Tag: 2011

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Pacific, Hayes truck enthusiasts gathering this weekend in B.C.
It’s the first-annual Cache Creek Truck Show, a production of the British Columbia-based Hayes and Pacific truck clubs. Truck club member and organizer Wes Bergman, a former off-highway hauler now spending much of his time keeping the Canadian-made makes and their models alive, says they’ve got a good number of trucks set to show and […]
July 29, 2011
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Ohio small fleet providing tornado relief
Buddy Allen of the 15-truck New Era Trucking fleet in North Ridgeville, Ohio, is calling on Northeast Ohio residents to help fill a 53-foot dry van’s worth of non-perishable food, water and other goods to haul south to assist residents affected by last week’s tornadoes. WKYC-TV News Channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, reported yesterday on […]
May 3, 2011
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Interviewing Dan Heister, Overdrive’s Trucker of the Year
In this month’s issue of Overdrive, I wrote about the recession-surviving prowess of Boyd Bros.-leased owner-operator Dan Heister (pictured), whose mastery of his short-medium haul niche in Boyd’s self-dispatch/percentage-pay Independent Express program brought him through the really bad times in 2008 to ever-greater success this year. In addition to recently purchasing what amounts to a […]
February 16, 2011
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