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Drunk people and their allergies to clothing
Wendy learns lesson No. 2 about the state of Louisiana.
September 20, 2013
Business
Bummed by gambling in Port Allen, La.
Gambling these days is exactly like voting: āYou go in a dark room and press a few buttons and itās over. Nothing changes but the fact that you have less money in your pocket.ā
October 19, 2012
Business
New Louisiana service center
Southeastern Freight Lines is opening a new service center in Lafayette, La. The Lafayette Service Center, located at 1038 Walker Road, will primarily service the Lafayette and Alexandria areas. The facility will employ 30 individuals, including 26 new hires from the Lafayette community. It officially opened on Sept. 17.
September 28, 2012
Channel 19
āLeave Tony aloneā ā An owner-operator on the truck stop tiger
Animal rights advocates are a vocal bunch, as Iāve found out over the course of the last several years. Write word one about Tony, the tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., and you can pretty much place your bets on a blizzard of commentary coming your way. Until recently, much of [ā¦]
January 27, 2012
Channel 19
Tony the Truck Stop Tiger: Legal limbo
There have been so many back-and-forth motions in the battle over the fate of the Siberian/Bengal tiger, Tony (pictured), at the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., it would be next to impossible for me to summarize them. At once, itās been quite a while since I posted an update, so here goes: The [ā¦]
January 15, 2012
Channel 19
āWhereās the loveā for truckers? Dr. Love has the answer
Or at least he knows where itās not: I-55 South into Hammond, La., from the No. 46 milemarker about 15 miles to I-12 (much smoother). Dr. Love, or truck driver B.G. Love, takes online viewers on a tour down this roadĀ in a video posted in June to the blog for his āLovologyā project, a personal [ā¦]
September 12, 2011
Business
Mississippi River flooding closes roads
Major to record regional flooding is still expected for two to three more weeks.
May 12, 2011
Channel 19
Popular Mechanics seeks āWorst Roadā nominations
Make your voice heard! No, Iām not talking about the proposed mandate of electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance (for more about that: comments are open through May 23). Popular Mechanics editors are seeking out the āworst road in the USA,ā they say at the magazineās website. Who better to nominate it than [ā¦]
April 27, 2011
Channel 19
Rhetoric on Tony the Truckstop Tiger boils over into truckstop villification
Itās been a little while since I checked in on the efforts by animal-rights activists and others ā including a large coterie of truck drivers ā 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 [ā¦]
April 15, 2011
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Hours rules exemption extended in Gulf states
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced the second extension of its temporary lifting of hours-of-service rules for haulers of some emergency supplies to four southeast coastal states because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Haulers of certain loads are exempt from HOS until June 30 at 11:59 p.m. ET if transporting [ā¦]
June 2, 2010
Business
Tango Transport to hire 200
Tango Transport LLC, based in Shreveport, La., plans to hire 200 employees this year, most of them for commerical driving jobs.
February 16, 2010
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