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Channel 19
Truckers the movie, Truckers the book
According to the 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 13, 2008
Channel 19
No four-wheelers up there
In case they didn’t have enough obstacles in their way, owner-operators using Apple’s newish and quite expensive iPhone or iPod Touch can now take advantage of a new opportunity for dodging in Space Truckers. The game, developed by the folks at iMakeApps specifically for the Apple devices, is available for a few bucks and puts […]
September 12, 2008
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Channel 19
Truckstop gourmet
It’s not often a truckstop is singled out for exceptional cuisine. Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter alerts us to the spot about Johnson’s Corner in Loveland, Colo., on American Public Media’s Splendid Table program. Program contributor Jane Stern, in a quest for the best cinnamon roll in the country, called Johnson’s Corner’s the “>biggest, largest, […]
September 11, 2008
Channel 19
No foolin’
Public radio program Marketplace, in a Monday spot about this summer’s boost in public transit ridership, dropped this nugget in the segment’s lead: “>Last time oil prices were this low it was April Fool’s Day.” True, but diesel’s average for last week, down more than six cents from the previous week, was still a dime […]
September 10, 2008
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The more-than-hungry among us
Talk about some hot pie: The Associated Press reported Sunday on the arrest of a truck driver, Anthony Herbert Lee, of Hammond, Ind., not far from his home after Lee reportedly ran into mechanical trouble and tried to offload a reefer full of frozen pizzas on a cargo-salvaging company, for cash. The pizzas, of course, […]
September 9, 2008
Channel 19
UPS van driver reaches million mark
Congratulations to UPS veteran Brent Boyd, who, according to the Associated Press, “surpassed one million miles on his UPS delivery van,” the same 1987 GMC he’s driven for 22 years in East Texas. Boyd told the news service that he has replaced the engine three times and repainted his van.br /br /He joins the legions […]
September 8, 2008
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Biden on the boards / Teamster at the DNC
Joe Biden’s remarks over the years have included references to the truck driver who was driving the tractor-trailer that collided with his wife’s car in the early 1970s, killing her and Biden’s daughter and injuring their two sons. Some drivers were surprised to learn of the reality of that wreck from Inside Edition’s August 27 […]
September 5, 2008
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Have you seen this sasquatch suit?
According to a recent eTrucker.com poll that probed truckers’ experience of the supernatural, 5 percent of drivers reported having at one time or other seen a “Bigfoot” out on the road. In July, Clayton County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputy Matthew Whitton was shot in the wrist while pursuing a suspect into a wooded area after said […]
September 4, 2008
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Google targeting truck customizers?
Attendees of and participants in Overdrive‘s Pride amp; Polish truck beauty competitions — or readers of our new Custom Rigs magazine — might have raised an eyebrow or at least ground a gear or two at the news of the name of Google’s proprietary browser, now officially out in an open-source beta version for Windows […]
September 3, 2008
Channel 19
Snowman, R.I.P.
It’s a sad day. From the wires…: The Snowman has passed. pAccording to AP writer John Gerome: NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday. Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to […]
September 2, 2008
Channel 19
A vote for stool consistency
The latest factors proclaimed to increase “the odds ratio for a car crash,” according to a report from Melbourne, Australia, newspaper The Age titled “Truckers ignoring their mental health,” are depression and other brain issues. The Australians’ concern over depression as a crash-risk exacerbater seemed to one-up late U.S. worry over sleep apnea, use of […]
September 2, 2008
Channel 19
Fill in the blank
strongIdeal mate/strongstrong/strong“I’ll admit it: I like a guy who drives a big ____.” — Cathy Day, a University of Pittsburgh assistant English professor, writing in her memoir, “Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love,” Free Press, 2008. If you guessed “tank,” you guessed wrong. Guys, reports suggest she’s still single. strongRoad […]
August 28, 2008
Channel 19
When Overdrive (briefly) went Hollywood
Now on DVD is perhaps the oddest trucking movie ever made: iMoonfire, the long-unseen low-budget 1972 release written, produced and directed by iOverdrive founder Michael Parkhurst. Hard to follow and hard to forget, it’s about a lost space capsule, a gang of Mexican bandits and a fortune hidden inside a load of lettuce. The DVD […]
June 3, 2008
Channel 19
Truckers’ proposals "range from useless to harmful"
USA Today on recent trucker fuel-price protests In an election year, the pressure on Congress to do isomething about energy prices is growing. Proposals are spouting like a Texas gusher. They include giving drivers a summer holiday from the federal gasoline tax, suspending efforts to fill the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and forcing shippers to […]
April 29, 2008
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"God has a plan"
The February 2008 issue of iOverdrive reported on the problems faced by truckers involved in fatal accidents that were not their fault. That the four-wheeler was to blame, not the trucker, doesn’t spare the professional driver the consequences of a horrific wreck. Another such wreck seems to have happened April 22 in eastern Howard County, […]
April 28, 2008
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A quicker trillion barrels
Astronomer Bob Doyle writes a weekly science column for the iCumberland Times-News in Maryland, often addressing energy issues. Here’s a startling statistic from his latest column Since the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859, humans have extracted a trillion barrels of petroleum. Conservative estimates suggest that there’s about that amount of petroleum in […]
April 28, 2008
Channel 19
Big rig successfully performs Heimlich maneuver
We recently heard about a golden retriever successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver, but our “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” calendar just alerted us to an even more amazing news story we missed back in 2004: The Heimlich maneuver successfully performed iby a tractor-trailer. The short version: The driver of a Ford F-350 on eastbound I-40 […]
April 28, 2008
Channel 19
Monday, Monday
Our “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” calendar reports You are most likely to be injured at work on a Monday! We can’t immediately find any confirmation of this, but if anyone knows of any — such as a press release summarizing a report that examined workplace injuries, perhaps from an agency such as the U.S. […]
March 5, 2008
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