Tag: Mid-American Trucking Show

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Long-haul pride lives in new generation

Around the internet, a new generation of drivers and owner-operators is reaching out to those who’ve come before.

September 17, 2012

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Roadside Attractions

The 2011 World’s Strongest Man Competition, six tons of potato pride, diesel price averages, creature comforts plus Truck Gallery, trucking calendar and many more news items from the trucking industry are featured.

February 1, 2012

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Krueger’s tractor, pulling doubles, crashed into the rear of a line of four semis stopped in traffic on I-29 for unclear reasons.

April 1, 2010

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Beating the Dutch — women truckers fire at Guinness World Record

I’d bet you didn’t know it, but the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of female truck drivers was set by an all-woman truck convoy held in 2004 in the Netherlands. At least so say the folks trying to beat it at the Mid-America Trucking Show next week. As reported on several blogs and […]

March 19, 2010

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DOT plans to ban trucker texting Truck and interstate bus drivers would be prohibited from using text messaging while driving under a rulemaking planned by the U.S. Department of Transportation. In addition, DOT plans to place restrictions on the use of cell phones while driving. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s Oct. 1 announcement came after […]

November 1, 2009