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Business

Hornady buys new ProStar+ tractors

Forty new International ProStar+ tractors equipped with MaxxForce engines will be in service in March, Monroeville, Ala.-based Hornady Transportation LLC announced. The tractors’ engines get about 7 miles per gallon and the trucks have set-front back axles and automotive style controls. Cruise control, engine compression brakes, air horn and radio controls are located on the […]

February 15, 2012

Channel 19

Virtues of owner-operator status: Pet boarding problems avoided

Company drivers, be careful who you leave your dog with. Today’s “grizzly tale” comes by way of Jenni Reynolds-Kebler, one half of a Washington State-based team with Robert Kebler and past-featured photographer in Truckers News. The Keblers recently switched carriers, signing on as company drivers with a carrier that had a no-pet policy. Too bad […]

February 15, 2012

Business

Fikes offers compensation incentive

Owner-operators who supply their own trucks, trailers and tags are eligible to earn 80 percent of gross revenue, Hope, Ark.-based Fikes Truck Lines and FTL Custom Commodities announced. For current contractors, that amount represents an increase of 2 percent to 5 percent, says Jim Honea, Fikes operations vice president. Visit Fikes Truck Lines for details. […]

February 14, 2012

Business

Four areas that affect fuel saving

Overdrive’s Dollars & Sense columnist Kevin Rutherford explains how fuel-saving devices have to make a difference in at least one of four areas to be effective.

February 14, 2012

Channel 19

A ride with SuperCross transporter driver Loren Lowry

When Loren Lowry got his CDL in 1990 to take work hauling for Washington, D.C.-area beer distributors, he couldn’t have predicted his ultimate destiny in trucking lay on the long-haul highway. What could have been more predictable, however, was that that long-haul work would be of a piece with one of the now 46-year-old’s passions […]

February 13, 2012

Business

Panther offers sign-on bonus

Owner-operator team drivers of tractors and straight trucks can get sign-on bonuses of up to $15,000, Seville, Ohio-based Panther Expedited Services announced. Top bonus pay will go “to tractor teams and straight truck teams who have their hazmat endorsement, passports and a secret security clearance,” Panther Director of Recruiting Kyle Mitchin said. The bonus is […]

February 13, 2012

Channel 19

World’s Toughest Trucker — premiering on Discovery Monday

Since I wrote briefly last Friday about this TV show, one in a long line of trucking shows to have debuted over the last year, I’ve garnered a little more info. Not least among it is the fact that Overdrive‘s own new blogging owner-operator, Landstar expediter Phil Madsen, was himself approached last year by the […]

February 10, 2012

Channel 19

New iPhone app from Load Delivered Logistics 3PL

Carriers utilizing the Load Delivered Logistics provider for loads now have access to the company’s freight pool via an iPhone and iPad app that the company says provides not only the ability to view and bid on available freight but includes robust filtering tools. Carriers can search for shipments by using a variety of criteria, […]

February 9, 2012

Business

Baylor Trucking raises driver pay

Company drivers can make up to 44 cents per mile in a fleet-wide pay increase, Milan, Ind.-based Baylor Trucking Inc. announced. The carrier also started a minimum of $1,000 weekly on Feb. 1. In business for 67 years, the carrier has terminals in Indiana and Tennessee and serves areas east of the Mississippi River. The […]

February 9, 2012

Business

Con-way offers incentive plans

A new lease-purchase plan and a guaranteed team driver pay plan are being launched, Joplin, Mo.-based Con-way Truckload announced. The so-called Destination Ownership program allows drivers who are in good standing and have one year’s service with the carrier to buy a fleet trade truck at low cost or through an affordable leasing program. The […]

February 9, 2012

Business

Alliance starts fantasy race league

Truckers can enter weekly challenges to predict top 10 finishers in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series with a possibility of wining $100,000 for perfect predictions, Alliance Truck Parts announced. The fantasy racing league contest is one of several promotions the Daimler Trucks North America parts franchise is offering in its sponsorship of the No. 12 Dodge Challenger […]

February 9, 2012

Business

Trucker wins Lucas motorcycle

Enright Ranch & Supply driver Randy Brundige, of Irwin, Mo., won a Lucas RSD 250 Pro-Street motorcycle, America’s Best Truck Stops said of the grand prize in the 2011 AMBUCK$ contest. Brundige’s winning transaction with the truck stop’s loyalty card on July 24 at Huck’s Travel Center in Kuttawa, Ken., was one of nearly two […]

February 8, 2012