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Business
The rules of dunnage
A hallmark of a flatbedder mind-set, even running around town on home time: “Trucking never ceases to be interesting, I learn new things each and every … Hey, is that a two-by-four? Pull over, I’ll jump out and get it …”
November 28, 2016
Custom Rigs
A tour through Mike Manuel’s 1984 ‘Custombilt 359’
Manuel’s combo — with a 2003 Benson flatbed — showed at the 2013 Fitzgerald Truck Show and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish in Crossville, Tenn.
July 13, 2013
Business
For want of quiet sleep
“I’m not the only weird thing on the road. Keep your tinfoil hats close and beware the aliens in flatbeds.”
April 19, 2013
Channel 19
Get your load on
Some sweet pics of readers’ recent loads, and a snatch of a conversation overheard on the radio — sometimes things on Channel 19 reach a fitting end.
January 31, 2013
Voices
Securement 201: How best to chain to a stake pocket
What is the best way to use a stake pocket as a chain anchor point? Reader J.D. Bronson, among others, offers his preferred method.
September 25, 2012
Overdrive Extra
The ‘Time Bandit’ electric cargo-strap roller
Sometime flatbedder and former small fleet owner Johnny White finds inspiration in day-to-day problems — that might not be the best way, however, to describe the occasion that spurred him on to his latest solution, the new TimeBandit electric cargo-strap winder (pictured). As he tells it, “I was up in St. Cloud, Minn., when it […]
July 3, 2012
Channel 19
Heck of a farm truck: Custom 359 single-axle flatbed, with wide singles
Tom Crawford, owner and operator of the Farmer’s Market in Cashiers in far Western North Carolina, showed this custom-restored 1975 Peterbilt 359 flatbed daycab, outfitted with Michelin wide singles on the single axle rear end, at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville April 13 and 14. It was one among many I saw there […]
April 25, 2012
Business
ACT: Used Class 8 truck prices dip
Used truck prices fell 1 percent. Net orders for van trailers in February were down 32 percent from January.
March 28, 2012
Channel 19
Alert network for missing drivers formed
Any time a driver goes missing out on the road it’s a nightmare for back-office personnel, friends and, of course, the family back home. A recent case spawned a Facebook group dedicated to resolving disappearances more quickly through the crowd-sourcing that online social networks have made easy. The Missing Truck Driver Alert Network was […]
February 16, 2012
Channel 19
Interviewing Dan Heister, Overdrive’s Trucker of the Year
In this month’s issue of Overdrive, I wrote about the recession-surviving prowess of Boyd Bros.-leased owner-operator Dan Heister (pictured), whose mastery of his short-medium haul niche in Boyd’s self-dispatch/percentage-pay Independent Express program brought him through the really bad times in 2008 to ever-greater success this year. In addition to recently purchasing what amounts to a […]
February 16, 2011
Business
ACT: Trailer orders dip in April
April net orders were 3 percent above the prior year level and year-to-date growth in net orders through April is 72 percent.
May 29, 2010
Channel 19
Flatbedders, had enough of tarping? . . .
You might recommend the folks at Fast Wrap to your shipper customers, who do the kind of work you see in the picture here, a wrap of a jet engine. They’ve got mobile crews in more than 60 locations around the country who do the work, and the wrapping material is then recycled by the folks at […]
April 30, 2010
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