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Channel 19

Take CSA challenge: Win iPad, $5,000

The folks at Big Truck TV, in partnership with AT&T, have announced a competition taking applications from potential competitors, including you, through early February. “The CSA Challenge will comprise six challengers being chosen to compete over a two-month period,” or 10 weeks, says Michael Carpentier, Big Truck TV CEO. Each challenger will receive an iPad2 […]

December 10, 2011

Channel 19

Modest proposal: ‘Ban truck driving’

The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nation’s tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, including among them at the very end a reaction by driver Wayne Leverton to witnessing a state patrol officer in Washington State use both hands […]

December 9, 2011

Business

FTR index dips in October

Index softened primarily due to further delay in the issuance of revised hours-of-service regulations.

December 5, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Angry about trucking? Occupy your business

You might have noticed the powers that be are not striving to make your work environment more trouble-free next year. A new, and likely more restrictive, hours of service rule is expected. Carriers are steadily adopting electronic onboard recorders. More emissions-related regulations start in California during 2012, and medical certification will be more closely tied […]

December 4, 2011

Channel 19

Michigan excavators use doubles rig to fight MS

For almost half a decade, the Champagne & Marx Excavating excavating company, of Saginaw, Mich., has been hauling Michigan Specials — double-dump trailers capable of transporting 50 tons of payload — with a fleet of Kenworth T800s for road prep, foundation digging and other commercial and industrial projects. But, the company has also long been […]

December 4, 2011

Channel 19

Cumberland Collective: Road music to keep an ear out for

I had the rare opportunity to pay witness to a recording session Wednesday night in Nashville at Blackbird Studios — a group called the Cumberland Collective (a couple of members of which I’m familiar with via the folks-in-their-30s-with-kids-needing-an-occasional-babysitter circuit) had opened up the doors on the 45-track studio to turn the 10-hour session into something […]

December 3, 2011

Home

18 wheels, 12 months, 1 cool calendar

Don’t bother with fighting the crowds at shopping malls for ordinary consumer merchandise when you can find trucking-related gifts at the OverdriveOnline store.

December 2, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Factory freight finishing strong

Owner-operators with hauls tied closely to factory output should see good demand through year-end, based on today’s report from the Institute for Supply Management.

December 1, 2011

Channel 19

Air Force drivers haul the Iraq withdrawal

They’re “working overtime now with the 31 December deadline,” says Melissa Milner with U.S. Air Forces Central. Last week, she notified me of a special feature on their website detailing the hauling efforts of the Air Force’s 70th Medium Truck Detachment, charged with moving massive amounts of materiel out of Iraq before the end of […]

December 1, 2011

Channel 19

Power to win: Do you have it?

We know Sugar Ray Leonard’s got it. He delivered a “Power to Win!” keynote (pictured) to the 2011 VIPAR Heavy Duty Annual Business Conference, held in October in Tuscon. The network of parts distributors benefited well from Sugar Ray’s message, which drew parallels between the stores of various qualities it takes to run a successful […]

November 30, 2011

Channel 19

$50,000 reward for some missing …

They’ve been gone a few years — a grand total of 175 of them, mostly between the ages 3 and 7 years old now, according to a story published yesterday at the website of AgWeek. They were the property of cattleman James Larsen, whose father, incidentally, was a trucker. ATTENTION LIVESTOCK HAULERS: in two ads […]

November 29, 2011

Business

Revision of hours rule gets postponed again

FMCSA said that it expects to issue the final rule within the next 30 days.

November 29, 2011