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Novelist takes literary achievement to the truckstop

Beyond the spotlight of trucking industry news in July this year a novelist was hard at work promoting a book, her first, in which one of four main characters is a long-hauler turned local delivery driver struggling to maintain a connection to his son. What’s more is where the writer was promoting the novel. Making three […]

October 20, 2010

Channel 19

‘Workin’ Class’ — a new trucking tune from Leland Martin

It’s named after owner-operator Colin Stuart’s “big ol’ Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,” country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine — “Workin’ Class” is the latest in Martin’s catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for […]

October 18, 2010

Channel 19

Live from the first-annual Nashville “Chrome & Class” truck show

Rex (left) and Hayden Eady are the father (owning and operating) and son (building, along with Hayden’s older brother Hayward) pair behind the 1996 custom-built Peterbilt 379 pictured. The Pete, powered by a Caterpillar 3406B and 15-speed tranny, was responsible in large part, says Hayden, for the rechristening of the latter’s Hillsboro, Ala.-based Hayden’s Truck […]

October 15, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Learning from a crash course

Such opportunities will increase as the economy struggles to get on its feet, and trucking already is ahead of the curve. It’s easy in the flush of good times to forget lessons so clearly illustrated during hardship. It’s best not to.

October 14, 2010

Channel 19

Oh driver where art thou?

Dear driver, I have been hearing there is a shortage of you. Is it because all the owner-operators are succumbing to that CSA 2010 bug and electronic logs? Or are all those newfangled hybrid trucks themselves cross-breeding with a new monster species of broker to drive them out of business? Or, just maybe, since whether […]

October 14, 2010

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Vitality in strange cargo — operating tables, diners, sea turtles and more. . .

If you haven’t seen it out on the truckstop racks, check out the digital edition of the October Truckers News for a fun feature profiling several haulers who move some of the more unique truckloads out there, including honeybees, Lance Armstrong’s prize-winning bicycles and two of my contributions to the package, loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings […]

October 13, 2010

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Haul Road to the Himalayas: Interviewing Lisa Kelly

The current “IRT: Deadliest Roads” season of the “Ice Road Truckers” reality-TV series franchise on the History Channel aired its second episode last night, after a launch the previous Sunday that garnered 3.4 million viewers. It pits North American drivers from past seasons, as well as a new face, against the incomparably rugged terrain and […]

October 11, 2010

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A coffee for St. Christopher

What says trucking more than a good cup of coffee? Though I haven’t done much coffee-related reporting since the March 2008 Truckers News story probing haulers’ coffee preferences, I suspect that with the turmoil we’ve all seen in the economy since that time, the 16 percent of drivers reporting they made their own brew on […]

October 4, 2010

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A driver so good the shipper gave him his own desk

Talk about burying the lead: The Osakis Review, a paper published from Osakis, Minn., ran a great profile of resident Larry Herzog (pictured, by Greta Petrich), who runs beef destined for McDonald’s customers’ stomachs for carrier Hensley Trucking, also of Osakis. In the profile, Herzog spends due time stressing the difficulties he faces daily in […]

October 1, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Rebounding factories slow a bit in September

The recovery is still on, but it’s getting winded. That’s the conclusion of the Institute for Supply Management, which released its monthly manufacturing report today. While ISM’s Purchasing Managers Index “reading of 54.4 percent is still quite positive, the overall picture is less encouraging,” says ISM’s Norbert Ore. “The growth of new orders continued to […]

October 1, 2010

Channel 19

Still ‘dressed for success’ — Henry Albert’s opening salvo at GATS PIB

Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year, independent owner-operator Henry Albert (pictured, right, with our current Trucker of the Year, Mike Crawford), delivered an opening salvo at Overdrive’s Partners in Business seminar Friday, Aug. 27, at the Great American Trucking Show in an address that elucidated the effects of a very-small adjustment in his  business that, […]

September 29, 2010

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Having the cake and rolling it too

You may remember our reporting on the “Biggest tractor-trailer cake in the world” on the occasion of Iowa 80 Truckstop’s Walcott Truckers Jamboree’s big anniversary more than a year ago now — the confection, an 8-foot-long creation, still probably holds the title, but we’ve gotten word via the Birmingham News of another (pictured, by the […]

September 27, 2010