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Channel 19

Driver-led health walk at MATS; video interview with O/O Dick McCorkle

At the “It’s a Teams Life” blog home of expediters Bob and Linda Caffee, you’ll find all manner of good information about the business of trucking, from the singular point of view of this versatile and experienced couple. But a recent item caught my attention, as it reminded me of three fairly recent conversations I’ve had with […]

March 11, 2010

Reader Rigs

Bruce Smith of Kilgore, Texas, hauls frac sand loa

Bruce Smith of Kilgore, Texas, hauls frac sand loaded in this Stevens 2008 pneumatic tanker, pulled by this 2009 Peterbilt 389. It is powered by a 600-hp Cummins and an 18-speed Eaton Fuller. Southern Transport owner Thomas Ivy owns the truck.

March 10, 2010

Channel 19

Watermelon Slim’s on-the-road ‘Escape From the Chicken Coop’

Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And “I was an above-average harp player,” he says of his early years making music, his first record of work-song blues coming out in 1972. But when he hears what young blues players like Craig Lawler and Jason Ricci can […]

March 8, 2010

Business

Watermelon Slim performs the blues

Former trucker Bill Homans performed in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

March 8, 2010

Business

TCA teams with independent truckers’ group

The new affinity program with NAIT is part of TCA’s ongoing effort to help its members attract and retain professional drivers.

March 4, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 — questions of accountability, fairness

A video interview with driver Steve Bugg about this Georgia-based carrier’s experience in the CSA 2010 pilot test program. CSA 2010, set to go online nationwide, changes the model for safety rating and enforcement in many ways for both carriers and drivers. Bugg questions the very basis of the program, at the same time acknowledging the legitimacy of his carrier’s new strict approach to driver speeding warnings, tickets and more, given the new regime.

March 4, 2010

Business

TCA announces contest winners

Boyd Bros. Transportation and Dart Transit won top awards the best fleets for company drivers and owner-operators, respectively, to work for in the Truckload Carriers Association Best Fleets to Drive For contest.

March 3, 2010

Channel 19

The costs of waiting out the storm

Beth Brelje, writing in the Pocono Record of Pennsylvania, visited with several truckers waiting out a snowstorm in a Wal-Mart parking lot off I-84. Such waits have been legion for the nation’s haulers this season, with record amounts of snowfall hitting places where a snow deluge is not such a common thing. It may be […]

March 1, 2010

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Truck driver/author Tim Costello remembered in NY Times

I missed the news of the passing Tim Costello (pictured) in late December last year. Coming across it via the website of the New York Times, which had ran a nice roundup in the paper of his life and work, I’m struck as always by what so many individual haulers are able to accomplish in addition to keeping […]

February 26, 2010

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Ruan Transport founder remembered at memorial ceremony

The $2 bill, you may not have known, was a calling card of Ruan Transport founder John Ruan, who passed away at age 96 on Sunday, Feb. 14, and was remembered fondly by many in a lighthearted tribute ceremony in Des Moines attended last week Thursday by more than 600 people. After the celebration, reported […]

February 25, 2010

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Word from the Magic Man: ‘Let’s get this show on the road’

In the November issue of Truckers News, my editor and colleague Randy Grider wrote about Michael Mooney (pictured) in his lead column, “Magic Man.” Mooney, a performer based in Cartersville, Ga., is deft with all manner of magician’s tricks, but he also has a compelling story to tell, which he never misses the opportunity to do. One […]

February 24, 2010

Business

Highway Service Ventures under independent ownership

Highway Service Ventures, based in Ashland, Va., is now operating its four truck stops on the East Coast under the HSV Plazas brand. For the last 25 years, the truck stops were owned by a national chain. The four HSV Plazas are located at Elkton, Md. (Interstate 95 Exit 109 A), Ruther Glen, Va. (I-95 Exit […]

February 23, 2010