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‘Recognition from the DOT’: uShip’s viral parody of ‘Social Network’ movie trailer

Perhaps you’ve seen it. The Social Network film about Facebook’s founding told the story of company cofounder Mark Zuckerberg’s success “taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.” The film’s trailer, which pairs a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” with scenes from the film, was expertly parodied by the folks at uShip […]

January 7, 2011

Channel 19

‘American Trucker’ premieres on SPEED channel Feb. 24 — with a familiar face

Imagine my surprise when, upon clicking over to a YouTube preview of SPEED’s upcoming “American Trucker” series, I came upon a familiar face within the first several seconds. That face was Sparta, Wis.-based Paul Sagehorn (pictured here with his father, Craig), owner-operator of two classic pop-culture Kenworths, one employed in the filming of the Movin’ […]

January 6, 2011

Channel 19

Hats off for heroes at Fort Sam Houston. . .

My Truckers News Exit Only column this month details the long efforts of Marten Transport driver Candy Bass to grow a program she designed several years ago to send a positive message to wounded veterans of U.S. wars — namely, that American truck drivers haven’t forgotten about them. This year the annual program of hat […]

January 5, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Going for the gold in 2011

We began celebrating Overdrive’s 50th year of publishing in October, when that milestone year began. Now, starting the calendar year of that golden anniversary, we’re introducing some improvements in the magazine.

January 5, 2011

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January 4, 2011

Channel 19

Skydiving to the ark: A Channel 19 2010 ‘Year in Review’

It’s been a banner year for dramatic, contentious, weird and/or humorous trucking news here on the Channel 19 blog. I can’t possibly predict how 2010 will be remembered years down the line, but read through the lens of this blog, well, it was nothing short of tumultuous, containing the highest of highs and the lowest […]

December 31, 2010

Channel 19

Truck Centers Inc.: ‘We have a winner’

Remember the “12 Days of Truck Centers Christmas” sweepstakes I posted on back in late November? Well folks, we have a winner, the Illinois-headquartered dealer network reports. Or “winners,” I should say, as the grand prize winner was chosen from a month’s worth of daily giveaways to drivers from 12 different states stopping into any […]

December 30, 2010

Channel 19

New trucking thriller from former tank-hauler manager

Set in Charleston, W.Va.’s “Chemical Valley” just after deregulation of the trucking industry, former Quality Carriers and Mason & Dixon lines (among others) rep Rowland Henry Judge’s Acid Stained Steel is a murder-mystery thriller of a novel, says Judge. But that’s not all, he adds. It combines those page-turning attributes with an examination of “the effect […]

December 29, 2010

Channel 19

Driver hours changes: Bummer of a proposal?

Expectation among many haulers leading into FMCSA’s Dec. 23 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change drivers’ hours of service regulations was that at least some larger degree of sleeper berth flexibility would be reintroduced in order that, as so many have put it to me over the past year’s worth of debating the issue, “truck […]

December 28, 2010

Channel 19

Former long-hauler makes N.Y.C. Met opera debut

Carl Tanner (pictured) worked as a long-haul driver before making moves toward pursuing a career in what New York Times writer David Belcher painted as his calling in a piece published in the Times yesterday, available online here. Tanner, by the terms of his contract as stand-by in the role of Dick Johnson in Puccini’s […]

December 27, 2010

Channel 19

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — truckstop edition

“The only real difference between you and me — I do it in one night; you do it constantly.” –Santa Claus at the truckstop, to a fellow hauler in the fuel line Merry Christmas, all. Here’s a little vid from the folks at driver training outfit Driver Solutions to give you a little holiday chuckle. […]

December 24, 2010

Channel 19

Texas technicians rope Rush rodeo grand prizes — vids and more from the event

Sorting though the rich experience that was Rush Truck Centers’ Tech Skills Rodeo, held last week in San Antonio, is I’ve found a task best approached over weeks rather than days. If you missed the results, read on, or see my story from last week here. It’s impossible to get it all into the space […]

December 22, 2010