Tag: Mercer Transportation

Overdrive Radio
Amazon: The 800-pound gorilla still in need of a few good lumpers
This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast edition tells the story of an Amazon load hauled by Gary and Ondena Caraway, whose fine print said 12-48 hours would be required for unload at the Edwardsville, Ill., facility. When that 48 hours turned into a week…. Well, let’s just say they were not happy indeed….
April 12, 2018
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Channel 19
New one-truck portable tarping system
Owner-operator John Rodriguez, with business partner Willie Lancon, designed the Roller Rak portable tarping machine following a couple falls while tarping that could have been disasters.
March 25, 2013
MATS 2013 attendees were treated to a demonstration video of the Roller Rak that owner-operator John Rodriguez had filmed on a winter day in Texas with 35-mph winds — terrible day for tarping a high load. You can find the vid on my Facebook page here.
Business
Chevron September 2012 Million Mile Club
Chevron Lubricants named the eight drivers inducted to the September 2012 Chevron Delo sponsored Red Eye Radio (formerly Midnight Trucking Radio) Million Mile Club.
October 8, 2012
Voices
Roadside Attractions
A roadside midwife, an apnea proposal, bedbugs, the rigors and routines of the road, plus Truck Gauge and Truck Gallery are among the industry news items and oddities featured.
June 1, 2012
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Business
LogBook
Three compete for Owner-Operator of the Year, cross-border program lawsuits advance, turnpike rates rise, Baltimore bridge tolls rising and many more industry news items are featured.
February 1, 2012
The 2011 Owner-Operator of the Year will win a Cummins-powered Dodge Ram.
Business
Mercer ex-employee sentenced for embezzling
Woman had embezzled over $1 million from the owner-operator truckload carrier over an eight-year period.
January 13, 2012
Business
Pulse
How great it would be if this spirit of volunteerism and self-reliance could extend to meeting social needs 365 days a year, coast to coast.
June 2, 2011
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Business
Trucker Buddy honors Mercer driver
Steve Dyer, an owner-operator leased to Mercer Transportation, has been chosen as December 2010’s Truck Buddy of the Month, the educational outreach Trucker Buddy International said. Dyer is honored for volunteering at Carr Creek Elementary in Hindman, Ky., where he visited with students in discussions about his job and his travels. He also sent pictures and […]
February 7, 2011
Channel 19
Introducing Wayne Dollar, a story-telling quilter who loves trucking, too
Though he perhaps needs no introduction, since you may have met him at his booth at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last year, owner-operator Wayne Dollar (pictured), 54, not only stitches his own quilts, he’s been winning awards with three of his uniquely themed creations since he started making them last summer. A trucking-themed quilt, […]
April 21, 2010
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Channel 19
Allis-Chalmers on-highway engines? — Ted Streit’s restoration adventures…
Mercer leased owner-operator Ted Streit also happens to be the owner of a shop doing custom and restoration work in Suring, Wis., called Fast Transport. More than a year ago, he called me up after seeing some coverage of fellow Wisconsin resident (Sparta) and owner-operator Paul Sagehorn’s restoration of two original TV KWs, one from the Movin’ […]
March 12, 2010
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