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Channel 19
Curtain falls on new scale house inspection technology, opens on EOBRs
I just finished a visit with Lieutenant James A. McKenzie and troopers at the Greene County, Tenn., scales on I-81, where  among other events I had the perhaps unfortunate occasion to witness an oversize hauler being put out of service due to a brake inefficiency. But perhaps more interestingly, today is the day, McKenzie said, [âŚ]
January 31, 2011
Channel 19
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, heâs launched a [âŚ]
January 28, 2011
Channel 19
Willieâs Place to be Willieâs no more
Perhaps youâve heard the news. On Jan. 31, the Willieâs Place truckstop in Carlâs Corner, Texas, will reportedly see itâs 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 [âŚ]
January 27, 2011
Channel 19
Does less mean more? Driver pay in the CSA era
My feature in the January edition of Truckers News investigated a dynamic more and more fleets and their drivers are seeing coming to fruition as freight markets slowly return and, consequently, recruiting staffs expand and fleets begin to hire again. Nothing new there during a recovery, particularly, and the slow pace of this one might [âŚ]
January 26, 2011
Channel 19
Whole âlot of squealingâ on Missouri highway ramp
Yesterday, reported KMBC TV in Kansas City, Mo., a highway resounded with âa lot of squealingâ after a hauler on the ramp from I-435 North to I-35 turned over rounding the curve, spilling a load of live pork. A few of the pigs reportedly perished but a larger number escaped the trailerâs confines. KMBC gave [âŚ]
January 25, 2011
Business
Crete opens Indianapolis terminal
National carrier Crete Carrier Corp. will open its new Indianapolis, Ind., terminal Jan. 28, the fleet announced. The terminal is built on six acres of fenced land, and the 30,000-square-ft. building has a shop with 10 bays, a tractor/trailer shop and an office. There is also hard surface, lighted parking available. Crete plans on renovating [âŚ]
January 24, 2011
Channel 19
Trucking effort in Wash. state to find child
As we know, dry vans have uses ancillary to hauling freight, not least among them their advertisement potential. You need only look to this monthâs Overdrive to find evidence of that in a pic of sister mag CCJâs yearly Five Flashiest Fleetsâ winner. A fleet headquartered in Washington State is using a similar tactic toward [âŚ]
January 24, 2011
Channel 19
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 âtravelers, [âŚ]
January 20, 2011
Channel 19
Introducing the âAmerican Idol of clean energyâ
Not the first time the budding-popstar world of American Idol has crossed paths with trucking in this blog, the singing competition, a veritable reality-television institution now entering its 10th season, has gotten so entrenched in the cultural imagination that itâs already in the business of showcasing the kitsch items marking its history, an area once [âŚ]
January 19, 2011
Channel 19
Moving business headed South
Thatâs not as bad it sounds. Van operators, take heed. Todayâs news comes on the heels of a blog post by the folks at Penske Truck Rental, detailing the top 10 moving destinations in the country. Two of them are places Iâve left in the past â Chicago (in 2006) and Charlotte, N.C. (1998). I [âŚ]
January 18, 2011
Business
Fast flow oil
Elixion engine oil is a low-viscosity SAE 5W-30 oil that helps protect against cold temperatures and works toward meeting 2014 efficiency and emissions standards.
January 18, 2011
Channel 19
Toll evasion = life sentence for Chinese ag hauler
After public outcry over the severity of the life prison sentence handed down to a hauler of agricultural commodities for evading road tolls in China, the Chinese government is reportedly revisiting the sentence and has put court officials who handed it down under investigation themselves, according to this AP report on the subject. The hauler, [âŚ]
January 17, 2011
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