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Business
Geriatric infrastructure showing its age
I had to drive down my least favorite road today. It’s an old country two-lane, paved and repaired, with a strip of fresh asphalt lapping over old. It’s a bitch and a half to navigate, if you have both tires on the new pavement, you’re whacking weeds on the side of the road. If you […]
August 8, 2012
Business
Love’s unveils cardless fueling
Love’s Travel Stops launched radio-frequency identification (RFID) cardless fueling technology and Comdata’s financial processing software at their Pauls Valley, Okla., location. The company plans to continue to roll out the RFID software at all travel stop locations by the end of September. More than 100 of Love’s locations will have cardless fueling available for professional drivers […]
August 6, 2012
Business
Love’s to open 10 natural gas fueling stations in Oklahoma
Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores announced a schedule of grand opening events for six of 10 publicly accessible compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations in Oklahoma. Love’s will now offer CNG in Altus, Chickasha, Guthrie, Lawton, Norman and Oklahoma City. Love’s plans to open four additional CNG fueling stations in Pauls Valley, Okemah and […]
May 3, 2012
Channel 19
Evel Knievel’s driver and the 1973 Overdrive interview
Unearthing the history behind Evel Knievel’s 1970s touring operation with former driver Mike Draper. Bonus: Videos of the old Mack haul rig, currently undergoing restoration.
March 12, 2012
Channel 19
Trucking continues coming to Joplin aid
The stories about relief efforts in Joplin keep coming in. Before I get to a couple more, I thought I’d take a moment to note that I will be out of the office through June 7, though Channel 19 will continue to bring all manner of side routes and byways into the industry in my […]
May 27, 2011
Channel 19
Tornado caught on owner-operators’ webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick […]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
Former Arrow Trucking driver advocate Donna Creekmore needs your help
At the collapse of her employer, Arrow Trucking, just days prior to Christmas in 2009, she was there when stranded drivers the nation over needed her help getting home — Arrow driver advocate “Momma” Donna Creekmore was up for much of four days straight in those heady times, though her own troubles were beginning as […]
September 21, 2010
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