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Tag: National Public Radio
Channel 19
āThe Driveā owner-operator-focused three-day conference; NPR radio and truckers
āThe Driveā conference, the brainchild of Patriot Star small fleet owners and Trucking With Authority podcast hosts Kenny and Elizabeth Long, happens October 17-19 in North Kansas City.
August 22, 2017
Channel 19
Oil/gas boom in N.D. generates owner-operator opportunities
A report from an NPR listener bemoaned truck traffic in his native Watford City, N.D., associated with the oil boom ā but that boom is proving golden for many owner-operators.
July 26, 2012
Channel 19
Friday Channel 19 news round-up: Cross-border trucking; ādriver shortageā; and the 1 on the 53 and the 99
Separate but not equal That separation could be diminishing when it comes to U.S. and Mexican tucking, now that a new pilot program for cross-border long haul is under way. Ā In the wake of the Oct. 21 border ceremony at Laredo, when the first Mexican truck crossed as part of the new cross-border pilot program, [ā¦]
October 28, 2011
Channel 19
Say ____ to electronic logs, Take 2
Itās time to play fill in the blank again on the Channel 19 blog. Itās been nearly Ā a year since the above headline graced this hall above a post about a rash of legislative proposals to mandate electronic logs for the entirety of interstate truckers and certain low-cost electronic logging options out there. In the [ā¦]
August 29, 2011
Channel 19
Snow, snow, more snow; making the most of it
A Pilot Flying J stop on I-70 in Warrenton, Mo., is the subject of reporting on National Public Radio today, and Iād bet you can guess the subject matter. Hear audio of the story, which will be available at about 7 p.m. ET this evening. Suffice to say that truckstop employees Terri Brackney and Greg [ā¦]
February 2, 2011
Channel 19
Growing mode for cartel drug trafficking: Class 8 trucks, says NPR
In a story that aired on National Public Radioās āAll Things Consideredā program Monday, John Burnett dropped what is to my thinking a recently developing bombshell on hopes from some that a resolution to the U.S.-Mexican cross-border trucking stalemate would be soon in coming. āIn Nuevo Laredo,ā he wrote, site of the high-volume trade border [ā¦]
November 10, 2010
Channel 19
āPersonal and poetic meditationā on American trucking
The creators are art photographers Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido, a husband-wife team who a couple years back, NPR reported last week in their āPicture Showā feature, took up the trucking life for a time to get a clearer understanding of the world. The result, a photographic exhibition at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New [ā¦]
October 7, 2010
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