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Life: Page 183

Channel 19
Truckers Against Trafficking receives well-deserved honor
Trucker Bill Brady accepted the Suzanne McDaniel Award for Public Awareness from the Congressional Victims Rights Caucus on behalf of the organization.
May 4, 2015
Driver Bill Brady (center) with Reps Ted Poe (right) and Jim Costa, cofounders of the bipartisan Congressional Victims Rights Caucus. Read more about the award presentation at this link.
Business
Don’t tread on me
It’s Sunday, let’s preach it! ā€œBanning trucks from the left lane is completely the opposite of safe, and don’t stand on a flag if you want me to listen to what you have to say.ā€
May 3, 2015
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Business
You’re selling what?
ā€œHow bad do you have to want a set of dentures to buy them from a guy in a truck stop parking lot?ā€
May 1, 2015
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Life
Con-way driver named TCA Highway Angel for reporting suspicious activity, saving woman
Kevin Kimmel of Tavares, Fla., a driver for Con-way Truckload of Joplin, Mo., has been named a Highway Angel by the Truckload Carriers Association.
May 1, 2015
Kevin-Kimmel
Overdrive Radio
Aaron Tippin ’25’: Overdrive’s talk with the songwriter/former trucker
Catch a few samples from new Tippin tracks and hear the artist reflect on what trucking and truckers have meant to his 25-year music career, attendant to release of his new ’25’ double CD.
April 30, 2015
The new “25” record from Aaron Tippin is available via this link.
Custom Rigs
ā€˜Her and the memories’: Owner-op’s 1981 Kenworth W900
ā€œThe truck is gone,ā€ owner-operator Jerry Martin says of his first KW. ā€œBut I still go the best part of it — her (his wife) and the memories!ā€
April 29, 2015
Martin
Custom Rigs
I kissed a truck (and I liked it)
ā€œOur first Wildwood experience was awesome! … Our Precious took 3rd in the Wash and Show portion of the Pride and Polish competition,ā€ among other happenings…
April 29, 2015
Precious takes third!
Life
Alert! Goat on the turnpike bridge!
Taking toll evasion to new heights, two goats caused quite a stir when they crossed an OK Turnpike bridge over the weekend, captured in this photo.
April 29, 2015
Goats
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Mike Morgan on a victory lap after ChampTruck event
A talk with ’88 Mike’ Morgan, who came out on top of the points following the inaugural ChampTruck World Series Class 8 racing event this weekend in Millville, N.J.
April 27, 2015
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Business
Inward-facing problems
ā€œCarriers have finally found a way to lower the quality of new drivers…. In the words of Moon Unit Zappa, ā€˜Gag me with a spoon.ā€™ā€¦ā€
April 27, 2015
Hold on to your cameras! And everything else in the cab…
Business
Former ā€˜Biggest Loser’ offers health program for drivers
Former NBC ā€œBiggest Loserā€ contestant Pete Thomas has teamed up with Trucking Moves America Forward and Pilot Flying J to offer a health program for professional drivers.
April 27, 2015
Custom Rigs
ā€˜88 Mike’ takes home win in first ChampTruck race weekend: Photos, crash video and more from the races
Nashville-based Mack technician Mike Morgan won the first-ever Meritor ChampTruck World Series race this weekend in Millville, N.J., where the series’ inaugural race weekend hit the New Jersey Motorsports Park.
April 27, 2015
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Custom Rigs
Photos: ChampTruck’s 100-mph truck race action kicks off at New Jersey Motorsports Park
The first-ever Meritor ChampTruck World Series race takes place this weekend at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, where 10 Class 8 truck racers will square off in 100-mph road course action in four heats and one main event.
April 25, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
ā€˜Apps 4 Truckers’ podcast from longtime driver
Trucker Tim Spence’s Apps4Truckers podcast combines interviews with drivers and reviews of smartphone apps with a focus on being ā€œthe transition place,ā€ Spence says, between technical software instruction and information about such software that is actually useful.
April 24, 2015
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Business
Driver posthumously named Highway Angel following 2014 crash assistance
Driver Jack Yancer passed away while helping someone in the course of his job on the road.
April 24, 2015
Jack-Yancer
Business
Happy people have sunburned knees
In which George and Wendy burn up the swamps in Nick Shaughnessy’s air boat, and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish in Wildwood gets well under way.
April 24, 2015
George and Nick (right)
Business
Tim Rickards presents ā€˜Chicago merge’
File under: Dashcam Central’s ā€œHall of four-wheeler shame.ā€ Says Rickards: ā€œOne of many Chicago merges to share just west of the 80-94 split. Plenty of room behind me.ā€
April 23, 2015
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Trucker of the Year
Prime Time: How does an owner-operator win $25,000?
A look, via photos, at Thomas Miller’s 2014 Owner-Operator of the Year victory and how he earned it.
April 23, 2015
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FMCSA's new National Consumer Complaint Database page has nine categories of complaints to file, including one for freight brokers.
Regulations
FMCSA makes it easier to call out bad brokers with National Consumer Complaint Database update
FMCSA gives its National Consumer Complaint Database whistleblower portal an "overdue tech upgrade" it's calling "a win" for truck drivers and carriers as it gets easier to report bad brokers.
Oberman Logistics owner Wes Oberman's personal truck is this Kenworth T680 -- purchased to replace a lower-fuel-mileage 2020 389 that powered his maiden voyage in trucking as an owner-operator. He's getting 10 mpg now, and providing a reliable home for leased owners has the fleet up to 11 trucks as of August.
Small Fleet Champ
Skin in the leased owner's game: Oberman Logistics' simple, transparent plan for expansion
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Sleeper berth: Will truckers be able to split as they see fit?
It's taken less than a decade for small fleet owner Derrick Wolfe to grow his New York-based food grade tanker-haul business from one truck to 21 company drivers, seven owner-operators and 10 non-driving employees.
Small Fleet Champ
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