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Business
PFJ donates $125k to company helping military vets start businesses
Bunker Labs has helped veterans launch more than 360 companies since 2014, creating more than 1,700 new jobs. Of the $125,000 donated by PFJ, $25,000 will be applied directly to expanding the Bunker Labs chapter in Tennessee.
November 9, 2017
Life
Ice Road Truckers finale airs tonight
It has been a demanding season for the men and women of “Ice Road Truckers,” and those story lines play out tonight in the season’s finale, to be aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on the History Channel.
November 9, 2017
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Business
Not all those who wander have been abducted by aliens
“So there’s this guy, they call him ‘Cargo,’ and he started walking due North eleven months ago in Ushuaia, Argentina, toward Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Yep. I said walking. And he’s made it on foot through South and Central America, in less than a year.”… No joke, and he wasn’t abducted by aliens …
November 8, 2017
Voices
Colin Young presents ‘Basalt drive’ hall of shame
This collection of video clips from the dashcam of trucker Colin Young was assembled from several during “a load from Denver to Basalt, Colo., on the Friday before Father’s Day” this year, Young says, via Loveland Pass. “After 20-plus years of driving it still surprises me how many people continue to take the risks they take around big trucks.”
November 8, 2017
Regulations
Fatigue’s Fast Track: How auto industry’s embrace of fatigue monitoring affects truckers
Unlike trucking, where fatigue-monitoring vendors are trying to sell their wares to fleets, in the automotive world it’s vehicle manufacturers who are the main drivers in adopting the technology.
November 6, 2017
Life
Change of seasons creates trouble for ‘Ice Road Truckers’
Todd Dewey, Lisa Kelly, Steph Custance and Art Burke each had problems to deal with as spring begins in the penultimate episode of the 11th season of “Ice Road Truckers.”
November 6, 2017
Custom Rigs
New Mexico 1942 International rat traps the big one in Vegas
After their GBATS rat-rod trophy, father-son team Elmo and Charlie Pacheco, also known as “Team Cutters,” took home bragging rights, trophy and title of numero uno in the first official SEMA RATical Rod International Build & Drive Off.
November 6, 2017
Channel 19
Remembering Carl Rhodes — with his son, Rick — after well more than a half century trucking
Rhodes was a fixture of Morgantown, W.Va.-area trucking business since his own father hauled pulpwood in a 1932 Ford. Carl passed August 14, 2020.
November 6, 2017
Regulations
Fatigue’s Fast Track: How wearable tech detects driver fatigue without cameras
From Overdrive’s in-depth look at fatigue management tech: Relatively new to trucking are wearable devices that detect fatigue without requiring camera input. Here’s a look at some of the the leading camera-less monitoring systems.
November 3, 2017
Business
Is this thing on?
“This administration desperately, desperately needs a check-mark in the ‘win’ column. If anyone out there is listening, here’s your chance. It’s ripe for the picking, along with the block of voters it represents. Respond to the truckers on the ELD mandate. They deserve at least that much.”
November 3, 2017
Regulations
Fatigue’s Fast Track: Wearable monitoring devices competing with camera systems
From Overdrive’s in-depth look at fatigue management tech: While adoption of wearable fatigue monitoring systems lags the adoption of camera systems, wearables are making headway as more fleets test the products. (See continuing coverage of this series Friday and Monday.)
November 2, 2017
Custom Rigs
Ricky ‘Rude’ Proffitt holds on to win Bandit Big Rig Series championship
A nearly perfect weekend for Tommy Boileau, and what Proffitt calls his “worst weekend race-wise of the year,” ended with Proffitt barely holding on to his points lead to claim the championship.
November 2, 2017
Business
N.Y. attack highlights danger of weaponized trucks, attacker once a truck driver
Notes on Tuesday’s Manhattan terrorist attack: The suspect is a Class A CDL holder and once employed as a truck operator. The attack also underscores the dangers of the potential for trucks to be used as weapons to carry out terrorism.
November 1, 2017
Custom Rigs
You can’t hide them lyin’ eyes
George’s dalliance with aftermarket parts — for a different truck! “It became evident I was going to have to confront him…. He was cheating. He was looking at aftermarket parts for a Peterbilt.”
November 1, 2017
Life
Weather, trucks and drivers heat up in latest ‘Ice Road Truckers’ episode
As the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers’ eleventh season begins to wind down, the weather is warming up while the trucks and truckers’ tempers are overheating.
October 30, 2017
Business
Arnold and the 2,000-year-old pygmy warrior, Part 2
Wendy’s annual Halloween fiction continues after Part 1, in which Arnold, haunted by the ancient pygmy warrior of the title, accidentally kills a love interest’s Maine Coon cat, named Monkey, for which its owner, Leslie, continues to look, expecting it to show up eventually …
October 29, 2017
Business
Peterbilt to celebrate one-millionth truck with giveaway contest
One of the five finalists will be recognized as the top SuperFan and will be given the keys to the one-millionth Peterbilt – a Model 567 Heritage, fully customized to celebrate the milestone.
October 27, 2017
Business
TA-Petro raises more than $240k for St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund
The annual “Band Together for SCF” campaign, along with various raffles and other events, raised a total of $241,310.58 that was donated to SCF. Since 2010, TA-Petro has raised more than $2.2 million for the fund.
October 27, 2017
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