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Does less mean more? Driver pay in the CSA era
My feature in the January edition of Truckers News investigated a dynamic more and more fleets and their drivers are seeing coming to fruition as freight markets slowly return and, consequently, recruiting staffs expand and fleets begin to hire again. Nothing new there during a recovery, particularly, and the slow pace of this one might […]
January 26, 2011
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Tony ‘the truck stop tiger’ — calls from the driver community to uncage him
Nearly two years have passed since I first wrote about efforts by animal-rights activists (post from January 2009 originally on old Channel 19 blog home on Blogger.com) to require Gross Tete, La., Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael Sandlin to relocate the caged Bengal-Siberian tiger on the site of stop. It’s been there as an attraction to […]
December 6, 2010
Channel 19
Allen Smith, others at Memphis Trucking Expo Oct. 23
It’s a banner month for first-time trucking shows in my home state of Tennessee. After Nashville last week, not to be outdone, of course, is Memphis, the site of the first annual Memphis Trucking Expo, presented by the folks at Worldwide Transport and Permit Service. If you missed Jan McCarter and Doug Jones (pictured) in […]
October 22, 2010
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September 1, 2010
Channel 19
‘No Parking’ — another day in the trucking headlines
As the folks with AsktheTrucker.com report a soon-to-be-released musical paean to the truck parking legislation known as Jason’s Law, there are at least two new blows to truck parking availability worldwide: The first comes from Arnold, Mo., where state rep and former truck driver Tim Meadows was on record supporting an aggressive local ban on truck […]
July 12, 2010
Channel 19
Jason’s Law support continues to grow
Monday, June 28, was the day supporters of the Jason’s Law trucking parking safety and security legislation were calling for a united front from the community of drivers and others in the industry toward its passage; I was on the road most of the day, and I’d be willing to bet others were in similar situations and missed that call. Among those requesting […]
June 29, 2010
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