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March 2014 

Vol ume 28 

Issue 3 

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Departments 

Viewpoint 19 

Industry Update 24 

NASCAR News 50 

Protect Yourself 58 

Carrier Lane 68 

Safety Tips 74 

Connection Wordfind 80 

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NASCAR Rock Stars On The 

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Meet The Haulers Who Haul NASCAR’s 

Top Drivers 

Bill Mack’s Entertainment Beat 

How To Memorialize Those We’ve Lost 

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ViewPoint 

T he Sno w T hat 

By Megan Cullingford-Hicks 

Tax Time is Here. 

Are You Prepared? 

Shut Do wn the South 


By Megan Cullingford-Hicks 

Viewpoint 

We’re solidly into another 

year, with the President 

officially sworn in to 

another four years of trying to get 

the country back on track (hmmm, 

what will that debt total look like 

in 2017?), the holidays behind us 

(hopefully all your lights are down 

and Santa has left the building), and 

tax season upon us. Try to contain 

your excitement. 

I 

another time. Turns out, “another 

time” is, uh, this month. 

But whether you are more disciplined 

than I with your taxes and 

expenses or you’re as big a paperwork 

mess as me, it’s imperative that you as 

a trucker keep track of all your spending 

through the year. You can track it 

weekly, monthly (or biannually works) 

but whatever it takes, track it. It 

can mean a huge difference between 

what you cough up to Uncle Sam and 

what goes into your savings account. 

Truckers are allowed to write off any 

expense necessary for them to com- 

I can procrastinate like a champ 

so it’s with ’ve a lived heavy up north, heart that I stare 

down I’ve the lived mountain down south, of expenses and 

and receipts I’ve driven that many still need a mile to in be tallied 

snowy and totaled Colorado for in before the ski I can season. pay a visit plete their jobs—from pens to industry 

I to laugh my along accountant. with others I have as they joke best that of an magazines to meals (check the stipulations 

But this on past that) winter to weigh station costs 

inch intentions or two throughout of snow will the shut year down of the managing 

south. 

has been 

this 

a doozy 

stuff, 

when 

of keying 

it comes 

totals the 

and 

chaos 

and 

of 

anything 

crusty weather. 

else not reimbursed by 

figures In January, into my timing, spreadsheet along with as more I go and snow your than we company. usually get, conditions 

ripe filing for them turning away fluffy in snow a neat into and trecherous orderly ice, If and you a decided lack the lack discipline of to track 

equipment fashion. But to handle somewhere this type between, of thing oh, brought these Atlanta totals to throughout its knees. the year (welcome 

it was to blasted the club!), all over at the least toss the 

February You no doubt of one heard year some and February of the stories of as 

national the next, news. my neat Since and I live orderly just three receipts miles from receipts my office in folders and my or envelopes son’s school marked 

is turns only about into a another daunting mile stack away, of all paper was good with for each me and month mine and but then many spend a day 

of slips my friends in varying did not sizes fair large as well. enough You see, to any each time February an impending tallying storm them is up for the 

announced, swallow small the battle children. over And whether this to year close tax schools man. begins. With Close what them it saves and you in 

nothing is different. happens, you’ll I might have have complaining made it parents taxes, left I bet and that right. day is Apparently, the biggest oneday 

to payday have the you city enjoy in its sights all year. 

this to go-round, June or July the storm before didn’t I began initially simply appear 

and stockpiling all the schools invoices around and here receipts opted with to stay in Email session. your But view here’s point a crazy to Megan@ 

thought: every intention storms have of a getting way of changing to them path TruckersConnection.com. 

whenever they so choose and 

that’s what happened. As soon as government officials realized it, all the 

county Find your schools favorite announced: magazines “Hey, at TruckDriverMagazines.com 

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get your kids.” And all the parents in the city immediately left to head home. 

Boom: complete gridlock ensued. 


T he Sno w T hat 

Shut Do wn the South 

Continued from page 19. 

A few hours later, the sun went down and as it happens in the south, 

the 2” of snow turned to 2” of ice and it just got ugly from there. The 

sheer volume of traffic that hit the roadways at the same time meant no 

one could move at all. After creeping for hours, getting to your exit ramp 

didn’t mean you were home free considering the ramps were iced over 

and no one could get up them. No matter your driving prowess, you 

aren’t getting up a hill of sheer ice. Folks stuck in cars for hours had no 

food, no water, and in the bitter temperatures, were quickly running out 

of gas. Everywhere, people pulled over (if they could) and abandoned 

their cars on the sides of the highways and walked to the nearest hotel, 

Home Depot (which all stayed 

open all night to shelter people) or 

grocery store where they slept in 

lobbies, in aisles, on floors. People 

that live near the highways were 

going out and inviting strangers to 

come to their homes to stay. They 

brought car phone charges, gas, 

food, hot chocolate, water and 

more out to people stuck in their 

cars. I heard of strangers sharing 

hotel rooms just so as many as 

possible could have a warm bed. 

The show of good samaritanism 

was amazing. 

For my family living, working and schooling within a three mile radius, 

we were some of the lucky ones. We retrieved our high schooler about 

10 minutes after they announced school closing. My office closed 30 

minutes later and all but one of us was able to get home quickly. (The 

unlucky one took 2.5 hours to drive a 30 min route.) A good friend who 

lives close to me left work in Atlanta Tuesday at 2:30pm and got home 

Wednesday at 11am. Another friend’s son took six hours to go a typical 

20 minutes. A couple thousand kids had to sleep at schools because 

parents couldn’t get to them and buses could no longer travel after the 

sun went down and the roads turned to ice. 

