Tag: crude oil

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
Russia to Houston edit
Overdrive Extra
PHOTOS: Cover shoot outtakes with crude hauler
Find a photo gallery of Overdrive’s July 2012 cover shoot with crude-hauling owner-operator Jimmy Lessley in Texas — and more about how the owner-operator got into the oil business.
July 26, 2012
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Channel 19
Truckers to DOT: ‘Smartphones are winning’
Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on Overdrive’s Facebook page, in response to last week’s news of the DOT’s strategy for dealing with the epidemic of four-wheeler distracted driving. If you missed said news, check it […]
June 12, 2012
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Business
Energy department pegs diesel at $3.85 in 2012
The energy department forecast crude oil will average $102 a barrel next year.
December 15, 2011
Channel 19
Analyst: Blame Fed’s liquidity flood for high oil/diesel
The good news is that skyrocketing oil prices, like slasher movies, are truly frightening only the first time you watch one. They get less scary with repetition. But being less scary doesn’t change the basic facts. Markets need both hedgers and speculators to function properly. When they lose balance, they no longer function according to […]
May 5, 2011
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Business
Forecast: $4-plus diesel through summer
Diesel prices averaged $2.98 a gallon last summer.
April 21, 2011
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