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Channel 19
Exercised your fast-pitch technique lately?
Keep the Friday, 9 p.m., time in your mind if you want an opportunity to send small fleet owner and GATS parking community organizer Les Willis into the frigid waters of the dunk tank â in exchange for your donation to the St. Christopher fund. Itâs part of this unique happening at GATS for attendees trucking in for the 2019 show.
August 20, 2019
Overdrive Extra
All the subjects The Algorithm permits
Donât-call-me-Short Haul Paul keys up the old one-nine with this part-reminiscence, part-dirge on the bluetooth cocoons so many of us fall into around the truck stop counters, at the loading docks, on the long road, where it seems only the âsubjects The Algorithm permitsâ ever get talked about, câmonâŚ
March 25, 2019
Life
Owner-opâs run on âSurvivorâ ends
In Wednesdayâs second episode, Boudreaux won a reward in the opening challenge, his first of the season. But while he was off enjoying that, others conspired against him. At the second tribal council, the vote was four for Angelina Keeley and five against Boudreaux, and his torch was extinguished.
November 30, 2018
Channel 19
Truckingâs biggest fan turns 16, revisited
A young man from Wisconsin is America's biggest trucking industry fan. Several haulers showed up to show their support for his 16th birthday. Read more here.
September 19, 2018
Business
New push-to-talk cellular radio on way from Motorola
After hearing feedback from customers, Motorola will be releasing the WAVE TLK 100 push-to-talk radio as a bundle with cellular service and software.
August 14, 2018
Business
Eastbound, donât be that guy
Against multiple coop-status requests over the CB airwavesâŚ: âWe all know coop status is subject to change, but seriously? By the ninth request for coop info Iâm pretty convinced this driver is hauling dead endangered species carcasses stuffed with heroinâŚâ
January 26, 2018
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: HHG hauler Finn Murphyâs excellent memoir, âBear in the airâ makes radio primetime
Hear Truckers News editor David Hollisâ podcast talk with household goods hauling owner-operator Finn Murphy about his new memoir, and: Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got ourselves a radio spot!
June 8, 2017
Business
Notes on vernacular
âKeep yer panties on, son, I got a full-grown with a capture in the breakdown, Iâll mosey out of your way momentarily⌠stand by.â Feel me?
February 8, 2017
Business
Anybody got a copy on the dinosaurs, come on?
Before you turn the CB off, take a tip from the dinosaurs out here: âSometimes, being the one and only person who will break with something positive can change the entire mood from grumpy bugs to brothers and sisters of the road, and I challenge each of you to be that person.â
January 30, 2017
Overdrive Radio
âCommon sense, youâve got it for a reasonâ -- Use your CB already, owner-ops say
And if you donât run with a CB, get one. Too many seem to think that the CB is little more than a âmovie prop from a silly movie from the 1970s,â as Kenneth Williams put it, echoing the sentiment of a bevy of truckers after a deadly highway pileup.
January 24, 2017
Business
Life is a highway
âYou cruise along sometimes, looking at beautiful things and being thankful to have the experience of above-the-dirt in general. ⌠But sometimes, your daughter calls to tell you sheâs been admitted to the hospital with a bad gallbladder âŚâ
January 20, 2017
Channel 19
Scott LeVanâs radio warning to drivers ahead of deadly EB I-80 crash went unanswered
Driver LeVan used his CB to broadcast several warnings to EB drivers to spread out, impending a traffic back-up ahead, before a later crash that killed two truckers in Pennsylvania. Yet another reason to keep the radio on.
January 12, 2017
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