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TCAâs weight-loss contest week 7: Individual driver leaders
After we posted last week on the week 6 results of the Truckload Carriers Associationâs Weight-Loss Showdown competition among carriers and their drivers and staff members, the organization released the week 7 results, including not only cumulative carrier percentages (Prime Inc. remains the weight-loss leader) but results among individuals. Drumroll pleaseâŚ. Hirschbach Motor Lines driver [âŚ]
April 9, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Prime commanding lead in TCA weight-loss showdown
The Truckload Carriers Associationâs Weight-Loss Showdown competition is now well into its 7th week, and results from the end of week 6 showed Springfield, Mo.-based, heavily owner-operator-focused carrier Prime Inc.âs personnel holding a relatively strong lead for the fourth week running, but with System Transport moving up a spot to second and gaining ground. Below [âŚ]
April 5, 2012
Channel 19
âShipping warsâ TV series starts tonight on A&E
The Austin American-Statesman reminds us that the latest in the phenomenon of truck-driving reality-TV series debuts tonight, with back-to-back half-hour episodes of âShipping Warsâ occupying the 9 p.m. (ET and PT) hour on A&E. The debate over whether the show will be a boon to the image of drivers in the public imagination has already [âŚ]
January 10, 2012
Channel 19
Take CSA challenge: Win iPad, $5,000
The folks at Big Truck TV, in partnership with AT&T, have announced a competition taking applications from potential competitors, including you, through early February. âThe CSA Challenge will comprise six challengers being chosen to compete over a two-month period,â or 10 weeks, says Michael Carpentier, Big Truck TV CEO. Each challenger will receive an iPad2 [âŚ]
December 10, 2011
Channel 19
Scenes from the 2010 Rush Tech Skills Rodeo
Iâm in San Antonio, Texas, this morning at the site of Rush Truck Centersâ fifth annual Tech Skills Rodeo, which pits 65 (out of more than 700 entering) of the truck dealer/service center networkâs best diesel technicians against each other and a set of bugged vehicles. On the heavy-duty side of the competition, 15 techs [âŚ]
December 14, 2010
Channel 19
Truckingâs newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .
A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. Weâve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery driversâ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers [âŚ]
October 26, 2010
Channel 19
The grand gesture â rival Maine log-hauling families spar
The Pelletiers and the Crawfords of Maine are known far and wide for their success in the log-hauling business in the north woods, the Pelletiers the subject of the Discovery Channelâs American Loggers series, which I wrote about in December when they took delivery of a couple new Mack Titans. The Crawfords, meanwhile, deserve and [âŚ]
March 10, 2010
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