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Channel 19

R.I.P. Sheriff ‘Cottonmouth’ — Ernest Borgnine dead at 95

The trucking-film classic “Convoy” costar played a sherriff who used CB subterfuge in attempts to undermine a group of protesting haulers in the 1970s Sam Peckinpah flick.

July 9, 2012

Channel 19

PHOTOS: Tracked Land Rover put together by Bill Bradford

After I posted about South Pittsburg, Tenn.-based Bill Bradford’s immaculate Kenworth cabover last week, I got a note from Bradford about a vehicle he came across on YouTube after looking back over his own KW’s vid. Check out a couple pics of it below. You’ll recall I noted in this post that, though Bradford’s driven […]

July 6, 2012

Channel 19

Rapper 50 cent rear-ended by … a lesser-known Kool Keith track

Over on the Juice blog at Billboard’s website, word is rapper 50 Cent (pictured) collided with a Mack truck on the Long Island Expressway after the driver’s load shifted, causing him to lose control of the rig. (The driver was OK.) Many of you may remember 50’s “In Da Club” record from 2003, whose rolling […]

July 5, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Official issues warning on E15 fuel

A certain ethanol blend fuel reportedly can damage small engines in things such as generators, chain saws, lawnmowers, boats and motorcycles.

July 3, 2012

Voices

Roadside Attractions

A coffee cup collection, the weird case of Jabin Bogan, when patriotism turns to trouble and other interesting trucking industry items, plus Truck Gauges and Truck Gallery are featured.

July 3, 2012

Channel 19

Should HHG miles-based pay be illegal?

Owner-operator Jeff Clark, in the conference the Trucking Solutions Group organized Wed., June 20, with FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro (Clark is a TSG member owner-operator), presented Ferro with the discrepancy between household-goods miles and actual door-to-door miles. “The household goods miles system that we’re paid on is often fewer miles than we could legally make a […]

July 3, 2012

Overdrive Extra

The ‘Time Bandit’ electric cargo-strap roller

Sometime flatbedder and former small fleet owner Johnny White finds inspiration in day-to-day problems — that might not be the best way, however, to describe the occasion that spurred him on to his latest solution, the new TimeBandit electric cargo-strap winder (pictured). As he tells it, “I was up in St. Cloud, Minn., when it […]

July 3, 2012

Business

LogBook

Court rejects EPA’s Navistar exemption, expanded Overdrive coming in August, EOBRs among hot topics for agency, OOIDA challenging Minn. out of service criteria and more industry news items are featured.

July 2, 2012

Channel 19

Short haul v. long haul — Where do you stand?

Informal poll results from Overdrive‘s Facebook fans on the growing trend among owner-operators toward operation in short-haul applications.

July 2, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Midnight Cowboy Bill Mack back in the saddle

If you haven’t heard, the trucking radio giant is back on overnight radio via Willie’s Roadhouse on SiriusXM Channel 56, broadcasting Sunday through Friday in the midnight-3 a.m. Eastern time slot. A couple of years back, Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine interviewed Mack leading into Overdrive‘s 50th anniversary coverage. Check out the two vids below, a […]

July 1, 2012

Channel 19

10 benefits of EOBRs

In the wake of the EOBR mandate’s inclusion in the 2012 MAP-21 highway bill, this round-up comes by way of the people at Xata Turnpike, makers of the RouteTracker EOBR.

June 30, 2012

Channel 19

Some good news: Jason’s Law in the highway bill

In all the hubbub over the mandate for electronic onboard recorders included in the highway-bill language, it’s perhaps been easy to overlook some of better results for truckers and advocates, chief among them other language in the bill that, if it ultimately passes (as expected), brings to fruition nearly four years’ worth of advocacy that […]

June 29, 2012