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Landstar sees âcontinued strength in revenue per loadâ
If this weekâs earnings report from Landstar Systems is any indication, the rest of the year looks good for owner-operators. âI would characterize the overall second quarter freight environment as a little choppy, but moving in an upward direction,â said Henry Gerkens, chairman, president and CEO of Landstar, the nationâs biggest owner-operator carrier. âPricing continued [âŚ]
July 22, 2011
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Tonyâs Convoy for Hope of a cancer cure in Alberta Sunday
The man itâs named after wasnât a trucker, as notes Canadian Stouffville (Alberta) Sun-Tribune editor and columnist Jim Mason in the story he wrote about Tonyâs Convoy for Hope, published July 15. But thanks to his in-law oil-tank haulers, his âis is a big name in Western Canadian trucking circles,â as Mason writes. Rossi (pictured) [âŚ]
July 22, 2011
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Tonight on American Trucker â Gully Transportationâs antique trucks
Gully Transportation will be featured on tonightâs edition of the American Trucker television show. The episode will air on the Speed Channel at 10 p.m. Eastern. The program will show the production of one of the Quincy, Ill.-based regional haulerâs newest trucks â a 2011 Freightliner Cascadia â in the manufacturerâs Cleveland, N.C., facility. âMy father started [âŚ]
July 21, 2011
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Suspecting foul play in trailer deck collapse, car hauler vows vigilance
File this under âlessons learned,â folks. On May 9, 2011, after an afternoon loading cars in Shreveport, La., car hauler Marc Pogrebneak wheeled over to the Petro off I-20 for a quick shower, dinner and a call to his wife. He was set to roll into West Texas to stage near his loadâs destination, and [âŚ]
July 20, 2011
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Motorhead Garage TVâs âBig Rig Editionâ series continues
Hosts Sam Memmolo and Dave Bowman, formerly of such television shows as Two Guys Garage, Shade Tree Mechanic, and Crank and Chrome, have launched a series of âBig Rig Editionsâ of Motorhead Garage, Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on the Fox Sports Network, taking do-it-yourself maintenance and truck/trailer know-how from the shop to the small screen. This [âŚ]
July 18, 2011
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Vid with a onetime âQueen of the Roadâ
Remember âQueen of the Roadâ Margarette Kirsch, the 82-year-old whom the Twilight Wish Foundation helped find her way into the passenger seat of a Penske International for a cross-country haul â longtime dream come true? We came across video of part of her journey with driver/singer Anabella Wood behind the wheel at AARPâs Youtube.com page and [âŚ]
July 17, 2011
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uShipâs Charles Myers details commercial freight online-auction opportunities, future
The online-auction model of the uShip.com system for retail freight is entering the commercial arena. Their new General Manager of Freight, Charles Myers (pictured), like you, is a veteran of that arena. While heâs most recently served in freight projects in China, his background also includes the Presidency of commercial load board service GetLoaded.com. âIâve [âŚ]
July 11, 2011
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More tornado aid coming from the trucking industry
It keeps coming. If you missed the feature on the trucking industryâs response to this springâs horrendous series of devastating tornadoes in Truckers Newsâ current issue by Caroline Taylor, click through this picture from the magazine (taken in the city of the magazineâs headquarters, Tuscaloosa, Ala.) for the full feature. Since it was written, various [âŚ]
July 6, 2011
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Reports good for factory freight
You might have heard that the stock market just logged its best weekly gain in two years. One major reason was good manufacturing news.
July 2, 2011
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Worth more than 78 words
Custom Rigs Editor Bruce W. Smith took this fanciful pic of three hot haulers at the Shell SuperRigs event June 2-4 at the Kenly 95 Petro in Kenly, N.C., this year. The flattopâs hauling gallon jugs of Shell Rotella products, the Big Lonestar a company display trailer. The mid-size Lonestar lookalike, well, you can check [âŚ]
July 1, 2011
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A trucking Western thriller ends run on Chicago stage
It wasnât exactly going for contemporary industry realism, but itâs called âMother Bear,â named for the handle of a leader in a band of not-exactly-savory Utah haulers a young lawyer and âsalt manâ for an upstart truckersâ union seeks out to enroll in his new organization, knowing minions will follow him. Rough-and-tumble Western in tone [âŚ]
June 29, 2011
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Get your Ice Road Truckers DVDs while the roads remain
Yes, it was only a matter of time, Iâd say, before a newspaper in the Great White North did a long feature on the potential impact melting sea ice in the Arctic and changing climate patterns due south of it could have on an important part of the Canadian economy â and our own television [âŚ]
June 28, 2011
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