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Channel 19
Turning the worm on parking
Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking â and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory online to help facilitate communication.
December 20, 2016
Channel 19
Strong voices on parking
Conversations on the situation continue in the wake of mainstream media attention to truckersâ parking needs.
February 3, 2015
Channel 19
Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification
Itâs been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others â including a large coterie of truck drivers â to force owners of the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., to give up their caged Bengal tiger, Tony. The latest efforts including a lawsuit filed this week [âŚ]
April 15, 2011
Channel 19
Tony âthe truck stop tigerâ â 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. Itâs been there as an attraction to [âŚ]
December 6, 2010
Channel 19
Complimentary advertisement⌠and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC
Driver with a lens-load of cool Itâs been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, âI am also sending this to Geico Insurance.â He [âŚ]
October 8, 2010
Channel 19
Live online CD release party for âWhen the Big Rigs Donât Rollâ
Join the www.AsktheTrucker.com proprietors this Wednesday for a live online exclusive release event for a new record aimed squarely at the politically conscious among you. âWhen the Big Rigs Donât Rollâ is its title, and the country musicians/songwriters behind the 10 songs on the CD, David Ayers and Barry Allen, have birthed several winners in [âŚ]
August 16, 2010
Channel 19
âNo Parkingâ â 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 Jasonâs 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 [âŚ]
July 12, 2010
Channel 19
Jasonâs Law support continues to grow
Monday, June 28, was the day supporters of the Jasonâs 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 Iâd be willing to bet others were in similar situations and missed that call. Among those requesting [âŚ]
June 29, 2010
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