Through it all, I was most amazed at the everyday folks who went 

the extra mile with needed items or an extention of hospitality. It was 

a nightmare for so many but times like these can reveal amazing 

character, and for the citizens of Atlanta, so it did. 

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Industry Update 


TCA Names Best Fleets to Drive For Winners 

Results are in and the Truckload Carriers Association and 

CarriersEdge have announced the 20 trucking companies from 

across North America as winners in the 2014 Best Fleets to Drive 

For. 

The annual survey and contest, now in its sixth year, identifies for-hire trucking 

companies that provide the best workplace experiences for their drivers. 

This year’s winners are as follows: 

Bison Transport, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd., 

Breslau, Ontario; Central Oregon Trucking Co., Redmond, Ore.; DJ Knoll 

Transport Ltd., Emerald Park, Saskatchewan, Canada; Fremont Contract 

Carriers, Fremont, Neb.; FTC Transportation, Oklahoma City; Gordon 

Trucking Inc., Pacific, Wash.; Grammer Industries Inc., Grammer, Ind.; Grand 

Island Express, Grand Island, Neb.; Halvor Lines Inc., Superior, Wis.; Kriska 

Holdings Ltd., Prescott, Ontario; Landstar System Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.; 

Load One LLC, Taylor, Mich.; Motor Carrier Service Inc., Northwood, Ohio; 

Paramount Freight Systems LLC, Fort Myers, Fla.; Prime inc., Springfield, 

Mo.; Sue Vinje Trucking, Superior, Wis.; TimeLine Logistic International Ltd., 

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Transpro Freight Systems Ltd., Milton, 

Ontario; and Trimac Transportation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

In addition, five companies have been identified as “Fleets to Watch” 

(honorable mentions) for demonstrating innovation in their driver programs, 

including Drive Logistics, Windsor, Ontario; Erb Group of Companies, 

New Hamburg, Ontario; Roehl Transport Inc., Marshfield, Wis.; Steelman 

Transportation Inc., Springfield, Mo.; and Tennant Truck Lines, Inc., Colona, 

Ill. 

The nomination process began in the fall of 2013 when company drivers and 

owner-operators were asked to nominate carriers that operate 10 or more trucks. 

After confirming the validity of the nominations and the trucking companies’ 

desire to participate, CarriersEdge interviewed human resources representatives 

and executives of the nominated fleets about their corporate direction, policies and 

programs. 

Nominated fleets were evaluated against a scoring matrix covering a variety of 

categories, such as total compensation package – including base pay; bonuses; 

vacation and sick day allotment; health benefits; pension plans; professional 

development opportunities (training, coaching programs, etc.); career path/ 

advancement opportunities; commitment to employee personal growth including 

work/life balance, driver family support and employee-directed charitable 

contributions; commitment to continuous improvement, including dispute resolution 

processes and including of driver feedback in policymaking; team building and 

driver community development activities; annual driver turnover rate; and fleet safety 

record. 


“The biggest trend we saw this year was a shift to mobile technology. Most 

companies are using smartphones and tablets to deliver information to their drivers, 

and some are even developing their own custom mobile apps,” Mark Murrell, 

president of CarriersEdge, said. 

The winners represent a wide range of fleet sizes and business focus areas. The 

smallest fleet has 25 drivers, while the largest has more than 8,500. 

“Each year, I am more and more amazed at the innovative programs these fleets 

are implementing, regardless of their size. And several of the Best Fleet winners are 

also in contention for TCA’s National Fleet Safety Awards, so clearly these are not 

just nice places to work — they’re also safe,” TCA President Chris Burruss said. 

The names will be announced at the March 25 awards ceremony during TCA’s 

Annual Convention at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas. 

Industry Update 


GAO: FMCSA Needs to Modify CSA Program 

to Improve Crash Risk Ability 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration’s Compliance, Safety, 

Accountability (CSA) program may have 

helped the agency contact or investigate 

more motor carrier companies and 

provided a broader range of safety 

benefits than the previous SafeStat, but 

the present system also might have led 

FMCSA to identify many carriers as high 

risk that were later never involved in a 

crash. 

This causes the 

agency to miss 

opportunities to 

intervene with 

carriers that 

were involved in 

crashes, the GAO 

said in a recent report to Congress, 

which included in the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act a mandate for GAO 

to monitor the implementation of CSA. 

As a result of its findings, the GAO 

recommended that FMCSA revise the 

current Safety Management System 

methodology to better account for 

limitations in drawing comparisons of 

safety performance information among 

carriers. 

The SMS is used to develop CSA 

scores for carriers, which in turn — 

“Most carriers lack sufficient safety 

performance data to ensure that 

FMCSA can reliably compare them 

with other carriers.” 

among other things — determines which 

carriers might be a crash risk. 

In addition, the GAO said 

determination of a carrier’s fitness to 

operate should account for limitations in 

available performance information. 

The GAO said Department of 

Transportation officials, while not 

agreeing totally with the report, had 

agreed to consider the recommendations. 

“FMCSA faces at least two challenges 

in reliably 

assessing safety 

risk for the majority 

of carriers,” the 

GAO said. “First, 

for SMS to be 

effective in 

identifying carriers more likely to crash, 

the violations that FMCSA uses to 

calculate SMS scores should have a 

strong predictive relationship with 

crashes. However, based on GAO’s 

analysis of available information, most 

regulations used to calculate SMS scores 

are not violated often enough to strongly 

associate them with crash risk for 

individual carriers. Second, most carriers 

lack sufficient safety performance data to 

ensure that FMCSA can reliably compare 

them with other carriers.” 


