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Runner for truckersâ health passes halfway mark
Itâs been a wild haul for Jasmine âJazzyâ Jordan, the 17-year-old Olympic-caliber cross-country runner who recently reached the halfway, 1,500-mile mark in her run across the U.S., carried out to raise awareness for truck driver health and health-insurance availability. You will remember Jazzy from my post in November, about her appearance on the Internet radio show TruckStar. [âŚ]
March 2, 2010
Channel 19
The costs of waiting out the storm
Beth Brelje, writing in the Pocono Record of Pennsylvania, visited with several truckers waiting out a snowstorm in a Wal-Mart parking lot off I-84. Such waits have been legion for the nationâs haulers this season, with record amounts of snowfall hitting places where a snow deluge is not such a common thing. It may be [âŚ]
March 1, 2010
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Truck driver/author Tim Costello remembered in NY Times
I missed the news of the passing Tim Costello (pictured) in late December last year. Coming across it via the website of the New York Times, which had ran a nice roundup in the paper of his life and work, Iâm struck as always by what so many individual haulers are able to accomplish in addition to keeping [âŚ]
February 26, 2010
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Ruan Transport founder remembered at memorial ceremony
The $2 bill, you may not have known, was a calling card of Ruan Transport founder John Ruan, who passed away at age 96 on Sunday, Feb. 14, and was remembered fondly by many in a lighthearted tribute ceremony in Des Moines attended last week Thursday by more than 600 people. After the celebration, reported [âŚ]
February 25, 2010
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Arrow Trucking: Lawsuits, blame and good news
Some new developments emerged in recent days with Arrow Trucking, now two months after its Dec. 22 closing. Two items are from the Tulsa World. One details how lawsuits filed individually against executives are moving forward even though bankruptcy proceedings protect the company  from further lawsuits. Several of the civil cases are against Former CEO [âŚ]
February 24, 2010
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Word from the Magic Man: âLetâs get this show on the roadâ
In the November issue of Truckers News, my editor and colleague Randy Grider wrote about Michael Mooney (pictured) in his lead column, âMagic Man.â Mooney, a performer based in Cartersville, Ga., is deft with all manner of magicianâs tricks, but he also has a compelling story to tell, which he never misses the opportunity to do. One [âŚ]
February 24, 2010
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Piling on â overweight fines reaching new heights
If the headline seems too outlandish to be true of a truck that actually had some sort of permit â âTruck bound for drilling site 49.7 tons overweightâ â think again. Enforcement officers in Towanda, Pa., reported the Star-Gazette of Elmira, N.Y., have cracked down hard of all manner of weight infractions due to, some [âŚ]
February 23, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Credit card statements include free cold shower
You might have heard that banks have to play by new rules with their credit card terms and disclosures, starting today. If youâve never faced the music when it comes to credit card abuse, your chance is about to come. One of the more digestible â and eye-popping â bits of information that now must [âŚ]
February 22, 2010
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Remembering a genuine American â Yellow Freight driver Karl Krueger
It is with sadness that I that I relay news reports that confirm the death of a true American â Karl Krueger of Sioux Falls, S.D. (pictured), a union driver for Yellow Freight who made his mark on the trucking world and general public with a campaign for the presidency of the United States. A five-rig [âŚ]
February 19, 2010
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Truck Gallery, Feb. 25, 2010
Owner-operator Reed Thompsonâs 2007 Western Star 4900 extended hood is powered by a 515-hp Detroit Diesel and pulls dry van freight in 48 states and Canada in a 2010 Cornhusker trailer. Thompson is leased to Skyview Farms of Gothenburg, Neb.
February 19, 2010
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Another drop in the âNo Truck Parkingâ bucket
Fayetteville, N.C., Observer reporter Myron Pitts put out a clarion call in a recently published editorial for the North Carolina DOT to do the prudent thing to increase safety outside the Motiva Enterprises fuel terminal in the area and add at the least a turning lane for trucks backing up waiting for entry on Shaw Mill Road. The article, [âŚ]
February 18, 2010
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âSuperTruckâ draws Navistar attention
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. â When Navistarâs Steve Bruford envisions the truck of the future, he sees a tractor-trailer getting over 10 mpg. The truck manufacturer is taking the first step toward hitting that goal through testing itâs been performing here the past 15 months in the worldâs largest wind tunnel at NASAâs Ames Research Center. [âŚ]
February 17, 2010
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