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Pet story: My blue macaw

The following is a firsthand story from team trucker Tara Gillaspie, submitted in response to our December cover story on trucker pets. I also own a blue and gold macaw who rides with my husband Billy and me as we go down the road with are freight. (Read about another macaw-carrying trucker, as well as […]

December 27, 2010

Channel 19

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — truckstop edition

“The only real difference between you and me — I do it in one night; you do it constantly.” –Santa Claus at the truckstop, to a fellow hauler in the fuel line Merry Christmas, all. Here’s a little vid from the folks at driver training outfit Driver Solutions to give you a little holiday chuckle. […]

December 24, 2010

Channel 19

Auto-texting, safety-minded app available for Android, Blackberry

On the heels of the Department of Transportation’s proposed rule to ban handheld cell phone use by commercial drivers, I’ve been hearing from haulers who object to being singled out on the issue, as seems to be the modus operandi of this department when it comes to driving behavior of late. Given the predominance of […]

December 21, 2010

Channel 19

Three weeks: FOIA turnaround for PSP information

On November 23, I made note of an avenue toward gaining access to crash and inspection information contained on drivers’ Pre-Employment Screening Program reports. Working through the official FMCSA contractor, the fee to obtain a copy of the report to guarantee quality of the information is $10, but in my November 23 “Save $10 on CSA […]

December 20, 2010

Channel 19

Truck stop operators Sapp Bros. pen autobiography

Sapp Bros. Travel Centers’ Bill and Lee Sapp have penned their collective autobiography, out now from Addicus. The book follows from their youth among seven Sapp children in southeastern Nebraska to the near-present, with the Sapp Bros. name a veritable legend among longtime haulers, particularly in the Upper Midwest. In the year 1971, Bill and Lee, […]

December 17, 2010

Channel 19

Positives in trucking dog days in Truckers News — and more

Since I blogged about musician Susanne Spirit’s weekly shows at the TA East in Ontario, Calif., back in March, Spirit has continued to make great strides in combining her trucking-music act with her concern for the welfare of abandoned dogs in kill shelters. Her “Musical Truckin’ Dog Adoption Program,” conducted in concert with the Ramona […]

December 16, 2010

Business

December: Renamed CSA goes nationwide

The new federal safety program you’ve been hearing about all year expanded to all 50 states this week.

December 14, 2010

Business

Most carriers unranked as CSA launches

Fewer than 14 percent of active motor carriers are ranked in any of the five safety categories within the new Safety Measurement System the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made public Dec. 12.

December 13, 2010

Channel 19

Custom Volvo Class 8 VHD pickup makes splash

Volvo Trucks is offering customers the experience of a lifetime at the company’s New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va., a little more interesting with the addition of a severe service model VHD built in modified pickup truck form. The bright orange, one-of-a-kind Volvo VHD chassis has a full-size crew cab and a pickup bed.  The […]

December 9, 2010

Channel 19

Fair or foul? Self-examination via the four-wheeler perspective

We’ve brought it up from time to time here, no doubt — no secret that the large majority of on-highway accidents involving large trucks follow an initial mistake made by the driver of a four-wheeled vehicle of one sort or another. By and large, truck drivers are justified in holding a desultory opinion of the […]

December 8, 2010

Channel 19

Wikileaks offers window into Iranian trucking community

However you feel about the WikiLeaks organization’s recent and ongoing release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables, there’s no doubt that many of the releases offer fascinating windows into the ways of world power — and more. Not least among the latter was the view a series of cables detailed at the Eurasianet.org site, dedicated to […]

December 7, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Ghosts of violations past

For owner-operator purposes, CSA 2010 started three years ago. That’s how far back your violations are taken into account.

December 7, 2010