Tag: Roadside Attractions: Page 24

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The future Lady McCartney’s trucking roots

Did you know the daughter of New England Motor Freight Chairman and CEO Myron Shevell also happens to hold the distinction of being engaged to none other than famous Beatle Sir Paul McCartney? It’s true, at least if we are to believe the New York Observer, who published a story about Shevell (pictured) and her […]

August 17, 2011

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The Keys Truckers’ ‘Letter to Capitol Hill’

File this one under “modest proposal.” Seems Keys Truckers Jan and James (pictured) McCarter are always involved when a nice slab of satire graces the blog here, not to mention good music. In any case, last week was a banner in both quarters. Amid the week’s run of comments surrounding our top-10 trucking songs poll […]

August 15, 2011

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One dispatcher’s public salute to the American truck driver

In case you’ve missed news of this one, which has made the rounds of various email blasts and blogs, it’s one of the best high-profile salutes to owner-operators and drivers I’ve come across in mainstream media of recent memory. Written by Minnesota-based fleet manager Dan Hanson and published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it […]

August 11, 2011

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A window on FMCSA’s CSA driver-enforcement authority goals

I thought I’d share a document leaked earlier in the year — specifically in May, and to the Transportation Weekly publication — that purported to be a draft highway bill whose genesis was within the Obama administration. It contains a 12-page section headed by “Driver Safety Provisions,” beginning on p. 366, that seems to further […]

August 10, 2011

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Overdrive top 10 songs streaming online this week

Longtime trucking radio host “Big Al” Weekley have put together a two-hour program that will stream from the Dispatch Me Home Radio website 24-7 throughout the week. It’s all starting, well, now, and featuring a run through trucking history via our Top 10 Trucking Songs of all-time poll.  If you missed the polling results last […]

August 9, 2011

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Scale It: The platform-scale axle-weights app, designed by a driver

John Christner Trucking driver Jerry Wilks is the programmer/developer of an application that, if you’re packing an iPhone and find occasion to use platform scales, could be of great use. Launched early in 2010, the Scale It app for the iPhone is a quick cheat that allows you to input the different weight readings you […]

August 8, 2011

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‘A creep or crazy’: Roseanne Barr on today’s truckers

News today is that celebrity media, as usual, is having fun at the expense of the nation’s haulers. You’ve got two choices, as I see it: go on and have fun with them or get madder than a hornet. There’s a poll over at the Hollywood Life site that asks readers to vote on whether […]

August 6, 2011

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Updating the top 10 trucking songs of all time

Ten years ago, we asked, you told, then voted. Here are those results. Likewise a call to action: What song would you nominate, either on this list or not, for the No. 1 trucking song of all time today? Drop us a comment toward an updated top 10 for 2021!

August 4, 2011

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‘Truck nuts’ in litigious fire in South Carolina

So-called “truck nuts” or “truck nutz,” fake bull testicles that are available for purchase in all colors of the rainbow (including with a chrome finish), are a common sight hanging on the ball hitches of pickup trucks the nation over, not to mention in humorous pictures of pickup owners sitting on their back bumpers directly […]

August 3, 2011

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Long-haul swimmer adds running, biking to his competitive repertoire

Siphiwe Baleka (pictured), whom you will remember as the Prime-leased owner-operator who competed and walked away with a couple titles in the U.S. Masters National Swimming championships I wrote about in May, has made headlines yet again — this time not just for his swimming prowess. He placed 56th of 577 competitors at the Warsaw Optimist […]

August 2, 2011

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How to save fuel: ‘Fix the roads!’ researchers say

We all know the tire makers have done their due in improving truck-tire rolling resistance in recent years to help operators save fuel with tire choices. Two Auburn University researchers say it’s time for the paving industry and the governments that allocate funds for roads to step up to the plate. They located a holy […]

August 1, 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