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Cubby Buddy toolbox maker’s new storage system for load bars
Hensley Inc.-leased owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (pictured), with a Great Dane dry van and Freightliner tractor and a unique line of tool-box systems for owner-operators you may well recall me writing about here back in January, has added yet another patent-pending storage system to the repertoire of his growing Cubby Buddy side business. The business and Zehrer […]
April 2, 2012
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A salute to women truckers at MATS
Women in Trucking honored 67 women who had driven one million accident free miles, 36 who had reached two million safe driving miles, fifteen with three million mile records and seven women who had attained four million safe driving miles during their careers at MATS in 2012.
March 28, 2012
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Meet owner-operator of the year Larry Severson
Leased to Dart Transit since the late 1970s, Truckload Carriers Association/Overdrive Independent Contractor of the Year Larry Severson’s longevity with the company beats that of even some of the Oren-family management. Dan Oren, grandson of the company’s founder and one of three brothers who continue to be active participants among the company’s family ownership, remembers […]
March 25, 2012
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Stories from MATS: Perkins on a heavy haul
Perkins Specialized Transportation has launched the biggest series of hauls in its history. The Northfield, Minn.-based company specializes in super loads — the biggest, longest, heaviest cargo allowed on the nation’s highways. Over 40 years the firm has grown from a dozen workers and trucks to 65 employees and 22 heavy-haul rigs. It hauls everything from steam turbines and […]
March 23, 2012
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One driver’s Wisconsin idyll — photos from the road
On the road yesterday in Wisconsin I happened into this moment of contented beauty — in the backyard of 56-year-old Roehl Transport flatbed division driver John Moeller. Moeller was named the TCA/Truckers News Company Driver of the Year just weeks back at the TCA annual meeting in Florida, and his prize Cummins-powered Dodge Ram 2500 […]
March 20, 2012
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Meet the maker of the Cubby Buddy truck toolbox
I’ve written about the toolbox before, which you may remember. Since then, says Debbie Zehrer, wife and business partner of owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (both pictured), the Cubby Buddy toolbox system has added models, with a total 10 to choose from. If you’ve been looking for a good system for your truck, you can give them […]
January 20, 2012
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Koch & Sons driver’s adventure at Minn. driving championships
Driver John Borman and I haven’t met in person, but via the monthly photo contests I help host for Truckers News and, before that, our monthly featured photo from the magazine’s Flickr.com photo-sharing group, I’ve become well-acquainted with Borman as not only a great photographer but a consummate professional. When he asked if I’d be […]
August 12, 2011
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One dispatcher’s public salute to the American truck driver
In case you’ve missed news of this one, which has made the rounds of various email blasts and blogs, it’s one of the best high-profile salutes to owner-operators and drivers I’ve come across in mainstream media of recent memory. Written by Minnesota-based fleet manager Dan Hanson and published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it […]
August 11, 2011
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Truck parking casualties of the Minnesota government shutdown
As if drivers and owner-operators didn’t have enough parking problems, the government shutdown in Minnesota will make it at least a wee bit — if not more than that, of course — more difficult to find a decent spot if taking off-duty rest in the state’s borders. Monday, a state judge denied the Minnesota Trucking […]
July 13, 2011
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82-year-old gets a trucking wish; Minnesota horse northbound and down
Queen of the road A story in the Doylestown, Pa., Intelligencer newspaper details the Twilight Wish Foundation‘s efforts to grant a long-haul wish to 82-year-old Margarette Kirsch. In late May, she set out of a 15-day journey from Philly to California and back to her Merritt Island, Fla., home with trucker Annabella Wood at the […]
June 14, 2011
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‘Something new every day’: Meeting Phil and Diane Madsen
Phil and Diane Madsen haul expedited in this 2006 Volvo with 132-inch ARI sleeper and 16-foot box. Over the past several years, I’ve called on the pair several different times for perspective on all manner of topics, from truck maintenance/warranty issues to unique hauls to examples of the many owner-operators out there taking to the […]
April 14, 2011
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Owner-operator John Crozman emerges from Dakota blizzard hailed a hero
“I’ve been doing this a long time, 30 years,” says owner-operator John Crozman (pictured) of his long trucking career, for the past two years leased to Albertville, Minn.-based Long Haul Trucking. Over those three decades, like so many haulers, he’s seen his fair share of on-highway rescue action. “It’s not a problem. You come upon […]
February 17, 2011
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