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Channel 19
Interviewing Overdrive 2010 Trucker of the Year Mike Crawford
Always a pleasure, it is, to get a call from Mike âMustangâ Crawford (pictured), the Prime-leased owner-operator who is Overdriveâs 2010 Trucker of the Year (follow that link for my story about him in our February edition). I got one such call just last week. Crawford told me about his truckâs recent inadvertent inclusion in [âŚ]
February 8, 2010
Business
Sleep apnea: A wakeup call to drivers
Join us for a free webinar on Feb. 11 with sleep apnea expert Dr. Mark Berger. Youâll learn how sleep apnea affects your health and how it could impact your CDL.
February 8, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Is it recovery yet?
Itâs hard some weeks to stack up the economic reports and figure if things are getting better or worse. This week was no exception.
February 5, 2010
Channel 19
Wild game cooking classes spawned by ice-roads coincidence
As Todd L. Disher quipped last week in the lead of his piece for Alaskaâs Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper about Carlile Transportation driving instructor Phil Kromm, âitâs only natural an episode of âIce Road Truckersâ would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game.â Kromm, see, is an avid propane griller of wild [âŚ]
February 5, 2010
Channel 19
Truckers key in averting mix-up in Granite Falls, Wash., bypass
In the Everett, Wash., Daily Herald newspaper late last week a story appeared about two roundabouts being constructed on a new bypass of the growing Granite Falls, Wash., community in the central part of the state, very near vast National Forest areas. According to the storyâs writer, Bill Sheets, truckers were instrumental in pointing out a fatal flaw [âŚ]
February 4, 2010
Channel 19
Conway Truckload VP Randy Cornell jumps out of plane
Though itâs unclear how exactly this is a safety-improvement motivator, Randy Cornell, safety VP with Joplin, Mo.-based Con-way Truckload, sky-dived from 10,000 feet after the fleetâs drivers met a safety challenge to get its âaccident rate down by a creditable 34 percent in just five years,â as reported at HandyShippingGuide.com and elsewhere. âThe figure equates to less than 8 accidents per [âŚ]
January 29, 2010
Channel 19
More local fame for driver/songwriter Larry Morris
The Missouri-based Daily Dunklin Democrat newspaper once again featured a driver I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville late last year. Campbell, Mo.-based Double G Trucking hauler Larry Morrisâs âCotton Fields to Nashvilleâ song was selected as the title track for a Johnny Cash tribute record, a coproduction of TRS Music Group and Plush [âŚ]
January 28, 2010
Overdrive Extra
A confident public and stronger freight
Two bits of news breaking Wednesday offered some encouragement that the economy, and trucking with it, will continue rebounding.
January 27, 2010
Business
DOT prohibits driver texting immediately
The U.S Department of Transportation Jan. 26 announced it is immediately prohibiting truck and bus drivers from sending text messages while operating commercial vehicles. Truck and bus drivers who text while driving commercial vehicles may be subject to civil or criminal penalties of up to $2,750. The DOT action doesnât prohibit the use of cell [âŚ]
January 27, 2010
Channel 19
Ban eating while driving too?
Though the writer played it as an example of distracted driving, could it be an argument for more flexibility in the hours of service? Whatever the case, given todayâs news that a nationwide texting-while-driving ban is in the offing, I guess it couldnât be helped that Joseph Rose of the Oregonian newspaper wrote on the Hard Drive blog [âŚ]
January 26, 2010
Channel 19
Blow dealt to industry âbad actorâ
As someone who talks to proud and professional owner-operators and company drivers on a daily basis, Iâm no stranger to a particularly common sentiment: the notion that the actions of a very few within the trucking industry strike huge blows to the collective image of the many. Whether itâs a criminal broker-fraud scheme, a big [âŚ]
January 25, 2010
Channel 19
25-year-old trucker makes it past âAmerican Idolâ judges
At American Idol auditions in Orlando, Fla., 25-year-old Matt Lawrence breezed past the judges with a soulful rendition of Ray LaMontagneâs âTrouble.â What most viewers might not have noticed was Lawrenceâs occupation â heâs a manager with his fatherâs trucking company in Starke, Fla. Less sanguine, perhaps, is the fact that heâs also done time [âŚ]
January 22, 2010
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