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Channel 19: Page 151
Channel 19
The gullible 3.2 million
You may ask yourself, as youâre deleting yet another junk e-mail about a foreign-lottery windfall, âHow many people actually would fall for this?â 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 [âŚ]
November 16, 2007
Channel 19
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 â>brother of the Bridge to Nowhereâ: the Knik Arm Bridge that would connect Anchorage with Point MacKenzie, population 232, at a cost of hundreds of millions [âŚ]
November 16, 2007
Channel 19
Built by the New Deal
Five former Civilian Conservation Corps members, all in their 80s and 90s, attended their annual reunion at Marylandâs 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 [âŚ]
November 16, 2007
Channel 19
The worldâs most famous trucking executive âŚ
⌠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 MACCAâSSMACKERWITH AMARRIEDCRACKER (In tabloid-speak, â>Maccaâ is short for McCartney; in [âŚ]
November 13, 2007
Channel 19
Writers and teamsters
In this IGN Entertainment article on the Hollywood writersâ strike, Judd Apatow, writer-director of the movies iKnocked Up and iThe 40-Year-Old Virgin, explains why writers are sore they arenât getting money from new media such as digital downloads Hereâs how I would explain it. If youâre a teamster, you get paid to drive a truck. [âŚ]
November 8, 2007
Channel 19
Fat Mudflap Girl
Today some stickers and T-shirts arrived from the folks at FatMudFlapGirl.com â 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, itâs printed all the time. I should say I prefer not to publish it on this blog.) [âŚ]
November 5, 2007
Channel 19
Twinkie reassurance
If youâve heard the truck-stop legend that Twinkies last forever, donât believe it, says the invaluable Snopes.com. blogger-post-footerâ>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
Channel 19
The Federal Trade Commission isnât 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, donât worry. Thousands of people are getting the same e-mail, but itâs a fake, and its attachments contain a computer virus, the FTC says. In this warning about the [âŚ]
November 5, 2007
Channel 19
On the Road
In Chapter 3 of Jack Kerouacâs 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 â a great big tough truckdriver with popping [âŚ]
July 26, 2007
Channel 19
Blue-ribbon truck art
In the kidsâ 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 âstill life,â but hey, art resists category. Darrell also got a second-place ribbon for [âŚ]
July 25, 2007
Channel 19
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 â which have faces like pets, or familiars. If you want to see [âŚ]
July 25, 2007
Channel 19
1943 Autocar ad
In an antique store in Adamstown, Pa., we found this 1943 magazine advertisement for Autocar, then based not far away in Ardmore. The ad says wartime specialty trucks such as this U.S. Navy tanker are âheralds of increasingly finer Autocar trucks to come.âToday Autocar is based in Indiana and makes only state-of-the-art refuse trucks, its [âŚ]
July 25, 2007
Channel 19
Sort-of-reassuring math
In her July 1 âAsk Marilynâ column in iParade magazine, Marilyn vos Savant says that while you are more likely to have a wreck if youâre on the road a lot â as professional truck drivers are â the likelihood of a wreck on, say, your 100th run is no greater than on your 20th [âŚ]
July 25, 2007
Channel 19
A mysterious disappearance in Spain?
iFate/i magazine, an occult monthly founded by the late Ray Palmer in 1948, is still around and is still enjoyable reading for devotees of Bigfoot, UFOs and the like, if you keep many grains of salt handy. (We recommend, in fact, several bowls full.) Hereâs a trucking-related tidbit from the February 2006 issue, from Scott [âŚ]
July 25, 2007
Channel 19
Imagine her at Lindsay Lohanâs age
The Orange Beach, Ala., police say the drunk driver who led them on a 100 mph chase before flipping her car ⌠was 11 years old.
July 23, 2007
Channel 19
Some things never change
From iRailroad Fever: Songs, Jokes Train Lore/i (1998) by Wayne Erbsen of Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C.:blockquoteOperating on the premise that âCleanliness is next to godliness,â many communities in the early days of railroading forbad trains from running through town for fear that the soot from passing locomotives would foul windows. Special teams of [âŚ]
July 23, 2007
Channel 19
The ballad of Customer Fred
TruckDown.com, PartSeek.com and TruckPartsInventory.com (its slogan â>Expose Your Parts to the Worldâ) have debuted a promotional cartoon from the Terry Gilliam school of cutout animation, set to the tune of âAchy Breaky Heart,â with parody lyrics by Scott Tetz of PartSeek.com. Hereâs the link. Be sure to wait around for the parents of â>Customer Fred.â [âŚ]
July 17, 2007
Channel 19
How intrastates can be interstates
Marilyn vos Savant, in her âAsk Marilynâ column in the July 15 iParade, answers a perennial question: How can Hawaii have interstate highways?
July 16, 2007
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