Tag: Overdrive magazine: Page 210

Business

Seminar presents CDL medical certification topics

Steps and treatments can be taken to ensure medical certification, said federal agency medical director.

July 23, 2010

Business

Webinar: Trucking freight stays strong

Transportation-dependent manufacturing growth has been leading the recovery, which is slowing down.

July 23, 2010

Business

Fikes helps with Haiti relief

Fikes Truck Line, based in Hope, Ark., is transporting lumber intended for Haiti’s relief effort free of charge, the carrier said. Owner-operators Harold Horn and Jimmy King kicked off the effort hauling two loads of lumber for Weyerhaeuser from Bruce, Miss., to Jacksonville, Fla. Other carriers are donating similar services, a Fikes spokesperson said. For […]

July 23, 2010

Business

Trucking excluded from freight bill

Trucking is not mentioned in the bill, which focuses on rail, ports and intermodal infrastructure.

July 23, 2010

Business

Daimler, Volvo challenge Navistar test

Daimler Trucks North America and Volvo Trucks North America issued sharp rebukes of a “fluid economy” road test commissioned by Navistar.

July 22, 2010

Business

Charlotte Diesel Super Show to debut

The inaugural Charlotte Diesel Super Show will be Oct. 8-9 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway z-Max Dragway in Concord, N.C.

July 22, 2010

Business

SelecTrucks offer incentives, extended warranties

SelecTrucks is offering a $50 gift card for test driving eligible trucks equipped with Fuller UltraShift or AutoShift 10-speed automated transmissions and is giving an extended warranty on elibible trucks.

July 22, 2010

Business

Agency proposes hazmat regulation changes

Special permits allow a company to ship a hazardous material in a manner that varies from the regulations.

July 22, 2010

Business

Tunnel comments sought

The Federal Highway Administration has proposed a new rule to establish standards for federal tunnel inspections.

July 22, 2010

Channel 19

Suvey says DOT’s happy, how ’bout you?

We couldn’t help but chuckle here at Overdrive HQ when we saw a particular press release blast from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s halls a couple weeks back now. Its title, “Latest Survey Shows DOT Employee Satisfaction on the Rise,” read to our trucking ears like a piece of news full of all manner of comic, […]

July 22, 2010

Business

Meeting to discuss I-85 in South Carolina

The South Carolina Department of Transportation has scheduled a public meeting for July 29 in Greenville.

July 21, 2010

Channel 19

A Jazzy Jordan racecar design; more from the run

Since Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan completed her run across the United States to benefit the St. Christopher Truckers Development & Relief Fund, haulers around the nation have used the internet to send out mini-tributes to her historic effort, from posted pictures (such as the one here from Robert Curran, of Jazzy signing his flatbed) and anecdotes […]

July 21, 2010