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Kathy Kelly of Parker, Colo., hauls construction m
Kathy Kelly of Parker, Colo., hauls construction materials, drill patch equipment and oversized loads in her 2007 Kenworth W900L. The truck has a 625-hp Caterpillar and an 18-speed transmission. The 27-year veteran owner-operator says she drives mostly in Coloradoâs mountains and in surrounding states.
October 12, 2010
Business
Sign-on bonus offered
Contractors who sign up with Roadrunner Transportation Services can earn incentive of up to $2,000 per quarter through October to Dec. 31, 2001. The incentives will be earned from operating in specific lanes and regions through a point-based system, said Mark Pluff, director of Roadrunner Transportation Services linehaul development. The Cudahy, Wis.-based carrier offers less-than-truckload, [âŚ]
October 12, 2010
Channel 19
Complimentary advertisement⌠and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC
Driver with a lens-load of cool Itâs been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, âI am also sending this to Geico Insurance.â He [âŚ]
October 8, 2010
Channel 19
âPersonal and poetic meditationâ on American trucking
The creators are art photographers Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido, a husband-wife team who a couple years back, NPR reported last week in their âPicture Showâ feature, took up the trucking life for a time to get a clearer understanding of the world. The result, a photographic exhibition at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New [âŚ]
October 7, 2010
Business
Freightliner hybrid to haul âMythBustersâ equipment
A 2010 Freightliner M2 106 hybrid dry van will haul equipment for the Discovery Channelâs show, âMythBusters,â Daimler Trucks North America announced. The business class hybrid is equipped with selective catalytic reduction emissions technology, an Eaton parallel hybrid-electric drive unit and is compliant with the Environmental Protection Agencyâs emission standards. For details go to Freightliner [âŚ]
October 7, 2010
Partners in Business
PIB TIP: THINK AERODYNAMIC. Snug the trailer tight
PIB TIP: THINK AERODYNAMIC. Snug the trailer tight to the tractor to cut down on wind resistance. The ride may not be as good, but the savings are worth the trade-off. Add features such as roof fairings, chassis fairings, cab extenders and aerodynamic mirrors. Mount air cleaners under the hood. Following these tips will help [âŚ]
October 6, 2010
Reader Rigs
St. Joseph, Tenn., resident Jerry Fox hauls steel
St. Joseph, Tenn., resident Jerry Fox hauls steel coils in his 20-year-old Peterbilt 379 extended hood. It is equipped with a 425-hp Caterpillar and geared by a 15-speed transmission. It has more than 2 million miles on it and is the only truck Fox has driven in the last 17 years. âBut itâs still making [âŚ]
October 6, 2010
Business
CC Industries buys Trail King
CC Industries Inc. purchased open deck and material hauling trailer maker Trail King Industries Inc., said Bill Crown, president and CEO of Chicago-based CC Industries. Trail King, with operations in Mitchell, S.D. and West Fargo, N.D., will operate as a stand-alone entity.
October 5, 2010
Channel 19
Pre-employment screening in the CSA 2010 era
Itâs not all about DAC anymore. With CSA 2010 carrier scores in six of the seven violation categories in CSA 2010 set to go public beginning in December, carrier attention to inspection reports has ramped up to a high level â for drivers, a primary piece of the regulatory puzzle in all of this is [âŚ]
October 5, 2010
Channel 19
A coffee for St. Christopher
What says trucking more than a good cup of coffee? Though I havenât done much coffee-related reporting since the March 2008 Truckers News story probing haulersâ coffee preferences, I suspect that with the turmoil weâve all seen in the economy since that time, the 16 percent of drivers reporting they made their own brew on [âŚ]
October 4, 2010
Home
Be the next Owner-Operator of the Year
Drivers can be nominated for the Overdrive Truckload Carriers Association Owner-Operator of the Year award through Oct. 29.
October 4, 2010
Channel 19
A driver so good the shipper gave him his own desk
Talk about burying the lead: The Osakis Review, a paper published from Osakis, Minn., ran a great profile of resident Larry Herzog (pictured, by Greta Petrich), who runs beef destined for McDonaldâs customersâ stomachs for carrier Hensley Trucking, also of Osakis. In the profile, Herzog spends due time stressing the difficulties he faces daily in [âŚ]
October 1, 2010
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