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$100 off apnea test; Motorhead Garage TV at Diamond International
Motorhead Garage TV to feature International dealerships this morning Diamond Companies, a holding company for International Truck and IC Bus dealerships in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, will be featured on a special “Big Rig” episode of the Motorhead Garage TV Series on the Fox Sports Network. The episode airs this morning at 11:30 a.m. Eastern and […]
May 6, 2012
Channel 19
‘Outcast Kustoms’ TV show to debut March 26
If you give a look at the March 26 schedule on Discovery’s Velocity Channel website you’ll find a listing that may well ring a bell or two for the custom-truck enthusiasts among you. Listed at 9 p.m. on that date is Episode 1 of a show called “Outcast Kustoms,” which will feature Kelvin and April […]
March 14, 2012
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British TV show features female hauliers…
The new Mother Truckers TV show on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom pitches in its intro a looming takeover of the industry there by drivers of the female sex — as one reviewer put it, however, that only works if 2 percent of drivers being women qualifies as looming takeover. Nonetheless, the fact that […]
February 22, 2012
Channel 19
Flying high, running low: Friday Channel 19 news round-up
Big birds to fly by truckWriting on the New York Times blog yesterday, Matthew L. Wald delivered a little unexpected news about a flock of young whooping cranes currently settled down for the winter about 45 miles southwest of Decatur, Ala.: they would travel the last leg of this year’s winter journey, led in large […]
February 3, 2012
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‘Shipping wars’ TV series starts tonight on A&E
The Austin American-Statesman reminds us that the latest in the phenomenon of truck-driving reality-TV series debuts tonight, with back-to-back half-hour episodes of ‘Shipping Wars’ occupying the 9 p.m. (ET and PT) hour on A&E. The debate over whether the show will be a boon to the image of drivers in the public imagination has already […]
January 10, 2012
Channel 19
Webb Wheel on Motorhead Garage TV this morning
Looking for a little extra wheel maintenance know-how? Tune into Webb Wheel’s television debut this morning during a Motorhead Garage TV episode on Fox Sports Network (FSN) Sunday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 a.m., re-airing Monday, Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m., all time zones. You’ll recall prior appearances of fifth-wheel makers Jost as well as Hendrickson […]
December 11, 2011
Channel 19
‘Talented truckers’ TV show looking for … talented truckers
A television production company has a rather off-the-wall idea it’s helping one of the major cable channels develop — it wants to create a talent-competition-type series (a la American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, et al) that plays out on location at, well, a truck stop. And in the spirit of radio truck driver talent […]
November 12, 2011
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A trucking ambassador: Interviewing ‘Truck Stop Missouri’ star Joe Bechtold
The Truck Stop Missouri series on the Travel Channel has been running for a couple of months now, featuring the goings on in and around the 12 business that make up the Midway Travel Plaza between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, I-70 exit 121. Midway General Manager Joe Bechtold (pictured) has seen his […]
October 5, 2011
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Final season one episode of American Trucker on Speed Channel this Thursday
If you missed the news two weeks back, the final episode of the first season of American Trucker on the Speed Channel will features the production crew’s documentation of the last mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery and, more particularly, the trucks that are front and center in preparations for the journey. Among them are […]
June 7, 2011
Channel 19
Diamond Heavy Haul rig/driver appearing on ‘American Trucker’ this week
When I interviewed the Speed Channel’s ‘American Trucker’ program host Robb Mariani back in January, he was “on set” in the passenger seat of a Diamond Heavy Haul driver’s rig, hooked to a “huge electrical component” en route south across Ohio to an Ohio River port. “I think it’s probably the heaviest haul I could […]
March 23, 2011
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Mack CEO on ‘Undercover Boss’ this weekend; Overdrive editor on magazine’s 50th anniversary
Mack prez works from the trenches Class 8 trucks come to CBS reality-TV series Undercover Boss this weekend, featuring Mack Trucks President & CEO Denny Slagle. The broadcast will be from 9-10 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Eastern and Pacific. In making the episode, as with others in the series, the company president went undercover to work side-by-side […]
February 14, 2011
Channel 19
Tow-truckers echo long-haulers on Discovery’s ‘Wreck Chasers’
In many ways, tow-truckers are the absolute opposites of long-haulers. The tow-truckers of the Discovery Channel’s new “Wreck Chasers” series, on a three week trial run that began with two half-hour episodes Monday, are trying to beat their competitors to the sight of a wreck, of course. In Philadelphia, among whose tow-truckers the story is […]
November 4, 2010
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