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Overdrive Radio
Listen: The Channel One-Nine Special from ‘Over the Road’ — Our favorite roads
The next Channel One Nine Special focuses on the question, 'What are some professional drivers' favorite roads out there?' Check it out here on Overdrive.
March 12, 2020
New York-based Fredrick Claxton, flatbedder with small fleet I-65 Transport in Indiana, also heads up with the Stoop Family of truckers the Truckers Feeding the Homeless initiative. Read more about it via this link.
Overdrive Radio
The methodical tour, by ‘Choice,’ from corporate America to a small flatbed fleet
Fredrick “Choice M.A.S.” Claxton caught the trucking bug following a two-wheeled cross-country tour on a Suzuki street bike. In this Overdrive Radio edition, he details his methodical approach building a young second career in flatbed after an office job with one of most recognizable names in apparel.
December 13, 2019
New York-based Fredrick Claxton, flatbedder with small fleet I-65 Transport in Indiana, also heads up with the Stoop Family of truckers the Truckers Feeding the Homeless initiative. Read more about it via this link.
Channel 19
Truckers Feeding the Homeless delivered to 600-plus in Dallas
“We knocked it out of the park,” says Fredrik Claxton of the group’s effort, delivering ultimately $11K worth in food, hygiene supplies and clothing to more than 600 homeless residents in need at sites in Dallas, Ft. Worth and Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 24. Next stop: Baltimore in 2020.
September 19, 2019
Claxton (center) in Dallas during the outreach initiative — still here is taken from the group’s documentary video (below and at this link) of the effort.
Channel 19
‘The Stoop’ family moves at MATS in feeding-the-homeless initiative
If things proceed according to plans being laid currently, the Stoop’s “Truckers Feeding the Homeless” initiative hopes to go even bigger at the Great American Trucking Show in August. At MATS, says Fredrick “Choice M.A.S.” Claxton, the group distributed 300-plus meals.
April 4, 2019
“We call it a family,” Claxton says of individuals that make up The Stoop. “It’s very tight-knit, but maybe not a place for everybody.” As with any situation in which people move to a new neighborhood, “if you fall into the neighborhood and you fit, you fit. We have all walks of life, different races, all sizes, all different personalities.” The chat group operates with three rules, Claxton adds, guiding its discussions: “No politics, no religion, no racist b.s. We don’t promote any kind of division on the channel. Ninety-five percent of the people on there are truck drivers,” Claxton adds, and Wilds notes trucking discussion remains a big part it all.
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