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News roundup, Oct. 21: Overnight lane closures set for I-20/59 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Konexial to upgrade Axle AOBRDs, Chain laws the nation over
Alabama DOT crews will close the right lane of I-20/59 at exit 73 in Tuscaloosa each night Tuesday through Thursday this week. Axle Technologies’ roster of AOBRD e-log customers acquired by Konexial, provider of the My20 ELD. Winter chain laws in every state.
October 21, 2019
Channel 19
Of football and viral road signs
Did you see the hit South Carolina’s Jadeveon Clowney put on Michigan’s running back New Year’s day? More on the subsequent road-sign spoof that emerged in the aftermath.
January 10, 2013
Channel 19
Keys Truckers on Joplin relief mission; Open weather webinar tomorrow
Last time I saw Keys Truckers Jan (pictured, with Rocky) and James McCarter they were right here in Nashville for the grand reopening of the downtown TravelCenters of America location, which had been closed since the flooding last May. Today, the Keys sent word out I thought Midwest haulers may well be able to act […]
May 24, 2011
Channel 19
Analyst: Blame Fed’s liquidity flood for high oil/diesel
The good news is that skyrocketing oil prices, like slasher movies, are truly frightening only the first time you watch one. They get less scary with repetition. But being less scary doesn’t change the basic facts. Markets need both hedgers and speculators to function properly. When they lose balance, they no longer function according to […]
May 5, 2011
Channel 19
A message from Randall-Reilly president
The below comes from Overdrive and Truckers News publisher Randall-Reilly’s president and CEO Mike Reilly (pictured), a good man I’ve gotten to know over my years with the magazines. Thankfully, all Tuscaloosa- and other Southeast-based Randall-Reilly employees survived the storm. My thoughts continue to be with, as Mike well puts it, “many in our community […]
May 2, 2011
Channel 19
Tornado caught on owner-operators’ webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick […]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
Braving the storm — two haulers’ Birmingham tornado stories
“I just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,” Overdrive Trucker of the Year Dan Heister told me this morning. Heister (pictured) was loaded heading south on I-65 bound for Saginaw, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, when he could see the big tornado that made its way into Cullman, Ala., around 3 p.m. that afternoon. “I […]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. I’m based off-site in […]
April 28, 2011
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