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Business
Love’s opens stop in Demotte, Ind.
Truckers who stop at the newly opened Love’s Travel Stop in Demotte, Ind., off I-65, Exit 230, will receive double points on loyalty cards through Nov. 6, the travel center said. The truck stop features an Arby’s restaurant, 118 truck spaces, DEF dispensers at the diesel islands, CAT scales, five showers, a game room and […]
October 7, 2011
Business
Pilot Flying J to add electrification at 6 truck stops
Shorepower Technologies will install power pedestals in Bakersfield, Dunnigan, Lebec, Lodi and Weed in California, and in Dallas.
October 7, 2011
Business
Trucking adds 2,600 jobs
Compared with September 2010, September trucking employment was up by 42,200.
October 7, 2011
Business
TransCore: Monthly revenue up 10%
Carriers’ monthly revenue on average was $1,607 higher per truck than in 2010.
October 7, 2011
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Business
Actor was former trucker, Overdrive writer
Charles Napier was an Overdrive columnist in the early 1970s and appeared in several trucking movies and TV shows.
October 7, 2011
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Business
Convoys raise funds for Special Olympics
World’s Largest Truck Convoys for Special Olympics rolled last weekend in several locations.
October 6, 2011
World's Largest Truck Convoy for Special Olympics rolls near Joplin, Mo. (Photo Bruce W. Smith)
Channel 19
Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight
Truck Stop Missouri a ‘trucking ambassador’ in reality? After my interview posted yesterday with Joe Bechtold, General Manager of the Midway Truck Stop and Travel Plaza that is the subject of the Truck Stop Missouri TV show on the Travel Channel, a longtime commenter on the Channel 19 blog took issue with Bechtold’s characterization of […]
October 6, 2011
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Business
Oct. 8: Truck drag races in Charlotte
If you’ve never seen Class 8 trucks roaring down a track, consider a trip to North Carolina for the Charlotte Diesel Super Show
October 6, 2011
James Hoffman, of Concord, N.C., takes his 1995 Peterbilt 379 down the zMax Dragway in Concord, N.C., at the 2010 Charlotte Diesel Super Show. He also entered the Pride & Polish Wash & Show contest.
Business
Class 8 orders reported strong in September
Preliminary September orders increased 12 percent over August and 56 percent over the same month a year earlier, FTR Associates said.
October 5, 2011
Business
Love’s raises $1.1M for children’s hospitals
Love’s donated record amount for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals during five-week fundraising campaign.
October 5, 2011
Business
Pilot opens in Collins, Mo.
The travel center is located at Highway 13 South and U.S. 54 in St. Clair County.
October 5, 2011
Channel 19
A trucking ambassador: Interviewing ‘Truck Stop Missouri’ star Joe Bechtold
The Truck Stop Missouri series on the Travel Channel has been running for a couple of months now, featuring the goings on in and around the 12 business that make up the Midway Travel Plaza between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, I-70 exit 121. Midway General Manager Joe Bechtold (pictured) has seen his […]
October 5, 2011
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