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Channel 19
âShipping warsâ TV series starts tonight on A&E
The Austin American-Statesman reminds us that the latest in the phenomenon of truck-driving reality-TV series debuts tonight, with back-to-back half-hour episodes of âShipping Warsâ occupying the 9 p.m. (ET and PT) hour on A&E. The debate over whether the show will be a boon to the image of drivers in the public imagination has already [âŚ]
January 10, 2012
Channel 19
Modest proposal: âLet regulators have what they wantâ
Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wennersâ modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, âban truck [âŚ]
December 12, 2011
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Online trucker network launches Monday
The host of the online radio trucking program âDispatch Me Homeâ is starting an online network of the same name with additional music and other programming. It will launch at 10 a.m. CST Nov. 21, says host Big Al Weekley. The network is based at www.DispatchMeHomeRadio.com. Weekley produces the network with Bruce Wieser, known as [âŚ]
November 18, 2011
Channel 19
Bob âCowpokeâ Martin passes on
It is with sadness I bring news to you today of a longtime operatorâs passing. Though itâs been years since I spoke to him â and then only briefly â the memory of the conversations I had with Indiana-based Bob Martin (on the occasion of his win of the 2007 $50,000 truck makeover on the [âŚ]
October 11, 2011
Channel 19
Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight
Truck Stop Missouri a âtrucking ambassadorâ in reality? After my interview posted yesterday with Joe Bechtold, General Manager of the Midway Truck Stop and Travel Plaza that is the subject of the Truck Stop Missouri TV show on the Travel Channel, a longtime commenter on the Channel 19 blog took issue with Bechtoldâs characterization of [âŚ]
October 6, 2011
Trucking History
Trucking advocate enjoyed Overdrive award
Bruce Wieser won a prize for the Native American-inspired message on his rig and now advocates for trucker heroes.
November 23, 2010
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