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Fleet Focus: PAM Cartage, Navajo Express, Con-way Freight
RelatedEasing into ownership: The successful path to lease-purchase9 tips to help turn a lease-purchase in your favor. If you’re a company driver who wants to own your own truck, or you already have...
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Equipment Spotlight: Coolants and additives
RelatedChanging Gear: Lubricants and coolants rewindSince most of you are busy enough trying to manage your own business, it’s likely you occasionally might have missed a few announcements for new...
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Fleet Focus: Gordon Trucking, Bay & Bay, Con-way Freight
RelatedQuack attack: Oregon fan’s 2010 Freightliner CascadiaOwner-operator and Oregon Ducks fan John Starr of Roseburg, Ore., says team pride dominates his 2010 Freightliner Cascadia. It’s one thing...
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Fleet Focus: LTL service center expansion roundup
RelatedOld Dominion opens, expands service centersOld Dominion Freight Line Inc. has opened a new service center in Watertown, S.D., and an expanded service center in Oshkosh, Wis. The Thomasville,...
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Fleet Focus: New pay packages for Watkins, Covenant, Super Service
RelatedWatkins celebrates 80th yearWatkins Family of Companies will celebrate its 80th anniversary this year. Owner-operator team driver Tyrone Frost has worked for Watkins for three years, and he...
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Fleet Focus: New pay packages for Transport America, Cargo Transporters, J&R...
RelatedTransport America invests in OEM-built exercise systemThe Minnesota-based fleet outfitted 200 of its tractors with Freightliner's in-cab exercise system, the FIT System. Transport America...
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Equipment Spotlight: Bumpers and fenders
This month Overdrive takes a look at some recently introduced bumper and fender products designed to help you keep your truck looking and working its best. Fleetline’s polyethylene refuse fenders are...
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Changing Gear: Yokohama, Kenworth, Peterbilt, SmartTruck
RelatedYokohama unveils iPad appYokohama Tire Corporation has unveiled its iPad app for the trucking tire industry. The Yokohama Commercial Tire Navigator is free on iTunes. Now this sounds like a...
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Changing Gear: Updates from Kenworth, International, Mack, Freightliner
RelatedKenworth adds mid-roof sleeper to T680, T880Kenworth announced the launch of a new 76-inch mid-roof sleeper for its T680 and T880, likewise TruckTech+ and Nav+ HD connected-vehicle sysems to...
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Fleet Focus: Con-way Freight, Western Express, Estes
In this era of tight shipping capacity and driver shortages, Ross Reynolds certainly sounds like someone worth retaining. The Con-way Freight driver, based at the company’s terminal in Tucson, Ariz.,...
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Fleet Focus: Con-way Freight, J.R. Schugel, C.H. Robinson
Fleets today are concerned with making sure their drivers are happy and that they’ll stay happy and stick around, and nothing makes drivers happier than good pay, new equipment and a few add-ons in...
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Changing Gear: Collabs from Navistar-Eaton, Daimler-Zonar, Holland-Paccar
When one trucking industry vendor comes up with a great idea to help drivers and fleets alike, it’s a win-win. So when two vendors work together on new trucking innovations, is that a win-win-win? Why...
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Equipment Spotlight: Waxes and polishes
When working to build your business, your truck can be your biggest and best advertisement. A little wax and polish will go a long way in showing current and potential customers that you take your...
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Changing Gear: Volvo-Mack, Road Choice
RelatedChanging Gear: News from Hogebuilt, Fontaine, Volvo/Mack, Bosch, East, HowesReady to turn your boring blah-looking rig into a rolling masterpiece sure to make other drivers green with envy? The...
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Gear Rewind: Trailers
RelatedPage Trucking’s owner-operators and its custom frameless-dump trailer specWorking with East Manufacturing over many years, Page Trucking's founders, owners and its leased owner-operators have...
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Gear Rewind: Tires
RelatedNACFE: Tires with low rolling resistance worth the investment“Our study confirmed that low rolling resistance tires do get better fuel economy than standing singles,” says NACFE President Mike...
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Gear Rewind: Maintenance and Performance
RelatedEquipment Spotlight: Waxes and polishesWhen working to build your business, your truck can be your biggest and best advertisement. A little wax and polish will go a long way ...This week we’re...
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Gear Rewind: Lubricants and Coolants
RelatedHow to prep your truck for Old Man WinterNothing tests a truck’s readiness for climate change like a hard, frigid blast of arctic air. That’s why winter preparation is an annual event for...
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Gear Rewind: Lights
RelatedLED headlamp test: Not just brighter, but wider and more natural illuminationLED headlamps offer distinct advantages over conventional (halogen) designs, including better visibility and longer...
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Gear Rewind: Health
RelatedTIE Marketplace set for Obamacare, round threeWith the third open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act-enable insurance exchanges approaching open on Nov. 1, Marc Ballard of the Truckers...
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