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Best jobs of 2011: ‘Truck Driver’ ranks 171st

And that’s out of a total 200, listed from “best to worst” by the folks at careercast.com and publicized in a Wall Street Journal piece early in January. They claim to have based their rankings on five separate factors — physical demands, work environment, income, employment outlook, and stress — and “Truck Driver” ratings in […]

February 4, 2011

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International ocean carriers, truckers, navigate trouble in Egypt

When I made a brief note about unrest brewing over rising food prices and the general employment situation in the North African states of Algeria and Tunisia in my post about the 2008 oil bubble (and current one, if we can consider it such — final word still out on that), little did I know […]

February 3, 2011

Business

FMCSA sets Feb. 17 HOS listening session

FMCSA will hold a listening session on its hours-of-service proposal Feb. 17. Agency officials will take comments and questions online.

January 28, 2011

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TyroneMalone.net adds a Facebook page; more on driver pay

Since I wrote about TyroneMalone.net site proprietor and owner-operator Ken Harris in the October edition of Truckers News and in Overdrive in smaller form around the same time, Harris has continued to make strides keeping the memory of onetime diesel showman Tyrone Malone and his apocryphal Bandal Diesel Racing Team alive. Most recently, he’s launched a […]

January 28, 2011

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Willie’s Place to be Willie’s no more

Perhaps you’ve heard the news. On Jan. 31, the Willie’s Place truckstop in Carl’s Corner, Texas, will reportedly see it’s last day under current ownership. The stop filed for bankruptcy last year, and since then efforts to refinance a large loan with a New Jersey bank have failed, resulting in the impending transfer of ownership to […]

January 27, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Housing still lags rest of the economy

The Census Bureau reported this week that new housing starts declined in December by 4.3 percent, notes the weekly economic recap from the American Trucking Associations. 2010 was the second worst year on record for housing starts, bested only by 2009, when the credit and housing collapse was at its worst.

January 21, 2011

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Making your voice heard on roads, hours

ROADS | The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a group whose name pretty well describes it, is calling on highway users to add input to their preparations to take highway/transportation funding recommendations to Congress. Yesterday, they began a six-week campaign via their Facebook and YouTube pages to collect ideas/input from “travelers, […]

January 20, 2011

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Got snow?

Here in the Southeast (though in Nashville I’m approaching the region’s northern edge), it’s been uncommonly wintry this week, as you can see from this pic, taken at the Love’s on Trinity Lane at I-65. Further South, things have been much worse, though, evidenced in part by Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based driver Vernon Cook’s 24-hour wait […]

January 12, 2011

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Fair or foul?: A trucking story on Onion satirical news site

Sandwiched between satirical headlines like “Fully Validated Kanye West Retires to Quiet Farm in Iowa” and “Virgin Mary Statue Crying for No Good Reason” today on TheOnion.com was this one: “Modern-Day Cowboy Rides 18-Wheeler Full of Entenmann’s Products Westward.” Satirical newsmag The Onion has long been known for its lampooning of the mainstream press and, […]

January 11, 2011

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‘Recognition from the DOT’: uShip’s viral parody of ‘Social Network’ movie trailer

Perhaps you’ve seen it. The Social Network film about Facebook’s founding told the story of company cofounder Mark Zuckerberg’s success “taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.” The film’s trailer, which pairs a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” with scenes from the film, was expertly parodied by the folks at uShip […]

January 7, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Going for the gold in 2011

We began celebrating Overdrive’s 50th year of publishing in October, when that milestone year began. Now, starting the calendar year of that golden anniversary, we’re introducing some improvements in the magazine.

January 5, 2011

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Skydiving to the ark: A Channel 19 2010 ‘Year in Review’

It’s been a banner year for dramatic, contentious, weird and/or humorous trucking news here on the Channel 19 blog. I can’t possibly predict how 2010 will be remembered years down the line, but read through the lens of this blog, well, it was nothing short of tumultuous, containing the highest of highs and the lowest […]

December 31, 2010