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Visit the trucking museum at Iowa 80 and download a new app

If it happens you’re at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop today, be sure to visit the trucking museum. If you’re packing  a smartphone, scan the QR code with the phone’s camera at the front desk to download a new app and you can go back there anytime you like — […]

July 15, 2011

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Getting around ‘Truckermageddon’; American Trucker season 2 ‘gets hardcore’

I-405 shutdown this weekend — the 405 will be shut down northbound in a 10-mile stretch between I-10 and U.S. 101.

July 14, 2011

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Truck parking casualties of the Minnesota government shutdown

As if drivers and owner-operators didn’t have enough parking problems, the government shutdown in Minnesota will make it at least a wee bit — if not more than that, of course — more difficult to find a decent spot if taking off-duty rest in the state’s borders. Monday, a state judge denied the Minnesota Trucking […]

July 13, 2011

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uShip’s Charles Myers details commercial freight online-auction opportunities, future

The online-auction model of the uShip.com system for retail freight is entering the commercial arena. Their new General Manager of Freight, Charles Myers (pictured), like you, is a veteran of that arena. While he’s most recently served in freight projects in China, his background also includes the Presidency of commercial load board service GetLoaded.com. “I’ve […]

July 11, 2011

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Cast your final vote for the top trucking song of all time

You will recall I asked for top trucking song nominations oh a couple-few weeks back. Well, from said nominations, I took the top ten contenders, those with the most mentions, and have put together a final poll where you can cast your vote. That poll’s here. Vote! And I know, I know, many clear contenders […]

July 7, 2011

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More tornado aid coming from the trucking industry

It keeps coming. If you missed the feature on the trucking industry’s response to this spring’s horrendous series of devastating tornadoes in Truckers News‘ current issue by Caroline Taylor, click through this picture from the magazine (taken in the city of the magazine’s headquarters, Tuscaloosa, Ala.) for the full feature. Since it was written, various […]

July 6, 2011

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Worth more than 78 words

Custom Rigs Editor Bruce W. Smith took this fanciful pic of three hot haulers at the Shell SuperRigs event June 2-4 at the Kenly 95 Petro in Kenly, N.C., this year. The flattop’s hauling gallon jugs of Shell Rotella products, the Big Lonestar a company display trailer. The mid-size Lonestar lookalike, well, you can check […]

July 1, 2011

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Get your Ice Road Truckers DVDs while the roads remain

Yes, it was only a matter of time, I’d say, before a newspaper in the Great White North did a long feature on the potential impact melting sea ice in the Arctic and changing climate patterns due south of it could have on an important part of the Canadian economy — and our own television […]

June 28, 2011

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New speed governor: Public art on the roadways

No, it’s not a joke the Kansas DOT is playing on truckers and motorists — nor any kind of sophisticated speed trap. Click through the thumbnail of the picture at right here for a story from the Olathe News on the Kansas City Star’s website about Gastinger Walker Harden architect Joel Marquardt’s Art-n-R-Park public art project/series, […]

June 24, 2011

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‘Medically certified’ — join us for radio show Wednesday to probe driver health regs

At 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow evening (Wed., June 22) I’ll join Truth About Trucking Live hosts Allen & Donna Smith as well as my colleague Max Kvidera for a special show probing the issues raised by the current, June Truckers News cover story Kvidera and I penned about state and federal regs for driver […]

June 21, 2011

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4 State’s Bryan Martin on Joplin rebuilding efforts in All Drivers Together conference call

In a conference call last week put together by the All Drivers Together group, a collaboration of owner-operators and drivers opening up a free conference line to drivers and others in the trucking industry around the nation to network and share information toward industry betterment, 4 State Trucks’ Bryan Martin noted the shift in efforts […]

June 15, 2011

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Swift at the New York Stock Exchange

Get an eyeful of this pic, a Swift International Lonestar parked outside the New York Stock Exchange on May 25, when Swift management rang the opening bell on the exchange after a December initial public offering (NYSE-Listed SWFT) of Swift stock, which gained 27 cents a share that week. Swift, “based in Phoenix, Ariz., operates 16,100 […]

June 13, 2011