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Business

Is that a chuck roast in your purse, or are you just happy to see me?

Why no, Wendy tells the questioner — only top round for this discerning shopper. Sometimes, catching a Goodwill 50-percent-off sale is hard.

December 7, 2016

Business

Keeping the small fleet ‘family’ happy: Pay, equipment, home time

Small-fleet owners use good pay, equipment and home time to attract loyal drivers. They say those are the bedrocks of retention, the top employment issue named in a recent Overdrive survey.

October 3, 2016

Channel 19

Drivers’ Night Before Christmas — a tribute from a dispatcher

Chipman Relocations’ Tina Pastore sends this poem out to all company employees and contracting owner-operators in advance of the Christmas holiday, a fitting driver tribute this time of year.

December 24, 2015

Voices

POLL: What’s your view of the ‘driver shortage’?

“Driver shortage” — myth or reality, all about trucker pay or a reflection of a younger generation’s generally unfavorable view of long-distance trucking, a by-product of a constraining regs enivronment? What’s your view?

December 15, 2015

Parking

When real life requires following the rules, even if it sucks

Or: Ever had to stop for a 10-hour break 30 minutes from the house? Wendy Parker: Been there, done that.

October 25, 2015

Business

Notes on leaving the couch

Wendy and George use the weekend to effect at the Dayton Concours d’Elegance car show: “Without a doubt that no matter where we are, we’re never far from trucking.”

September 21, 2015

Business

Snakes on the plains

“You know what happens in Ohio when it rains for months on end and the grass doesn’t get cut, because you’re away in a big truck and your teenage son loses his mind and doesn’t mow? Snakes…”

July 8, 2015

Parking

Duct-taping the love

“Sometimes, trucking is hard.” — Wendy (almost) goes ballistic after finding an angry note duct-taped to the Parkers’ Freightliner’s custom paint after a long period of home-time parking…

June 10, 2015

Business

Free the whale(s)

Wendy’s baby-pool side-yard refuge holds a hidden danger… “It’ll be good to be back on the road.”

June 8, 2015

Business

App needed: Trucker sleep sounds

“Now that I’ve put myself in the mind of jalapeno Tornados and bubbling guts, I’m wondering if I miss the road as much as I think I do. Let me think about that for a minute… Yep, I do. See y’all out there.”

May 31, 2015

Business

Attack of the kidney stone, part 1

George laid up with an 8-mm kidney stone proclaims such stones “adultney stones” — it “takes a real man to pass them.” Wendy: “We’re both a little stressed and worried about how this is all going to come out (sorry – couldn’t resist)…”

November 19, 2014

Business

Sleep at home is overrated

Missing the lullaby of an idling truck… “If you have insomnia, I highly recommend it, though I doubt an insurance company will pay for a Freightliner as sleep therapy.”

October 17, 2014