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Channel 19

Calling all independents; New profile series seeks nominations

Are you an owner-operator running with your own authority? A two-three-truck fleet owner with a unique approach to trucking success? If you’ve been following Overdrive Dollars & Sense columnist and radio host Kevin Rutherford’s columns over the past couple months, you know he’s gotten into a series about taking your business to the next level […]

July 25, 2011

Business

Top-listed Pilot Flying J reopens El Paso Texas, plaza

A newly remodeled plaza center opened in El Paso, Texas, Pilot Flying J Travel Plazas said. The travel stop company was recently named to Nation’s Restaurant News’ 2011 Top 100 list. The reopened plaza is located at 1301 North Horizon Blvd., and features six fuel islands and 12 diesel islands along with a Denny’s restaurant and a wide […]

July 25, 2011

Business

Truck stop featured in cable TV show

Truck Stop Missouri is a 12-part series on Midway Truck Stop near Columbia, Mo.

July 25, 2011

Business

NY law mandates mirrors

A new law will require truck drivers traveling in New York City to mount front-end mirrors.

July 25, 2011

Business

Navistar training facility opens

A new Navistar product support facility opened in Woodridge, Ill., the Warrenville-based engine and International brand truck maker announced. The 70,000-square-foot facility houses an office area, three classrooms, a photo and video studio, computer lab, a tool and fabrication shop and training space for dealer and fleet technicians. The center will be used to host dealer […]

July 25, 2011

Business

Truck insurance app available

The Insure My Truck app for getting truck insurance estimates is available for iPhone users, Progressive Insurance announced.  An android version of the app is in development. Get more details at iTunes.

July 25, 2011

Business

Court: Company’s pay system violates California reg

A judge ruled a piece-rate pay formula did not fully compensate drivers for the total time they worked.

July 24, 2011

Channel 19

Veteran long-hauler uninjured in run-in with 2009 Heisman winner

Lee Roop of the Hunstville (Ala.) Times yesterday reported, fortunately, that long-haul driver Paul Clewis was uninjured and will drive out the remainder of the 2011 season after an attempted right-side pass resulted in disaster for 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram’s four-door Infiniti — and Clewis’ tractor’s front end. Clewis wasn’t aware an incoming […]

July 23, 2011

Trucking History

Blasts from the past: Bennies and bad checks

Cartoons by Overdrive artist C. Livolsi in the 1960s were hard-hitting satires fused with corny humor.

July 22, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Landstar sees “continued strength in revenue per load”

If this week’s earnings report from Landstar Systems is any indication, the rest of the year looks good for owner-operators. “I would characterize the overall second quarter freight environment as a little choppy, but moving in an upward direction,” said Henry Gerkens, chairman, president and CEO of Landstar, the nation’s biggest owner-operator carrier.  “Pricing continued […]

July 22, 2011

Channel 19

Tony’s Convoy for Hope of a cancer cure in Alberta Sunday

The man it’s named after wasn’t a trucker, as notes Canadian Stouffville (Alberta) Sun-Tribune editor and columnist Jim Mason in the story he wrote about Tony’s Convoy for Hope, published July 15. But thanks to his in-law oil-tank haulers, his “is is a big name in Western Canadian trucking circles,” as Mason writes. Rossi (pictured) […]

July 22, 2011

Business

CARB approves $40M for clean vehicle purchases

The state’s Air Quality Improvement Program invests in new emissions-reduction technologies.

July 22, 2011