I don’t do it every year, but for some reason, I don’t really feel like I’ve completed my MATS experience unless I make it out to Papa John’...

Graphic via www.truckingshow.com More people attended the 2012 edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show than any other show in its 41-yea...

Coleman Doverspike isn't quite tall enough to see over the hood of a full-sized Class 8 truck. He loves trucks, which is no surprise c...

I’ve admitted in a previous Pork Chop Diary blog that I am a “shwag” junkie. That’s the freebies, giveaways and gifts given out at the Mid-...

Joyce Brenny with 4 million miler Heather Hogeland and Linda Caffee with WIT -- all OOIDA members. Guest speaker at this year's Wome...

After four days at MATS (we get here a day early for press conferences) – our senior technical editor Paul Abelson says he normally feels li...

While comparing notes and photos from this year’s Mid-America Trucking Show, a co-worker suggested I was somehow like Forrest Gump because n...

With 87 registered entries in the Paul K. Young Memorial Truck Beauty Championship, there was lots of recognition for excellence, creativity...

One of the things you notice about the Mid-America Trucking Show is the sense of history -- in the show itself, in the people who attend, in...

Too bad mainstream media didn't punch into an event held at the Mid-America Trucking Show Friday morning. It would have a gone a long wa...

I’ve written just about every year about seeing old friends every time I go to Louisville. And some of those folks I see every single time. ...

Tutorial on how to go from stained to stainless

Mark Reddig with "Land Line Now" talks with Laura O'Neill of OOIDA's Washington, DC, office about the issues truckers are ...

Billy Basenberg can talk about it a little easier now. But there was a time he was forced to give up a trucking career that he loved and dea...

Whoever said getting there was half the fun has never sat in the back seat of a cab driver who doesn't seem to know where he's going...