Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: patriotism
Channel 19
Trucker Eugene Leptien’s custom-designed X50 flag mounts for trucks and more
Designed by a trucker in part for truckers, the X50 company has flag mounts for both trucks (on West Coast mirrors) and motorcycles (a two-piece mount, and the source for the majority of X50’s orders to date), among other vehicles.
April 16, 2018
Business
Thank a military veteran, drivers
And if you’re a veteran yourself, here’s a hearty thank-you for your service to the nation from us. Several truckers who’ve quietly dedicated part of their efforts this year to honoring veterans are detailed here.
November 11, 2016
Custom Rigs
Behind the ‘Stars, Stripes and White Lines’ music video shoot
Run through some of the scenes last week Sunday, September 25, out at the Joplin, Mo., Petro, where one special convoy was staged for what is a special song from trucker/singer-songwriter Tony Justice. And meet many of the 14 drivers, many military veterans, who participated.
October 5, 2016
Business
The red, white and blue trucks of Hanover Logistics
The Hanover Logistics 3PL continues a red-white-and-blue patriotic tradition started in part out of convenience by its R.H. Crawford trucking-company subsidiary a decade ago.
August 30, 2016
Business
And our flag was still there…
Wendy offers a history in brief of the the U.S. national anthem, and a note of the bedrock love of country that guides so many of us.
July 3, 2016
Channel 19
New music vid: ‘I became an American,’ by Jennie Simpson
Australia-born Jennie Simpson’s new “I Became an American” single is about what it means to her to be a citizen of the United States after making her working life here as an owner-operator.
July 2, 2016
Business
U.S. Xpress launches military hiring initiative, unveils custom-designed tractors
The U.S. Xpress fleet handed three solo drivers and three teams — all with military veterans among them — the keys to six patriotically decorated trucks at an event at Chattanooga headquarters launching a new military hiring initiative.
July 1, 2016
Voices
Thoughts on Veterans Day 2015
“Every day is Veterans Day” for many former members of the U.S. Armed Forces and “it’s not always a celebration.” Wendy here highlights testimony from one, and a tribute from a reader.
November 11, 2015
Business
Never forget
“As patriots and Americans, we will never forget the 9/11 attack…. If you really want to thank the troops, be the kind of American worth fighting for.”
September 11, 2015
Business
Call it what you will
Of final journeys: “…the last time we come across hauling a box, so it’s the end of this trucking chapter in our lives. There’s a step deck adventure waiting for us, and I can’t wait to get on it. God bless America, and God bless the truckers!”
June 19, 2015
Business
The meltdown in the melting pot
“Freedom means different things to different people. Some don’t appreciate it enough to think it gives them the right to do anything. The apathetic are the most dangerous.”
November 10, 2014
Business
Faith, family and food
Happy birthday to our beloved Motherland. Home of the free, land of the brave. There are a lot of people who will dispute just how free we really are, and the fact those people have the right to voice that opinion is proof of just how free they actually are. We spent the past three […]
July 4, 2014
Page 1 of 2
Next Page