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Entertainment Beat 

By Bill Mack 

I 

receive text-messages from 

Willie Nelson quite often. Most 

of these iPhone bits consist of 

a short, funny joke that he had just 

heard, or an old, favorite piece 

of “X” rated literary material that 

jumped back into his creative brain 

while lounging around his house in 

Austin, Texas or at his home on the 

island of Maui. 

I usually laugh at these outrageous 

messages, even though I may have 

already heard them several times, 

often from him. My laughter is 

brought on after I consider the 

source. Willie loves to grab your 

attention, even if it’s a multi-repeated 

attorneys. Many times, he will text 

me from his overloaded, busy bus 

when he finds some idle time to 

do so. 

Heavy subjects are seldom 

discussed on his bus while it is 

filled with the regular crowd made 

up of chums, songwriters and 

musicians. If you approach him 

about compound issues, he may 

whisper, “Let’s talk about that later, 

after the others leave the bus.” 

On December 16, 2013, Willie 

sent me the most serious message I 

have ever received from him. The 

text, which I still have in my files, 

“Ray was not only a great friend, 

he also gave me my first big break 

to get into the music business. 

Without Ray Price, there very well 

would not be a Willie Nelson.” 

joke. During a friendship that began 

almost 50 years ago, I’ve taken 

note of the fact that my old pal may 

feel a bit uncomfortable when he’s 

cornered with a topic that requires 

serious study or discussion. His 

theory is that those subjects should 

be handled by road managers or 

reads: “Ray was not only a great 

friend, he also gave me my first big 

break to get into the music business. 

Without Ray Price, there very well 

would not be a Willie Nelson. 

While I was struggling in Nashville, 

he paid me to write songs for his 

music publishing company, Pamper 

Music, and then added super 


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blessings to me by recording many 

of those songs himself. This gave 

me the opportunity to make more 

money than I had ever imagined I 

would make by composing music. 

“I had almost given up as a 

songwriter when Ray opened the 

doors that allowed other recording 

artists to take an interest in my 

ability as a songwriter. When my 

songs began to catch on by various 

singers, I began to make a good 

living for the first time as a singing 

songwriter who had been restricted 

to playing in small honky-tonks in 

order to pay my bills … when I 

paid them! 

“Ray also hired me to play bass 

in his band when Donny Young, 

alias Johnny Paycheck, quit the 

band. He called me and asked 

me if I could play bass. I said, 

‘Can’t everybody?’ It didn’t take 

him long to discover I was not 

a bass player. He allowed me 

to open his appearances with 

his band. I would do 45-minutes 

of Jimmy Dickens jokes and sing 

Hank Williams songs … while the 

audience yelled, ‘Where’s Ray???’ 

Those were the good old days. Ray 

will be missed.” 

Willie sent me that text-message 

to read to those attending the 

memorial service for Ray Price on 

December 21, 2013. The sad event 

was held in a church in Mount 

Pleasant, Texas where I had been 

asked speak. Willie was unable to 

attend, but wanted his thoughts to 

be heard by those who were there. 

I would repeat his message at the 

funeral service for Ray that was 

held a week later, on December 28, 

at a church located on the outskirts 

of Dallas. 

During both services, Willie was 

at his home in Maui. Sure, it was a 

long way from Texas, but he made 

no excuses for not being at either 

of the tributes to his good pal. 

However, I’ve often wondered if he 

decided not to attend the memorial 

service and funeral for Ray because 

of his feeling such personal pain 

from losing an old friend who had 

contributed so much to his life. 

In reality, Willie is a very private 

individual. 

In a column written a year ago 

in this magazine, I mentioned 

the importance of Ray Price as 

a performer, although most 

everyone was already aware of 

his amazing ability to capture 

a song. In the beginning of his 

career, he specialized in the 

“four-four” shuffle, known as the 

“Texas Sound”, with such gems 

as “Crazy Arms,” “Heartaches By 

The Numbers” and many others 

that managed to move to the top 

of the charts. Then, he decided 

to make a radical change in his 

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musical arrangements that placed 

special emphasis on his smooth, 

dynamic voice. Accompanied by 

an orchestra consisting of many 

violins and other instruments, 

including a harp, the “trademark” 

Ray Price sound was established 

via such treasures as “Danny Boy”, 

“Sweetheart Of The Year” and 

the unforgettable “For The Good 

Times.” 

These monumental hits allowed 

Ray to appear regularly on the 

most important television networks, 

helping country music to achieve 

the respect it deserved. Johnny 

Carson referred to Ray as “one 

of the most sensational singers 

in the business”, and one 

of his personal 

favorites. 

Price was 

inducted in the 

Country Music 

Hall-of-Fame in 

1996 and was 

to achieve every 

other music 

award possible. 

Several of us 

were aware of 

the fact that Ray 

was diagnosed 

with pancreatic 

cancer in 

November of 

2012, although he remained active 

with his touring engagements 

until the middle of 2013 when 

the disease finally spread out-ofcontrol. 

He would call me often, 

never mentioning his “condition”. 

Instead, he made me aware of his 

new album that was to be released 

soon on Sony Records. He proudly 

stated, “It’s th’ best album I’ve ever 

recorded, Bill.” 

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After spending two months in 

various hospitals, Ray Price passed 

away on December 16, 2013 at 

his ranch in Mount Pleasant, Texas. 

He was determined to spend his 

final days at his home. In our last 

telephone conversation, he said, 

“Be on the lookout for my new 

album, pal. As I said before, I think 

it’s th’ best album I ever recorded, 

and I think you’ll agree.” 

