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Partners in Business

PIB TIP: MAINTAIN TIRE PRESSURE. To reduce rolling

PIB TIP: MAINTAIN TIRE PRESSURE. To reduce rolling resistance, check the tire air pressure in all 18 tires and fill them up at least weekly to the manufacturer’s specifications. The trailer tires may belong to your carrier, but why pay the extra cost of pulling a trailer with under-inflated tires? The Partners in Business program […]

October 26, 2010

Reader Rigs

Rusty Allen of Monroe Township, N.J., hauls genera

Rusty Allen of Monroe Township, N.J., hauls general commodities in the Northeast with his 2000 Freightliner classic, shown in the photo. The rig is equipped with a 430-hp Cat and a 10-speed Rockwell tranny. Allen added LED lights to all four sides, aftermarket half-fenders, mud flaps and a 16-in. drop visor.

October 26, 2010

Business

Friday: Deadline for trucker award nomination

The nomination deadline has been extended to Oct. 29 for the 2011 Overdrive TCA Owner-Operator of the Year.

October 26, 2010

Business

Spot freight up in September

TransCore’s spot freight index reached the highest level for the month since 2005.

October 26, 2010

Business

ACT: Used truck prices increase 3 percent

The number of units sold declined by 5 percent during September as dealers reported a tighter supply of late-model equipment.

October 26, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking’s newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .

A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. We’ve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery drivers’ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers […]

October 26, 2010

Overdrive Extra

When the Midnight Cowboy changed his name

Renowned trucking DJ Bill Mack hadn’t planned on being a liaison between spouses when he went on the air decades ago, but he learned that when you open the phone line for truckers and their families, you never know what to expect.

October 25, 2010

Business

N.Y. reps push to reopen cross-border trucking

Nine New York congressional representatives have asked President Obama to resolve the trade dispute with Mexico after it imposed new tariffs on apple exports to Mexico. Democrat Reps. Michael Arcuri, Scott Murphy, Maurice Hinchey, Bill Owens, Dan Maffei, Paul Tonko, John Hall and Louise Slaughter, along with Republican Rep. Chris Lee made the request after […]

October 24, 2010

Business

TCA changes stance to favor higher truck weights

The Truckload Carriers Association now supports increasing the allowable truck weight from 80,000 to 88,000 pounds.

October 23, 2010

Channel 19

Allen Smith, others at Memphis Trucking Expo Oct. 23

It’s a banner month for first-time trucking shows in my home state of Tennessee. After Nashville last week, not to be outdone, of course, is Memphis, the site of the first annual Memphis Trucking Expo, presented by the folks at Worldwide Transport and Permit Service. If you missed Jan McCarter and Doug Jones (pictured) in […]

October 22, 2010

Channel 19

How much of your business goes to the trash?

The folks over 40mpg.org, the site of an advocacy organization working to make “40 miles per gallon the standard for all automobiles in the United States,” makes note of recent automakers’ trumpeting of operations changes making certain of their U.S. plants zero-waste facilities, most notably Subaru and Honda. Which sent my computational brain into immediate […]

October 21, 2010

Overdrive Extra

So you want a good deal on a low-mileage truck…

Sales of trucks, like everything else, slumped badly during the recession. Now there’s a shortage of used trucks in the sweet spot of four to five model years old, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

October 20, 2010