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Wood production leads September growth
Manufacturing activity, and the economy in general, kept growing in September, though some related measurements tempered that good news. Wood Products was the leading manufacturing category reporting growth. The monthly analysis comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which also notes slower supplier deliveries and a contraction of new orders last month. The Purchasing Managers [ā¦]
October 3, 2011
Channel 19
Toolbox system made in the USA by and for owner-operators
Veteran owner-operator Jeff Zehrer of Minnesota (trucking since 1983) had long known the difficulty of finding the perfect-sized toolbox to fit in his sleeperās side compartment. After 28 years of frustration, he decided to rectify the situation by designing his own. He wanted a toolbox that was sturdy, easily accessible, and could hold all his [ā¦]
October 3, 2011
Channel 19
Driver John Irish wins Carhartt sweepstakes
Remember the āArt you Carhartt tough?ā sweepstakes? I wrote about the two finalists earlier this year, both of them with some behind-the-wheel experience. John Irish (pictured, middle), the ultimate winner, Carhartt announced, and his wife took the Grand Prize trip in August to Oregon for a competitive lumberjacking event covered by ESPN. Working long days [ā¦]
October 1, 2011
Channel 19
New health audiobook, convoy for cancer cure, Project 351 gets low
Joe Martin, whom youāll no doubt remember as the operator behind the Truckercise DVDs I wrote about earlier in the year (Martinās pictured, right, with Alex Debogorski of Ice Road fame), announced recently that a new truckersā health strategies audiobook that he contributed a chapter to is out and available. The book, Truckersā Road to [ā¦]
September 30, 2011
Channel 19
Citizen to accident lawyers: Lighten up on anti-truck ads
āHow many times a day do you hear on TV ads from lawyers making statements such as, ābig trucks can cause serious injuries?āā So asked a reader, Bill Hughes, of the Tennessean newspaper, based in my home base of Nashville. I know the folks heās talking about, of course, as Iām sure do you in [ā¦]
September 28, 2011
Channel 19
Truckers lobbied to support National Pork Rind Day
This wouldnāt be the salty snackās first appearance on the Channel 19 blog. For that, weād have to go back to August 2010, when a driver choked on one and his rig left the roadway ā and didnāt spur mainstream media calls for a ban on eating behind the wheel. All the same, Ohio-based Rudolph [ā¦]
September 22, 2011
Channel 19
New book explores first cross-continent truck trip
Many of you will be familiar with the 1919 military truck convoy that traversed the United States in an effort to test the efficacy of cargo trucks on the roads, or lack thereof, of the day. A Young Dwight Eisenhower was part of the convoy, and his experience of it is oft-cited as having a [ā¦]
September 19, 2011
Channel 19
R&L driver Sam Spradlin runs for Congress in Illinois
Sam Spradlin (pictured), driver on a pickup-and-delivery route for R&L Carriers, is taking some time off this month, but itās no vacation. Heās gathering signatures needed to file to include himself on the ballot in the Republican primary for his home stateās newly redistricted 13thĀ congressional district. Heāll be challenging 15th-district incumbent Republican Tim Johnson, whoās [ā¦]
September 15, 2011
Business
Last chance to apply for owner-operator contest
Overdrive and the Truckload Carriers Association will be naming the nationās top owner-operator.
September 13, 2011
Overdrive Extra
After 50 years, truly independent
The important thing is that the owner-operator has come into his own as a legitimate self-employed business owner able to deal with such opposition.
September 12, 2011
Channel 19
āWhereās the loveā for truckers? Dr. Love has the answer
Or at least he knows where itās not: I-55 South into Hammond, La., from the No. 46 milemarker about 15 miles to I-12 (much smoother). Dr. Love, or truck driver B.G. Love, takes online viewers on a tour down this roadĀ in a video posted in June to the blog for his āLovologyā project, a personal [ā¦]
September 12, 2011
Channel 19
Remembering 9/11 as anniversary approaches: A truckerās story from ground zero
This monthās issue of Truckers News commemorates the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a look at how the trucking business has changed as a result of the disaster. The areas impacted largely include load security and driver background scrutiny, but also camaraderie, drivers looking out for one another, pay, and other factors. A [ā¦]
September 9, 2011
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