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Tag: Tom Bowers

Roadside Attractions

A live necklace, a chance to win a flatbed, a heroic trucker, striking truck drivers in South Africa and record cargo theft are among the trucking issues featured.

April 3, 2011

Year starts with rising rates. Rates for the reefer segment remained steady from January to February, while dry van and flatbed rates increased 9 and 10 cents in February, respectively. Dryvan -- red; flatbed -- yellow; reefer -- blue

‘Who’s inefficient?’ Four wheels or 18?

So asks New Cumberland, Pa., resident and owner-operator Tom Bowers in a letter to the editor published in the Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News, in response to a letter from another area resident heaping the bulk of energy inefficiencies in the transportation arena on the back of the big rigs of the trucking industry. Bowers’ argument for […]

December 10, 2010

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