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Channel 19

Wikileaks offers window into Iranian trucking community

However you feel about the WikiLeaks organization’s recent and ongoing release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables, there’s no doubt that many of the releases offer fascinating windows into the ways of world power — and more. Not least among the latter was the view a series of cables detailed at the Eurasianet.org site, dedicated to […]

December 7, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Ghosts of violations past

For owner-operator purposes, CSA 2010 started three years ago. That’s how far back your violations are taken into account.

December 7, 2010

Channel 19

Over the canyon rim — a grand, prize-winning truck driver’s photo — and more

This stunning view off the U.S. 89 bridge over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz., was shot by Gordon Trucking company driver Ron Nikirk, based in Oakland, Ore. Gordon becomes our fifth winner since we launched the contests in July via The Photographer: Truckers News Photo Group on Flickr.com, a development that followed nearly three […]

December 3, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Electronics makers cranking out freight

ISM says production of computers and other electronics led the way for manufacturing, which continued its rebound in November.

December 1, 2010

Channel 19

Retired long-haulers make folk-art metalwork strides

Long Neck, Del.-based Judy and Lou Hagen, according to the latest in the Delaware Cape Gazette’s “Saltwater Portraits” series of profiles of community residents, came to their current metalwork artistry while running long-haul through Georgia in 1999. They saw “a piece of crude metal art,” writes reporter Ron MacArthur. “We came home and did some […]

December 1, 2010

Channel 19

Street-sign replacement program put on hold for 45-day comment period

Federally mandated changes to the design of local/state governments’ corner road signs — requiring mixed capital/lower-case type treatment with more reflective lettering, in effect a complete overhaul of existing signs the nation over by 2018 — have been in the spotlight over the last couple days as a prime example of a wasteful culture in […]

November 30, 2010

Channel 19

Combating cargo theft: An interview with Schneider security director Walt Fountain

When I visited Schneider National’s Green Bay, Wis., headquarters in June for the carrier’s 75th-anniversary celebration, I got an up-close look at one of many efforts the company’s put in place over the years to enhance the security of its customers’ cargo in transit and at each of its 15 domestic facilities. Gate-security ground zero […]

November 26, 2010

Business

Groups’ lawsuit would block CSA 2010 carrier disclosure

At least three industry organizations are planning to file a lawsuit seeking to block or delay disclosure of certain data that could misrepresent carriers’ safety record.

November 23, 2010

Channel 19

‘Bird Business’ with owner-operator Larry Leckrone

32: The percentage of truckers who said in a recent poll that they would choose a carrier based on its ridealong pet policy. The number tracks closely to the 42 percent of haulers who said they did in fact run with a pet of some kind in the truck — computed as part of Truckers […]

November 23, 2010

Business

Freight 6.1 percent ahead of 2009

Year-to-date through October, seasonally adjusted tonnage is up 6.1 percent compared with the same period in 2009.

November 22, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook now live

You may have seen it out at the truckstops already, but if not, I thought I’d take a moment today to alert you to our CSA 2010 Driver’s Handbook, now online in an interactive digital version. Combining reporting from Overdrive and Truckers News editors (from myself to Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter and others) with […]

November 17, 2010

Business

Court rules against ATA to speed up port case

A federal court has denied the American Trucking Associations’ request to expedite its appeal in its lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles.

November 17, 2010