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Channel 19

Big Idaho Potato Tour peels out behind T660 drives

More trucking news here emerging from the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl like a shoot from a half-pound baker left on the windowsill. You’ll recall my post about the fine salute Women in Trucking delivered to the females of our industry during the televised contest — and now, check out the giant re-creation of one of […]

December 28, 2011

Channel 19

New vids from owner-operator/songwriter Howard Salmon

I caught up with Howard Salmon at the TA in downtown Nashville a couple weeks back now — it’d been more than a year since the last time we’d been able to meet up, and he had much to tell. His independent trucking business, hauling in a 1999 Kenworth W900 with a reefer and loading […]

December 26, 2011

Channel 19

Truck Centers Inc.’s Christmas food drive a success

Freightliner/Western Star dealer network Truck Centers Inc. recently hosted a first-ever food drive for the St. Louis area’s largest food suppliers for shelters and food banks, Operation Food Search (OFS). The company’s Troy, Ill., headquarters kicked off a one-month can drive for OFS, also a TCI customer since the recent economic downturn has resulted in […]

December 23, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Be ready for second year of CSA

CSA’s first year might have seemed benign to you, but it’s still warming up. Be prepared for a closer acquaintance in 2012.

December 22, 2011

Business

Pick the rig with best Christmas spirit

Cast your vote for the truck that’s best decked out for the Christmas season.

December 22, 2011

Channel 19

A&E’s new ‘Shipping Wars’ series trailer vid — and the operators featured

There’s a new reality-TV series coming January 10, with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m., EST and PST, to the A&E network. You may have heard a little about it already here in Overdrive. The trailer vid for the Shipping Wars show is embedded below, and I thought I’d take a moment to introduce […]

December 21, 2011

Channel 19

Drivers’ safety conversation continues

If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]

December 20, 2011

Channel 19

A turn in the road for owner-operator R.C. Barnes

Since I shared his “Old Glory” video here on the blog, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the man behind the vid: R.C. Barnes ultimately might have more experience behind the wheel of a trucking business than any other hauler on the highway today. “I’ve heard there’s two guys out here who are […]

December 18, 2011

Channel 19

Trucking salute to appear during the Idaho Potato Bowl on ESPN today

If it so happens you’re watching the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl college football matchup this afternoon between MAC and WAC conference standouts the Ohio University Bobcats and the Utah State Aggies, respectively, you’ll get a treat in a 30-second commercial promoting women in the trucking industry, says the Women in Trucking Association. The association, with […]

December 17, 2011

Channel 19

Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban won’t work

As if hearing the plethora of truck drivers’ objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem of motorist distraction on the highways, the National Transportation Safety Board formally recommended that all personal electronic devices be banned from use while […]

December 15, 2011

Channel 19

Modest proposal: ‘Let regulators have what they want’

Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wenners’ modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, “ban truck […]

December 12, 2011

Channel 19

Webb Wheel on Motorhead Garage TV this morning

Looking for a little extra wheel maintenance know-how? Tune into Webb Wheel’s television debut this morning during a Motorhead Garage TV episode on Fox Sports Network (FSN) Sunday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 a.m., re-airing Monday, Dec. 12 at 4:30 p.m., all time zones. You’ll recall prior appearances of fifth-wheel makers Jost as well as Hendrickson […]

December 11, 2011