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Life

Chase the holiday blues

Check out this beautiful show truck with gorgeous model Ally Peer decked out in holiday attire.

December 9, 2012

Channel 19

So it *IS* Christmas already

How do we know? We’ve got word of a Christmas-themed Toys for Tots-focused parade Dec. 1 in Atlanta. Share any local events you’re involved in here.

November 24, 2012

Channel 19

Truck Centers Inc.’s Christmas food drive a success

Freightliner/Western Star dealer network Truck Centers Inc. recently hosted a first-ever food drive for the St. Louis area’s largest food suppliers for shelters and food banks, Operation Food Search (OFS). The company’s Troy, Ill., headquarters kicked off a one-month can drive for OFS, also a TCI customer since the recent economic downturn has resulted in […]

December 23, 2011

Business

Pick the rig with best Christmas spirit

Cast your vote for the truck that’s best decked out for the Christmas season.

December 22, 2011

Channel 19

A growing spectacular: The Vancouver Island truck lights parade

The Vancouver Island Equipment Owners Association’s Christmas Truck Light Parade and Food Drive takes the cake for the most brilliantly extravagant of the Christmas truck parades.

December 2, 2011

Business

Trucks star in annual Christmas parades

Drivers will honk “Jingle Bells” in the Christmas Convoy Truckers Parade, the oldest of the annual trucker Christmas parades returning soon to some U.S. and Canadian cities.

November 25, 2011

Channel 19

John Deere pedal car grand prize in Trucker Charity benefit raffle

And what’s best about it all is that the proceeds will go toward benefiting trucking families in need at Christmastime via Trucker Charity’s Christmas Group. Tickets to enter the raffle for the car (pictured), which was donated by Freedom Air Filters, can be purchased through Paypal via the Trucker Charity website for $3 for a […]

November 18, 2011

Channel 19

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — truckstop edition

“The only real difference between you and me — I do it in one night; you do it constantly.” –Santa Claus at the truckstop, to a fellow hauler in the fuel line Merry Christmas, all. Here’s a little vid from the folks at driver training outfit Driver Solutions to give you a little holiday chuckle. […]

December 24, 2010

Channel 19

Hauler of U.S. Capitol Christmas tree on national tour

Owner and part operator Jeff Underwood of Jeff Underwood Trucking is on the haul of a lifetime. Read Underwood’s story, published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday ahead of his planned stop in his hometown of Dahlonega, Ga., next week, and you’ll come away feeling the same anticipation and pride it’s clear he does for his role […]

November 19, 2010

Channel 19

Permitting Tony the truckstop tiger

After a year and more of challenges to the legality of Tony the truckstop tiger’s residence at the Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop by animal rights activists, the AP reports the owners have obtained necessary permits from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to keep the tiger. South Carolina-based hauler Kris Ewing took […]

December 30, 2009

Channel 19

One hauler’s early Christmas at the truckstop

Trucker Jeremy Holley blogs at www.jholley.wordpress.com, and his post from Wednesday, Dec. 22, was a gem of a story from “about five years ago,” he wrote, “something that I’ll never forget because it really made my day.”

December 23, 2009