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Life

Singer-songwriter Boo Ray’s double-edged paean to the road, in advance of new record

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Boo Ray has a new record coming in February 2019 — this track, offered for download here to Overdrive readers, effectively evokes two sides of life on the road not always in opposition: it’s a setting, no two days the same, which can, Ray well knows, be both refuge to the afflicted and a fount of absolute chaos.

December 14, 2018

Business

Trucker shot, killed in Nashville road rage incident

The shooting occurred Friday, Nov. 30, during the 5 p.m. rush hour on I-65. According to police, the man who shot and killed the trucker said he fired his pistol in self-defense, and no charges have been filed against him, but the “case remains very much under investigation,” police say.

December 4, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

KeepTruckin opens Nashville office

KeepTruckin expects to invest $3.6 million in Middle Tennessee, creating approximately 385 jobs in the Nashville area, over the next three years, it says. The company provides the KeepTruckin electronic logging device and associated services.

October 30, 2018

Overdrive Radio

MATS preview, live from Nashville: ‘Long Haul Paul’ Marhoefer with Jan, Donnie Gullett

With a new record out from Laughing Hyena records and available at many truck stops around the nation, trucker-songwriter Paul Marhoefer started the MATS week in Nashville, Tenn., where we caught up with him for an impromptu run through several of his tracks at the Fiddler’s Inn.

March 21, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD or Me to host Joe Arpaio at event

In a further bid to get Donald Trump’s attention to anti-ELD mandate sentiment, the ELD or Me group and its still-under-construction TruckerNation.org website and grassroots org will host U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio, recently pardoned after being convicted of criminal contempt of court, at a March 31 event in Nashville, Tenn.

March 12, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Aaron Tippin and Tony Justice: ‘Brothers of the Highway’ session report from Nashville

A talk with country-music legend and former trucker Aaron Tippin and rising trucker-singer-songwriter Tony Justice — straight from their historic vocal collaboration for Justice’s new record in Nashville.

January 8, 2016

Business

Overnight lane closures: Upcoming in Michigan and Virginia; Nashville I-40 shutdown repeat

I-64 affected in Virginia through next week in both directions (MM 250-255) overnight, likewise Monday in Michigan I-94 in Washtenaw County. Nashville downtown — I-40 closing again over the weekend.

September 18, 2015

Business

I-40 shutting down again in downtown Nashville this weekend

The closure with be in place today, Friday, at 8 p.m. through 6 a.m. Monday morning, Tennessee Department of Transportation officials say.

September 11, 2015

Channel 19

Photos: Brush-fire shutdown of SB I-85 in GA

Headed out of S.C. to Nashville through the area, a planned 9-hour-or-so run turned into one that, in a different life, would have come pretty well close to the end of the 14-hour window.

May 7, 2015

Channel 19

It’s not quite the Maxim ad, but …

A Nashville city bus or two or three has been wrapped with an ad from Bart Durham, the local ambulance chaser, highlighting … I bet you can guess what.

January 24, 2015

Channel 19

PHOTO essay: Nashville truck stop caught in the lens

Documentary and fine-art photographer Stacey Irvin’s portrait of the downtown Nashville TA is the kind of honest portrait the trucking world could use more of.

January 5, 2015

Channel 19

Pay by performance, rate trends

Was 2013 the year that changed driver pay forever? Gordon Klemp seems to think so. Catch a vid with him here from the TCA meeting in Nashville and find out why. Some potentially good news in it for independents.

February 1, 2014