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One Girl Trucking: ‘More courtesy now’
An encounter with a pair of joy-riding, inconsiderate motorcyclists over Memorial Day turned dramatic when truck driver Bethany, blogging at One Girl Trucking, decided enough was enough and confronted the bikers at a red light. Read her account, a sort of pitch and plea to bikers, motorists and truckers alike for more courtesy and common […]
June 1, 2012
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Overdrive Extra
New heights for American pride?
Driver David Ray Thornburg took matters into his own hands, reported Steve Stoler of WFAA in Houston, when he saw a barren flagpole at a truck stop in Denton, Texas, on Memorial Day. Thornburg, a military veteran, with video camera running, drove his truck down to a nearby Wal-Mart, got the store to donate a […]
May 30, 2012
Channel 19
Memorial Day fun with Heister’s hot rod — and a new truck
Yesterday, owner-operator Dan Heister invited myself and the family out to his new place in Tennessee Ridge, Tenn., near his former home in Erin, for a cookout with various other friends and family. Something of an early Memorial Day celebration, as Heister was setting out today with a northeast-bound load of rock in his new […]
May 28, 2012
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Business
Volvo uses custom graphics to pay tribute to veterans
Volvo designed graphics for a VNL to honor Prisoners of War for the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally.
May 25, 2012
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Channel 19
On Memorial Day: A trucker to remember
Minnie Spotted Wolf never encountered combat in World War II, yet she blazed trails as, most likely, the first Native American woman to serve in the Marines – as a truck driver, nonetheless. A stretch of U.S. 89 now bears her name
May 30, 2011
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Trucking History
Vietnam gives first-hand appreciation of trucking
Overdrive Equipment Editor John Baxter learned to drive a 5-ton truck in Vietnam, a country whose war he recalls vividly.
May 27, 2011
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Business
Custom Cascadia takes Ride of Pride
For the ninth consecutive year, employees at the Freightliner plant in Cleveland, N.C., have customized a Freightliner Cascadia to make a 400-mile ride to Washington, D.C., for Memorial Day.
May 27, 2011
Business
Decorated Volvos to ride for Memorial Day
Two Volvo trucks, a commemoratively-wrapped VNL 760 and an patriotically-adorned VHD pickup, will ride to Washington, D.C., for Memorial Day.
May 27, 2011
Channel 19
Ode to a well-stacked weekend warrior
As we head into Memorial Day weekend it’s likely some of you out there will enjoy a rare round of golf with a friend or relative in town for once in a while. My father’s coming to town, so I know I will, and it will be a perhaps more-than-rare round indeed. I don’t play […]
May 28, 2010
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