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Overdrive Extra
Use your head: Don’t shut down Oct. 11-13
“Let’s make sure that the public knows there are members of the trucking industry that are informed and are a part of the political process and are not anarchist thugs.”
October 7, 2013
Business
‘Truckers Ride for the Constitution’ details emerge
The Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va., is to serve as a rally point for convoys to the Capitol Beltway as well as into D.C., organizers report.
October 7, 2013
This image is the “Ride for the Constitution” Facebook page’s profile picture. The agenda for the ride and weekend-long demonstration, say organizers, is focused on a mix of trucking and “constitutional” issues. The three-day demonstration has been joined by groups like Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment, and promoters offer some rally support information via this page.
Channel 19
Rolling out with the Great Lakes Convoy for women’s cancers
Watch the convoy — founded by two proud women, one an owner-operator, in the expediting segment — roll out in this vid. Bonus: Nick and Jenny Marcu’s tribute to cancer fighters.
July 27, 2013
Midway through the Great Lakes Convoy June 26, participants stepped on the Cat Scale at the TA in Jeffersonville, Ohio, exit 65 on I-71, for a weigh-in: 6280 lbs, less than last year’s 6,800, says convoy organizer Jeanie Silk, and with more participants this year.
Channel 19
Looks like we got ourselves a parade!
Overdrive reader Kyle Cantor remembers the convoys of old, and proposes a new one: “Hey drivers, let’s get a Memorial Day convoy going for the Thursday before….”
May 16, 2013
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Voices
Owner-Operator of the Month: Brad Chapdelaine
Brad Chapdelaine devotes as much attention to local outreach as he does his bottom line.
August 8, 2012
Chapdelaine has put almost 400,000 miles on his truck, which will soon reach 2 million miles.
Channel 19
Tony’s Convoy for Hope of a cancer cure in Alberta Sunday
The man it’s named after wasn’t a trucker, as notes Canadian Stouffville (Alberta) Sun-Tribune editor and columnist Jim Mason in the story he wrote about Tony’s Convoy for Hope, published July 15. But thanks to his in-law oil-tank haulers, his “is is a big name in Western Canadian trucking circles,” as Mason writes. Rossi (pictured) […]
July 22, 2011
Channel 19
‘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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Channel 19
Grassroots victory over proposed NY truck ban
Since the New York State protest convoys of November 2008, organized in part by the Mohawk Valley Truckers and Citizens United chapter, the issue of a big plan of truck-route restrictions on state highways in New York has seen growing opposition, with large groups among various industries joining trucking groups in decrying the state’s plans […]
April 15, 2010
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