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Partners in Business

PIB TIP: GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Owner-operators can

PIB TIP: GET WITH THE PROGRAM. Owner-operators can save an average of 6 cents per gallon when they are able to participate in major carriers’ discount fuel networks. If your fleet has a fuel-optimizer program, use it. An optimizer program helps an owner-operator plan a trip, based on fuel prices and locations in the carrier’s […]

December 14, 2010

Reader Rigs

Eddie Tucker of Cleveland, Tenn., hauls Humvees fo

Eddie Tucker of Cleveland, Tenn., hauls Humvees for the military in his 2006 Kenworth W900. The truck is powered by a 550-hp Caterpillar and a 13-speed transmission.

December 14, 2010

Channel 19

Scenes from the 2010 Rush Tech Skills Rodeo

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, this morning at the site of Rush Truck Centers’ fifth annual Tech Skills Rodeo, which pits 65 (out of more than 700 entering) of the truck dealer/service center network’s best diesel technicians against each other and a set of bugged vehicles. On the heavy-duty side of the competition, 15 techs […]

December 14, 2010

Business

December: Renamed CSA goes nationwide

The new federal safety program you’ve been hearing about all year expanded to all 50 states this week.

December 14, 2010

Business

Diesel price rises

The current price is the highest since $3.288 in October 2008.

December 13, 2010

Business

Arrow Trucking ex-employees closer to paychecks

A bankruptcy trustee has requested court approval to pay more than $1.97 million in priority wage claims to former employees.

December 13, 2010

Channel 19

Top road-trip songs at Custom Rigs, from Pioneer

Overdrive custom Class 8 dedicated magazine Custom Rigs recently reported news of Pioneer Electronics’ first-ever poll of its customers that asked for the best “Road Trip” song. Willie Nelson’s “On the road again” took top billing, while Pioneer reported, the guys were more likely to choose the the no. 2 track, “Born to be wild,” […]

December 13, 2010

Trucking History

Can’t take the trucking out of the girl

New Jersey native Cindy Cadiente appreciates her trucking heritage as the daughter of a former Independent Truckers Association president.

December 9, 2010

Channel 19

Custom Volvo Class 8 VHD pickup makes splash

Volvo Trucks is offering customers the experience of a lifetime at the company’s New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va., a little more interesting with the addition of a severe service model VHD built in modified pickup truck form. The bright orange, one-of-a-kind Volvo VHD chassis has a full-size crew cab and a pickup bed.  The […]

December 9, 2010

Channel 19

Fair or foul? Self-examination via the four-wheeler perspective

We’ve brought it up from time to time here, no doubt — no secret that the large majority of on-highway accidents involving large trucks follow an initial mistake made by the driver of a four-wheeled vehicle of one sort or another. By and large, truck drivers are justified in holding a desultory opinion of the […]

December 8, 2010

Channel 19

Wikileaks offers window into Iranian trucking community

However you feel about the WikiLeaks organization’s recent and ongoing release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables, there’s no doubt that many of the releases offer fascinating windows into the ways of world power — and more. Not least among the latter was the view a series of cables detailed at the Eurasianet.org site, dedicated to […]

December 7, 2010

Reader Rigs

Von Tompkins, a resident of Lee, Fla., owns and op

Von Tompkins, a resident of Lee, Fla., owns and operates the 2002 Peterbilt 379, powered by a 625-hp Cat and an 18-speed tranny, shown above. He pulls a step-deck trailer, hauling “anything I can possibly get on it,” he says, mostly in the Southeast. He recently painted his trailer to match his truck and added new […]

December 7, 2010