Tag: Alabama tornadoes

Business

Logbook

Owner-operator pay to rise, researcher trashes hour studies, Shell selects SuperRigs trucks, groups push for safer trucks and many more industry news items are featured.

July 1, 2011

Business

Federal funds given for Alabama road repairs

An initial $1.5 million is immediately available to Alabama to pay for emergency repairs to highways damaged by tornadoes.

June 8, 2011

Voices

Roadside Attractions

Trying to outrunning a tornado, shipping alernatives, biking maps and sleep apnea are among the topics featured — plus Channel 19 and Truck Gallery.

June 3, 2011

Business

States eye fuel price gouging

Kentucky’s attorney general has accused Marathon Petroleum of fuel price gouging, while officials in other states warily eye the issue.

May 18, 2011

Channel 19

Braving the storm — two haulers’ Birmingham tornado stories

“I just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,” Overdrive Trucker of the Year Dan Heister told me this morning. Heister (pictured) was loaded heading south on I-65 bound for Saginaw, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, when he could see the big tornado that made its way into Cullman, Ala., around 3 p.m. that afternoon. “I […]

April 29, 2011