As I write this, the last album by 

the great Ray Price is set for release 

in the very near future. Like many 

of you, I’m anxious to hear that 

velvet voice at its best. 

Willie Nelson and I chatted by 

telephone recently. He 

stated, “I heard the new album by 

Ray when I was in Nashville a few 

weeks ago, and it’s amazing. It’s 

th’ typical Ray Price sound. I can’t 

describe it because I can’t find th’ 

words. Old Ray was simply th’ best 

singer on th’ planet.” 

Many will agree with you, 

Willie. 


W 

ith the NASCAR Sprint Cup season 

officially underway, the sport’s top 

drivers will be hauling from city 

to city, and track to track, competing for 

valuable points and trying to figure out 

where they’ll place in this revised playoff 

system. The modified “Chase” will increase 

the competition from week to week, meaning 

NASCAR’s elite will want to get to each track 

as soon as possible to test the conditions and 

map out a strategy to ultimately succeed. 

And do you know who has to get Jimmie 

Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, Kyle 

Busch and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to the track 

on time? That’s right, the job falls to a team 

of professional truckers. 

Daytona is in the rearview mirror, but 

races at Las Vegas, Bristol and Fontana, 

California are on the horizon. Let’s get to 

know the men and women who will hit the 

highways in the coming months to get your 

favorite NASCAR driver to the track on 

time. 

California, Here We Come 

A NASCAR hauler is the 18-wheel tractortrailer 

rig that teams use to transport two 

race cars, engines, tools, and support 

equipment to the racetracks. Cars are 

stowed in the top section, while the bottom 

floor is used for work space. 

You know that pit crews and NASCAR team 

members have been plotting for the Fontana 

race for weeks. Not because of the track, 

itself, but because of where it’s located – in 

California. 

Most (if not all) of the NASCAR teams are 

headquartered outside of Charlotte, North 

Carolina in the sleepy town of Moorseville. 

Because of that, the West Coast trips are 

the hardest to scheme, and require the 

most amount of pre-planning to ensure safe 

transport to the race. 

“You can always circle the days on the 

calendar around here where there are 

going to be some frayed nerves and 

some arguments during the day,” said 

Jerry Freeze, general manager of Front 

Row Motorsports, told Bleacher Report 

in an interview. “One is always the last 

day before you go to Daytona, and one 

is always the day before you leave for 

[California].” 


The reason being that teams can’t go from 

one track to the next. They always have to 

return home to North Carolina after each 

race to pick up the parts and accessories 

needed for the next race on the calendar. 

The parts that a car needs for Michigan, 

as example, will be different than the ones 

needed for Phoenix, so the team can’t just 

continue on from one track to the next. They 

must get home to refresh, and in order to 

get home, they need to rely on a NASCAR 

hauler. 

Hauler History, Past and 

Present 

The typical, 18-wheel NASCAR hauler 

acts as a race shop on wheels. The 

transporter houses two race cars on the 

upper deck, and all the equipment and 

tools a crew needs on the bottom. The 

back of the rig typically houses an office 

area, which boasts a sofa, satellite dish, 

TV and anything else needed to study and 

strategize. 

The first modern semi-car hauler was 

introduced to NASCAR in 1991 by race 

team owner Richard Childress, who 

commissioned a trailer for his driver, the 

legendary Dale Earnhardt. Childress and 

Earnhardt worked with Featherlite Trailers 

to create a trailer that could not only 

transport racecars, but also serve as a 

mobile garage, a diagnostic center and a 

remote observation deck. Featherlite rose to 

the challenge, and the result revolutionized 

NASCAR races to the extent that Featherlite 

is still the official trailer of NASCAR. 

According to NASCAR’s official statistics, 

each transporter is up to 80-feet long. The 

trailer, itself, is 53 feet in length. The semi, 

combined with the trailer, reaches that 

80,000 pound max most of you are familiar 

with. The average cost of a transporter is a 

staggering $500,000. 

A driver of a NASCAR transporter typically 

performs another duty for the race team 

in addition to over-the-road driving. Those 

duties might include working for the pit 

crew or being the team cook. For the longer 

trips, such as Sonoma, Calif., a team driver 

is employed to ensure enough rest for the 

driver and that the transporter can keep 

moving on the 50-plus hour journey. 



The different parts of the NASCAR hauler 

tend to include: 

• Top Deck 

o Viewing area with railing for observing 

race cars on track. Can 

include scoring monitors with 

lap speeds and times for 

team managers and crew 

to evaluate car and driver 

performance. 

• Lift Gate 

o Hydraulic or electric rear 

door that folds out to load 

and unload race cars. 

• Car Bay 

o Holds two cars. 

• Team member lockers 

• Parts storage, a Computer 

monitor, and Computer storage 

• Shock dynamometer, Shocks and 

Springs 

• Kitchen storage 

• Transmission storage, Engine 

storage, Driver uniforms and 

helmet 

Haulers typically hold a 150 gallon 

fuel tank on each side. And as a rough 

estimate, haulers and their drivers travel 

70,000-75,000 miles per year. 

Team Atmosphere 

Why do it? Mike Smith drives the #34 

hauler for Front Row. His car is the #34 

Ford Fusion, driven by David Ragan in the 

Sprint Cup Series. A Pennsylvania native, 

Smith has been driving for NASCAR for 

close to a decade. His current truck is the 

2009 Coronado. 

In an interview on behalf of Freightliner, 

Smith talked about why he likes his life as a 

NASCAR hauler. 

