Tag: cattle hauling

Overdrive Extra

Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em wrong’

Hooks and her 2014 389: “I learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. There’s people out there in Texas …, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what I’ve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.”

May 13, 2019

Business

Livestock hauling: Caring for cargo

The same considerations behind the ELD exemptions also raise the standard for what it takes to operate successfully in livestock hauling.

April 19, 2019

Custom Rigs

McCormick Trucking owner-operator’s dream hauler: This classic 1990 Kenworth W900

Dave McCormick fell in love with this KW when it was purchased new more than 20 years ago by original owner-operator, from his Roanoke, Va.-area home base. He was finally able to purchase it in January of 2014 and hauls cattle with it today.

October 17, 2017

Business

The question any independent owner-operator business must answer

“Why is anybody going to use you to ship their material?” — your business’ distinguishing “why you” factor could take many forms, such as in these examples related to specialized equipment, geography and freight niche.

January 6, 2016

Business

Montana bull hauler goes mountain climbing for Truckers Against Trafficking

Owner-operator Matt Hopkins is taking a few weeks off from his regular cattle runs to climb Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, partly a benefit effort for TAT.

January 24, 2014

Voices

Get your load on! (Edition 6)

From space capsules to new cars, cattle and more garden variety loads dressed up behind spectacular tractors, this occasional series delivers more great photos of readers’ loads. Find out how to send in your own here, too.

January 15, 2014

Custom Rigs

Mystery Machine: The Peterbilt ‘369’ of Ronald Millsaps

Millsaps’ 2002 Peterbilt 379’s hood and other elements of the front end have been modified to more closely resemble those on a class 1980s Peterbilt 359.

July 9, 2013

Channel 19

$50,000 reward for some missing …

They’ve been gone a few years — a grand total of 175 of them, mostly between the ages 3 and 7 years old now, according to a story published yesterday at the website of AgWeek. They were the property of cattleman James Larsen, whose father, incidentally, was a trucker. ATTENTION LIVESTOCK HAULERS: in two ads […]

November 29, 2011