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Channel 19
Ohio small fleet providing tornado relief
Buddy Allen of the 15-truck New Era Trucking fleet in North Ridgeville, Ohio, is calling on Northeast Ohio residents to help fill a 53-foot dry vanās worth of non-perishable food, water and other goods to haul south to assist residents affected by last weekās tornadoes. WKYC-TV News Channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, reported yesterday on [ā¦]
May 3, 2011
Channel 19
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts third; āTrucker bombsā a misnomer, police say
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts in third A Penske Logistics-sponsored IndyCar, driven by Ryan Briscoe, made a position 4 start and no. 3 finish yesterday in theĀ Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300, presented by Nestle, on the exciting street track in the Brazilian capital. The new carās shown here undregoingĀ āfinal preparations for shipment to Brazil at the [ā¦]
May 2, 2011
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Tornado caught on owner-operatorsā 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 [ā¦]
April 29, 2011
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Braving the storm ā two haulersā Birmingham tornado stories
āI just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,ā Overdrive Trucker of the Year Dan Heister told me this morning. Heister (pictured) was loaded heading south on I-65 bound for Saginaw, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, when he could see the big tornado that made its way into Cullman, Ala., around 3 p.m. that afternoon. āI [ā¦]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. Iām based off-site in [ā¦]
April 28, 2011
Channel 19
Freight on your smartphone: TransCore app on the way
Coming in just a couple weeks is the My DAT Truck Stop app (pictured) from freight matching service provider TransCore, operator of the oldest load-board service out there in the DAT boards. My DAT will be initially released for Android phones, providingĀ drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcoreās DAT network, [ā¦]
April 26, 2011
Channel 19
The great tomato heist ā Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight
I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasnāt consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. āThe high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,ā reporter [ā¦]
April 25, 2011
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EOBRs controversy over the national airwaves missing extant/emerging solutions
Wednesday, National Public Radioās āMorning Editionā program ran this piece on the issue of the proposed federal mandate for electronic on-board recorder use for hours-of-service monitoring. If it goes into effect, virtually all interstate haulers will be required to use an EOBR for logs. You can still comment on the proposed EOBR rule, through May [ā¦]
April 22, 2011
Channel 19
Truckster app āby and for driversā
From the Maine Morning Sentinel newspaper comes news of the former hauler, 42-year-old Leigh Gagnon, who created and launched in 2009 the Truckster app for the iPhone and Android phones. Available for $3.99 in the Android market and iTune App Store, the multifunction app provides a searchable platform to the majority of truckstops the nation [ā¦]
April 19, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Paying more for older trucks
Itās been clear for a year that certain things have been improving for trucking. Freight demand has increased, and with it demand for drivers. From the vantage of the American Truck Dealers, holding its annual meeting in Phoenix, the rebound is evident for some other reasons, too, one of which ā used truck prices ā [ā¦]
April 18, 2011
Channel 19
Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification
Itās been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others ā including a large coterie of truck drivers ā to force owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., to give up their caged Bengal tiger, Tony. The latest efforts including a lawsuit filed this week [ā¦]
April 15, 2011
Channel 19
UPDATE: āHats for heroesā special delivery, take two
You will recall my story here about the genesis and progress of Marten Transport driver Candy Bassā āHats for Heroesā program of providing an outlet for a wide array of trucking industry participants to honor the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers. Well, the past yearās volume of hats was significant enough to require more than just [ā¦]
April 11, 2011
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