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Channel 19

Truck Centers Inc.: ‘We have a winner’

Remember the “12 Days of Truck Centers Christmas” sweepstakes I posted on back in late November? Well folks, we have a winner, the Illinois-headquartered dealer network reports. Or “winners,” I should say, as the grand prize winner was chosen from a month’s worth of daily giveaways to drivers from 12 different states stopping into any […]

December 30, 2010

Channel 19

New trucking thriller from former tank-hauler manager

Set in Charleston, W.Va.’s “Chemical Valley” just after deregulation of the trucking industry, former Quality Carriers and Mason & Dixon lines (among others) rep Rowland Henry Judge’s Acid Stained Steel is a murder-mystery thriller of a novel, says Judge. But that’s not all, he adds. It combines those page-turning attributes with an examination of “the effect […]

December 29, 2010

Channel 19

Three weeks: FOIA turnaround for PSP information

On November 23, I made note of an avenue toward gaining access to crash and inspection information contained on drivers’ Pre-Employment Screening Program reports. Working through the official FMCSA contractor, the fee to obtain a copy of the report to guarantee quality of the information is $10, but in my November 23 “Save $10 on CSA […]

December 20, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Ghosts of violations past

For owner-operator purposes, CSA 2010 started three years ago. That’s how far back your violations are taken into account.

December 7, 2010

Channel 19

Over the canyon rim — a grand, prize-winning truck driver’s photo — and more

This stunning view off the U.S. 89 bridge over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz., was shot by Gordon Trucking company driver Ron Nikirk, based in Oakland, Ore. Gordon becomes our fifth winner since we launched the contests in July via The Photographer: Truckers News Photo Group on Flickr.com, a development that followed nearly three […]

December 3, 2010

Channel 19

Combating cargo theft: An interview with Schneider security director Walt Fountain

When I visited Schneider National’s Green Bay, Wis., headquarters in June for the carrier’s 75th-anniversary celebration, I got an up-close look at one of many efforts the company’s put in place over the years to enhance the security of its customers’ cargo in transit and at each of its 15 domestic facilities. Gate-security ground zero […]

November 26, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook now live

You may have seen it out at the truckstops already, but if not, I thought I’d take a moment today to alert you to our CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook, now online in an interactive digital version. Combining reporting from Overdrive and Truckers News editors (from myself to Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter and others) with […]

November 17, 2010

Channel 19

Living with diabetes — behind the wheel of new book ‘A Life of Control’

November is national diabetes month, and as such today we bring you a story included in a new book about the difficulty of living with the disease, Published by Vanderbilt University Press. The excerpt — from A Life of Control: Stories of Living With Diabetes, by Alan L. Graber MD, Anne W. Brown RN and […]

November 8, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 to bring increase in driver pay?

The news over at the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday included a release from editors at J.J. Keller, emphasizing the reach of CSA 2010 beyond just for-hire truck carriers. “When the term ‘motor carrier’ is used,” says Transportation Management Editor Robert Rose, “many people immediately connect this to mean only ‘trucking companies.’ In actuality, [CSA 2010] […]

November 5, 2010

Channel 19

Oh driver where art thou?

Dear driver, I have been hearing there is a shortage of you. Is it because all the owner-operators are succumbing to that CSA 2010 bug and electronic logs? Or are all those newfangled hybrid trucks themselves cross-breeding with a new monster species of broker to drive them out of business? Or, just maybe, since whether […]

October 14, 2010

Channel 19

A driver so good the shipper gave him his own desk

Talk about burying the lead: The Osakis Review, a paper published from Osakis, Minn., ran a great profile of resident Larry Herzog (pictured, by Greta Petrich), who runs beef destined for McDonald’s customers’ stomachs for carrier Hensley Trucking, also of Osakis. In the profile, Herzog spends due time stressing the difficulties he faces daily in […]

October 1, 2010

Channel 19

Congestion diary: And you thought we had it bad. . .

Next time you’re sighing or beating your steering wheel over some mammoth traffic jam on your way into Atlanta, Chicago, L.A. or other American city, consider this: Two successive 60-plus-mile traffic jams, some lasting more than an entire week, have plagued the Beijing-Tibet Expressway into China’s capital city in the past month, highlighting some congestion […]

September 13, 2010