From Our Editors

Marlin Caddell - CCJ - June 18, 2013

Multi-finger actions on the iPad lets your fingers do the walking

The headline above may have made you do a double take, but if you really want to become an iPad "ninja", you're going to have to use more than your pointer finger and the two fingers you ...

Max Heine - Overdrive - June 15, 2013

Why this safety technology doesn’t work

A new distracted driving report confirms what truckers know intuitively and expands upon what other studies say: Hands-free communications technology is just as distracting as ...

Marlin Caddell - CCJ - June 14, 2013

Welcome to the tech neighborhood

One of the interesting and wonderful things about writing a technology blog for the trucking audience is there are people on all sides of the spectrum when it comes to knowledge and ease of ...

Dean Smallwood - CCJ - June 10, 2013

Summer trucking camp?

Ah, those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer -- at least I think that's how the song goes. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, my son was between school and his first summer camp, and he pretty ...

Jack Roberts - CCJ - June 07, 2013

Volvo says run DME

[youtube ws8DK6g6vYI nolink] Volvo Trucks North America this week unveiled a "new" alternative fuel for heavy-duty commercial trucks. Dimethyl Ether (DME) is methane-based biofuel ...

Max Heine - Overdrive - June 06, 2013

‘Best thing that ever happened’ to former owner-operator team

Pete Carpenter, of Nashville, Tenn., spent 25 years as a one-truck owner-operator, many of them team driving with his wife, Christine. After working for North American Van Lines and FedEx ...

Todd Dills - Overdrive - June 06, 2013

Staring down CARB, learning from the best

The following came through from owner-operator Steve Bixler, part of a dry-bulk-hauling team with his wife, Doris, based in Pennsylvania (both Bixler's pictured). It followed my Monday, ...

Aaron Huff - CCJ - June 05, 2013

With technology Celadon quickly gains traction on ice

The Celadon Group, like many commercial and private fleets today, continues to move in new directions. It recently added refrigerated to its menu of truckload and intermodal ...

Jeff Crissey - CCJ - June 05, 2013

Is your trucking company underinsured?

A recent study by the Alliance for Driver Safety and Security showed that 42 percent of dollar settlements paid by trucking companies to injured motorists are above the minimum insurance ...

Todd Dills - Overdrive - June 04, 2013

Alaska: Avalanche on the Haul Road!

Never a dull moment on the Haul Road, Alaska's Dalton Highway through ultra-rugged terrain out to Prudhoe Bay oil operations. Six-to-eight recent, rather odd slush avalanches, the ...

Dean Smallwood - CCJ - June 03, 2013

Summer construction zones

So it’s summertime, and that means road construction season is heating up along with the temperature. There’s a lengthy stretch of Interstate 20 east of Birmingham, Ala., that’s being ...

Todd Dills - Overdrive - June 01, 2013

Surplus parts online at cost or less

I had a conversation earlier this week with Tom Brown, a Georgia-based former regional manager for Caterpillar Truck and Engine, likewise on national accounts with Mack, about his new ...