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New Truckers News photo contests starting in July

In July, Truckers News, via its photo group on Flickr.com, is embarking on a new monthly series of photo contests — the winner will have his/her photo published in the magazine and will receive an instructional book on photography. Each contest will be themed, so it may require a little looking around/searching — I’m posting this […]

June 10, 2010

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Jazzy Jordan approaches the finish line

Turns out Lee Jordan’s early-May prediction that he and his daughter, Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan, would be making their Times Square, New York City, finish point of Jazzy’s run across the U.S. to benefit the St. Christopher Fund by a week from today was on-the-spot correct. I spoke with Lee (pictured) yesterday and he said the pair […]

June 8, 2010

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From fuel price ‘nightmares’ to trucking book

Writer Mary Richardson, whom Atlanta-based Creative Loafing describes as a former editor with the Truckers Connection publication, had what she describes as “nightmares” during relatively modest spikes in fuel prices during the year 2006, shortly after she started working there. She “was having these apocalyptic nightmares about fuel prices getting so high that trucks would stop,” she […]

June 4, 2010

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Mack TerraPro refuse truck ‘Sliced’ on History Channel

The star of last week’s episode of the History Channel television program Sliced was “tough, rugged and good-looking,” said makers of said star, a Mack TerraPro refuse truck that the show’s host, John McCalmont, showed backed up its exterior with EPA 2010 emissions-certified power in the guts. Each week, the Sliced host uses a bevy […]

June 2, 2010

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Las Vegas newspaper columnist delivers ‘half-hearted’ trucker salute…

It’s not exactly a big 10-4, but in her “Road Warrior” column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal a week ago, Adrienne Packer detailed her state’s latest addition to the growing nationwide effort to pair state troopers with truckers to target four-wheelers’ unsafe maneuvers around big trucks for citation. While Packer reflects a somewhat common feeling […]

June 1, 2010

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Ode to a well-stacked weekend warrior

As we head into Memorial Day weekend it’s likely some of you out there will enjoy a rare round of golf with a friend or relative in town for once in a while. My father’s coming to town, so I know I will, and it will be a perhaps more-than-rare round indeed. I don’t play […]

May 28, 2010

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Grascals tour bus driver ‘Stubob’ Myrick’s Nashville flood tale

Stuart “Stubob” Myrick (pictured) of the Gallatin, Tenn., area paid his driving dues behind the wheel of several dump trucks, in the late 1970s, then logging miles over the road with a grocery-distribution outfit pulling vans and, most recently, a flatbed loaded with empty containers in the private fleet of a container refurbishing company. In short, he’s well earned his […]

May 27, 2010

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Latest in distractions: One word, three letters, rhymes with ‘text’

Earlier this week, as Kansas became the 26th state to enact a behind-the-wheel anti-texting law applicable to all drivers, the folks at hands-free headset-maker Jabra released results of a survey/study conducted in April that threw a little wrench (and more!) into all the late discussion of worrisome activities drivers engage behind the wheel of fast-moving vehicles. While 28 percent […]

May 26, 2010

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Trucks on Pakistan’s Grand Trunk Road

If you missed National Public Radio’s recent reporting along the Grand Trunk Road, an historic connection between far eastern and western sections of the Indian subcontinent, from Bengal to Peshawar in Pakistan, you probably missed this report by John Poole from a truckstop outside Islamabad. The stop, a rather informal spot on the Grand Trunk Road […]

May 25, 2010

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Colorful codriver, trucking blues, health care reform and more in this month’s Truckers News

If you’ve missed the May edition of Truckers News on the racks out at the truckstops this month (I know copies in the more popular stops tend to go quickly), check it out online. Many great stories therein, including an examination of the health-care reform bill (the upshot: jury’s still of course out on how […]

May 24, 2010

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To toll or not to toll: In PA I-80 controversy’s wake, debate over road privatization re-emerges

When a Devon, Penn., lawyer representing big commercial construction contractors insists that “Nobody’s against this,” referring to tolling major interstates as a method of funding their upkeep and expansion, I suspect he’s not talked to anyone among the nation’s long-haul owner-operators and drivers. Opposition to tolling, in my experience, is near universal among the former, particularly, and […]

May 14, 2010

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Doggie online social networking; Nashville flood update

Let’s put the disclaimers up top, how bout? “No humans were harmed in the making of” the www.k9friendsunited.com doggie social-networking website, says founder Diarmuid Scullin, a long-hauler who started out with a simple, if somewhat off-the-wall idea. “Have you ever noticed that the vast majority of dog owners tend to be warm, open and friendly […]

May 12, 2010