Tag: President Barack Obama

Voices

Most truckers favor delay in Supreme Court appointment

Only 4 in 10 respondents to Overdrive’s recent polling on how the nomination process should proceed for departed Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement favored President Obama going ahead with a nomination before the election.

February 23, 2016

Channel 19

Four-wheelers should ‘learn from truck drivers’

Con-way Freight’s Tom Clark makes a compelling case for his view that four-wheelers should take a lesson from professional truck drivers on distracted driving — as a frequent two-wheeler, I concur.

June 3, 2013

Channel 19

Landry questions White House integrity on EOBRs

In a hearing before the Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week whose title was a markedly direct question — “Is FMCSA’s CSA program driving small businesses off the road?” — Republican Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana took the opportunity during questioning of FMCSA Deputy Administrator Bill Bronrott to question […]

July 13, 2012

Channel 19

Inbound/outbound: Trucking news Monday

Strange days on the road A New Jersey-based driver last Thursday jackknifed his rig under murky circumstances on I-805 during rush hour in San Diego, Calif. He then exited the cab, laid down on pavement just next to the center highway divider and, when police arrived, asked to speak to President Obama, reported Hailey Persinger […]

March 7, 2011