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Custom Rigs
Weâre thankful for you, drivah! ⌠And Wyo.-based Martin Hermanâs 1970 narrow-nose KW
If youâre like Wyo.-based owner-operator Martin Herman and home for the holiday tomorrow, enjoy the time off. Weâre thankful for what you do, likewise for Hermanâs special rig. Dba HNH Trucking, he hauls tank doubles with the restored, working KW mostly for a dedicated customer.
November 27, 2019
Overdrive Radio
âHighways and heart attacksâ to trucker Will Beeleyâs place in the American songbook
Today on Overdrive Radio: Will Beeleyâs new âHighways and Heart Attacksâ record is the singer-songwriter and hazmat pressurized tank haulerâs third full-length record, and his first in 40 years. His story in music reaches back to the late 1960s, runs through an iconic record label in Mississippi and extends on up into the present day.
October 29, 2019
Business
Mike Landis: Managing sticky situations in food-grade liquid bulk
The independent fell into his current dedicated hauling for a tank fleet based near his hometown in Lititz, Pa., hauling reefer freight in a trailer he owned. A mutual associate recommended his Landis & Sons one-truck business years ago to the tank fleet. Now, âThey almost dispatch me as if I was one of their trucks.â
May 10, 2019
Business
J.D. Howard: Short hauls and frequent home time with Midwest asphalt
Four years ago, owner-operator J.D. Howard joined Dan Rattaâs Marshallville, Ohio-based small liquid-asphalt-hauling operation, Ratta Trucking. At that time, he paid around $65,000 for a new 42-foot 7,500-gallon all-aluminum insulated 2015 Polar high-heat asphalt tanker.
May 7, 2019
Business
Head-first into the âexodusâ he goes âŚ
âBill Weaver has decided, on pretty much the eve of the ELD mandate going into effect, to make the transition from company driver to owner-operator for the first time in his more than 20-year trucking career.â
December 13, 2017
Custom Rigs
Owner-operatorâs pot of gold
At the end of the rainbow: The 1991 Freightliner FLD Ron Stroke Sr. originally built for another owner-operator but has been running himself since 2004.
January 17, 2015
Channel 19
Crude hauling in N.D., Texas with former expediters
A story in this monthâs Truckers News followed the transition of the former FedEx Custom Critical expediting team of Mark Kathrein and Wendy Wing (pictured) into a crude-hauling operation in North Dakota. Just as the May magazine was going to press, as mentioned in the story, the ultra-rugged, cold climes of North Dakota gas-and-oil-well trucking [âŚ]
May 12, 2012
Voices
Roadside Attractions
Red Giant makes big boast, a truck driver musician plus Gauges, Truck Gallery, Channel 19 and more industry news items.
December 1, 2011
Channel 19
Tanking independent â Meet owner-operator Dan Bollinger
Hauling in a 2007 Peterbilt 379 (pictured) â âone of the legacy class editions,â he says, with a 48-inch flattop sleeper â owner-operator Dan Bollinger just got his own authority early this year. He hauls dedicated for a liquid feed supplier to feedlots in Western Kansas, where he lives. Formerly hauling under the feed companyâs [âŚ]
November 6, 2011
Channel 19
A few extra horses power rig through snow
Sometimes, the best solutions to problems are the simplest. Or thatâs one way of looking at the vid below, posted to YouTube by user roush61799 on Feb. 21 and purporting to come from Amish country in Central Pennsylvania. Four horses and a farmerâs cart tied to the front end of a big Peterbilt pulling a tanker [âŚ]
March 10, 2011
Channel 19
Inbound/outbound: Trucking news Monday
Strange days on the road A New Jersey-based driver last Thursday jackknifed his rig under murky circumstances on I-805 during rush hour in San Diego, Calif. He then exited the cab, laid down on pavement just next to the center highway divider and, when police arrived, asked to speak to President Obama, reported Hailey Persinger [âŚ]
March 7, 2011
Channel 19
New trucking thriller from former tank-hauler manager
Set in Charleston, W.Va.âs âChemical Valleyâ just after deregulation of the trucking industry, former Quality Carriers and Mason & Dixon lines (among others) rep Rowland Henry Judgeâs Acid Stained Steel is a murder-mystery thriller of a novel, says Judge. But thatâs not all, he adds. It combines those page-turning attributes with an examination of âthe effect [âŚ]
December 29, 2010
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