout plan
No, it’s not a nationwide fuel reimbursement plan, rather a novel approach to ad sales. Hauler Patrick Kane has put his International tractor’s exterior space (pictured) up for bid on eBay for presidential ads “>in the Key States of Ohio, Penn, and New York, plus other east coast states,” as reads the post. He also […]
October 17, 2008
Channel 19
A clatter in the town hall
A victory for defiance? Westford, Vt. (population 2,086, according to the 2000 census) is the latest municipality to take up the issue of truckers’ Jake-brake use and the attendant noise. The town council shelved an ordinance that would have forbidden the use of Jakes in the town center on Vermont highway 128, reports Joel Banner […]
October 16, 2008
Channel 19
Heads up
As if high fuel prices, diesel shortages in the southeast and a financial crisis the likes of which we’ve not seen since the 1930s weren’t enough, four northeast haulers found themselves in the literal line of fire last week on Western New York’s Southern Tier Expressway, or I-86, near Ellery. The Buffalo News website reported […]
October 15, 2008
Channel 19
Remembering a rebellion
When Overdrive magazine was founded in the early 1960s as a fledgling magazine for the independent owner-operators of the American trucking industry, the Teamsters union was at the zenith of its power on the national stage as a labor union representing mostly company truck drivers. One of them, Jim Harper, found his calling behind the […]
October 13, 2008
Channel 19
On the scene
Paul Hartley, a former Overdrive editor and renowned trucking photographer (he’s responsible for our Pride amp; Polish show-truck calendar shots), alerted us to some recent local fame he caught while shooting a new International Lonestar daycab (pictured, courtesy Navistar International) on a main thoroughfare in Wilmington, Ill. While he was shooting, a Wilmington Free Press […]
October 10, 2008
Channel 19
Blogging from the cab
The Cascadia, Freightliner’s newest on-highway tractor model (pictured), is getting the reality-show treatment with the company’s new Slice of Life campaign. Follow the link for blog posts from three owner-operators given the opportunity to spend a year in a new Cascadia, outfitted with Detroit’s new DD15 engine, the operators’ only down payment a pledge to […]
October 9, 2008
Channel 19
Now that’s a captive audience
According to South Africa’s Independent Online, some tow truck drivers have resorted to a sort of “>captive marketing” (my words) to potential towees. Reporter Natasha Joseph writes, “Some of Cape Town’s tow truck drivers are almost certainly using sophisticated ‘cellphone jammers’ to ensure that [traffic] accident victims cannot contact other tow truck drivers or even […]
October 8, 2008
Channel 19
Who’s your copilot?
Either the producers of Bill Maher’s satirical documentary Religulous have memory/note-taking problems or a GPS unit in their production van led them three hours due southwest of their intended target, a purported “>Truckers Chapel” referenced in their production notes and in the film’s PR as being in Raleigh, N.C. However, Raleigh News-Observer reporter Matt Ehlers […]
October 7, 2008
Channel 19
Truckers get the bypass in new highway report
The Congress for New Urbanism has released a report called “Freeways Without Futures,” a look at ten limited-access highways that run through urban areas that, according to the report’s authors, should be replaced with surface boulevards to encourage urban devlopment. They are: 1. Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle, Wash. 2. Sheridan Expressway, Bronx, N.Y. 3. The […]
October 6, 2008
Channel 19
Popping the cork
Inadvertently making the case for proper truck maintenance this week was Miami, Fla.-based trucker Luiz Ramirez, who suffered his first-ever cargo theft. While he splashed around in the shower in the wee hours at a truck stop in Ft. Myers, Fla., according to a report filed by Rachel Myers of the Ft. Myers News-Press, somebody […]
October 3, 2008
Channel 19
No use crying over this
What began as a contest between brother and sister to find “the strangest items to be spilled on the road” has now taken on a life of its own, says Dave Ference, operator of truckspills.com. Alligators, bees, lots of beer and milk (pictured) are among the more interesting. The most recent calamity involved a truck […]
October 2, 2008
Channel 19
Down the road, feeling good
“Sticker Steve” Stone of Barstow, Calif. (928-899-1771), sketched this patch design for members of the Road Dogs on Hogs truck drivers/motorcyclist group,
October 1, 2008
Channel 19
Our way or the highway
A new Ontario Trucking Association vehicle sticker (pictured) encourages highway safety by taking aim at aggressive motorists, reports CityNews.ca. The new sticker comes in part at the urging of Debbie Virgoe, the wife of trucker David Virgoe, killed in an accident after he swerved to miss a pair of highway-racing four-wheelers that had crashed. Part […]
September 30, 2008
Channel 19
Learning by example
How Not to Respond to Towing Companies, and Police 1. A Portland, Ore., tow-truck driver got the angry towee of a lifetime in a local woman who — after a crowd surrounded the driver’s truck one recent eventful night at a Portland apartment complex as he attempted to make away with the woman’s vehicle — […]
September 29, 2008
Channel 19
Chasing the tailgaters
One of Columbus Dispatch 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.
September 26, 2008
Channel 19
Tale of two headlines
Contrast these two headlines, both above stories detailing the group Truckers and Citizens of America‘s protest convoy to the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Sept. 23: “Trucker Protest Runs Out of Gas” –at the website of third-party-logistics focused magazine Traffic World and “Truckers Come Together to Protest Fuel Prices” –at the website of the Washington Post While […]
September 25, 2008
Channel 19
On a more serious note
Today, Tennessee DOT workers killed in the line of duty are honored at the Tennessee Smith County Welcome Center off I-40, as Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely joins family members at 10:30 AM, Central time, to dedicate the brand-new Highway Worker Memorial. The new black granite memorial honors the 106 highway workers lost […]
September 24, 2008
Channel 19
Beats ‘Where’s the Beef?’
Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine’s wife, Edie, shot this quite unique advertising slogan — “>DRINKAMUGAMILKAMEAL,” just right of the cow — on a tank trailer while in Oregon, hiking the Cascades. Turns out the tanker’s one of a fleet of stainless milk (duh) tanks owned by Milky Way, a division of Lynden Tank Co. of […]
September 23, 2008
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