“The camaraderie with all of the other 

drivers is really great. We all get along 

well, and we help 

each other out if 

anyone has problems,” Smith said. “Life on 

the road can be tough, but I’ve always liked 

the travel end of it, so the job fits me well.” 

Freightliner takes great pride in sponsoring 

several NASCAR team haulers. “They 

are the first to arrive and the last to leave 

the track,” the company proclaims. Team 

Freightliner sponsors Hendrick Motorsports, 

Joe Gibbs Racing, JTG Dougherty Racing, 

Michael Waltrip Racing, Penske Racing, 

and Richard Childress Racing – so basically, 

most of the “Top Dogs” in the sport. You 

can read driver profiles of the company’s 

haulers at the ebsite www.freightlinertrucks. 

com/Community/Motorsports/NASCAR/ 

Hauler-Profiles/#ixzz2tIXOLACJ. 

Rock Stars On The Road 

Of course, one final perk of being a 

NASCAR hauler hitting the open roads 

between North Carolina and locations on 

the Sprint Cup circuit is that you become a 

rock star on the road. 


“The truck is basically a rolling billboard,” 

Freeze told Bleacher Report, referring to the 

team’s sponsors and other logos painted 

on the sides of the rolling haulers. “They’re 

so recognizable out there, and (the drivers) 

have to be conscious of it. They’re kind of 

the rock stars of the road.” 

As BR notes, that means haulers must 

avoid aggressive driving and participate in 

plenty of public relations work. Front Row’s 

haulers, for example, often stop at Love’s 

Travel Stops for fuel and food thanks to a 

sponsorship agreement. Inevitably, crowds 

of nearby NASCAR fans gravitate to the 

hauler to ask questions, takes photos and 

look for driver hero cards. 

In a USA Today profile, Jim “Tiny” Pollard 

and Jeff Craven say that the “celebrity” is 

all part of the job. Pollard hauls for the #48 

car driven by Sprint Cup champion Johnson. 

Craven drives for Jeff Gordon. Both men 

have been hauling with their respective 

drivers for years. 

Pollard says he gets a steady stream of CB 

chatter from other truckers who spot his rig 

and want to know where they are driving 

to, how Johnson is doing in the competition, 

and if Jimmie is on the rig, as well. (He 

isn’t. NASCAR drivers fly in private jets from 

race to race as their equipment is being 

hauled.) 

“I’ve had people follow me for a hundred 

miles just to take a picture of the hauler 

[rig],” Craven said. 

‘’A lot of truckers think our job would be 

neat to have. It’s a very popular sport,’’ 

Pollard adds. ‘’But they don’t know the 

whole gist of the deal. They think we get to 

sit back and watch the race and all.’’ 

That’s not the case, at all. On race day, 

Pollard provides fuel as part of Johnson’s pit 

crew. Before each trip, he shops to make 

sure the team’s hauler is properly stocked 

with tools, spare parts, pit crew uniforms 

and more. He stocks the hauler’s pantry, 

and pitches in wherever manpower is 

needed… all to help Johnson win another 

championship. 

At heart, though, Pollard says haulers are 

just like you and me. 

“Sometimes, when people talk to you, they 

make you feel [like a celebrity],” he said. 

“But I’m just a truck driver. All I do is haul a 

pretty trailer down the road.” 


NASCAR News 


Chase Changes Create 

Excitement, Competition 

Sprint 

Cup 

Schedule 

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France said he 

doesn’t expect the new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup 

championship format to result in changes to the schedule for 

the 10-race program. 

The 2014 Chase will begin at Chicagoland Speedway Sunday, March 2 

and end once again at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Phoenix 

with stops at New Hampshire, Dover, Kansas, Charlotte, 3 p.m. ET, FOX 

Talladega, Martinsville, Texas and Phoenix in between. 

“We have those conversations (about the schedule) Sunday, March 9 

now,” France told NASCAR.com, after announcing a major Las Vegas 

overhaul of the 10-race format. “But we like consistency in 3 p.m. ET, FOX 

our schedule, traditionally. 

“And we also believe that the Homestead-Miami track, Sunday, March 16 

and the drivers will tell you this, it’s probably their favorite Bristol 

mile-and-a-half track to drive. It allows them to put on an 1 p.m. ET, FOX 

unbelievable event, (there is a) lot of passing in that event. 

Sunday, March 23 

“We’ll see in the future, but I’d be surprised if we moved 

(the site of the final race) around.” 

Fontana 

While NASCAR is unveiling a new rules package to be 3 p.m. ET, FOX 

used at intermediate tracks, and a new qualifying format this 

Sunday, March 30 

season, France said the time was right to make the changes 

Martinsville 

to the Chase format. 

The program, which debuted in 2004, has undergone 1 p.m. ET, FOX 

minor changes in the past, but nothing like those that will be 

in play for 2014 and beyond. 

The field of qualified drivers has been increased from 12 to 16; each of the three 

elimination-style rounds will trim the field by four teams, leaving four drivers to battle 

for the championship in the final event. 

A re-setting of points through the rounds will mean that the teams that continue to 

advance will begin each round all square. 

“We actually had a lot of discussion 

about changing too many different 

things,” said France. “But we are 

changing them in such a way that 

delivers on what the fans have told 

us they want. So the idea to wait on 

something that we could give them (now) 

… we just thought that wasn’t the right 

thing to do. We should give them what 

the future is now.” 


Ricky Rudd once famously taped 

his swollen eyes open so he could 

keep racing after an airborne crash at 

Daytona in 1984. Davey Allison once 

used Velcro to affix his broken right arm 

to the steering wheel after a nasty crash 

at Pocono in 1992. Dale Earnhardt 

won the pole in 1996 at Watkins Glen 

despite a dislocated sternum that made 

it difficult for him to breathe or raise 

his arms. Tony Stewart started a race 

at Dover with a broken shoulder blade 

in 2006. 

