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Tackle, oil patch service and a joke: Channel 19 Thursday round-up

Win Bass Pro Shops gift certificate from VIPro TruckForce networkFor the fish-happy among you (weather’s been good for it over much of the nation, that’s certain), ongoing through the end of May, operators utilizing the VIPro TruckForce network of shops for maintenance can enter to potential win one of 25 $150 gift certificates to Bass […]

April 5, 2012

Business

Great Dane breaks ground on technology facility

Great Dane breaks ground on a research facility for the trailer maker’s engineering and design initiatives.

April 5, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Prime commanding lead in TCA weight-loss showdown

The Truckload Carriers Association’s Weight-Loss Showdown competition is now well into its 7th week, and results from the end of week 6 showed Springfield, Mo.-based, heavily owner-operator-focused carrier Prime Inc.’s personnel holding a relatively strong lead for the fourth week running, but with System Transport moving up a spot to second and gaining ground. Below […]

April 5, 2012

Business

How to avoid irregular tire wear

Make sure you’re aware of these six tips on getting the best wear from your tires, as advised by trucking radio host and Overdrive columnist Kevin Rutherford.

April 5, 2012

Channel 19

A note from Schneider on their Dallas facility

I received the note below just now from the folks at Schneider National. Luckily, none of the company’s personnel at their Dallas-area facility were injured or killed when yesterday’s tornadoes tore through, as has been reported elsewhere — and buildings on the property sustained no damage; personnel are back to work to day picking […]

April 4, 2012

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Get the Xtra Lease size/weight guide in free download

I first came across Xtra Lease’s wonderfully comprehensive annual size and weight guide back in late 2010, when covering the grand opening of the company’s new Nashville terminal location, following the flooding that made its old location on the banks of the Cumberland River a wreck. The guide is a great resource, not only for […]

April 4, 2012

Business

Great Dane opens reefer plant in Statesboro, Ga.

The Great Dane refrigerated trailer manufacturing plant Tuesday, April 3, opened for production little more than a year after breaking ground at the Statesboro, Ga., site. Dignitaries cut ribbon to celebrate the event. Production will begin with one line and is planned to expand to a second line and shift later this year.  At full […]

April 3, 2012

Business

Atlas offers jobs, bonuses

Drivers who sign on by May 1 will receive a $5,000 bonus as part of Shuttle Fleet’s launch, Atlas Van Lines announced of a plan to fill more than 100 driving jobs by June. Through a new DriveAtlas initiative, the moving goods company is also offering a lease-to-purchase tractor program for new owner-operators and […]

April 3, 2012

Business

Epes ups driver pay 7 cents for Northeast deliveries

Drivers for Epes Transport System are eligible to earn a 7-cent pay increase per loaded mile for loads delivered to the Northeast, the Greensboro, N.C.-based carrier announced. States to which the increase applies are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The District of Columbia is […]

April 3, 2012

Channel 19

Bee haulers: Michigan needs you

If Mark Longstroth, writing in the Western Farm Press last week, is right, early Spring growth over much of the U.S. East and Midwest has bee haulers in overdrive trying to keep up with demand for hives to pollinate fruit trees in groves far and wide. “Most of the bees that pollinate Michigan fruit crops […]

April 3, 2012

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Cubby Buddy toolbox maker’s new storage system for load bars

Hensley Inc.-leased owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (pictured), with a Great Dane dry van and Freightliner tractor and a unique line of tool-box systems for owner-operators you may well recall me writing about here back in January, has added yet another patent-pending storage system to the repertoire of his growing Cubby Buddy side business. The business and Zehrer […]

April 2, 2012

Business

The beauty and power of a goal

Since I decided to write a book, long put-off tasks are suddenly getting done.

April 2, 2012