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Notes on civility
âThis isnât one of those New York Times pieces about âhow sad and awful it is to be a trucker.â ⌠There are a lot of very positive people in this industry, and on Earth as a whole, you just have to seek them out sometimes. And when you do find them, emulate them.â
June 2, 2017
Voices
Voices on NYTâs âTrucks are killing usâ column: Readers respond, ATA says column riddled with âfalsehoodsâ
âWhy waste print to tell so many lies, when you can actually help the issues that truly affect the entire line of all phases of transportation?â âMatt Whitelaw on the âTrucks Are Killing Usâ op-ed
August 25, 2015
Business
Get it right, Howard
Wendy on former Transport Topics editor Howard Abramsonâs recent âTrucks are killing usâ editorial: âHighway safety canât be delegated to one group only, and lack of it canât be faulted to just one.â
August 23, 2015
Channel 19
Restart watch: Whoopi doesnât get it either
âAttention mainstream media: There are a lot of people out here who think the changes that have been proposed in draft legislation may actually, on the contrary, âstrengthen safety rules,'â contrary to what NYT editorial board thinks is going on in Congress.
June 17, 2014
Channel 19
Trucker Tools in the gray lady; Channel 19 getting quieter?
The decline of the CB via the profusion of trucking smartphone apps and the phones themselves gets treatment in the NY Times, and readers weight in on why Channel 19 gotten quieter latelyâŚ
August 19, 2013
Channel 19
Heads-up: NY Times on truckersâ health
The U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, devoted significant ink to many truck driversâ moves toward improving their health in their Monday edition. The primary feature, by Abby Ellin and well-illustrated with pictures of many of the drivers she talked to, charts a rise in concern among industry associations, trucking companies, truck stops [âŚ]
November 22, 2011
Channel 19
The great tomato heist â Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight
I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasnât consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. âThe high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,â reporter [âŚ]
April 25, 2011
Channel 19
Former long-hauler makes N.Y.C. Met opera debut
Carl Tanner (pictured) worked as a long-haul driver before making moves toward pursuing a career in what New York Times writer David Belcher painted as his calling in a piece published in the Times yesterday, available online here. Tanner, by the terms of his contract as stand-by in the role of Dick Johnson in Pucciniâs [âŚ]
December 27, 2010
Channel 19
Truck driver/author Tim Costello remembered in NY Times
I missed the news of the passing Tim Costello (pictured) in late December last year. Coming across it via the website of the New York Times, which had ran a nice roundup in the paper of his life and work, Iâm struck as always by what so many individual haulers are able to accomplish in addition to keeping [âŚ]
February 26, 2010
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