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Nashville downtown TA back open after flooding

Since Feb. 3, haulers traversing the north side of Nashville’s downtown mini-loop coming from I-40 or I-24 West may have noticed a special postcard (pictured) delivered to them in the form of a billboard just ahead of the I-24/I-40 split. For nine months, the old TA billboard there displayed the message you see below, which […]

February 15, 2011

Channel 19

Got snow?

Here in the Southeast (though in Nashville I’m approaching the region’s northern edge), it’s been uncommonly wintry this week, as you can see from this pic, taken at the Love’s on Trinity Lane at I-65. Further South, things have been much worse, though, evidenced in part by Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based driver Vernon Cook’s 24-hour wait […]

January 12, 2011

Channel 19

Skydiving to the ark: A Channel 19 2010 ‘Year in Review’

It’s been a banner year for dramatic, contentious, weird and/or humorous trucking news here on the Channel 19 blog. I can’t possibly predict how 2010 will be remembered years down the line, but read through the lens of this blog, well, it was nothing short of tumultuous, containing the highest of highs and the lowest […]

December 31, 2010

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Helpful partner — Western Express driver Derek Dorsey

Not only is longtime Western Express driver Derek Dorsey a great asset to the Nashville, Tenn.-headquartered fleet — company recruiting director Matt Neal calls him “our go-to guy, great with customers, great with training new drivers” and “one of our absolute best” — he’s also quite accommodating to everyone he meets, including writer-photographers like me. […]

November 15, 2010

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Trucking up out of the water with Nashville fleets

While the story of the disastrous flooding my hometown experienced last May is still being written in many respects (the downtown TravelCenter of America location, as you’ll note from the picture, is still closed), there have been some recent bright moments. Vice President Tim Smith with TCW told me a couple weeks back his carrier’s […]

November 1, 2010

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Nashville Rush Chrome & Class show winners

Friday I reported from the site of the first annual Chrome & Class Truck Show at the Nashville location of Rush Truck Centers just east-southeast of downtown in Smyrna. If you missed it, read about the first day at Nashville Rush, a story largely about the Eady family of truck owners/builders from Hillsboro, Ala., and […]

October 19, 2010

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Live from the first-annual Nashville “Chrome & Class” truck show

Rex (left) and Hayden Eady are the father (owning and operating) and son (building, along with Hayden’s older brother Hayward) pair behind the 1996 custom-built Peterbilt 379 pictured. The Pete, powered by a Caterpillar 3406B and 15-speed tranny, was responsible in large part, says Hayden, for the rechristening of the latter’s Hillsboro, Ala.-based Hayden’s Truck […]

October 15, 2010

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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

Business

Work on I-40 in Nashville

This weekend, crews will close lanes on I-40 in both directions.

July 29, 2010

Business

I-40 lanes in Nashville to close

Lanes in both directions will be closed July 16-19 to begin work on concrete foundations for new overhead sign structures.

July 15, 2010

Channel 19

‘Sexiest trucker alive’ goes to the Himalayas; more from Alaska

According to an interview published at the website of Esquire magazine, Ice Road Truckers star and Alaskan Dalton Highway hauler Lisa Kelly (pictured; photo by Rick Gershon of the History Channel) is not only the “sexiest trucker alive.” What’s more, she was speaking w/ Esquire writer Erik Price on sat phone from the Himalayas in Southeast […]

June 23, 2010

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Talking recession, recovery and history in Oklahoma City with Marvin Rush

Amid recent headlines trumpeting growing manufacturing activity, freight volumes and truck and trailer sales, it’s tempting to look at Rush Enterprises’ expansive new facility in Oklahoma City off I-40 at the Council Road exit as yet another sign of the growing consensus that the Great Recession is either over or nearing its close and the trucking […]

June 15, 2010