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Rotella SuperRigs calendar now available…

On the cover of the annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs calendar this year is the custom 2007 Kenworth W900L of Myerstown, Pa.-based Scott Diller. Featured also on the December 2011 page in the calendar, Diller’s clearly going for an old-school ’70s hot-rod look with the truck’s mods, which include 34-inch quarter fenders and smooth side panels. […]

December 2, 2010

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Retired long-haulers make folk-art metalwork strides

Long Neck, Del.-based Judy and Lou Hagen, according to the latest in the Delaware Cape Gazette’s “Saltwater Portraits” series of profiles of community residents, came to their current metalwork artistry while running long-haul through Georgia in 1999. They saw “a piece of crude metal art,” writes reporter Ron MacArthur. “We came home and did some […]

December 1, 2010

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Street-sign replacement program put on hold for 45-day comment period

Federally mandated changes to the design of local/state governments’ corner road signs — requiring mixed capital/lower-case type treatment with more reflective lettering, in effect a complete overhaul of existing signs the nation over by 2018 — have been in the spotlight over the last couple days as a prime example of a wasteful culture in […]

November 30, 2010

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Combating cargo theft: An interview with Schneider security director Walt Fountain

When I visited Schneider National’s Green Bay, Wis., headquarters in June for the carrier’s 75th-anniversary celebration, I got an up-close look at one of many efforts the company’s put in place over the years to enhance the security of its customers’ cargo in transit and at each of its 15 domestic facilities. Gate-security ground zero […]

November 26, 2010

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Lisa Kelly to make appearance at bowl game Dec. 18

Whether you’re getting opportunity to spend some relaxing time today with family around a dinner table, with friends at a football game, or you’re out on the road, here’s wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from myself and the folks at Overdrive and Truckers News. Speaking of football, keep the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on your radar […]

November 25, 2010

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Save $10 on CSA 2010

How to request your Pre-Employment Screening Program data from FMCSA without paying the PSP contractor. Visit http://fmcsa.dot.gov/foia Make your request in writing and include your name, address, and a telephone number via the snail mail address noted on the above web page or via fax at (202) 385-2335 or email at [email protected]. Be certain to… […]

November 24, 2010

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Sweepstakes: Twelve days of Truck Centers Christmas

Headed through Illinois or Missouri over the next couple weeks? Here’s some fun news to start the Thanksgiving holiday week about Truck Centers Inc.‘s “Twelve Days of Christmas” sweepstakes promotion. Stop by any of their locations — in St. Louis and St. Peters in Missouri and Troy, Morton, Springfield, Mt. Vernon and Decatur in Illinois […]

November 22, 2010

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Hauler of U.S. Capitol Christmas tree on national tour

Owner and part operator Jeff Underwood of Jeff Underwood Trucking is on the haul of a lifetime. Read Underwood’s story, published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday ahead of his planned stop in his hometown of Dahlonega, Ga., next week, and you’ll come away feeling the same anticipation and pride it’s clear he does for his role […]

November 19, 2010

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Sioux City Truck Sales’ Peterbilt calendar

A Network of four Peterbilt dealers in the Midwest — Sioux Falls, S.D.; Council Bluffs and Des Moines, Iowa; and Norfolk, Neb. — is distributing a custom 2011 calendar called “Working Trucks of the Midwest.” Customers may obtain the free 2011 calendar at any of the group’s stores, while supplies last. But the photos are available online, […]

November 18, 2010

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CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook now live

You may have seen it out at the truckstops already, but if not, I thought I’d take a moment today to alert you to our CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook, now online in an interactive digital version. Combining reporting from Overdrive and Truckers News editors (from myself to Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter and others) with […]

November 17, 2010

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Helpful partner — Western Express driver Derek Dorsey

Not only is longtime Western Express driver Derek Dorsey a great asset to the Nashville, Tenn.-headquartered fleet — company recruiting director Matt Neal calls him “our go-to guy, great with customers, great with training new drivers” and “one of our absolute best” — he’s also quite accommodating to everyone he meets, including writer-photographers like me. […]

November 15, 2010

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‘Alcolocks’ coming to U.S. Class 8s?

In the area of emissions, the regs tend to roll from California to the rest of the country; in safety/in-cab technology, though, quite a lot has sailed west across the big Atlantic pond in recent years, from EOBRs to governors and more….

November 12, 2010