Tag: Fikes Truck Line

Channel 19

Scenes from “Highway Angel” truck stop tour finale in Nashville

Video, pictures and more from the event, including the performance of Erin Flanigan, daughter in a long line of generations of owner-operators and drivers associated with Cincinnati-based Flanigan small fleet.

October 31, 2013

Channel 19

Loads on your phone: More board, broker apps

Details of three more smartphone apps — CHRW Trucks, BulkLoadsNow, and Fikes’ Logistics’ custom app — for finding freight in your pocket.

March 4, 2013

Channel 19

Would the professional drivers please raise hands?

At a fueling station in Dayton, Ohio, Kevin Burch, President of the Jet Express truck line, saw a decal (pictured) on the side of a flatbed as he was fueling. The message, “This truck helps build homes for our troops,” was on a flatbed in the operation of a Volvo Rents delivery fleet. Burch took […]

June 13, 2012

Business

Fleet Focus

Celadon wins Alcoa’s top award plus honors, pay issues and industry outreach are featured.

June 1, 2012

Business

Paramount top carrier for owner-operators

Paramount won for the second year in a row in the contest put on by Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge.

March 6, 2012

Channel 19

Owner-operators remembering Chance Rogers at GATS

A fixture at truck shows for years with his owner-operator grandfather Jim Rogers, leased to Fikes, young Chance Rogers passed away July 11 after a long battle with bone cancer. Several owner-operators and drivers have banded together in the Truckers United for Charities group to honor Chance by raising money for a memorial fund in […]

August 23, 2011

Business

Fleet Focus

Carriers and drivers receive recognition and awards.

April 2, 2011

Business

Fikes offers higher pay to use uDrove

Owner-operators are offered a 1 percent pay increase for using the uDrove system.

February 8, 2011

Business

Fikes joins wreaths project

Fikes Truck Line recently participated in Wreaths Across America, a non-profit organization that aims to place holiday wreaths at veterans cemeteries across the United States on Wreaths Across America Day.  Jeff Edmonson, a Fikes driver since June 2006, loaded a trailer with wreaths in Harrington, Maine, on Dec. 1. Over the following week, he delivered […]

December 14, 2010

Channel 19

Lisa Kelly to make appearance at bowl game Dec. 18

Whether you’re getting opportunity to spend some relaxing time today with family around a dinner table, with friends at a football game, or you’re out on the road, here’s wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from myself and the folks at Overdrive and Truckers News. Speaking of football, keep the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on your radar […]

November 25, 2010

Business

Fleet Focus

Carriers and drivers are recognized and receive awards.

September 1, 2010

Business

Trucker Webmasters

Drivers go online to provide entertainment, advocacy, business education and more.

September 1, 2010