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Business

Pre-trip, post-trip inspector

The Pocket Inspector aids in pre-trip, post-trip and PM inspections.

December 10, 2010

Business

SmartWay verified long-haul tires

The GSL213 long-haul steer, the first GT tire to receive SmartWay verification from the EPA, has a pattern designed to resist irregular wear and extend mileage, the company says.

December 10, 2010

Channel 19

Custom Volvo Class 8 VHD pickup makes splash

Volvo Trucks is offering customers the experience of a lifetime at the company’s New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va., a little more interesting with the addition of a severe service model VHD built in modified pickup truck form. The bright orange, one-of-a-kind Volvo VHD chassis has a full-size crew cab and a pickup bed.  The […]

December 9, 2010

Channel 19

Fair or foul? Self-examination via the four-wheeler perspective

We’ve brought it up from time to time here, no doubt — no secret that the large majority of on-highway accidents involving large trucks follow an initial mistake made by the driver of a four-wheeled vehicle of one sort or another. By and large, truck drivers are justified in holding a desultory opinion of the […]

December 8, 2010

Channel 19

Wikileaks offers window into Iranian trucking community

However you feel about the WikiLeaks organization’s recent and ongoing release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables, there’s no doubt that many of the releases offer fascinating windows into the ways of world power — and more. Not least among the latter was the view a series of cables detailed at the Eurasianet.org site, dedicated to […]

December 7, 2010

Channel 19

Tony ‘the truck stop tiger’ — calls from the driver community to uncage him

Nearly two years have passed since I first wrote about efforts by animal-rights activists (post from January 2009 originally on old Channel 19 blog home on Blogger.com) to require Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin to relocate the caged Bengal-Siberian tiger on the site of stop. It’s been there as an attraction to […]

December 6, 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

Rotella SuperRigs calendar now available…

On the cover of the annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar this year is the custom 2007 Kenworth W900L of Myerstown, Pa.-based Scott Diller. Featured also on the December 2011 page in the calendar, Diller’s clearly going for an old-school ’70s hot-rod look with the truck’s mods, which include 34-inch quarter fenders and smooth side panels. […]

December 2, 2010

Channel 19

Retired long-haulers make folk-art metalwork strides

Long Neck, Del.-based Judy and Lou Hagen, according to the latest in the Delaware Cape Gazette’s “Saltwater Portraits” series of profiles of community residents, came to their current metalwork artistry while running long-haul through Georgia in 1999. They saw “a piece of crude metal art,” writes reporter Ron MacArthur. “We came home and did some […]

December 1, 2010

Channel 19

Street-sign replacement program put on hold for 45-day comment period

Federally mandated changes to the design of local/state governments’ corner road signs — requiring mixed capital/lower-case type treatment with more reflective lettering, in effect a complete overhaul of existing signs the nation over by 2018 — have been in the spotlight over the last couple days as a prime example of a wasteful culture in […]

November 30, 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

Lisa Kelly to make appearance at bowl game Dec. 18

Whether you’re getting opportunity to spend some relaxing time today with family around a dinner table, with friends at a football game, or you’re out on the road, here’s wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from myself and the folks at Overdrive and Truckers News. Speaking of football, keep the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on your radar […]

November 25, 2010