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Channel 19
Breaker-breaker: Thursday Channel 19 news round-up
Tonight on American Trucker on the Speed Channel: You The third episode of the second season of the American Trucker documentary show on the Speed Channel is called, simply, âIndependent.â It will explore, well, guess who? The episode runs at 10p.m. eastern time, with replays throughout the week. See the full schedule. Or if youâve [âŚ]
July 28, 2011
Channel 19
Visit the trucking museum at Iowa 80 and download a new app
If it happens youâre at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop today, be sure to visit the trucking museum. If youâre packing  a smartphone, scan the QR code with the phoneâs camera at the front desk to download a new app and you can go back there anytime you like â [âŚ]
July 15, 2011
Channel 19
Freight on your smartphone: TransCore app on the way
Coming in just a couple weeks is the My DAT Truck Stop app (pictured) from freight matching service provider TransCore, operator of the oldest load-board service out there in the DAT boards. My DAT will be initially released for Android phones, providing drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcoreâs DAT network, [âŚ]
April 26, 2011
Channel 19
EOBRs controversy over the national airwaves missing extant/emerging solutions
Wednesday, National Public Radioâs âMorning Editionâ program ran this piece on the issue of the proposed federal mandate for electronic on-board recorder use for hours-of-service monitoring. If it goes into effect, virtually all interstate haulers will be required to use an EOBR for logs. You can still comment on the proposed EOBR rule, through May [âŚ]
April 22, 2011
Channel 19
Truckster app âby and for driversâ
From the Maine Morning Sentinel newspaper comes news of the former hauler, 42-year-old Leigh Gagnon, who created and launched in 2009 the Truckster app for the iPhone and Android phones. Available for $3.99 in the Android market and iTune App Store, the multifunction app provides a searchable platform to the majority of truckstops the nation [âŚ]
April 19, 2011
Channel 19
TA Petro: âFor drivers by designâ
Last week when I wrote about my brief meet-up with expediters Phil and Diane Madsen, I mentioned the pairâs assessment of updated showers at TravelCenters of American locations systemwide, with particularly high marks for the La Vergne, Tenn., location where we met. As I noted in that post, the improvements were begun last year, as [âŚ]
April 18, 2011
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