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Channel 19
A&Eās new āShipping Warsā series trailer vid ā and the operators featured
Thereās a new reality-TV series coming January 10, with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m., EST and PST, to the A&E network. You may have heard a little about it already here in Overdrive. The trailer vid for the Shipping Wars show is embedded below, and I thought Iād take a moment to introduce [ā¦]
December 21, 2011
Channel 19
Driversā safety conversation continues
If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nationās interstate haulers, itās upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety [ā¦]
December 20, 2011
Channel 19
Former owner-operator going after MCSAC committee representation
As Iāve written about here in weeks prior, former owner-operator Fred Schaffner, a man with a passion for fighting for fairness in the treatment of drivers in the face of regulatory flux and with a keen eye on the regulatory process, came out of the Truck Driver Social Media Convention last October on a mission: [ā¦]
December 19, 2011
Channel 19
A turn in the road for owner-operator R.C. Barnes
Since I shared his āOld Gloryā video here on the blog, Iāve had the opportunity to learn more about the man behind the vid: R.C. Barnes ultimately might have more experience behind the wheel of a trucking business than any other hauler on the highway today. āIāve heard thereās two guys out here who are [ā¦]
December 18, 2011
Channel 19
Trucking salute to appear during the Idaho Potato Bowl on ESPN today
If it so happens youāre watching the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl college football matchup this afternoon between MAC and WAC conference standouts the Ohio University Bobcats and the Utah State Aggies, respectively, youāll get a treat in a 30-second commercial promoting women in the trucking industry, says the Women in Trucking Association. The association, with [ā¦]
December 17, 2011
Channel 19
Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban wonāt work
As if hearing the plethora of truck driversā objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem of motorist distraction on the highways, the National Transportation Safety Board formally recommended that all personal electronic devices be banned from use while [ā¦]
December 15, 2011
Channel 19
Salute: Writer trumpets independent truckers
Colleen Kelly Mellor (pictured) is a 30-year veteran of the classroom with near a decade in real estate. Today sheās a writer who keeps a blog dedicated to items of āencouragement in a difficult worldā at Biddybytes.com. Her husband was a long-haul household-moves owner-operator with Atlas Van Lines with more than a million accident-free miles [ā¦]
December 14, 2011
Channel 19
Port haulers on Occupy actions
The Occupy Wall Street movement claimed solidarity with West Coast port haulers yesterday in efforts with varying success to shut down ports in Southern and Northern California as well as farther north in the Pacific Northwest. Some port haulers reciprocated the gesture. This āOpen Letter From Americaās Port Truck Drivers,ā for instance, originating from the [ā¦]
December 13, 2011
Channel 19
Modest proposal: āLet regulators have what they wantā
Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wennersā modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, āban truck [ā¦]
December 12, 2011
Channel 19
Webb Wheel on Motorhead Garage TV this morning
Looking for a little extra wheel maintenance know-how? Tune into Webb Wheelās television debut this morning during a Motorhead Garage TV episode on Fox Sports Network (FSN) Sunday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 a.m., re-airing Monday, Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m., all time zones. Youāll recall prior appearances of fifth-wheel makers Jost as well as Hendrickson [ā¦]
December 11, 2011
Channel 19
Take CSA challenge: Win iPad, $5,000
The folks at Big Truck TV, in partnership with AT&T, have announced a competition taking applications from potential competitors, including you, through early February. āThe CSA Challenge will comprise six challengers being chosen to compete over a two-month period,ā or 10 weeks, says Michael Carpentier, Big Truck TV CEO. Each challenger will receive an iPad2 [ā¦]
December 10, 2011
Channel 19
Modest proposal: āBan truck drivingā
The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nationās tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, including among them at the very end a reaction by driver Wayne Leverton to witnessing a state patrol officer in Washington State use both hands [ā¦]
December 9, 2011
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