Drivers with championship 

aspirations in NASCAR’s top division 

have long pushed themselves through 

tremendous physical adversity, knowing 

that skipping even a single points event 

would mean the end of their title hopes. 

Now that era is over, thanks to one 

caveat of the revamped Chase for the 

NASCAR Sprint Cup format recently 

unveiled. Beginning this season, the 

possibility exists that a driver could miss 

a race due to a valid medical reason 

-- and still hoist the big trophy after the 

last event of the year. 

“Yes, it is a major change,” said 

Robin Pemberton, NASCAR’s vice 

president for competition. “But where 

we are with this new format, and in 

light of everything else that we’ve done, 

we felt compelled that if we have a 

medical reason, we can excuse a driver 

for a period of time based on a medical 

reason. Now, they still have to get in, 

they still have to compete, and all these 

things. But yes, this is different than the 

way we’ve looked at things in the past.” 

For decades, such a thing was 

unthinkable, given that the sport’s 

emphasis on consistency over all else 

demanded a driver be in the seat every 

week. Two seasons ago, Dale Earnhardt 

Jr.’s title hopes ended when he missed 

two races because of concussions. Last 

year, Denny Hamlin missed the Chase 

Photo after Courtesty sitting of out Nascarmedia.com most of five races with 

NASCAR NewsMarch 2014 

Medical Exemption Marks ‘New Day’ for NASCAR 

a broken bone in his back. Competitors 

have sometimes faced the dilemma of 

hiding or soft-pedaling their injury status 

for fear of being pulled from the car on 

doctor’s orders. 

Now, with the Chase field being 

comprised almost exclusively of race 

winners and the points standard for 

eligibility being lowered to the top 30, 

there exists the possibility that a driver 

could sit out one or more races with a 

medically valid reason, and still make 

the playoff because he won a event 

before the Chase began. Under that 

criteria, Hamlin could have still made 

the playoff despite his injury layoff last 

year, had he won a Sprint Cup race 

before the playoff field was set in early 

September at Richmond. 

“I think it’s huge that that opportunity 

is there,” said new NASCAR Hall of 

Fame member and former series 

champion Dale Jarrett. “It is time that a 

driver has that opportunity, that he 

doesn’t have to force himself to be in a 

race car when he shouldn’t be there -- 

he shouldn’t be there for his own good, 

and he shouldn’t be there because of 

the other competitors. But he’s still going 

to have a chance to come back and win 

the championship. This is going to be 

scrutinized, and (NASCAR) is going to 

be on top of this. It’s not like they’re 

going to say, ‘I’m not feeling well, and 

I don’t need to be there.’ It’s going to 

have to be a pretty big deal. 


By Victor Zimmerman 

Protect Yourself 


FMCSA 

Proposed Changes 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administrative (FMCSA) implemented 

the new Motor Carrier Management 

Information System (MCMIS) and the 

Pre-employment Screening Program 

(PSP), three years ago with the goal 

of improving safety on our nation’s 

highways. On the surface this can 

only be applauded, as improved 

safety is something that everyone can 

easily support. However, there may 

unintended consequences to even the 

most laudable efforts. 

When the new CSA Operational 

Model was rolled out, it focused on 

three areas: 

Measurement - CSA measures safety 

performance, using inspection and 

crash results to identify carriers whose 

behaviors could reasonably lead to 

crashes. 

Evaluation - CSA helps FMCSA and 

its State Partners to correct high-risk 

behavior by contacting more carriers 

and drivers–with interventions tailored 

to their specific safety problem, as well 

as a new Safety Fitness Determination 

methodology. 

Intervention - CSA covers the full 

spectrum of safety issues, from how data 

is collected, evaluated, and shared to 

how enforcement officials can intervene 

most effectively and efficiently to improve 

safety on our roads. 

The missing piece is due process of 

the law. There is no method to provide 

information on the outcome of these 

citations. In other words, “the rest of the 

story” could not be told. 

Currently, when a citation is issued 

by a State law enforcement officer or 

a Department of Transportation (DOT) 

inspector, it is transmitted to Safety 

Measurement System (SMS). There is 

no recourse if either the carrier or driver 

successfully fights the citation, and as 

a result, the citation remains on the 

record. 

“As a reminder from 

November’s article, 

everyone is encouraged 

to maintain good records. 

This includes any court 

documents, which may 

assist them in maintaining a 

more accurate record of their 

performance in the FMCSA’s 

database.” 

On December 2, 2013, FMCSA 

posted a notice of consideration for 

a change to the MCMIS to allow the 

results to be posted if there change 

to a lesser charge, or removed if the 

result was not guilty, or retained for 

a conviction. The proposed revision 

would require the carrier or the driver 

to provide the adjudicated information 

via the Request for Data Review (RDR) 

using the DataQ system. If adequate 

information was provided, the State 

agency will be directed to supplement 

the original citation and this information 

would be uploaded to the MCMIS 


Protect Yourself 


database. 

The good news is, when implemented, 

carriers and, more importantly, drivers 

have an opportunity to more clearly 

reflect a more accurate record of their 

performance. In their December 2nd 

posting, the FMCSA also indicates 

how the information will be posted. 

If the original citation/conviction 

is not changed, then, of course, the 

violation also remains unchanged in 

their database. If the violation was 

dismissed or the defendant was found 

not guilty, the violation will be removed. 

