Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 45

Trucking History

1970s-era Overdrive staffer enjoyed storied past

Former Overdrive receptionist, Bonnie Robinson, remembers a storied past at the magazine, whose headquarters were once in Hollywood, Calif.

August 24, 2011

Channel 19

Driver loses vital organ at Kentucky hospital

Trucker Philip Seaton is locked in a battle with a Kentucky doctor whom it appears may be attempting to cover his tracks after amputating Seaton’s penis after finding cancer during a routine circumcision-type procedure to relieve inflammation — doing so without, apparently, telling Seaton he was doing it. That’s all I’ll say, aside from that […]

August 24, 2011

Overdrive Extra

What’s going on with owner-operator pay

Got a hour to spare? That’s all it would take to watch and listen to the webinar we did last week with Gordon Klemp on driver compensation. Klemp, head of the National Transportation Institute, has spent years tracking pay at mid-sized and large carriers. After talking with his fleet clients for the most recent survey, […]

August 23, 2011

Channel 19

From a left-coast operator on the Virginia quake

Thought I’d share a brief item related to the 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered between Charlottesville and Richmond, Va., and felt up and down the East Coast (including in my mother’s office as far South as Rock Hill, S.C.). A west-coaster posted on Truckers News‘ Facebook page a couple reminders of basic advice to haulers worried […]

August 23, 2011

Channel 19

Owner-operators remembering Chance Rogers at GATS

A fixture at truck shows for years with his owner-operator grandfather Jim Rogers, leased to Fikes, young Chance Rogers passed away July 11 after a long battle with bone cancer. Several owner-operators and drivers have banded together in the Truckers United for Charities group to honor Chance by raising money for a memorial fund in […]

August 23, 2011

Business

Aug. 26: Truckers to race at Dallas show

5K run shines spotlight on truckers’ health and demonstrates how even small changes to diet and exercise can result in big payoffs.

August 23, 2011

Channel 19

Long-haul literary: Former owner-operator’s memoir of the life

Marc Mayfield (pictured) didn’t set out to write a book when, after a lot of college – “some of it was wasted time,” he says — and several less-than-successful, half-hearted career choices, he jumped into a job choice he’d long ago entertained as a possibility. “I really enjoyed driving big trucks,” he says, which is […]

August 20, 2011

Trucking History

Cheers, stars launched the Great American Trucking Show

Randall-Reilly Publishing’s first Great American Trucking Show in Dallas had a spirited start in August 12 years ago.

August 18, 2011

Channel 19

Phone app for getting around GATS in Dallas next week

If you’re saying “Man I sure could have used that last year,” I can assure you you’re not alone. The new Great American Trucking Show app for various smartphone platforms, put together by the show’s owners (Randall-Reilly Business Media & Information, publishers of Overdrive) with Core Apps and sponsored the Cummins Engine Corp., puts an interactive, searchable map of […]

August 18, 2011

Channel 19

The future Lady McCartney’s trucking roots

Did you know the daughter of New England Motor Freight Chairman and CEO Myron Shevell also happens to hold the distinction of being engaged to none other than famous Beatle Sir Paul McCartney? It’s true, at least if we are to believe the New York Observer, who published a story about Shevell (pictured) and her […]

August 17, 2011

Voices

Keeping up with driver pay changes

Learn more about owner-operator and company driver compensation in a free one-hour webinar produced by Overdrive and Truckers News and sponsored by Freightliner Trucks.

August 16, 2011

Channel 19

The Keys Truckers’ ‘Letter to Capitol Hill’

File this one under “modest proposal.” Seems Keys Truckers Jan and James (pictured) McCarter are always involved when a nice slab of satire graces the blog here, not to mention good music. In any case, last week was a banner in both quarters. Amid the week’s run of comments surrounding our top-10 trucking songs poll […]

August 15, 2011