Tag: Overdrive magazine: Page 77

Business

I-435 ramp closure in KC

The ramp from northbound I-435 to eastbound I-70 in Kansas City will close for construction.

September 30, 2011

Business

I-35 detour in Minnesota

Traffic on southbound I-35 to the eastbound Highway 14 ramp in southern Minnesota will be detoured Oct. 4-8.

September 30, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Driver’s “beans-and-rice budget” needed in D.C.

Someone who’s experienced his own financial crisis during this period is hot-shot hauler Frank Hagwood.

September 30, 2011

Business

AAA sues to stop NY-NJ port toll increases

The complaint claims the higher tolls violate a federal law that requires interstate tolls be set at “just and reasonable” rates.

September 30, 2011

Business

Emergency road funds given to New York

$5 million in DOT funds is available to the state to help repair roads and bridges damaged by floods from Hurricane Irene.

September 30, 2011

Business

I-10 detour set for Louisiana

Beginning Oct. 4, heavy trucks using I-10 in Louisiana will be rerouted to the I-210 loop around Lake Charles.

September 30, 2011

Business

Charlie Daniels ready for Charlotte

Music legend will take the stage at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Friday, Oct. 7, during the 2011 Charlotte Diesel Super Show.

September 30, 2011

Channel 19

New health audiobook, convoy for cancer cure, Project 351 gets low

Joe Martin, whom you’ll no doubt remember as the operator behind the Truckercise DVDs I wrote about earlier in the year (Martin’s pictured, right, with Alex Debogorski of Ice Road fame), announced recently that a new truckers’ health strategies audiobook that he contributed a chapter to is out and available. The book, Truckers’ Road to […]

September 30, 2011

Business

Loves opens new Fla. stop

A new Love’s Travel Stop is open in Cottondale, Fla., at exit 130 off Interstate 10. The stop has 98 truck spaces, DEF dispensers at the diesel islands, CAT scales, five showers, RFID cardless fueling technology and a Love’s Truck Tire Care center. It also includes a Chester’s Chicken and a McDonald’s restaurant. Truck drivers […]

September 30, 2011

Business

Mack sponsors trucker aid program

A Mack Pinnacle will be given away at the 2012 Mid-America Trucking Show March 22-24 2012 in Louisville Ky as part of the Back on the Road campaign sponsored by Mack Trucks Inc. and Arrow Truck Sales. The campaign is an initiative to benefit a deserving truck driver in need of a truck and a […]

September 29, 2011

Business

Prime hosts driver picnic

Prime Inc., held company picnics for drivers and their families Sept. 3 in Springfield, Mo., Pittston, Pa., and Salt Lake City. The picnics included inflatable games and water slides, face painting and various casino-style games. The Missouri picnic had the biggest turnout with 1,400 attendees. Prime’s Springfield picnic also included a truck driving championship competition, […]

September 29, 2011

Business

Cat cabover truck planned for global markets

Caterpillar and Navistar said they plan to build and sell a cabover-engine Cat vocational truck that would be sold globally.

September 29, 2011