If the violation is reduced/changed to 

a different charge, then the violation 

will remain and a statement of the 

change in the charge will be included. 

Additionally, the severity weight will be 

reset to the lowest value in the SMS. 

Remember, the SMS rates a carrier’s 

performance based on seven categories 

using severity weights. 

As a reminder from November’s 

article, everyone is encouraged to 

maintain good records. This includes 

any court documents, which may assist 

them in maintaining a more accurate 

record of their performance in the 

FMCSA’s database. 

Phone: 800-494-7517 

Website: 

www.dacfix.com www.CSA2010fix.com 

Mailing address: 

4516 Lovers Lane 

Suite 399 Dallas, TX 75225 



Product Profile 

WESTERN STAR 4700 AVAILABLE 

WITH ALLISON 4700 RDS TRANSMISSION 

Western Star Trucks Inc. announced 

that the Allison 4700 Rugged Duty Series 

(RDS) series automatic transmission is 

now available for the Western Star 

4700. 

Ideal for rugged off-road and vocational 

applications such as construction, dump 

and oil field, the combination of the 

Western Star 4700 with the Allison 

4700 RDS provides enhanced and more 

efficient vehicle performance. 

The Allison 4700 RDS transmission 

features 2nd Reverse, which offers a 

second “deep reverse” in addition to 

the standard reverse to provide greater 

control and engine braking during 

operation on steep grades. 

Other benefits to the Allison 4700 

RDS include primary and secondary 

shift schedules to enhance fuel efficiency, 

seamless full-power shifts for faster 

acceleration and ease of start-up. 

“When paired with the Allison 4700 

RDS, the Western Star 4700 is a costefficient 

yet powerful solution for the 

most demanding of jobs,” said Peter 

Schimunek, marketing segment manager 

for Western Star. 

“This new offering further broadens 

our ability to provide a wider range of 

options for our vocational customers.” 

Available with the Detroit DD13, 

Cummins ISC or Cummins ISL engines, 

the Western Star 4700 model is all 

Western Star. The rugged 4700 truck 

features the durability and reliability that 

customers expect from Western Star, in a 

mid-BBC configuration, stated a Western 

Star news release. The 4700 can also 

be spec’d with Allison 3000, 4000 and 

4500 RDS transmissions. 

For more information, and to find a 

local dealer, visit WesternStar.com or call 

(866) 850-STAR (7827). 

Western Star Trucks Sales Inc., 

headquartered in Fort Mill, S.C., 

produces heavy-duty custom trucks for 

long-haul and vocational applications. 

Western Star is a subsidiary of Daimler 

Trucks North America LLC. Daimler 

Trucks North America produces and 

markets Class 4-8 vehicles and is a 

Daimler company. 


C.R. England Opens IdleAir Facility at Laredo, Texas, Terminal 

C.R. England has opened a new IdleAir facility at its terminal at 8422 

Amparan Road in Laredo, Texas. 

The 24-space IdleAir facility provides C.R. England drivers with in-cab 

services that provide heating and air conditioning, Internet connectivity, 

television, and 110-volt electrical, completely eliminating the need for 

idling. An open house marking the opening of the facility was held on 

Tuesday, February 4. 

IdleAir developed a customized facility designed around the needs of 

C.R. England and its operation at the Laredo terminal. C.R. England receives 

a customized turnkey package of IdleAir services and support, and 

is expected to quickly realize significant fuel and maintenance savings. 

“The Laredo 

terminal is a key 

Carrier LaneMarch 2014 

“Having access to IdleAir 

at the terminal will yield 

significant savings for our 

operations,” said Allen 

Nielsen, C.R. England 

Director of Fuel. 

operating hub in 

the C.R. England 

network, said David 

Akers, President 

of C.R. England’s 

Mexico Division. 

“Hundreds of trucks 

roll through this 

terminal each week. 

The extreme heat in 

Laredo during several 

months of the year make tractor idling inevitable. Making in-terminal 

IdleAir available to our drivers and independent contractors creates multiple 

efficiencies through reduction of fuel-burn, optimization of Drivers 

Hours of Service, and reduction of carbon footprint.” 

“Having access to IdleAir at the terminal will yield significant savings 

for our operations,” said Allen Nielsen, C.R. England Director of Fuel. “It 

will reduce costs by conserving fuel and reducing engine wear while making 

our terminal cleaner and quieter. It’s a win-win!” 


Celadon, Quality Drivers Open New Driver Training Center 

The Celadon Group and its Quality Drivers 

subsidiary have opened a new driver training 

center near the carrier’s Indianapolis 

headquarters. 

The $7 million, 61,000-square-foot training 

facility includes dorm rooms, a cafeteria, 

a workout room, basketball court, and a 

state-of-the-art driver training road course. 

Quality Drivers expects to train approximately 

500 new drivers 

in the first full year 

of operation at the 

new training center. 

“An ever-present challenge 

for everyone in 

the industry is driver 

recruitment and driver 

retention,” said Paul Will, vice chairman, 

president and CEO. “We recognize that 

starting the Quality Drivers school in late 

2012 and now opening the Quality Drivers 

training center are the next logical steps in 

making sure Celadon has enough qualified 

drivers to fill our seats.” 

Quality Drivers offers the driver training 

classes weekly; they encompass four weeks 

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of basic training toward the CDL exam, 

a company orientation and six weeks of 

supervised driving. The program is free 

as long as recruits fulfill a contract to log 

120,000 miles driving for Celadon after 

completing the training. To date, more than 

500 drivers have completed the program, 

which has been held at the Celadon headquarters 

facility. 

