Tag: Overdrive magazine: Page 173

Business

Study links strict cell phone use to safety

Motor carriers with the highest safety performance records also are likely to have stringent cell phone use policies.

November 17, 2010

Business

Boyd Bros. Transportation driver tops 2 million miles

Company driver Virgil Shell recently exceeded driving 2 million miles safely, Boyd Bros. Transportation announced. A 16-year veteran trucker and resident of Columbia, S.C, Shell was given a bonus check and trophy for his accomplishment. Shell said that he enjoys working for the Clayton, Ala.-based fleet. The carrier was recently selected as Best Fleet for […]

November 16, 2010

Business

Ohio shuts 2 rest areas on I-90

The Ohio Department of Transportation has closed rest areas in Mentor for renovation for six months.

November 16, 2010

Business

Diesel price surges to highest in 2 years

The national average price of $3.184 is the highest price since $3.288 the week of Oct. 27, 2008.

November 16, 2010

Channel 19

Helpful partner — Western Express driver Derek Dorsey

Not only is longtime Western Express driver Derek Dorsey a great asset to the Nashville, Tenn.-headquartered fleet — company recruiting director Matt Neal calls him “our go-to guy, great with customers, great with training new drivers” and “one of our absolute best” — he’s also quite accommodating to everyone he meets, including writer-photographers like me. […]

November 15, 2010

Business

Stiffer truck fuel economy rules urged

A review by scientists showed a potential for more than a 35 percent reduction in fuel consumption from heavy-duty vehicles.

November 15, 2010

Business

Smart signs to begin on Seattle highway

The electronic signs will provide drivers real-time traffic information, variable speed limits and lane status indicators.

November 15, 2010

Business

Hearing set for truck fuel economy standard

Two public hearings are scheduled for proposed federal medium- and heavy-duty truck standards.

November 15, 2010

Business

Trucker-founded firm gets $450,000 grant

Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to a company that was founded by the 2006 Overdrive Trucker of the Year.

November 15, 2010

Business

Arrow Trucking plan revealed

Bankruptcy trustee will distribute $2 million to former employees for back wages and benefits.

November 12, 2010

Business

Group recommends fuel tax increase

The White House-appointed commission proposes to raise the fuel tax gradually by 15 cents beginning in 2013.

November 12, 2010

Channel 19

Soul/funk icon Syl Johnson started with a solid foundation

I bet you can guess just where, right? Syl Johnson (pictured) is a Mississippi-born singer-songwriter who came of age in the late 1950s and 1960s in Chicago — he’s perhaps best known for the “Is It Because I’m Black?” single penned and released in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in the late […]

November 11, 2010