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From SEMA to humbling hurricane drama
It was pretty strange leaving SEMA in Las Vegas where the nation’s best vehicles are on display and heading back to Panama City, Fla. where so many vehicles—including my own—were damaged and even destroyed by Hurricane Michael. Two completely different worlds: the highly polished and presentable versus the highly devastated and unbelievable. Seriously, it’s been […]
November 6, 2018
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2001 Ford F-250 to the rescue following Hurricane Michael
The sun would be setting soon so we had to move out fast to see how our home held up following Hurricane Michael which had just unleashed an unforgettable fury a few hours before. It was about a mile-and-a-half walk from the church where we rode out the Cat 4 storm (just 2 mph shy […]
October 19, 2018
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The long road back from Hurricane Michael
We slowly emerged from the old church amazed at the damage of Hurricane Michael. The landscape was surreal. Trees and power lines were down everywhere. There was so much damage that it was just hard to make sense of it all. The phrase ‘war zone’ kept getting passed around and rightfully so. One man who […]
October 17, 2018
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Trucks getting better, safer. The motoring public not so much
One of my favorite parts of my job is test driving trucks. Who wouldn’t enjoy a little time on the open road? I’ve had a commercial license for nearly three years and climbing up in a tractor never gets old. Most of my drives are for a single day or a few hundred miles, but […]
October 9, 2018
Perspectives
Getting prepared for Hurricane Michael
I just received an emergency text stating that we’re under mandatory evacuation here in Bay County, Fla. courtesy of Hurricane Michael. For those not familiar with the area, our more popular cities include Panama City and Panama City Beach. Tallahassee is about a two-hour drive northeast of here. The evacuation doesn’t come as a surprise. […]
October 8, 2018
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Too green to fail: Musk’s marijuana memes are funny, but he may get the last laugh
Mention baseball, hot dogs and apple pie and a lot of seasoned consumers like myself will automatically think ‘Chevrolet’ owed to a gazillion commercials from the 1970s. That was 40-plus years ago and I still remember. Not bad, GM. Brand association is obviously important. Let’s try this one: What comes to mind when I say […]
September 10, 2018
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Nissan’s new 500-mile charging arc a step forward for EVs?
True, it’s not nearly as monumental as that final leg of the railroad out west, but it’s still noteworthy. Nissan, the manufacturer of the most popular EV in the world, the Leaf, worked with partner EVgo to provide enough DC fast chargers for EV drivers to make the 500-mile trip between Boston and Washington, D.C. […]
September 9, 2018
Perspectives
Hurricane season hits close to home the same day Japan is slammed by a major typhoon
The rain came today—and it kept coming courtesy of Tropical Storm Gordon. Having lived in Northwest Florida for over 20 years, I’ve become accustomed to hurricane season and the fury it can bring. We didn’t get hit very badly today in Panama City. Some minor wind and a lot of rain coupled with some coastal […]
September 4, 2018
Perspectives
Trucking’s teen driver dilemma: Industry must proceed with caution on the movement for under-21 truckers
By Jeff Crissey, editor of Commercial Carrier Journal, a partner publication of Hard Working Trucks. Age is just a number, so the saying goes. While that may be true for relationships, it may not apply to truck driving. The U.S. Senate renewed the debate over the appropriate age for interstate commercial truck drivers last month […]
September 2, 2018
Perspectives
No country for old batteries
The Tesla Semi showed up at JB Hunt’s headquarters in Arkansas on Friday and created quite a stir. Photos on Twitter showed people lined up to take a closer look at the all-electric truck that’s continued to generate headlines all over the world. Tesla’s community forum was filled with praise for the Semi. One devoted […]
August 27, 2018
Perspectives
One of the best truck pranks ever & a crazy truck riding teen begging to be arrested
In my late teens I drove a Chevy lift truck for an office machine company in Georgia. I know of only one time when I didn’t know exactly what was going on at the back end of that truck—or at least I’m hoping that’s the case. After delivering and helping to set up a copy […]
August 20, 2018
Perspectives
Apology issued for Chicago bait truck
Score one for justice? Really? Sting operations in Chicago designed to curtail rising cargo thefts took a big hit recently as Norfolk Southern Railway buckled under pressure, apologized for leading an undercover bait truck operation and vowed never to use the same tactic again. That’s great news for cargo thieves including three men who were […]
August 19, 2018
Perspectives
Cargo theft sting in Chicago angers ‘activists’
While sting operations in law enforcement are nothing new, video of an apparent bait truck loaded with brand new Nike shoes and parked in a Chicago neighborhood has gone viral after residents there confronted police and complained about what they say are unfair tactics. Okay, if a food truck was left where people were starving, […]
August 8, 2018
Perspectives
Autonomous vehicles crash together in California
In a strange twist of fate bordering on the ironic, an autonomous vehicle recently collided with another autonomous vehicle while traveling the streets of San Francisco. No matter. AV tech still came out ahead according to the autonomous vehicle crash report provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. While both Chevrolet Bolts involved in […]
July 29, 2018
Perspectives
Tragic lesson: Landscape company owner arrested for killing two women with errant boulder
Like it or not, the trucking industry came under fire following the viral news story of a woman and her adult daughter being crushed to death by a boulder that had fallen off a landscape truck and demolished their car in Rosemount, Minnesota. The man driving the truck, 33-year-old Czeck Services owner Joseph Czeck, was […]
July 15, 2018
Perspectives
Headline heatwave: The cost of exposing P&D drivers to the elements
Is 132 degrees too hot for a driver? It’s safe to assume that most of us would agree that temperatures that high inside a vehicle are too hot for man or beast. But it’s possible that the temperature inside 63-year-old Peggy Frank’s mail truck reached that Death Valley-like high when she was found dead last […]
July 11, 2018
Perspectives
You don’t have to buy an electric truck to drive an electrified one
The electrification of trucking may “the next big thing” but the electrification of the truck itself isn’t an entirely new concept. The differentiator of the two discussions is a big one. The electrification of trucking centers on removing a traditional driveline and replacing it with a number of electric drive motors. On-board electrification is just removing mechanically […]
July 5, 2018
Perspectives
There’s more to green transportation than just electric trucks
Electric mobility may go a long way in slashing fuel costs, but fleets are equally drawn to the technology over the prospect of reducing their carbon footprint. Some of us aren’t comfortable riding on the bleeding edge of new tech, preferring to let the early adopters work out the kinks and bugs. However, there are […]
June 11, 2018
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