A canceled grocery store order has 1,090,000 million frozen mixed fruit pies up for sale on eBay UK. The fruit puffs have attracted nearly 150 bids and currently stands at over £125,000 (or about $200,000). Now that’s a lot of berries. In fact, if all
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As we were researching last week’s post on Truck Art , we stumbled upon the Rhino Awards for Truck Advertising . The Rhino awards celebrate the most creative trailer advertisements and are held every two years in Germany. All of the ads are submitted
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At uShip, we've had our share of buzz-worthy shipments -- a life-sized Frank Sinatra figure , a real dinosaur skull , and a trailer full of caskets but we just came across one that may be difficult to touch: 4 pallets of bat guano , or excrement from
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In the past we’ve highlighted the creative spirit of truck drivers do a great job decorating their truck and t aking pictures on the road . Today we’d like to present a different point of view – trucks used as art. As pervasive as 18-wheelers and delivery
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“I had the hammer down on the way home-20 to my better half and the ankle biters, but now this baby-bear is taking pictures so I’m going double-nickel.” While the words may be in English, I may as well be speaking a different language: Trucker. Most truckers
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This Saturday, four members of the uShip team will embark on an epic journey through the Texas wilderness. The race, the Texas Wildlife Safari , has been called the World’s Toughest Canoe Race –and, with 100 teams racing 262 miles day and night in under
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Personalizing your workspace, being your desk or your truck, is a normal part of the workplace. When we think of personalizing a truck, we think of having a few pictures, seat covers, maybe a bobble-head or two, or a custom metallic gloss paint job if
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Imagine if the only information you had for finding a delivery spot for your loads was a few lines of cat-scratch scrawled on a tiny bit of paper. Sometimes the location will be missing a name, or a street number, others it will have the wrong city, or
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The Maine Professional Drivers Association held their annual Professional Truck Driving Championship last week in Bangor, Maine. Trucks come from across Maine to show their driving skills with rigs of all different sizes: from step vans to twin trailers.
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Sit down with a truck driver for an hour and you'll hear some of the most interesting stories you've ever come across. Drivers are an underappreciated and colorful bunch. Here at uShip we've collected who we feel are the world's most interesting truckers.
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Changes are reverberating through every sector as the global economy continues to retract. While U.S. job losses mount in the face of massive government bailouts and an unsteady housing market, China’s enormous economy is feeling the strain of the lack
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Like many throughout the country, those of us at uShip watched the news on Tuesday to see a truck hijacked and leading police on a chase in Georgia. Although truck owner Torrey Robert Lang made a valiant showing at trying to stop the hijacker, this scene
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Imagine your normal pickup truck on steroids, then mutated and finally multiplied by a million horsepower. Depending on your interpretation, odds are that your mental image looks something like one of the behemoths below. If you thought Transformers were
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Dear Frank the Clown, You have come to the right place; I am the man with the answers in the shipping world. Thank you for your very important question regarding the transport of well-trained circus animals. You may not realize it, but we actually get
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With the economy going downhill faster than a 400lbs man on skis, it’s hard to remember that we face other tough problems. Although gas prices have gone down recently, fossil fuels are not a good long term solution for the world’s energy needs. Here’s
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