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Channel 19
The drones keep coming â for your freight?
Apologies for a post-less Tuesday, which regular Channel 19 readers no doubt noticed. I had a mini-vacation with friends and family â hearing news of the SpaceX launch in the auto on the way home to Nashville, I couldnât help but think of owner-operator blogger Phil Madsenâs greatest post of all time, which in my view [âŚ]
May 23, 2012
Channel 19
Red alert: Get your uniform or else!
Now that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has begun to reach its long regulatory arm into your daily dress, drivers are sounding off in record numbers. âThis is just taking it too far,â said owner-operator Bob Mandible of Blue Gill, Ohio, of the new red shirt requirement, joining the fast-growing chorus. âThe agency has [âŚ]
April 1, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Four-wheeler: âI am so sick of 18-wheelers!â
Over the transom today in Overdriveâs Nashville bureau here, as my office is often known among the editors in Alabama, came this letter. So much for sharing the road! Dear editor,I am so sick of 18-wheelers. They are always in the way. Who needs them? I sure donât. They never seem to do the speed [âŚ]
April 1, 2012
Channel 19
Go Guy âpocket urinalâ pitchman âGo Cousin Vinnyâ
âAs spring approaches,â runs the latest press release from the makers of the Go Guy pocket urinal (motto: âWhen there is nowhere to go, go where you areâ), âmore truckers will be heading out onto the open road to haul their wares from state to stateâ â a pretty blanket statement, but likely valid considering [âŚ]
February 26, 2012
Channel 19
Modest proposal: âLet regulators have what they wantâ
Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wennersâ modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, âban truck [âŚ]
December 12, 2011
Channel 19
The Keys Truckersâ âLetter to Capitol Hillâ
File this one under âmodest proposal.â Seems Keys Truckers Jan and James (pictured) McCarter are always involved when a nice slab of satire graces the blog here, not to mention good music. In any case, last week was a banner in both quarters. Amid the weekâs run of comments surrounding our top-10 trucking songs poll [âŚ]
August 15, 2011
Channel 19
Fair or foul?: A trucking story on Onion satirical news site
Sandwiched between satirical headlines like âFully Validated Kanye West Retires to Quiet Farm in Iowaâ and âVirgin Mary Statue Crying for No Good Reasonâ today on TheOnion.com was this one: âModern-Day Cowboy Rides 18-Wheeler Full of Entenmannâs Products Westward.â Satirical newsmag The Onion has long been known for its lampooning of the mainstream press and, [âŚ]
January 11, 2011
Channel 19
Truckingâs newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .
A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. Weâve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery driversâ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers [âŚ]
October 26, 2010
Channel 19
Oh driver where art thou?
Dear driver, I have been hearing there is a shortage of you. Is it because all the owner-operators are succumbing to that CSA 2010 bug and electronic logs? Or are all those newfangled hybrid trucks themselves cross-breeding with a new monster species of broker to drive them out of business? Or, just maybe, since whether [âŚ]
October 14, 2010
Channel 19
Satirical news mag picks up on texting ban ironies
Humor mag The Onion is known for picking apart the news of the day, and the news business, in often satirically cutting fashion â in a story published years ago in its pages it ran a picture of an orange-jumpsuited prisoner wearing a crown of thorns with the headline âChrist kills two in abortion-clinic bombing.â It [âŚ]
February 1, 2010
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