“We believe the driver 

training facility is second 

to none,” said Scott 

Vogel, Quality Drivers 

manager. “We asked our 

drivers to help us decide 

what resources we needed 

in the new training center, 

and they were not shy about providing us 

suggestions. The investment Celadon has 

made in the new Driver Training Center 

demonstrates the company’s commitment 

to ensuring our drivers are provided the 

optimum environment for learning.” 

The driver center welcomed its first class of 

recruits the week of Jan. 27. 

Daily Express Launching High-Mileage Expedited Division 

Daily Express, which specializes in the transport of heavy equipment, is launching 

of Daily Expedited, an open-deck, high-mileage division within the company and is 

seeking to fill positions within that division. 

“Expedited means just that — prioritized, on time, dependable, efficient, and above 

all, safe,” says CEO Todd Long. “It’s what our customers expect. 

Although the name is Daily Expedited, the freight still consists of construction and 

agricultural equipment, Long said, adding that Daily Express’ extensive freight 

network of construction equipment loads would allow owner-operators to work as 

hard as they want. 

“Daily Expedited drivers can expect minimal down time between loads and reliable 

home time, features that will be critical in efforts to recruit owner-operators for this 

new fleet,” Long said. 

Each truck in this new fleet will operate between 110,000 to 130,000 miles a year 

moving both legal and less than 12-foot wide loads moving on stepdeck and lowboy 

trailers. 

“Our customers have an abundance of this type of freight and expect us to move it 

with the same Daily Express standard of excellence that they know and appreciate,” 

Long said 

Among the freight transported by Daily Express are construction equipment, agricultural 

equipment, machinery, and wind energy products. 

Daily Express will need to hire about 30 owner-operators for the new fleet. 



Safety Tips 


By Bob Hataway 

Sleepy While 

Driving 

Do you get sleepy while driving? 

A driver and his wife on I-80 entering 

Utah were headed east to Salt Lake City, 

UT. She had retired to the sleeper several 

hours before. It had snowed almost 10 

inches during the night, and there was a 

crystal glistening across the plains as the 

sun began to rise in the east. 

The driver had been driving most 

of the night. Being tired and with the 

sun hitting him in the eyes, the glare 

from the snow and ice compounded his 

being fatigued. His eyes closed for what 

seemed only a moment when his unit 

veered off the super slab turning over on 

the passenger side. 

It skidded for over 200 feet before 

coming to rest. His wife was thrown 

from the sleeper into the cab. With the 

crash and crush of the metal, he knew 

she had died. 

We all have our limits when it comes to 

driving. And all of us have been known 

to push the edge of the envelope. Being 

sleepy and being tired are multiplying 

issues that have a common ground. You 

are going to lose it. 

A few tips that might be helpful: 

1. Plan breaks every two hours and if there is not a truckstop or rest area, then select 

a spot where you can get completely off the highway. Drink a cup of coffee and 

check your tires. Walk around and get your circulation going. 

2. Get a friend to run with you. Talking on the CB radio has become a thing of the 

past, but it is a great way to stay alert. Invite your friend to stop when you take 

a break instead of you trying to stay with him. What is 30 minutes on a 1,500- 

mile trip? You can make up the difference at another time when you are rested. 

3. If you have to, wake your co-driver. Make sure your co-driver is fully awake and 

alert. If it is not his turn to drive, you can make it up to him on your next spin at 

the wheel. At least you this way, you will have another turn! 

That’s the way I see it - Bob Hataway - TransAlive. 

Bob Hataway heads up TransAlive 

USA, Inc., an organization dedicated 

to helping truckers when they have 

accidents away from home. More 

information is available by calling 

800-USA-HURT. 

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Anderson Trucking Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-11 

Alabama Motor Express ........................16 

Barr-Nunn Transportation ....................35, 51 

Bennett Motor Express .............Inside Back Cover 

Boyd Bros ..................................47 

Cal Ark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Celadon .....................33, Insert, Back Cover 

Central Hauling Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Central Refrigerated Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Century Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 

Coast to Coast Credit Services, Inc. ................79 

Coast to Coast Legal ...........................78 

Crete Carrier Corporation .................... Insert 

CRST Malone ................................53 

D Mosley Trucking ............................55 

Dart Transit .............................. Insert 

Davis Express, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 

Davis Transport ..............................48 

Decker Truck Line, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 

Design Transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 

Diversified Transfer & Storage ...................75 

Earl L. Henderson Trucking Co. ...................23 

Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 

Gordon Trucking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 

Graebel Van Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 

Heartland Express ...........................8-9 

Hill Brothers Transportation .....................57 

Hirschbach Motor Lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 

Hunt Transportation ...........................34 

Interstate Trucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 

K&B Transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 

KLLM Transport Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Logix Transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 

Marten Transport ............................4-5 

Maverick Transportation . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover, 3 

MCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Mercer Transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 

Mid-American Truck Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 

Minstar .................................41, 67 

Nations Express ..............................25 

Nu-Way Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 

P.I. & I. Motor Express .........................21 

Petro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 

Powersource Transportation ..................28, 69 

Prime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Red Eye Radio ...............................60 

Roehl Transport, Inc.. ..........................18 

RTI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Insert 

Shaffer Trucking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 

Southern Refrigerated Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 

Super Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 

Swift Transportation ...........................81 

Tandem ....................................45 

TMC Transportaion ............................40 

Tradewinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 

Trans Am ...................................32 

Transport America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 

Transport Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 

TravelCenters of America .......................54 

Triple D Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 

TruckerJobSeakers.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 

Truckers Helper ..............................78 

Universal ...................................76 

USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 

U.S. Xpress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 

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