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Business
News roundup, Sept. 13: Two new Love’s add 180 parking spaces, GPS dashcam released
Love’s has opened new travel stops in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Rovi released a new dashcam with GPS tracking to record vehicle speed and location while recording.
September 13, 2019
Business
News roundup, Sept. 11: Three N.J. rest areas closing temporarily, influential women in trucking, more
Three New Jersey rest stops in Ridgefield, Hamilton and Forked River will be closed approximately through Memorial Day next year. Pedigree Technologies has released a camera add-on for its ELD. And: Women in Trucking announces six ‘most influential woman’ award finalists, one professional driver among them: Kellylyn McLaughlin of Schneider National.
September 11, 2019
Parking
‘People don’t understand — we have nowhere to go’: GATS panel presses for parking solutions
With a focus on Texas, a panel made up of truckers, parking advocates and a TxDOT official explored ways the state can expand parking options — especially in major cities and near freight hubs.
September 9, 2019
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new location off I-80 in Illinois
The new Love’s offers drivers 137 truck parking spaces; Chester’s Chicken, Godfather’s Pizza and Subway restaurants; eight diesel lanes; seven showers; laundry facilities and more. There is also an on-site Speedco for truck maintenance.
August 27, 2019
Overdrive Radio
18 years old and hauling in 1917; Leon Everettte, Long Haul Paul from GATS
In this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast from GATS, classic country star and gospel singer Leon Everette, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer, and a talk about history, training and more with Jay Thompson, whose grandfather Walter had a chauffer’s license at age 18, in 1917.
August 24, 2019
Channel 19
Choice scenes from the parking community at GATS — night 1
Back at the old home place at GATS truck parking Wednesday night before show open: Watching music great Leon Everette and trucker-songwriter Bill Weaver wind their way a couple hours’ worth of music, eventually with the absolutely excellent backing of the Stone Creek Four, was an unexpected treat.
August 22, 2019
Business
Two new parking options around Chicago
The Truck Parking Near Me company has opened two parking facilities for commercial trucks in Gary, Indiana, and Bellwood, Illinois, both in the area around the major Chicago freight hub.
August 21, 2019
Channel 19
Exercised your fast-pitch technique lately?
Keep the Friday, 9 p.m., time in your mind if you want an opportunity to send small fleet owner and GATS parking community organizer Les Willis into the frigid waters of the dunk tank — in exchange for your donation to the St. Christopher fund. It’s part of this unique happening at GATS for attendees trucking in for the 2019 show.
August 20, 2019
Channel 19
Parking roundtable with focus on Texas lanes set for GATS
On Saturday, Aug. 24, at noon at GATS, join us to give your input directly to TxDOT on parking needs and new capacity ideas. Former owner-op Scott Grenerth will host a discussion intended to bring in the audience for input with a TxDOT rep, Clark Freight Lines company driver Jack Smith and North Carolina independent owner-op Ingrid Brown.
August 14, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift
The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.
August 13, 2019
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new truck stop in Texas
Love’s Travel Stops has opened a new location in Brownsville, Texas, offering truck drivers 39 new parking spaces in the South Texas region.
August 12, 2019
Channel 19
More parking modest proposals: Register a truck, purchase a parking spot …
Bit of a tongue-in-cheek solution to the parking shortage. If trailer owners were required to purchase a space for every trailer they registered, why, “this would give us a surplus!” Can you see the billboards now?… “Call 1-800-WE-HAVE-SPACE to break ground now! Low prices for your mandated space!”
August 9, 2019
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