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Mack in Hagerstown, Jacobs share 50 years with Overdrive
Mack Celebrates 50 years of Hagerstown powertrain assembly In a ceremony Wednesday at the plant in Hagerstown, Md., where its powertrain components have been assembled since 1961, Mack Trucks paid tribute to the past, celebrated the present and cast a positive eye to the future, just as weāve been doing (well, mostly my colleague Lucinda [ā¦]
May 6, 2011
Channel 19
Analyst: Blame Fedās liquidity flood for high oil/diesel
The good news is that skyrocketing oil prices, like slasher movies, are truly frightening only the first time you watch one. They get less scary with repetition. But being less scary doesnāt change the basic facts. Markets need both hedgers and speculators to function properly. When they lose balance, they no longer function according to [ā¦]
May 5, 2011
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Ohio small fleet providing tornado relief
Buddy Allen of the 15-truck New Era Trucking fleet in North Ridgeville, Ohio, is calling on Northeast Ohio residents to help fill a 53-foot dry vanās worth of non-perishable food, water and other goods to haul south to assist residents affected by last weekās tornadoes. WKYC-TV News Channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, reported yesterday on [ā¦]
May 3, 2011
Channel 19
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts third; āTrucker bombsā a misnomer, police say
Penske Logistics IndyCar debuts in third A Penske Logistics-sponsored IndyCar, driven by Ryan Briscoe, made a position 4 start and no. 3 finish yesterday in theĀ Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300, presented by Nestle, on the exciting street track in the Brazilian capital. The new carās shown here undregoingĀ āfinal preparations for shipment to Brazil at the [ā¦]
May 2, 2011
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Tornado caught on owner-operatorsā webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick [ā¦]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
Braving the storm ā two haulersā Birmingham tornado stories
āI just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,ā 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. āI [ā¦]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. Iām based off-site in [ā¦]
April 28, 2011
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Popular Mechanics seeks āWorst Roadā nominations
Make your voice heard! No, Iām not talking about the proposed mandate of electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance (for more about that: comments are open through May 23). Popular Mechanics editors are seeking out the āworst road in the USA,ā they say at the magazineās website. Who better to nominate it than [ā¦]
April 27, 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, providingĀ drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcoreās DAT network, [ā¦]
April 26, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Analyst says trucking āinefficientā
Investment analysts, with their outsidersā viewpoint, often have some good insight into our industry. Other insights arenāt quite so astute. The Business Insider website, with its recent āTrucking running on fumesā analysis, offers this stark summary as an introduction to its commentary on rising fuel prices: Trucking is one of the most expedient, but also [ā¦]
April 25, 2011
Channel 19
The great tomato heist ā Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight
I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasnāt consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. āThe high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,ā reporter [ā¦]
April 25, 2011
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EOBRs controversy over the national airwaves missing extant/emerging solutions
Wednesday, National Public Radioās āMorning Editionā 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 [ā¦]
April 22, 2011
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