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Channel 19
Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight
Truck Stop Missouri a ātrucking ambassadorā in reality? After my interview posted yesterday with Joe Bechtold, General Manager of the Midway Truck Stop and Travel Plaza that is the subject of the Truck Stop Missouri TV show on the Travel Channel, a longtime commenter on the Channel 19 blog took issue with Bechtoldās characterization of [ā¦]
October 6, 2011
Channel 19
A trucking ambassador: Interviewing āTruck Stop Missouriā star Joe Bechtold
The Truck Stop Missouri series on the Travel Channel has been running for a couple of months now, featuring the goings on in and around the 12 business that make up the Midway Travel Plaza between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, I-70 exit 121. Midway General Manager Joe Bechtold (pictured) has seen his [ā¦]
October 5, 2011
Channel 19
Fighting the ācold warā with Ted Nugent
With winter weather well on its way, and with it the looming threat of a gelling stranglehold on your fuel tanks, Power Service Products hopeās youāll take note of their āBuy American/Made in the U.S.A.ā winter campaign, featuring none other than rock legend Ted Nugent (pictured). An āUncle Ted Killer Offerā promotional campaign to help [ā¦]
October 4, 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
Fitting insurance to the operator ā trends in usage-based pricing
If you missed a feature about insurance costs I wrote for the August edition of Overdrive, it contained a brief item relative to how insurance companies determine customer risk ā and as a result of that risk determination, premium rate pricing. Canal Insurance Chief Underwriting Officer Paul Brocklebank made brief mention in the piece about [ā¦]
September 27, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Does added hydrogen really boost fuel mileage?
Some research shows that hydrogen slightly improves diesel combustion, but the improvement may not be significant enough to warrant all the equipment necessary to separate it and meter it back in.
September 27, 2011
Channel 19
Why is a JakeBrake important to you?
Answer the question by November 15 and you may just win a weekend in Las Vegas March 9-12, 2012, around the time of the NASCAR events. JakeBrake makers Jacobs Vehicle Systems, as I wrote in May this year, share a 50th anniversary with Overdrive this year. To celebrate and thank customers, via their Facebook page [ā¦]
September 26, 2011
Channel 19
How high am I? AutoHaulerSupply.com has the answer
If youāve ever asked yourself that question after loading a car hauler or an expensive piece of machinery on an open-deck trailer, Oregon-based Stephen Rowe (pictured: donāt try this at home) has a tool to help you answer it. His Auto Hauler Supply companyās new Life Saver Height Stick is made of durable bright-orange fiberglass [ā¦]
September 25, 2011
Channel 19
A couple for the kids: Truck, stop! Truck, go!
On childrenās musician, author and childhood development specialist Jim Gillās most recent CD / DVD, āMusic Play for Folks of All Stripes,ā an interactive tune called āTruck Stopā schools listeners in a fun way on the basics of the truck driverās work. As with most of Gillās tunes, adults are coached toward leadingĀ kids through imaginative [ā¦]
September 23, 2011
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