Tag: truckers' image

Channel 19

Four-wheeler scare-quotes ‘professional’

A letter writer to a Minnesota newspaper, contending there’s an epidemic of big-rig drivers’ speeding on the nation’s highways, is suffering from tunnel vision when he mocks drivers’ “professional” badge of honor.

October 8, 2012

Channel 19

New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’

Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

‘A creep or crazy’: Roseanne Barr on today’s truckers

News today is that celebrity media, as usual, is having fun at the expense of the nation’s haulers. You’ve got two choices, as I see it: go on and have fun with them or get madder than a hornet. There’s a poll over at the Hollywood Life site that asks readers to vote on whether […]

August 6, 2011

Voices

Speakout

Truckers weighin on truckers’ business skills, the trucking industry’s image and cross-border trucking with Mexico.

June 1, 2010