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Most Loved Pets winners: More pics, vid

I was happy to see both familiar and new (to me, anyway) faces among the Most Loved Pets first-place winners announced New Year’s Day.

January 2, 2014

Business

Tuna salad tames the savage beast

“I keep my eyes peeled for a pet while we’re on the road. Some of the best dogs I’ve ever had were strays, and it would be appropriate to find the truck dog on the road….” If only it were so simple.

April 5, 2013

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Get your load on

Some sweet pics of readers’ recent loads, and a snatch of a conversation overheard on the radio — sometimes things on Channel 19 reach a fitting end.

January 31, 2013

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Driver reunited with lost pup

Have you heard the one about the truck driver whose Yorkie pup slips out of the truck while he’s cooling his heels briefly at a Missouri rest area? Well, all’s well that ends well, and that one does, USA Today reported yesterday. The driver, Michael Siau, “didn’t realize that Rambo [the Yorkie] had slipped out […]

June 7, 2012

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Virtues of owner-operator status: Pet boarding problems avoided

Company drivers, be careful who you leave your dog with. Today’s “grizzly tale” comes by way of Jenni Reynolds-Kebler, one half of a Washington State-based team with Robert Kebler and past-featured photographer in Truckers News. The Keblers recently switched carriers, signing on as company drivers with a carrier that had a no-pet policy. Too bad […]

February 15, 2012

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Overdrive’s Coulter remembers Fred…

Another fond memory here of Mike “Mustang” Crawford’s trucking companion, Fred, who passed on early the morning of Thursday, March 24, 2011. The memory and the wonderful picture here come from Lucinda Coulter, Overdrive’s managing editor, who met Crawford for the first time in person during a photo shoot to accompany our Trucker of the […]

March 25, 2011

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Fred: Memorializing one long-hauling dog

Condolences to Overdrive 2010 Trucker of the Year, owner-operator Mike “Mustang” Crawford, whose dog Fred passed away early this morning. She was 12 and some years old. “It’s a rough day for me, ” Crawford said. Fred had been running freight for Prime Inc. with Crawford for the better part of 2 million miles, all […]

March 24, 2011

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The 5,000-mile pet-rescue haul

Musician Susanne Spirit‘s shows three times weekly at the TravelCenters of America-East location in Ontario, Calif., are a combination of country performance and public outreach to and from the nation’s truckers, with one of their prime components offering pet-adoption services to drivers, finding loving, rolling homes for those cast away. Spirit and co. recently found a […]

March 16, 2010