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Channel 19

Blacked out for the night?

How long before Class 8 trucks come equipped with SmartGlass technology? Lately making inroads in concept cars at auto shows around the world, the SPD-Smart window-tint technology by Research Frontiers enables a vehicle’s operator to, with the push of a button, apply varying degrees of tint to one or more windows to keep the outside […]

October 10, 2011

Channel 19

Former Overdrive editor, actor Charles Napier passes on

Character actor and former Overdrive editor Charles Napier passed away at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Napier’s perhaps best known for his role as one of the Good Old Boys in the Blues Brothers film as well as an intelligence officer in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Rambo: First Blood Part II. […]

October 7, 2011

Business

DEF locator app available

An Air1 diesel exhaust fluid locator app is available for free on Android smartphones, DEF maker Yara announced. Both the Android and iPhone apps will be updated monthly to account for any new retail partnerships and to incorporate additional user feedback, the Tampa, Fla.-based manufacturer said. The Air1 mobile locator application allows drivers to locate […]

October 7, 2011

Business

Pilot Flying J purchases, remodels Collins, Mo., stop

A recently acquired travel center at Highway 13 South and U.S. Highway 54 near Collins, Mo., is being remodeled and is expected to be finished the end of October, Pilot Flying J announced. The travel center chain recently acquired the truck stop.

October 7, 2011

Business

Love’s opens stop in Demotte, Ind.

Truckers who stop at the newly opened Love’s Travel Stop in Demotte, Ind., off I-65, Exit 230, will receive double points on loyalty cards through Nov. 6, the travel center said. The truck stop features an Arby’s restaurant, 118 truck spaces, DEF dispensers at the diesel islands, CAT scales, five showers, a game room and […]

October 7, 2011

Business

Actor was former trucker, Overdrive writer

Charles Napier was an Overdrive columnist in the early 1970s and appeared in several trucking movies and TV shows.

October 7, 2011

Channel 19

Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight

Truck Stop Missouri a ‘trucking ambassador’ in reality? After my interview posted yesterday with Joe Bechtold, General Manager of the Midway Truck Stop and Travel Plaza that is the subject of the Truck Stop Missouri TV show on the Travel Channel, a longtime commenter on the Channel 19 blog took issue with Bechtold’s characterization of […]

October 6, 2011

Business

Oct. 8: Truck drag races in Charlotte

If you’ve never seen Class 8 trucks roaring down a track, consider a trip to North Carolina for the Charlotte Diesel Super Show

October 6, 2011

Channel 19

A trucking ambassador: Interviewing ‘Truck Stop Missouri’ star Joe Bechtold

The Truck Stop Missouri series on the Travel Channel has been running for a couple of months now, featuring the goings on in and around the 12 business that make up the Midway Travel Plaza between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, I-70 exit 121. Midway General Manager Joe Bechtold (pictured) has seen his […]

October 5, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Wood production leads September growth

Manufacturing activity, and the economy in general, kept growing in September, though some related measurements tempered that good news. Wood Products was the leading manufacturing category reporting growth. The monthly analysis comes from the Institute for Supply Management, which also notes slower supplier deliveries and a contraction of new orders last month. The Purchasing Managers […]

October 3, 2011

Channel 19

Toolbox system made in the USA by and for owner-operators

Veteran owner-operator Jeff Zehrer of Minnesota (trucking since 1983) had long known the difficulty of finding the perfect-sized toolbox to fit in his sleeper’s side compartment. After 28 years of frustration, he decided to rectify the situation by designing his own. He wanted a toolbox that was sturdy, easily accessible, and could hold all his […]

October 3, 2011

Voices

Roadside Attractions

A trucking addict tells all, differential and transmission oil change intervals, truck nuts, how to get and keep the contract plus truck gallery are among the featured industry news items.

October 2, 2011