Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 42

Trucking History

What a mustard seed of faith can do

Religious faith is the subject of two cover stories, the photos for which are in the photo gallery for covers on OverdriveRetro.

September 23, 2011

Business

Kenworth wins environmental award

Seattle-based Kenworth Truck Co. is one of 50 companies in Washington that Seattle Business magazine honored for reducing carbon emissions or improving the environment. The magazine’s Green Washington Awards include recognition of companies, government agencies and nonprofit outreach groups. The truck maker received the award for its aerodynamic trucks, compressed and liquefied natural gas trucks, […]

September 22, 2011

Channel 19

Truckers lobbied to support National Pork Rind Day

This wouldn’t be the salty snack’s first appearance on the Channel 19 blog. For that, we’d have to go back to August 2010, when a driver choked on one and his rig left the roadway — and didn’t spur mainstream media calls for a ban on eating behind the wheel. All the same, Ohio-based Rudolph […]

September 22, 2011

Channel 19

Has CSA hit you? And: DeFazio’s cross-border backlash

Today, a novel suggestion from the folks at J.J. Keller, who conducted a webinar yesterday aimed at providing carriers large and small with tools to combat the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, nearly a year into its history as the safety ranking system of record. This one has to do […]

September 21, 2011

Channel 19

New book explores first cross-continent truck trip

Many of you will be familiar with the 1919 military truck convoy that traversed the United States in an effort to test the efficacy of cargo trucks on the roads, or lack thereof, of the day. A Young Dwight Eisenhower was part of the convoy, and his experience of it is oft-cited as having a […]

September 19, 2011

Trucking History

A receptionist’s memories: Overdrive in Hollywood

Bonnie Robinson remembers Overdrive’s staff and offices in the 1970s.

September 16, 2011

Business

Truck exhibit hall expanding

Iowa 80 Trucking Museum’s exhibit hall is expanding by 21, 600 square feet to display more than 60 trucks, museum curator Dave Meier said. Part of the Iowa 80 Truckstop based in Walcott, Iowa, the exhibit hall will have air conditioning after the expansion is completed, which is expected to be in December 2012.

September 16, 2011

Business

Love’s opens Bennett, Colo., stop

A Love’s Travel Stop opened at Interstate 70, off Exit 304, in Bennett, Colo. Chester’s Chicken and McDonald’s restaurants operate at the truck stop, which also has 90 truck parking spaces, DEF dispensers at the diesel islands, CAT scales, five showers, a lotto machine and other amenities. A truck tire care center is located behind […]

September 15, 2011

Channel 19

R&L driver Sam Spradlin runs for Congress in Illinois

Sam Spradlin (pictured), driver on a pickup-and-delivery route for R&L Carriers, is taking some time off this month, but it’s no vacation. He’s gathering signatures needed to file to include himself on the ballot in the Republican primary for his home state’s newly redistricted 13th congressional district. He’ll be challenging 15th-district incumbent Republican Tim Johnson, who’s […]

September 15, 2011

Channel 19

New technology: Hydrogen-injection for fuel mileage boost

A Q&A in the Richmond (Virginia) BizSense magazine published Monday revealed an interesting new technology coming into the trucking world. Related to the hydrogen fuel-cell idea, the technology has been created by Marz Industries of Ashland, Va., BizSense reporter Michael Schwartz wrote. Marz Industries president Eddie Miller has been working on it for several years […]

September 14, 2011

Business

Last chance to apply for owner-operator contest

Overdrive and the Truckload Carriers Association will be naming the nation’s top owner-operator.

September 13, 2011

Channel 19

Overdrive’s Lucinda Coulter on Big Al’s show this week

Tune into Big Al Weekley’s Dipatch Me Home Radio streaming broadcast this week for an interview with Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter about the magazine’s 50th anniversary special coverage and her place in it. A prime place it is. Coulter headed up our Overdrive Retro website for more than a year preceding the anniversary issue, […]

September 13, 2011