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Trucking shutterbugs bring it in Truckers News first photo contest
Photographers brought pretty stunning images to the online photo forum we host at the the Flickr.com photo site for the first, July contest on the theme of “Junked or Forgotten Trucks/Trailers.” Check out Bob McGilvray’s runner-up “Rusy”  here to see the quality of the work sent in from around the nation (McGilvray’s been featured in […]
August 13, 2010
Mcgilvray
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Fitness and health to be big themes at GATS
Named for the laudable goal of launching truck drivers writ large past the statistical driver’s average age of death (less 61 years, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 years younger than the average American), the 61+ Driver Health Awareness Walk of 2010 will take place Aug. 28 at the Great American […]
August 11, 2010
Toohottotrot
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Original ‘Vince and Larry’ crash test dummies donated to Smithsonian
The U.S. Department of Transportation last month donated a number of “Vince and Larry” crash-test dummy costumes and related auto safety items to the Smithsonian Institution. You probably remember the PSAs from the 1980s, such as this one in which Larry convinces Vince to get out of bed in time for a crash test by […]
August 10, 2010
Seatbeltbrochure
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New ‘gold trucks’ vid from owner-operator Howard Salmon
Remember that little mention I made a few weeks back about my serendipitous meeting with past Overdrive Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon (pictured), the one where I talked about participating in a bit of a video experiment with him singing at the fuel island (I held the camera, don’t worry; he did all the […]
August 9, 2010
Dsc 0222
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12 big legs on 18 wheels
Cargo thieves in Quebec didn’t waste much time dumping a truck and trailer they lifted while in transit to an Ontario zoo June 18. Just 25 miles from where the rig was stolen, the trailer was spotted. The truck was found a few miles down the road. Ron Petrie creatively reconstructed the scene in the […]
August 6, 2010
Open Trailer
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NPR looks at truckers’ health issues and regulation
A radio story on regulators’ scrutiny of truckers health aired last week Friday for a larger than usual audience — on NPR by reporter Frank Morris out of station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. He introduced the heart — or stomach — of the story quickly: “Outside the Iron Skillet restaurant on I-70 east of […]
August 4, 2010
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Punt on the spicy pork rinds
Add pork rinds to a haul in the Pacific Northwest and you might find yourself with a sore foot and back and a charge of  “driving with wheels off the roadway,” or such was the case for a Mt. Vernon, Wash., hauler in July,  Washington State Trooper Keith Leary told reporters at the Bellingham (Wash.) Herald. […]
August 3, 2010
Porkrinds
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‘No Zone’ redux
A look at one of the “No Zone” safe-driving advocacy trailers.
July 28, 2010
No Zone
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Con-way Truckload driver pens ‘Semi Aware’ book for teen drivers
But it’s not just for teens, Toby Bogard says. The Crossville, Tenn., resident and seven-year Con-way Truckload company driver hopes all drivers can get something out of the Semi Aware book.
July 27, 2010
Semi Aware, by Toby Bogard
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‘Nice mouse, driver’
The folks at Avant Garde Gifts, LLC, offer the MotorMouse, a computer mouse of wireless design and in varying colors — and that looks like a sports car, as you can see (that the Porsche 911 you recognize). As company reps have it, it might well be a “great gift” for car lovers at Christmastime or […]
July 26, 2010
Whence the Class 8 mouse?
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From homeschooled in the cab to Harvard Law
Kerry Anderson may someday be the President of the United States. She’s got the educational pedigree, at least, having graduated from Harvard and now contemplating law school — what’s interesting about all this is that according to the feature interview NPR All Things Considered cohost Michele Norris conducted with Kerry Anderson Wednesday, Anderson is the daughter […]
July 23, 2010
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U.S. Army’s self-driving truck a long way from the action
Check out the latest edition of the DTI, or Defense Technology International, journal, and you’ll get an electronic whiff of the latest experiment in a self-driving truck — this one from Lockheed Martin and steered by the company’s Convoy Active Safety Technology, or CAST, being employed on a few prototype U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, […]
July 19, 2010
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