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Photos: Show trucks getting shined up for MATS
The Mid-America Trucking Show doesn’t officially kick off until Thursday, but show truck owners are already hard at work at the Paul K. Young Truck Beauty Contest polishing their rigs for the event. Some of the trucks on display at the show truck lot can be seen below:
March 27, 2019
Channel 19
‘Why I wanna drive’ — rookie CDL holder braces for new journey pulling tank
See you at MATS, drivah! Herein, a guest post on Channel 19 from second-career trucker Robin Toepp of South Bend, Ind., about her motivations to move beyond straight-truck hauling to get her CDL and go tanking over-the-road.
March 26, 2019
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Custom Rigs
Truck racing rookie captures checkered flag at Bandit Series season opener
Two racers’ rigs flipped during crashes at Mobile International Speedway, and truck racing rookie Bendeguz Molnar, from Hungary, picked up the win in his first-ever oval track race.
March 26, 2019
Business
‘Women to watch’ in trucking
The Women In Trucking Association announced its second-annual list of “Top Women to Watch in Transportation.” Among the 53 so named, three are currently drivers or owner-operators
March 25, 2019
Overdrive Extra
All the subjects The Algorithm permits
Don’t-call-me-Short Haul Paul keys up the old one-nine with this part-reminiscence, part-dirge on the bluetooth cocoons so many of us fall into around the truck stop counters, at the loading docks, on the long road, where it seems only the “subjects The Algorithm permits” ever get talked about, c’mon…
March 25, 2019
Overdrive Radio
In love with trucking: Talent search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro from Nashville studio
Latest Overdrive Radio podcast: A sitdown with (and series of music sketches from) 2018 Trucker Talent Search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro, also her father, Urban Roger Brown, on hand in Nashville for the recording session that was part of the TTS grand prize.
March 22, 2019
Life
Rough cut: Scenes from Mandi Jo Pinheiro’s Nashville recording session
Following Twin Falls, Idaho, step-deck-toting team independent Mandi Jo Pinheiro’s win at the 2018 Trucker Talent Search, Overdrive booked a March 20, 2019, recording session, part of the grand prize, at Nashville-based Jay Vernali’s Jay’s Place recording studio on Music Row. Catch scenes and sounds from it in this video.
March 21, 2019
Custom Rigs
Green flag drops on 2019 Bandit truck racing series this weekend
The events at Mobile International Speedway in Mobile, Alabama, will begin with the Fan Series Truck Show at 11 a.m. Gates at the track will open at 3 p.m., followed by a driver meet-and-greet at 5 p.m. and racing at 7 p.m.
March 21, 2019
Voices
35-year trucker Joe Bartlette got a seatbelt ticket — until this video got it thrown out
There’s several ways to contest a ticket received at the roadside, chief and perhaps most effective among them just having video or other evidence that clearly refutes whatever the officer is claiming. … Cue the case of Decker Truck Line hauler Joe Bartlette of Grandville, Mich.
March 20, 2019
Channel 19
Got room on the trailer? Driver-led group looking to coordinate available space for disaster relief
The Trucks With Room to Spare group was started at the instigation of Greenup, Kentucky-based trucker Shelli Conaway’s desire to assist areas hit by Hurricane Michael in Florida, an area she hauled to at the time. Toady, they’re attempting to coordinate donated hauling with relief organizations in the flooded Midwest…
March 20, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Cultivating happiness in work: Time for a new approach
“For truckers who already have the deck stacked against them when trying to maintain health, poor work performance as a result of stress can have deadly results. This reality goes largely unaddressed by many carrier support structures, and drivers begin to feel more like a number, or a cog in a giant machine that is eating away their lives.”
March 18, 2019
Business
Fuel card provider giving away Rolex, motorcycle
TransConnect Services’ (TCS) “Pump It Up” contest is two giveaways in one. Participating truckers can win a Rolex watch ($20,000 cash value) or the grand prize, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle (a $35,000 cash value).
March 14, 2019
Business
Trucker named Highway Angel of the Year after helping at accident scene
Brian Snell was westbound on I-495 in Westward, Massachusetts, when a woman driving the wrong way seemed to have spun out in front of Snell’s truck. He stopped his truck and positioned it to protect her car from traffic. Snell tried to resuscitate the woman, who was unconscious.
March 12, 2019
Channel 19
Credit where it’s deserved: Motorist says she’s alive today on account of a few good pros
Herewith one motorist who knows what it means to share the road. Two professional drivers’ training and composure “may be the reason I am alive,” wrote a reader of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, lauding the swift thinking and reaction of the pros.
March 12, 2019
Voices
POLL: Are you planning to shut down April 12?
With “Stand as One” slow-roll events over the weekend, movement continued toward the April 12 date on which many slow-roll participants plan to shut down in hopes of bringing greater awareness to the driver’s voice on hours of service, parking, training, safety and other issues. Are you shutting down?
March 11, 2019
Overdrive Radio
1970s, 2010s trucking parallels, and: Hauling away (or into) the headaches with a cargo van
In this edition of Overdrive Radio find audio from part of Max Heine’s talk with John Strong about his memories of the 1970s and beyond, and more from my own sit-down with Load One’s John Elliott, about headache boxes checked by the cargo van hauling niche in expediting — not without its significant challenges…
March 8, 2019
Life
Country star Gretchen Wilson to greet fans at Red Eye Radio booth at MATS
Joining Wilson in the Red Eye Radio booth will be Jessie G and Bridgette Tatum, who will perform during the show. Other performers at the Red Eye Radio booth during MATS include Tony Justice, Jayne Denham, Dustin Collins, Olivia Ooms and Taylor Barker.
March 7, 2019
Gear
For when you get down and dirty
Trucking can be a dirty business, and when it gets physically dirty there’s some help. Two friends, Neil Stockman and Skye Wollenberg, created Surly Soap to tackle hands that get truly dirty. The big bars come in three strengths — aggressive, medium and mild — and each has a built-in finger rail scrubber to ensure your […]
March 6, 2019
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