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Get jiggy with your riggy and win $1,000
The website Jiggyjobs.com has a quirky contest ongoing in their âGet jiggy in your riggyâ promotion. Potential entrants, be warned: it requires you to dance on a YouTube vid for the world to see. Check out the full rules at the end of the announcement company video below, and then to enter, post your 10-30-second [âŚ]
October 25, 2011
Channel 19
The limits of social media: More drivers needed in Washington meeting rooms
The final moments of the panel discussion between attendees and presenters during the Truck Driver Social Media Convention in Tunica, Miss., Oct. 15, brought the point of the whole enterprise into inspired relief. Frederick Schaffner of TheAmericanDriver.com, whom you may be familiar with for his part in leading efforts with others to change the Virginia [âŚ]
October 21, 2011
Channel 19
A fine day for some trucking music, donât you think?
A couple great vids to share today, folks. The first comes from an owner-operator born in 1934 whoâs been driving a truck for 63 years. âIâve heard thereâs two guys out here who are as old as I am, but they havenât been out here as long as I have,â owner-operator/singer-songwriter R.C. Barnes (pictured) told [âŚ]
October 20, 2011
Business
Marten ups pay 5 cents per mile
Owner-operatorsâ pay has been increased 5 cents per mile for hauls 151-800 miles, Mondovi, Wis.-based Marten Transport announced. This rate increase is the third such made in the last five months. For details, visit Marten Transport Ltd.
October 19, 2011
Channel 19
Memphis expo and Nashville show this weekend
Outreach, education in Memphis I had the good fortune of meeting Niki Brown and her husband, independent owner-operator Steve Nelson, this past weekend at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention (if you missed my reporting from the event, find two stories here and here) in Tunica, Miss., due south of their Memphis home base. Theyâre [âŚ]
October 19, 2011
Channel 19
Rockinâ down the highway with new Bell seat covers
The Bell Automotive company is now offering seat covers that bring to mind my teenage trips to Myrtle Beach, S.C., state of my rearing, when I spent several years infatuated with the many (and I do mean many) t-shirt shops specializing in the heavy-hair-metal bands of the day. Some of those shirts survive buried in [âŚ]
October 18, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Retailâs rebound bodes well for holidays
The economyâs still sputtering, but it looks like there will be lots of freight through the holidays. At least consumer goods and other cargo related to retail sales are doing well, based on recent reports.
October 14, 2011
Channel 19
Foiling the truck-hackers, winning the triathlon
Whatâs next, âTruckhacking?â If this doesnât lend new urgency to the technical standards FMCSAâs mulling for EOBRs, I donât know what does. Craig Trudell reported yesterday in Bloomberg BusinessWeek on a team of âcarhackingâ researchers out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington, who found during a study that they [âŚ]
October 14, 2011
Business
Ailing driver gets emergency help
An IdleAir employee helped resuscitate a trucker with CPR after he collapsed at a Jackson, Ga., truck stop, IdleAir spokesman Jeffrey Maurer said. While two other drivers assisted the trucker, the employee, identified only as Amanda, administered CPR until paramedics arrived. The driver was transported to a hospital soon after that and was later reported [âŚ]
October 14, 2011
Channel 19
Tony Justice among performers Saturday at driver convention
Iâm excited about seeing East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and songwriter Tony Justice make his driver-event debut Saturday at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention in Tunica, Miss., on Saturday. Iâve heard him play before, as the vids below are evidence of, but at the show heâll be with a full band of seasoned Nashville [âŚ]
October 13, 2011
Channel 19
âTrucker Toolsâ app continues expansion from coupons to comprehensive on-highway resource
The Truck Stop Coupons app, which debuted for the iPhone and Blackberry devices quite some time ago, quietly gained more and more functionality as time passed by â from real-time fuel prices for the comprehensive locator for diesel-fuel sellers embedded within it to searching functionality for truck stops according to their amenities offered. Now, the [âŚ]
October 12, 2011
Channel 19
Bob âCowpokeâ Martin passes on
It is with sadness I bring news to you today of a longtime operatorâs passing. Though itâs been years since I spoke to him â and then only briefly â the memory of the conversations I had with Indiana-based Bob Martin (on the occasion of his win of the 2007 $50,000 truck makeover on the [âŚ]
October 11, 2011
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