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Trucking salute to appear during the Idaho Potato Bowl on ESPN today
If it so happens youâre watching the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl college football matchup this afternoon between MAC and WAC conference standouts the Ohio University Bobcats and the Utah State Aggies, respectively, youâll get a treat in a 30-second commercial promoting women in the trucking industry, says the Women in Trucking Association. The association, with [âŚ]
December 17, 2011
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Salute: Writer trumpets independent truckers
Colleen Kelly Mellor (pictured) is a 30-year veteran of the classroom with near a decade in real estate. Today sheâs a writer who keeps a blog dedicated to items of âencouragement in a difficult worldâ at Biddybytes.com. Her husband was a long-haul household-moves owner-operator with Atlas Van Lines with more than a million accident-free miles [âŚ]
December 14, 2011
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One dispatcherâs public salute to the American truck driver
In case youâve missed news of this one, which has made the rounds of various email blasts and blogs, itâs one of the best high-profile salutes to owner-operators and drivers Iâve come across in mainstream media of recent memory. Written by Minnesota-based fleet manager Dan Hanson and published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it [âŚ]
August 11, 2011
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In defense of food transport
Tip of the hat to Marathon Trucker Jeff Clark for this one (and, readers, if youâll be at the Great American Trucking Show, beginning this coming Thursday, join Clark and I and Jazzy Jordan, among so many others, at Truckers Newsâ Fit for the Road programâs Too Hot to Trot 5K Friday morning)âŚ. Self-described âliberal [âŚ]
August 24, 2010
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Good ink on Missouri truck driving championships
Among drive-image-building efforts that are decades-long institutions are the yearly state truck-driving championships, which in 2010 will culminate in the final national competition Aug. 3-7 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The efficacy of the championships in the image arena was on full display in this story, published Sunday in the Springfield, Mo., News-Leader, about [âŚ]
June 7, 2010
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Las Vegas newspaper columnist delivers âhalf-heartedâ trucker saluteâŚ
Itâs not exactly a big 10-4, but in her âRoad Warriorâ column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal a week ago, Adrienne Packer detailed her stateâs latest addition to the growing nationwide effort to pair state troopers with truckers to target four-wheelersâ unsafe maneuvers around big trucks for citation. While Packer reflects a somewhat common feeling [âŚ]
June 1, 2010
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New play brings ârespectâ for drivers to the stage
âItâs been more than 30 years since Hollywood had White Line Fever,â wrote Denver Post Theater Critic John Moore in this article, ââDieselsâ Fuels Respect for Truck Drivers,â about the Denver Center Theatre Companyâs production of their in-house-written new play, âMama Hated Diesels,â that premiered March 25 and is running through early May at the Stage Theater in Denver. And, Moore [âŚ]
April 1, 2010
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