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Voices

Working with onboard recorders

Log in to a free webinar Nov. 14 to learn more about EOBRs’ regulatory status and how they are changing drivers’ work habits.

August 29, 2011

Channel 19

New health blog from the folks at Con-way Truckload

Attendant to news that Con-way TL-leased owner-operators will be able to access relatively low-cost health/dental and other insurance offerings via the carrier’s new TrueChoices benefits program, the company also is highlighting drivers’ and owner-operators’ health needs via a new blog. Steering Your Health today features a great recipe for Mexican Crock Pot chicken, cooked in-cab, […]

August 25, 2011

Channel 19

Phone app for getting around GATS in Dallas next week

If you’re saying “Man I sure could have used that last year,” I can assure you you’re not alone. The new Great American Trucking Show app for various smartphone platforms, put together by the show’s owners (Randall-Reilly Business Media & Information, publishers of Overdrive) with Core Apps and sponsored the Cummins Engine Corp., puts an interactive, searchable map of […]

August 18, 2011

Business

Big Rig Run spotlights driver health

Open to all attendees and exhibitors of the Great American Trucking Show is the Big Rig Run 5k run-walk, scheduled for 7 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26.

August 16, 2011

Voices

Keeping up with driver pay changes

Learn more about owner-operator and company driver compensation in a free one-hour webinar produced by Overdrive and Truckers News and sponsored by Freightliner Trucks.

August 16, 2011

Business

TONIGHT: The latest on driver pay trends

Learn more about owner-operator and company driver compensation in a free webinar produced by Overdrive and Truckers News and sponsored by Freightliner Trucks.

August 15, 2011

Channel 19

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

Trucking History

For the dog days of summer: Doug dog to the rescue

Doug Dog, a canine with his own twitter account, has trucking roots with Overdrive and is a reminder of a pooch’s warmth.

July 28, 2011

Channel 19

Getting around ‘Truckermageddon’; American Trucker season 2 ‘gets hardcore’

I-405 shutdown this weekend — the 405 will be shut down northbound in a 10-mile stretch between I-10 and U.S. 101.

July 14, 2011

Home

American Trucker season opens with Joplin coverage

Later this season, Robb Mariani will tape an episode at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas in August.

July 14, 2011

Business

Kicked to the curb!

Dear Carolyn, Where do you get off telling my boyfriend he needs to kick me to the curb? You have no idea what I put up with. You think you are so smart?  You try living with a self-centered, lazy, rude, man-child who doesn’t bathe as often as he should. Throw in a mama’s boy […]

July 7, 2011

Channel 19

More tornado aid coming from the trucking industry

It keeps coming. If you missed the feature on the trucking industry’s response to this spring’s horrendous series of devastating tornadoes in Truckers News‘ current issue by Caroline Taylor, click through this picture from the magazine (taken in the city of the magazine’s headquarters, Tuscaloosa, Ala.) for the full feature. Since it was written, various […]

July 6, 2011