Tag: trucking image

‘Grandpa and the Truck’ — book 2 out now

Colleen Kelly Mellor’s children’s book series highlights true tales from her husbands 30-year career, much of it spent as a household-goods-hauling owner-operator.

November 13, 2012

Grandpa Cover Image Book 2

Four-wheeler scare-quotes ‘professional’

A letter writer to a Minnesota newspaper, contending there’s an epidemic of big-rig drivers’ speeding on the nation’s highways, is suffering from tunnel vision when he mocks drivers’ “professional” badge of honor.

October 8, 2012

A&E’s new ‘Shipping Wars’ series trailer vid — and the operators featured

There’s a new reality-TV series coming January 10, with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m., EST and PST, to the A&E network. You may have heard a little about it already here in Overdrive. The trailer vid for the Shipping Wars show is embedded below, and I thought I’d take a moment to introduce […]

December 21, 2011

Truck Stop Missouri redux; American Trucker GATS episode tonight

Truck Stop Missouri a ‘trucking ambassador’ 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 Bechtold’s characterization of […]

October 6, 2011

A trucking ambassador: Interviewing ‘Truck Stop Missouri’ star Joe Bechtold

The Truck Stop Missouri series on the Travel Channel has been running for a couple of months now, featuring the goings on in and around the 12 business that make up the Midway Travel Plaza between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri, I-70 exit 121. Midway General Manager Joe Bechtold (pictured) has seen his […]

October 5, 2011

Pilot makes donation to TCA

Pilot Flying J gave the Truckload Carriers Association a $10,000 donation to assist the organization with its trucking image campaign.

July 29, 2011

‘Truck spotting’ takes off in England to industry image benefit

Remember the oft-described “good ol’ days” of the 1970s? When truck drivers were portrayed by the movie stars of the day and lionized by the public as hardworking heroes of the American way? The image of drivers and public interest in trucking may never have been higher on this side of the pond, it’s certain, […]

April 5, 2011

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