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Channel 19
Union campaign to boost inspection dollars tars truckers
Can you imagine your stateâs government employees resorting to something like this? The image here is of a billboard, among other similar ads that are part of a campaign being waged by British Columbia, Canadaâs weigh-station inspection force for more funding, attempting to exploit the general publicâs supposed fear of Class 8 on-highway trucks. The [âŚ]
July 12, 2012
Channel 19
Bummer, eh? Beer load sinksâŚ
U.S. patriots living in Canada will no doubt be bummed by the news today: Click through the thumbnail of the pic here by Mathew McCarthy of The Record newspaper of Kitchener, Ontario, in Canada, for a story about this collapsed trailer loaded with beer outside the Beer Store on King Street in the same town. [âŚ]
July 4, 2012
Business
Live music at a freeway rest area
Live entertainment at a rest area was among todayâs surprises.
May 11, 2012
Channel 19
A growing spectacular: The Vancouver Island truck lights parade
The Vancouver Island Equipment Owners Associationâs Christmas Truck Light Parade and Food Drive takes the cake for the most brilliantly extravagant of the Christmas truck parades.
December 2, 2011
Channel 19
Tonyâs Convoy for Hope of a cancer cure in Alberta Sunday
The man itâs named after wasnât a trucker, as notes Canadian Stouffville (Alberta) Sun-Tribune editor and columnist Jim Mason in the story he wrote about Tonyâs Convoy for Hope, published July 15. But thanks to his in-law oil-tank haulers, his âis is a big name in Western Canadian trucking circles,â as Mason writes. Rossi (pictured) [âŚ]
July 22, 2011
Channel 19
Get your Ice Road Truckers DVDs while the roads remain
Yes, it was only a matter of time, Iâd say, before a newspaper in the Great White North did a long feature on the potential impact melting sea ice in the Arctic and changing climate patterns due south of it could have on an important part of the Canadian economy â and our own television [âŚ]
June 28, 2011
Channel 19
âIs it a 10-speed?â
Whatâs that line at the end of the Canadian slapstick classic Strange Brew? Itâs on the tip of my tongue⌠Oh wait, I remember. The McKenzie Brothers, Bob and Doug, played by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, are given the keys to a big rig loaded with beer after saving the breweryâs day by averting an [âŚ]
April 12, 2011
Channel 19
Owner-operator John Crozman emerges from Dakota blizzard hailed a hero
âIâve been doing this a long time, 30 years,â says owner-operator John Crozman (pictured) of his long trucking career, for the past two years leased to Albertville, Minn.-based Long Haul Trucking. Over those three decades, like so many haulers, heâs seen his fair share of on-highway rescue action. âItâs not a problem. You come upon [âŚ]
February 17, 2011
Channel 19
Snow, snow, more snow; making the most of it
A Pilot Flying J stop on I-70 in Warrenton, Mo., is the subject of reporting on National Public Radio today, and Iâd bet you can guess the subject matter. Hear audio of the story, which will be available at about 7 p.m. ET this evening. Suffice to say that truckstop employees Terri Brackney and Greg [âŚ]
February 2, 2011
Channel 19
Olympic downhill skiing, brought to you by dump trailer
Ice road trucking it isnât, but I couldnât help but notice in opening television coverage of the Winter Olympics, ongoing around Vancouver, B.C., an exceptional shot of a tractor pulling a dump trailer loaded with nothing but pure white snow. Thatâs right, while the U.S. has had no short supply of the white stuff this year, getting the [âŚ]
February 15, 2010
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