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NPR looks at truckers’ health issues and regulation

A radio story on regulators’ scrutiny of truckers health aired last week Friday for a larger than usual audience — on NPR by reporter Frank Morris out of station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. He introduced the heart — or stomach — of the story quickly: “Outside the Iron Skillet restaurant on I-70 east of […]

August 4, 2010

Business

Averitt receives St. Jude award

Averitt Express recently was recognized as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Employee Giving Partner of the Year.

August 3, 2010

Channel 19

Punt on the spicy pork rinds

Add pork rinds to a haul in the Pacific Northwest and you might find yourself with a sore foot and back and a charge of  “driving with wheels off the roadway,” or such was the case for a Mt. Vernon, Wash., hauler in July,  Washington State Trooper Keith Leary told reporters at the Bellingham (Wash.) Herald. […]

August 3, 2010

Business

Truckers fined for using Rhode Island bridge

Carriers are getting fined up to $3,000 and drivers $85 for not detouring around the I-95 Seekonk River crossing.

August 2, 2010

Channel 19

Custom heavy haul: Introducing Modern Machinery Movers

Clark Tucker opened his Indianapolis-based small fleet Modern Machinery Movers as a single-truck operation in 2002 to capitalize on heavy-haul opportunities in the wind-energy sector, a move that has proved fruitful. Today he employs 10 drivers. “Growing up on a farm, I bought my first truck, a 1946 Dodge, and never looked back,” says Tucker. […]

August 2, 2010

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Con-way Truckload driver pens ‘Semi Aware’ book for teen drivers

But it’s not just for teens, Toby Bogard says. The Crossville, Tenn., resident and seven-year Con-way Truckload company driver hopes all drivers can get something out of the Semi Aware book.

July 27, 2010

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From homeschooled in the cab to Harvard Law

Kerry Anderson may someday be the President of the United States. She’s got the educational pedigree, at least, having graduated from Harvard and now contemplating law school — what’s interesting about all this is that according to the feature interview NPR All Things Considered cohost Michele Norris conducted with Kerry Anderson Wednesday, Anderson is the daughter […]

July 23, 2010

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Suvey says DOT’s happy, how ’bout you?

We couldn’t help but chuckle here at Overdrive HQ when we saw a particular press release blast from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s halls a couple weeks back now. Its title, “Latest Survey Shows DOT Employee Satisfaction on the Rise,” read to our trucking ears like a piece of news full of all manner of comic, […]

July 22, 2010

Business

Spot freight up year over year

TransCore’s North American Freight Index for June showed a 112 percent increase in spot market freight availability.

July 20, 2010

Business

Agency proposes agricultural hours exemption

The two-year, limited exemption would apply to drivers transporting anhydrous ammonia in agricultural operations.

July 20, 2010

Channel 19

U.S. Army’s self-driving truck a long way from the action

Check out the latest edition of the DTI, or Defense Technology International, journal, and you’ll get an electronic whiff of the latest experiment in a self-driving truck — this one from Lockheed Martin and steered by the company’s Convoy Active Safety Technology, or CAST, being employed on a few prototype U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, […]

July 19, 2010

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News flash: Owner-operator likes electronic logs

Jeffersonville, Ind.-based owner-operator Perry Famularo says he “was one of those guys who said, ‘If you make me go to electronic logs, I’m out of here.’” Leased to Dart Transit, though, he was presented with the opportunity a couple years ago to try out one of the PeopleNet eLogs units the mostly owner-operator carrier was beginning to test and offer its […]

July 16, 2010