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Virtual trucking
By “virtual trucking” we don’t mean computer games or training simulations, and we don’t mean ivirtuous trucking either, as in the iOverdrive Knights of the Road feature. In this CNN interview, business consultant Amy Zuckerman uses “>virtual” to mean “online and networked” and says truck drivers are examples of employees “operating virtually” in America’s “hidden […]
December 17, 2007
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Garage poetry
iThe safety valve aloneKnows the worst truth about the engine.— From the poem “>Your Teeth Are Ivory Towers” (1940) by William Empson (1906-1984) (According to critic John Holbo, that’s pretty much the best line in the poem.)
November 27, 2007
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TRUCKER ABDUCTED –RETURNS WITH ALIEN PROSTATE!
No way we could improve on that headline, in the now-online-only iWeekly World News. “>It was a gland finale to an amazing adventure,” says the trucker. Do you suppose Dr. Nolan Lloyd, the investigating physician quoted in the story, resembles the late actor Lloyd Nolan, who played doctors in the movie iPeyton Place and the […]
November 27, 2007
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Just another day in the cab
Next time you’re moved to complain about the hardships of being a truck driver, think about the lot (pardon the pun) of the guy who impounds and repossesses cars for a living. AOL Autos talked (anonymously) to one such guy for this article. Once “>Dan” ran afoul of some guys who didn’t want their cars […]
November 27, 2007
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Cool Tools
The new TV series iCool Tools, Thursday nights on the DIY Network, is aimed at homeowners and not the maintainers of Class 8 trucks, but any do-it-yourselfer will enjoy learning about Thomas’ Liquid Stainless Steel; or Mechanix Glove Lights, with a built-in LED flashlight on the back of each glove; or the Bootie Butler, which […]
November 27, 2007
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Building bridges (or not)
This short item in the Nov. 25 issue of iParade magazine rightly castigates congressional spending priorities. We especially like the headline.To remind you of the urgency of the issue, here’s a photo of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, taken Aug. 5, 2007, by Todd Swain of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Why, after this, […]
November 27, 2007
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Looking a gift card in the mouth
The increasing tendency of shoppers to give gift cards as Christmas presents — or, as some cynics would argue, iinstead of Christmas presents — is hurting trucking, as Bob Costello, the American Trucking Associations’ chief economist, noted in October in this eTrucker story The fall bump in demand related to holiday spending has greatly dissipated, […]
November 27, 2007
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The gullible 3.2 million
You may ask yourself, as you’re deleting yet another junk e-mail about a foreign-lottery windfall, “How many people actually would fall for this?” Well, the Federal Trade Commission has an answer for you: approximately 3.2 million Americans, according to its recent consumer fraud survey, announced here. The invaluable Snopes.com offers this fine explanation of the […]
November 16, 2007
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Brother of the Bridge to Nowhere
Now that Alaska apparently has given up on its federally funded Bridge to Nowhere, a.k.a. the Gravina Island bridge, iParade magazine has christened another proposed span in Alaska the “>brother of the Bridge to Nowhere”: the Knik Arm Bridge that would connect Anchorage with Point MacKenzie, population 232, at a cost of hundreds of millions […]
November 16, 2007
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Built by the New Deal
Five former Civilian Conservation Corps members, all in their 80s and 90s, attended their annual reunion at Maryland’s Gambrill State Park, reports iThe Frederick News-Post in this story. How does this pertain to trucking? As Americans debate how best to get our 21st-century roads and bridges built, it may be worth remembering that a lot […]
November 16, 2007
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The world’s most famous trucking executive …
… is suddenly Nancy Shevell, a 47-year-old vice president at New England Motor Freight, because she reportedly is dating Paul McCartney. Check out her Google News roundup. The news was broken by the iThe Sun in Britain, with one of the all-time great tabloid headlines:br MACCA’SSMACKERWITH AMARRIEDCRACKER (In tabloid-speak, “>Macca” is short for McCartney; in […]
November 13, 2007
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Writers and teamsters
In this IGN Entertainment article on the Hollywood writers’ strike, Judd Apatow, writer-director of the movies iKnocked Up and iThe 40-Year-Old Virgin, explains why writers are sore they aren’t getting money from new media such as digital downloads Here’s how I would explain it. If you’re a teamster, you get paid to drive a truck. […]
November 8, 2007
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Fat Mudflap Girl
Today some stickers and T-shirts arrived from the folks at FatMudFlapGirl.com — all of them, unsurprisingly, featuring Fat Mudflap Girl. My wife was there when I pulled them out of the envelope. Her initial remark was unprintable. (Actually, it’s printed all the time. I should say I prefer not to publish it on this blog.) […]
November 5, 2007
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Twinkie reassurance
If you’ve heard the truck-stop legend that Twinkies last forever, don’t believe it, says the invaluable Snopes.com. 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.
November 5, 2007
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The Federal Trade Commission isn’t after you
If you receive an e-mail purporting to be from the Fraud Department of the Federal Trade Commission, claiming a customer has filed a complaint against you, don’t worry. Thousands of people are getting the same e-mail, but it’s a fake, and its attachments contain a computer virus, the FTC says. In this warning about the […]
November 5, 2007
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On the Road
In Chapter 3 of Jack Kerouac’s novel iOn the Road/i, Sal Paradise is hitchhiking outside Davenport, Iowa:blockquoteHere the big trucks roared, wham, and inside two minutes one of them cranked to a stop for me. I ran for it with my soul whoopeeing. And what a driver — a great big tough truckdriver with popping […]
July 26, 2007
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Blue-ribbon truck art
In the kids’ art exhibit at the Allegany County Fair in Cumberland, Md., this past week, we were pleased to see that Darrell Stonestreet won first place for this painting of a dumper at work. Seems too active to be a “still life,” but hey, art resists category. Darrell also got a second-place ribbon for […]
July 25, 2007
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Mowing down those orange cones
At the Allegany County Fair in Cumberland, Md., this past week, we noticed that the cartoon backdrop of a kiddie ride named Truck Stop depicts happy truckers in the act of mowing down panicked construction workers and their equally panicked orange cones — which have faces like pets, or familiars. If you want to see […]
July 25, 2007
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