Tag: Carolyn Magner

Voices

Roadside Attractions

A coffee cup collection, the weird case of Jabin Bogan, when patriotism turns to trouble and other interesting trucking industry items, plus Truck Gauges and Truck Gallery are featured.

July 3, 2012

Channel 19

Chatting with Aaron Tippin at Uncle Pete’s

I bet you I-40 regulars know Uncle Pete’s — formerly Tennessee 40 — at 1210 Sparta Pike in Lebanon, Tenn., at I-40. It might well give any stop east of the Mississippi a run for the money for the “most distinctive” honor. Adorning its walls is a collection of more than “4,875 coffee cups,” says […]

May 15, 2012

Channel 19

Truckercising through the years with FedEx Freight driver Joe Martin

It’s been a long time since I was introduced to driver Joe Martin (pictured, with Ice “Road Trucker” Alex Debogorski), creator of the Truckercise DVD. My colleague at Truckers News Carolyn Magner wrote about Martin in 2008 as part of a series of health profiles that year. Martin produced the DVD based on exercises he’d been […]

May 17, 2011

Channel 19

Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification

It’s been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others — including a large coterie of truck drivers — to force owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., to give up their caged Bengal tiger, Tony. The latest efforts including a lawsuit filed this week […]

April 15, 2011

Business

Show to focus on personal safety

“Crime Against Truckers – Protection on the Road” airs April 14 online.

April 12, 2011