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About truckin’ time: Tony Justice record in stores Dec. 6

“It’s about truckin’ time,” says Tony Justice, East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and the songwriter behind the upcoming “On the Road” album (I wrote about it last month here). It’s due out in all Pilot Flying J stores Dec. 6. It’s a trucking album by a trucker and for truckers, Justice notes, and stay tuned on […]

November 26, 2011

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Tony Justice among performers Saturday at driver convention

I’m excited about seeing East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and songwriter Tony Justice make his driver-event debut Saturday at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention in Tunica, Miss., on Saturday. I’ve heard him play before, as the vids below are evidence of, but at the show he’ll be with a full band of seasoned Nashville […]

October 13, 2011

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Phone app for getting around GATS in Dallas next week

If you’re saying “Man I sure could have used that last year,” I can assure you you’re not alone. The new Great American Trucking Show app for various smartphone platforms, put together by the show’s owners (Randall-Reilly Business Media & Information, publishers of Overdrive) with Core Apps and sponsored the Cummins Engine Corp., puts an interactive, searchable map of […]

August 18, 2011

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Updating the top 10 trucking songs of all time

Ten years ago, we asked, you told, then voted. Here are those results. Likewise a call to action: What song would you nominate, either on this list or not, for the No. 1 trucking song of all time today? Drop us a comment toward an updated top 10 for 2021!

August 4, 2011

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Introducing a ‘Truck Drivin’ Mama’ in Annabella Wood

Though she’s no longer a “gainfully employed trucker at this point” by her own estimation, Pennsylvania resident Annabella Wood continues to haul in a straight dump truck for a tree service company once a month or so to maintain her on-highway credentials. And she spent nearly 30 years — 29 and a half to be […]

July 26, 2011

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‘Workin’ Class’ — a new trucking tune from Leland Martin

It’s named after owner-operator Colin Stuart’s “big ol’ Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,” country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine — “Workin’ Class” is the latest in Martin’s catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for […]

October 18, 2010

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Live online CD release party for ‘When the Big Rigs Don’t Roll’

Join the www.AsktheTrucker.com proprietors this Wednesday for a live online exclusive release event for a new record aimed squarely at the politically conscious among you. “When the Big Rigs Don’t Roll” is its title, and the country musicians/songwriters behind the 10 songs on the CD, David Ayers and Barry Allen, have birthed several winners in […]

August 16, 2010

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‘There Is a Cure’ — new song written for breast-cancer-awareness convoy

It’s coming up Oct. 16, 2010, following the success of last year’s inaugural U.S. event in Texas. At the TravelCenters of America location in Terrell, Texas, on I-20 at exit 503, the Convoy for a Cure for breast cancer will bring together truck drivers for a good cause, keeping alive and spreading the tradition of the initial 2008 convoy of […]

July 9, 2010

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Country artist showcased on Texas fleet’s reefer vans

Baldwin Distribution Services of Amarillo, Texas, launched its refrigerated operation in 1981 with 5 tractors and 7 trailers. Today, Baldwin boasts more than a dozen times those numbers, and operates nationwide — lucky for them, and also country artist Brian Milson, whose new “Saltwater Cowboy” single is being promoted nationwide with floor-to-ceiling billboards on the sides […]

May 11, 2010

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Owner-operator’s record hits Roots Music charts

I’ll bet Overdrive October 2009 Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon, an independent you may likewise remember from a couple posts (here and here) late last year about his part in the Convoy for a Cure festivities in Texas, is having a good old time watching news of all the snow folks all over the country are suffering […]

February 11, 2010