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Business

U.S. diesel price tops $4

Price crossed a notable threshold by exceeding $4 a gallon for the first time since mid-May.

November 23, 2011

Business

Class 8 truck drivers eligible for sweepstakes, prizes

Starting Jan. 1, drivers of Class 8 trucks may enter the Weigh to Win sweepstakes through June 1 to vie for a Ford F250 grand prize, Walcott, Iowa-based CAT Scale announced in honor of its 35th anniversary. Drivers can enter the contest every time they weigh their trucks on the scales. In addition to the […]

November 22, 2011

Channel 19

Heads-up: NY Times on truckers’ health

The U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, devoted significant ink to many truck drivers’ moves toward improving their health in their Monday edition. The primary feature, by Abby Ellin and well-illustrated with pictures of many of the drivers she talked to, charts a rise in concern among industry associations, trucking companies, truck stops […]

November 22, 2011

Business

Dispatch Me Home radio network launches

Host Big Al Weekley will broadcast via online radio bluegrass and country music, trucking news and live interviews in an expanded format.

November 21, 2011

Business

I-25 lanes in Denver to close

Northbound and southbound I-25 near 84th Avenue in Denver will be closed to install girders.

November 20, 2011

Channel 19

The next generation of trucking fanatics

Jeff and Lynette Lynd of Ft. Collins, Colo., sent in this picture of their six-year-old great niece, Zoe, relaxing before going to bed with her princess blanket, fishing pillow and her favorite magazine, Overdrive (our 50th anniversary issue). “She got really excited when we got the current issue,” Lynette says. “She had to read it […]

November 20, 2011

Business

TSA checks trucks, recruits for First Observer

A two-day safety enforcement and awareness exercise was conducted on vehicles at five Interstate scale complexes in Tennessee.

November 18, 2011

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Online trucker network launches Monday

The host of the online radio trucking  program “Dispatch Me Home” is starting an online network of the same name with additional music and other programming. It will launch at 10 a.m. CST Nov. 21, says host Big Al Weekley. The network is based at www.DispatchMeHomeRadio.com. Weekley produces the network with Bruce Wieser, known as […]

November 18, 2011

Business

ACT: Class 8 orders rise

Class 8 new and net orders rose to six-month highs in October.

November 18, 2011

Business

House GOP seeks to pass transportation bill by Dec. 31

Bill links funding from energy production with highway infrastructure.

November 18, 2011

Business

Minnesota offers clean diesel grants to local fleets

Grant covers state-based fleets, with a focus on 2006 and older vehicles.

November 18, 2011

Business

ATA challenges need for hours proposal

Association letter pointed to newly available data about the trucking industry’s safety performance in arguing against change.

November 18, 2011