Oct. 8: Charlotte show hosting drag races
- September 22, 2011
If you’ve never seen Class 8 trucks roaring down a track, consider a trip to North Carolina for the Charlotte Diesel Super Show
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RARE KENWORTH DONATED TO MUSEUM
- June 08, 2010
BULLNOSE KW FINDS NEW HOME Ray O’Hanesian Donates Kenworth to Iowa 80 Trucking Museum WALCOTT, IOWA -- Iowa 80 Trucking Museum has recently received a very generous gift from a long time trucking friend. Ray S. O’Hanesian, Bettendorf, Iowa has graciously donated his Kenworth KDC825C, the truck he has owned for over half of his life, to the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum. This truck is the last one of its kind that Kenworth produced. You may know the KDC825C by its common name, ...
WORST ROADS CONTEST
- April 09, 2010
The Shell Rotella Road-Tested Challenge will allow drivers to tell about their most challenging roads, and at the same time enter for a chance to win a VIP NASCAR experience with Richard Childress Racing, along with hundreds of instant prizes, including road-tested essentials such as Shell Gift Cards and Shell Rotella-branded merchandise...
INSIDE CSA 2010
- January 05, 2010
FMCSA's New Saftey Rules Changing The Face Of Trucking Overdrive and Trucker's News detail the facts about CSA 2010 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) has some carriers and drivers wondering how drastically it's going to change their profession. CSA 2010 seeks to change the model for compliance from a sort of housecleaning approach to compliance reviews to one that uses real-time, on-the-road inspection results to determine carrier and, eventually, driver safety scores. CSA 2010 could carry ...
HAULIN' FOR HUMANITY
- November 30, 2009
CHARITY ORGANIZATION DELIVERS THE GOODS Illinois-based Haulin' For Humanity provides cargo delivery services for other non-profits In a time when truckers and trucking companies are facing tough times and every operational dollar is watched under a microscope, Haulin' For Humanity is delivering the goods for free. John Gervase, a Burr Ridge, Illinois, owner-operator says “We’re a new non-profit trucking organization focused on helping other non-profits by hauling cargo free of charge.” The rig Gervase’s is using to haul goods is a full-on custom ...
PORT TRUCKER WINS BIG IN CALIFORNIA COURT
- September 25, 2009
Sep 24, 2009 13:51 ET COURT WIN BIG FOR CALIFORNIA TRUCKERS Port Trucker in Los Angeles Wins Hotly Contested Court Battle Over Misclassification of Drivers LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - September 24, 2009) - Trucking companies in the Port of Los Angeles won a resounding court victory this week against the ongoing efforts of the State of California, and Attorney General Jerry Brown, to force them to stop using independent contractor drivers to dray containers in California's ports and to use employee drivers instead. In ...