Tag: April Fool's Day

Business

The infrastructure is funded!

“It’s April 1, and this entire post may or may not be a filthy lie, but we all know who the fools are.”

April 1, 2015

Channel 19

My new ride!

In which Todd takes a part-time driving job in a Hummer stretch limo, and asks a question: “Have I made a huge mistake?” Be sure to include the hashtag #truckingaprilfoolsday with your answer. (RELATED: Great Lakes flee Midwest to warmer climes after Polar Vortex…)

April 1, 2014

Channel 19

Nelson, Ga., not the first town to mandate gun ownership

Nelson’s Atlanta-area neighbor Kennesaw also mandated residents own guns back in 1982.

April 2, 2013

Channel 19

FMCSA calling off so-called ‘red-shirt mandate’

FMCSA is conducting an internal review of all enforcement activities after the Truck-Regulation Public-Comment-Believability Index (TRPCBI) measure associated with the red-shirt NPRM flew into “way too positive” territory.

April 1, 2013

Channel 19

Cubby Buddy toolbox maker’s new storage system for load bars

Hensley Inc.-leased owner-operator Jeff Zehrer (pictured), with a Great Dane dry van and Freightliner tractor and a unique line of tool-box systems for owner-operators you may well recall me writing about here back in January, has added yet another patent-pending storage system to the repertoire of his growing Cubby Buddy side business. The business and Zehrer […]

April 2, 2012

Channel 19

Red alert: Get your uniform or else!

Now that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has begun to reach its long regulatory arm into your daily dress, drivers are sounding off in record numbers. “This is just taking it too far,” said owner-operator Bob Mandible of Blue Gill, Ohio, of the new red shirt requirement, joining the fast-growing chorus. “The agency has […]

April 1, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Four-wheeler: ‘I am so sick of 18-wheelers!’

Over the transom today in Overdrive‘s Nashville bureau here, as my office is often known among the editors in Alabama, came this letter. So much for sharing the road! Dear editor,I am so sick of 18-wheelers. They are always in the way. Who needs them? I sure don’t. They never seem to do the speed […]

April 1, 2012