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Life: Page 249

Custom Rigs
Shell Rotella SuperRigs show picks calendar trucks, hosts parade this week
The Shell Rotella SuperRigs show will take place this week — June 20-22 — in Tomah, Wis. Any owner-operator is allowed to show up and compete.
June 17, 2013
John O’Keefe’s 2007 Peterbilt 379 won Best of Show in last year’s SuperRigs competition. The truck also won the Overdrive’s Pride & Polish National Championship in Dallas at The Great American Trucking Show.
Business
Finer than frog’s hair
“If you’re around and you’re listening, Daddy, happy Father’s day and thanks for the sense of humor. It has seen me through more heartache than drugs or money and it has remained intact, unlike the flaming go-cart of death you built for us in ’82.”
June 17, 2013
Fart on Wendy's office cabinet
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Channel 19
More GoPro trucking-vid magic from Caleb Christner
The young driver’s son turned his camera eye on Colorado’s Loveland Pass this time around. Watch the vid here.
June 17, 2013
Find Caleb and Don Christner’s latest collaborative trucking-vid project via the embedded video below.
Life
Health tip: Swap meat for mushrooms
Save calories and avoid saturated fat by swapping meat for mushrooms.
June 17, 2013
Life
Strike one off the bucket list: Little AleInn, Rachel, Nev.
George and Wendy Parker visit the infamous cafe on the ET highway, Nevada State Route 375, and find hospitality, plenty of weirdness and some truck parking.
June 17, 2013
Little AleInn menu cover
Business
Service charges at the pearly gates
“There will be a $4.95 service charge in order for our records to be processed and a heaven/hell decision to be made. You just wait.”
June 14, 2013
Trumpeting cherubs
Business
Wabco announces winner of sweepstakes
Wabco recently named Gloria Merritt, of Merritt Transport, the winner of the company’s ESCsmart “Drive-it-Away” Sweepstakes. Merritt will have the opportunity to drive a 600-hp NASCAR stock car while participating in the King’s Experience with the Richard Petty Driving Experience. The King’s Experience consists of 18 laps of driving over two sessions. Between driving sessions, […]
June 12, 2013
Business
The lighthouse for food
On Wendy’s missing tooth, and the potential benefits of having just one incisor in an otherwise barren mouth.
June 12, 2013
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Parking
Catching flies with honey: A parking firestorm in Minnesota
Following a widely circulated picture posted about the truck-parking ordinance banning trucking parking and passed by Coon Rapids, Minn., last year, Wendy reaches out to the city council.
June 10, 2013
This photo was posted by driver Steven Weber to Facebook after he saw it on the window of a truck parked next to him in Coon Rapids, Minn. Click through it for a larger version on Facebook to read it.
Life
Health tip: The skinny nut
Looking for a low-calorie nut snack? Eat pistachios.
June 10, 2013
Business
Cleansing the gene pool
WARNING: EXCESSIVE USE OF HAIRPINS MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH. DO NOT INSERT INTO BODILY ORIFICES, MASTER LOCKS, OR, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ELECTRICAL OUTLETS.
June 9, 2013
Warning
Business
Getting used to this whole communicating thing
“I’m a visitor in your world, I don’t actually drive and I’m not a true part of it, but I feel gratified to have a voice to tell people about it.”
June 7, 2013
Ladder
Business
Trucker rescues motorist from burning vehicle
Trucker Adam Phillips rescued a man trapped in a flaming car on I-65 in Johnson City, Indiana, and has been named a Highway Angel by the Truckload Carriers Association for his actions.
June 6, 2013
Phillips
Business
The problem solver: Jim Vant of Crow Wing Transport
The story of Vant’s fleet’s success, built on a strategy of good driver treatment: “I’ve never had a truck make me a dime — it’s the person sitting in the seat.”
June 6, 2013
Crow Wing Transport Peterbilt
Business
The ‘kabang crunch’ wake-up call
“There’s absolutely no reason in hell to catch third in a Love’s, unless your hair is on fire or a member of the Taliban has suddenly popped out of your bunk with an RPG aimed at the back of your head.”
June 5, 2013
Evening at the truck stop
Life
Back on the ice: Lisa Kelly’s return to Ice Road Truckers
Lisa Kelly returns to Ice Road Truckers as a new season debuts on the History Channel Sunday, June 9. What does the most recognizable face in trucking have to say about the latest twists?
June 5, 2013
Find more about Esquire’s anointing Kelly the “Sexiest Trucker Alive” as well as more about fellow Carlile Transportation driver Carey Hall and others in this past story from the Channel 19 blog on OverdriveOnline.com.
Channel 19
Alaska: Avalanche on the Haul Road!
Never a dull moment on Alaska’s Haul Road to Prudhoe Bay, as recent avalanches on Atigun Pass proved for two rigs caught up in them.
June 4, 2013
Click through the image for more photography from recent Dalton Highway avalanches in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner courtesy of Ed Davis.
Business
I’ve been everywhere, man
The things you miss — and, better yet, the things you don’t — driving around the country hauling freight.
June 3, 2013
roadrunner
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After debuting the custom build at MATS earlier this year, Luke Rethwisch seems to be following in his father's footsteps, capturing another big truck show win at the Gear Jammer Magazine Truck Show this July.
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