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Handle with Care
How to remove, repair, replace and rebalance your tires when they’ve been tread upon.
May 1, 2012
Business
CSA and Tire Basics
Stay out of trouble with the DOT through careful inspections and diligent routine maintenance.
December 1, 2011
Business
Proper Inflation
Maintaining the ideal air pressure is the most important step in keeping tires in peak operating condition.
July 1, 2011
Channel 19
Tools for trucking career, issues advocacy at social media meeting
Making the wider world work to your particular advantage, whatever you choose that to mean, has always been the goal of the more ambitious among us — in today’s world, the tools toward making that a reality are multiplicitous and downright confusing in the pace at which the written and unwritten rules for their use […]
March 28, 2011
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
Oh driver where art thou?
Dear driver, I have been hearing there is a shortage of you. Is it because all the owner-operators are succumbing to that CSA 2010 bug and electronic logs? Or are all those newfangled hybrid trucks themselves cross-breeding with a new monster species of broker to drive them out of business? Or, just maybe, since whether […]
October 14, 2010
Channel 19
Ice roads to Dallas; truck lot entertainment schedule for GATS
Next week, it’s safe to say that all roads in the North American trucking world lead to Dallas, even the Canadian ice roads — or at least those typically run by Yellowknife, Canada’s Alex Debogorski, past “Ice Road Truckers” star, who will be on hand at the Dallas Convention Center for the Great American Trucking […]
August 18, 2010
Channel 19
New video: The perils of promising to run with Jazzy…
“Promising to run with Jazzy is like making a promise to God, but God will forgive you if you break your promise.” –Lee Jordan, small fleet owner and father of 17-year-old runner Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan, currently running across the U.S. to benefit the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund And so, for those who […]
April 13, 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
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
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