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Truckers Against Trafficking: Local, state partnerships extend growing effort

Truckers Against Trafficking has launched new partnerships with state and local governments, detailed in recent story that also highlights trucker and 2015 Harriet Tubman award winner Kevin Kimmel.

May 2, 2016

Pennsylvania county goes proactive on highway-ramp parking

Penn. state patrol in Lackawanna County reportedly has stepped up ticketing of drivers parked on ramps, but quick press response shows some hope on shifting prevailing attitudes/awareness of the parking issue.

April 7, 2016

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Classic former Burt Reynolds-owned W900B, across the pond

How a U.K.-based trucker came to possess a classic mid-1980s W900B, only to realize its former owners here in the United States including none other than Smokey & the Bandit star Burt Reynolds.

April 5, 2016

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Using ‘rationate’ in a sentence

“It’s better to rationate before you masticate on the hind quarters of someone who pontificates.” Nailed it. And so did Maddog Trucker this week in his weekly Facebook post following the Atlantic’s story on PTSD in the driver’s seat.

March 28, 2016

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The 500 million dollar question

“Since when were the words ‘safety’ and ‘revenue’ interchangeable? Oh that’s right, I forgot. They became interchangeable the minute safety became a billion-dollar business.”

February 26, 2016

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13 things Cosmopolitan knows about trucking

The trucking industry has officially hit the red carpet of grocery store magazines. That’s right, folks. There’s a write-up on none other than the Cosmopolitan website. …

February 10, 2016

Click through the image to read “13 things I wish I knew before I became a long-haul truck driver” on Cosmopolitan’s website. “Driver shortage” assumption alert for those who do, quoting No. 2: “2. Don’t stress out about finding a job. There’s a huge shortage of truck drivers…”

From the outside in: ‘Keep on Truckin’

If you’ve got time, give the Pacific Standard’s “Keep on Truckin'” package of features published this week a look for a point of view on trucking from the outside in.

February 6, 2016

Catch electronic musicians (and apparent CB enthusiasts) Quintron and Miss PussyCat’s soundscape contribution to Pacific Standard’s package at the head of the Music to Truck By playlist at the bottom of this post. Click through the image above to read more about it PSMag.com.

Driver shortage: Where are the empty shelves?

How the “driver shortage” topic became a mainstream media staple, marked by stories that often stress the job opportunity angle, occasionally conjuring images of empty trucks and bare store shelves.

February 4, 2016

The driver shortage alarm

The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.

February 1, 2016

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Bad news from the parking trail: Another lot joins the ‘no parking’ list

The expanses of Walmart parking lots were once viewed as friendly places for an overnight, and were often utilized by truckers in locales under-served by traditional truck stops — that continues to change …

December 12, 2015

Click through this thumbnail image of a photograph from the Beaver Dam Walmart parking lot, by Ben Rueter, for his Daily Citizen story on the multifaceted truck-parking issues there. Worth a read.

The long road for rescue dog transport: Introducing P.E.T.S. LLC

Peterson Express Transport Service was founded by Kyle and Pam Peterson with a unique trucking mission -- moving dogs from overcrowded shelters to new homes.

December 9, 2015

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An open letter to one-horse news

Holiday sweeps: when every one-horse news rag in America promises to show viewers something they "absolutely will not believe" is happening on their highways.

November 20, 2015

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