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Business

Daimler engines rated high

Daimler Trucks North America, based in Redford, Mich., ranked highest in satisfaction among drivers of trucks with heavy-duty engines.

April 9, 2010

Channel 19

Mack plant on ‘American Loggers’ tonight

The Discovery Channel’s ‘American Loggers’ series, as you may remember, features in part the Pelletier Logging family, whom I last wrote about here when their friendly business rivals the Crawfords’ played one particularly funny battery-powered prank on them of an early March morning. Before that, I happened upon pictures from the Discovery crew’s filming at […]

April 2, 2010

Business

FMCSA adjusts recorder mandate

FMCSA’s rule requires onboard recorders for carriers shown in a single audit to be in serious hours-of-service noncompliance.

April 2, 2010

Business

CSA 2010 rollout partially delayed by a year

Full implementation of CSA 2010 will be delayed to 2011, says the American Trucking Associations.

April 2, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Factories humming; inventories start growing

Today’s report on manufacturing shows it expanded in March for the eighth consecutive month, says the Institute for Supply Management, which does a monthly survey of supply executives. The good news mirrors what many in the trucking industry have said in recent weeks about freight demand – and driver demand with it – picking up. […]

April 1, 2010

Channel 19

New play brings ‘respect’ for drivers to the stage

“It’s been more than 30 years since Hollywood had White Line Fever,” wrote Denver Post Theater Critic John Moore in this article, “‘Diesels’ Fuels Respect for Truck Drivers,’ about the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of their in-house-written new play, “Mama Hated Diesels,” that premiered March 25 and is running through early May at the Stage Theater in Denver. And, Moore […]

April 1, 2010

Channel 19

J marks the spot: Running with Jazzy in Nashville, Tenn.

Or, actually, Donelson and Hermitage, both part of Metro Nashville, and then into Mt. Juliet briefly on a trek that was a personal best for me in terms of uninterrupted, long-distance running. I achieved 4.6 miles over the course of the first 50 minutes Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan ran Tuesday morning. The 17-year-old is on her way […]

March 31, 2010

Channel 19

Don’t miss the ‘Class Act’ on the show lot at MATS

“Class Act,” a 1995 Peterbilt 379 (pictured) in the Paul K. Young Memorial Truck Beauty Show competition ending today in Louisville, isn’t your typical truck show entry. It’s not the creation of an owner-operator, custom shop, fleet or dealer. The folks who beautified this truck, in some cases, don’t even have their driver’s license. “Class […]

March 27, 2010

Channel 19

Volume 3 of ‘Truckers Tracks’ — and a new song for Jazzy Jordan — debuts

When Doug Jones moved to Nashville, Tenn., from Delaware in the 1990s, he was a musician, but the guitar and harmonica player was in town at the invitation of longtime friend and former late-80s-era Allman Brothers keyboardist Johnny Neel, who had launched his Straight-Up Sound Studio on Nashville’s south side to do session and production […]

March 24, 2010

Channel 19

Allis-Chalmers on-highway engines? — Ted Streit’s restoration adventures…

Mercer leased owner-operator Ted Streit also happens to be the owner of a shop doing custom and restoration work in Suring, Wis., called Fast Transport. More than a year ago, he called me up after seeing some coverage of fellow Wisconsin resident (Sparta) and owner-operator Paul Sagehorn’s restoration of two original TV KWs, one from the Movin’ […]

March 12, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Deadly roads, best Interstate, stupid drivers

Knoxville News Sentinel columnist Sam Venable took time to concur with our readers, who recently voted I-40 in Tennessee as the nation’s best highway segment in our annual Highway Report Card. However, if he didn’t know how diversely opinionated truckers are, he does now. He polled three of them at a truck stop about their […]

March 11, 2010

Business

Show off your rig

Overdrive selects the best of its readers’ truck photos that have been uploaded to our gallery for publication in each month’s issue. Click here to post your truck in the Custom Rigs/Overdrive online gallery. Darren “Thunder” Gouveia of Lucasville, Ohio, owns this 2006 Kenworth W900L. It will appear in the March Overdrive.

March 4, 2010