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Owner-operator Dan Braun bags 1st place in K.C. truck show
Video, pictures and more about Braunâs plans to turn his trailer into a cancer survivorsâ memorial, as well as detail on runners-up in the first Pride in Your Ride truck show at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention.
October 29, 2012
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Amid big fleet investments, operators stare down high truck prices
Something is going right for the Jacobson Companies 3PL â Mack Trucks announced yesterday that they took delivery of an order of 259 built-in-the-U.S. Mack Pinnacles, 139 daycabs and 120 sleeper trucks, and theyâre hiring dedicated company drivers for runs based out of their Des Moines, Iowa, headquarters. Any owner-operators out their run freight for [âŚ]
May 27, 2012
Business
Great Dane breaks ground on technology facility
Great Dane breaks ground on a research facility for the trailer makerâs engineering and design initiatives.
April 5, 2012
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Cubby Buddy toolbox makerâs new storage system for load bars
Hensley Inc.-leased owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (pictured), with a Great Dane dry van and Freightliner tractor and a unique line of tool-box systems for owner-operators you may well recall me writing about here back in January, has added yet another patent-pending storage system to the repertoire of his growing Cubby Buddy side business. The business and Zehrer [âŚ]
April 2, 2012
Business
Anti-corrosive product on display
The Alternative to Galvanizing is now a standard, recently upgraded feature on select truckers, trailers and components, Wilson Trailer announced. The company is displaying several flatbeds at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday through Saturday. The Alternative includes two anti-corrosive processes, both of which guard against chemicals such as magnesium chloride, calcium chloride [âŚ]
March 21, 2012
Channel 19
NEW VIDS: Explorations of ATDynamicsâ TrailerTail
At bottom, find a vid from ATDynamics featuring its new trailer-tail design for vans with rear roll doors, but along the way I thought Iâd share some video from my meeting late last year with Brett Tobin (pictured), independent owner-operator of Tobin Trucking, based in the Pacific Northwest. Tobin was featured in my fellow Overdrive [âŚ]
March 7, 2012
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Stowaway diary: Keep an eye on your roof fairing in Laredo
Whatâs wrong with this picture? Taken by owner-operator Henry Albert, with whom we just checked in last week, it shows a desperate attempt by a couple to stow away on a rig on its way from the border zone into the U.S. interior. A testament to the value of drivers looking out for each other, [âŚ]
November 14, 2011
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Motorhead Garage TVâs âBig Rig Editionâ series continues
Hosts Sam Memmolo and Dave Bowman, formerly of such television shows as Two Guys Garage, Shade Tree Mechanic, and Crank and Chrome, have launched a series of âBig Rig Editionsâ of Motorhead Garage, Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on the Fox Sports Network, taking do-it-yourself maintenance and truck/trailer know-how from the shop to the small screen. This [âŚ]
July 18, 2011
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Driver accountability under CSA: a video talk with owner-operator Robert Shumate
I met Robert Shumate researching my two-part feature on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, in the April and May editions of Overdrive. In the vid, selected from the in-person portion of our interview, conducted at the Rush Truck Centers location in Nashville where Shumate had stopped in on his way [âŚ]
May 26, 2011
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Trucking up out of the water with Nashville fleets
While the story of the disastrous flooding my hometown experienced last May is still being written in many respects (the downtown TravelCenter of America location, as youâll note from the picture, is still closed), there have been some recent bright moments. Vice President Tim Smith with TCW told me a couple weeks back his carrierâs [âŚ]
November 1, 2010
Business
Trailer orders surge in March
Commercial trailer net orders have posted year-over year growth for six consecutive months.
May 6, 2010
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