Tag: Mike Crawford

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Listen: The Channel One-Nine Special from ‘Over the Road’ — CB handles

The Channel One Nine Special is a special series for Over the Road podcast listeners. This week we discuss CB handles with Mike "Mustang" Crawford.

February 27, 2020

Appreciation of a truck-parking joke — what’s it worth?

$5 — and a whole lot of wonder at the state of camaraderie among the nation’s truckers on the road today. A follow-up on the time Mike “Mustang” Crawford got $5 for a parking spot he was about to leave.

July 29, 2019

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Market-making: ‘Mustang’ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking

Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: “For this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and I’ll leave right now for you.”

May 29, 2019

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Minnesota aims at moving targets

Some rehabilitation of Minnesota’s reputation — in the wake of the state’s notorious “fatigue checklist,” judged a violation of truckers’ Fourth Amendment rights in 2011 — is on offer via truckers’ anecdotes and data on its enforcement program, with a shift toward mobile traffic enforcement and, perhaps, a willingness of officers to credit professionalism where it’s due.

November 8, 2018

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A corrective to ‘bubble-wrapped’ driving syndrome

A tip from Mustang’s Trucking — don’t try to read a book while going down the road — applicable whether your truck is “bubble-wrapped” with auto-braking and lane-departure-warning tech or not …

February 2, 2018

Mike “Mustang” Crawford — read more about him in this 2010 feature about him attendant to his “Trucker of the Year” honors that year.

$2/gal. diesel: Been a while, hasn’t it?

Owner-operators with access to fleets’ or other volume discounts are seeing costs almost that far down for a gallon of diesel; Mike “Mustang” Crawford is one of them.

December 23, 2014

Lookback on — and a severe weather report from — a Mustang at the tattoo parlor

Mike “Mustang” Crawford runs through the high winds on I-40 in West Okla. and East Texas, and a look back on his Marine Corps tattoo.

October 13, 2014

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Be your own boss: How to get your own authority

A step-by-step guide to the necessary federal and other filings. Be prepared for paying fees and handling lots of forms.

January 8, 2014

“Mustang” Mike Crawford used services of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association when he got his operating authority in the year following being selected as Overdrive’s 2010 Trucker of the Year. “I paid them $805, and they did everything for me,” Crawford says. That included enrolling him in their CMCI drug and alcohol testing consortium — such enrollment is a requirement for independents.

Be your own boss: The wonders and woes of getting your own authority

It can be a hard road, but with careful planning and a little luck, getting your own authority can be a plus for operational freedom and income.

January 6, 2014

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Candidate and fleet owner channels Van Damme in ad

Meet Ga.-based 10th-District Congressional candidate and Collins Trucking fleet owner Mike Collins — and checking in with 2010 Trucker of the Year Mike Crawford, bringing home on the road…

December 5, 2013

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Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 3

September-December 2012 on the Channel 19 blog — one operator reaches a milestone, amid ongoing industry conversation, weird-weird trucking news and …. Happy new year, drivers!

December 31, 2012

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Light up the night!; Come on, Ghostwriter

Reader: “I am 12-year-old boy with a big passion for lit-up bull haulers!” — and a bit of radio check, come on.

December 8, 2012

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