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Life
Breast cancer awareness guide for – that’s right – men
Lack of awareness is one contributing factor to late detection. A number of men don’t think they can get breast cancer, and because of the rarity, there is unlikely to be any benefit in screening them in the general population for it with preventive mammograms or other tests.
November 11, 2014
breast cancer awareness month
Business
David Adkins — 1964-2014
David passed away on October 6. His kind and gracious wife, Shena, took the time to let George and Wendy know how much she appreciated their help with selling his Fitzgerald Freightliner glider kit truck.
October 13, 2014
David Adkins and his wife, Shena
Equipment
David Adkins’ 2013 glider gets a home
After seeing Overdrive’s original article on Landstar-leased David Adkins’ terminal cancer diagnosis and subsequent attempts to sell his 2013 Coronado glider, fellow Landstar BCO John Rentz is making moves to pick the truck up…
August 1, 2014
The Adkins’ 2013 Coronado Glider — catch a few more views in the gallery below.
Custom Rigs
Long Haul Survivor benefit rig goes to Michigan-based driver Brittany Dunigan
Twenty-one-year-old Dunigan got the call the evening of May 4 in Michigan and “her first comment was ‘are you telling me I won that Purple Peterbilt?’”
May 8, 2014
The Long Haul Survivor
Business
Even Superman had a Dad
Tough news yields stronger connections… “It’s not often I see the strongest person I know cry. Actually, I’ve only seen him do it once, and that was when our son was born.”
March 19, 2014
George Parker 2
Custom Rigs
What you would do with the Long Haul Survivor
With the raffling off of the Long Haul Survivor cancer-research-benefit custom Peterbilt coming up in May, we asked readers what they would do were they to win the truck. Find a round-up of answers here.
February 21, 2014
The Long Haul Survivor
Channel 19
New ‘Truckers for Hope’ initiative to benefit St. Jude
Organizer Chris Dowdy is requesting drivers to mail in printed pictures/bios to present to children at the hospital during the April 25 outreach visit.
February 3, 2014
Chris Dowdy posted this t-shirt image to the Truckers for Hope Facebook page to show followers the logo design he was working on — and to stress that, though they’re still a work in progress, he’s got some thank-you gifts in mind for anyone who donates to the campaign of outreach to St. Jude’s Children’s hospital.
Custom Rigs
Cancer-awareness advocacy from GA small fleet; Long Haul Survivor update
Junior Pippin Trucking profiled in Georgia local newspaper — while the Long Haul Survivor raffle rig to benefit cancer research keeps trucking on its yearlong mission. Final drawing is in May in Iowa.
January 21, 2014
For more photos by Newton Citizen staff photographer Karen Rohr of Junior Pippin Trucking units, follow this link to Chris Starrs’ report on the fleet’s breast-cancer-awareness efforts.
Channel 19
Rolling out with the Great Lakes Convoy for women’s cancers
Watch the convoy — founded by two proud women, one an owner-operator, in the expediting segment — roll out in this vid. Bonus: Nick and Jenny Marcu’s tribute to cancer fighters.
July 27, 2013
Midway through the Great Lakes Convoy June 26, participants stepped on the Cat Scale at the TA in Jeffersonville, Ohio, exit 65 on I-71, for a weigh-in: 6280 lbs, less than last year’s 6,800, says convoy organizer Jeanie Silk, and with more participants this year.
Custom Rigs
Longhaul Survivor rig sells 900+ tix in first event
Quite a debut for the Longhaul Survivor cancer-benefit raffle rig put together by owner-operator Eldon Jaeger and a large crew of supporters.
May 25, 2013
Longhaul Survivor is a benefit truck being raffled off over the course of the next year. Find more details about the build here.
Channel 19
Sunday service on the road
Introducing Pastor and Prime Inc. hauler Bob Sauter’s CDL Drivers Church of Delivery, with worship service over the phone every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Central time.
May 11, 2013
Click through the image to visit the CDL Drivers’ church website.
Channel 19
Help wanted: Reach out to a fellow driver sidelined by cancer
Driver Melvin Hendershot has been off the road since April 2012, when he was diagnosed with cancer — his daughter’s looking to fellow driver to lift his spirits.
February 23, 2013
Melvin Hendershot
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