Tag: Channel 19 blog

Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 3
September-December 2012 on the Channel 19 blog — one operator reaches a milestone, amid ongoing industry conversation, weird-weird trucking news and …. Happy new year, drivers!
December 31, 2012
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Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 2
Counting down the memories — May-August 2012 on the Channel 19 blog, when things heated up in more ways than three.
December 29, 2012
Mike Hawthorne
Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 1
Counting down the memories, of a fashion — if Channel 19 was all you read from January-April 2012, you couldn’t be criticized for thinking trucking was a wonderfully strange place to be.
December 27, 2012
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Voices
Readers react on broker regulation, rates, GPS, truck loans
Rounding up reactions to recent coverage of a variety of issues at OverdriveOnline.com, in the magazine and on the Overdrive Facebook page.
October 24, 2012
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Business
Fuel prices top owner-operator challenges
Using a survey and our social media channels, we quizzed readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators.
July 30, 2012
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Channel 19
IRT without Lisa Kelly: Downer for many fans
With Ice Road Truckers‘ sixth season premiere on the History Channel last Sunday, fans were reportedly bummed by the absence of the biggest star the show’s produced, trucker Lisa Kelly. (Find my 2010 interview with her here.) On Overdrive‘s Facebook page, one commenter went farther: “Looks like this will be the worst season ever. Hot […]
June 6, 2012
Irt New Season
Voices
Roadside Attractions
A trucking addict tells all, differential and transmission oil change intervals, truck nuts, how to get and keep the contract plus truck gallery are among the featured industry news items.
October 2, 2011
“In the Driver’s Seat” is available via Amazon in print ($13.05) and for Kindle ($2.99). For a lengthy excerpt from Marc Mayfield’s book, see the Aug. 20 entry on overdriveonline.com/channel19.
Voices
Roadside Attractions
An outlaw is riding into cowboy country, there’s a new dame on the Dalton, tornadoes take down some rigs, truckers say not to human freight and other industry news items are featured.
July 1, 2011
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Business
Swift visits Big Board
Swift Transportation recently visited the New York Stock Exchange.
June 13, 2011
Swift truck outside NYSE in New York.
Business
Custom rig as educational shuttle
The Space Shuttle Blake has served a very important mission — educating students about space exploration.
June 9, 2011
A Mack truck recently delivered the Space Shuttle Blake, a mobile classroom used to teach students about space exploration.
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