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Trucking History
Creating a trucking community, catching up with friends
OverdriveRetro.com is gradually creating an online truckers’ community of drivers who enjoy recalling careers they loved.
June 10, 2011
Business
Vegas Pride & Polish awards Saturday
One of the biggest attractions of the June 9-11 Great West Truck Show is the Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish truck beauty show.
June 10, 2011
Michael Most's Legends & Heroes, a 1998 Freightliner Classic, won Best of Show Working Bobtail at the 2010 Great West Truck Show.
Channel 19
Hardage custom combo unit gets final fix
You might remember Jeff Hardage, owner of the J&C Investments small fleet, based in Garland, Texas, if you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to the news coming out of the Pride & Polish competitions at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas the past several years. Most recently, I wrote about Hardage’s son Eric’s 1963 […]
June 9, 2011
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Business
Forecast: Fewer drivers
Trucking’s well-documented driver shortage will grow next year and beyond because of fewer new hires to replace retiring drivers.
June 9, 2011
Business
Daimler adds workers
More than 1,230 employees will be added to the company’s manufacturing and administrative payroll in three locations.
June 9, 2011
Business
Nominations sought for Trucking’s Top Rookie
The nomination form can be completed online at www.truckload.org/rookie until June 30.
June 9, 2011
Business
Custom rig as educational shuttle
The Space Shuttle Blake has served a very important mission — educating students about space exploration.
June 9, 2011
A Mack truck recently delivered the Space Shuttle Blake, a mobile classroom used to teach students about space exploration.
Business
Groups push for safer trucks
ATA and OOIDA called on the federal government to research how standards for crashworthiness for heavy trucks could benefit truckers.
June 9, 2011
Business
Angie Banning awarded April 2011 Teacher of the Month
Angie Banning, a teacher at Longmont Estates Elementary in Longmont, Colo., was named Trucker Buddy International’s April 2011 Teacher of the Month. Banning and Steen Gronlund, a driver for Mile High Foods, have volunteered in the trucking education outreach for more than 10 years. Gronlund says he has enjoyed being a Trucker Buddy for Banning’s […]
June 9, 2011
Business
FMCSA advisory group sets June agenda
The public may attend the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., June 20-22 or submit written comment by June 15.
June 9, 2011
Business
Dual-compound steer tire
Michelin introduced its XZA3 + Evertread steer tire June 8, incorporating a “dual-compound” tread design. Ted Becker, director of marketing for Michelin America’s Truck Tires, said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay certified tire is designed for fuel efficiency, meeting California Air Resources Board requirements and to deliver 30 percent more mileage than competitor steer […]
June 8, 2011
Channel 19
Custom rig as educational shuttle — a Mack contribution to the space program
It’s not as big as its sister ships. Nor has it ever gone into orbit. But for more than two decades, the Shuttle Blake has served a very important mission — educating students about space exploration.  Mack Trucks has been part of the story all along. In the early 1980s Bob Boehmer, a teacher at […]
June 8, 2011
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