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Vegas Pride & Polish awards Saturday
One of the biggest attractions of the June 9-11 Great West Truck Show is the Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish truck beauty show.
June 10, 2011
Michael Most's Legends & Heroes, a 1998 Freightliner Classic, won Best of Show Working Bobtail at the 2010 Great West Truck Show.
Channel 19
Hardage custom combo unit gets final fix
You might remember Jeff Hardage, owner of the J&C Investments small fleet, based in Garland, Texas, if you’ve been paying any attention whatsoever to the news coming out of the Pride & Polish competitions at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas the past several years. Most recently, I wrote about Hardage’s son Eric’s 1963 […]
June 9, 2011
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Channel 19
Custom rig as educational shuttle — a Mack contribution to the space program
It’s not as big as its sister ships. Nor has it ever gone into orbit. But for more than two decades, the Shuttle Blake has served a very important mission — educating students about space exploration.  Mack Trucks has been part of the story all along. In the early 1980s Bob Boehmer, a teacher at […]
June 8, 2011
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Channel 19
Final season one episode of American Trucker on Speed Channel this Thursday
If you missed the news two weeks back, the final episode of the first season of American Trucker on the Speed Channel will features the production crew’s documentation of the last mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery and, more particularly, the trucks that are front and center in preparations for the journey. Among them are […]
June 7, 2011
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Business
Three-day Roadcheck blitz planned
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will hold Roadcheck, its annual vehicle inspection program, June 7-9.
June 6, 2011
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Channel 19
Amsoil now on the marquee at Wisconsin dirt track
Synthetic oil manufacturer Amsoil, with a significant presence in the trucking industry, continues its support of dirt track racing in the Midwest as the new title sponsor of the Superior Speedway in its home city of Superior, Wis., at the Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds on the south end of the city. The sponsorship agreement […]
June 3, 2011
Amsoil Speedway
Channel 19
Driving Miss Crazy shoots straight
Just how Birmingham News “Driver’s Side” traffic columnist Ginny MacDonald settled on the handle Driving Miss Crazy is something of a mystery. But like the friendship that evolved between the black chauffeur and the elderly Jewess in the film the handle plays on, the moniker smacks of a magnificent sense of humor. And that’s something […]
June 2, 2011
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Business
What a woman says and what she really means!
Dear Carolyn, My girlfriend is obviously mad at me. Every time I ask her what’s wrong, she’s says, “nothing.” Why can’t a woman just say what she means? When she say’s “nothing,” I say, “fine.” Bruce Dear Bruce, How’s that working out for ya? You can tell how mad a woman is by how fast […]
June 1, 2011
Channel 19
On Memorial Day: A trucker to remember
Minnie Spotted Wolf never encountered combat in World War II, yet she blazed trails as, most likely, the first Native American woman to serve in the Marines – as a truck driver, nonetheless. A stretch of U.S. 89 now bears her name
May 30, 2011
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Channel 19
Trucking continues coming to Joplin aid
The stories about relief efforts in Joplin keep coming in. Before I get to a couple more, I thought I’d take a moment to note that I will be out of the office through June 7, though Channel 19 will continue to bring all manner of side routes and byways into the industry in my […]
May 27, 2011
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Driver accountability under CSA: a video talk with owner-operator Robert Shumate
I met Robert Shumate researching my two-part feature on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, in the April and May editions of Overdrive. In the vid, selected from the in-person portion of our interview, conducted at the Rush Truck Centers location in Nashville where Shumate had stopped in on his way […]
May 26, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
A possible windfall for independents
If you’re independent, there could be some real opportunities if your bigger competitors don’t have the capacity – the trucks and drivers – to handle what could be a big influx of freight.
May 25, 2011
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