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Nuevo Laredo: Mispronunciation perils and the boots and brokered loads that take you there
Enjoy this "mostly true" tall-tale from "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer about his experience learning Spanish while trucking in Nuevo Laredo.
October 9, 2018
Business
Landstar’s new Laredo facility
The 31,000-square-foot logistics facility is located on a 50-acre site that accommodates 450 trailers and provides room for future expansion. A heavy/specialized freight area with a custom 120-ton, stand-alone bridge crane, the company says, can transload the largest superloads.
January 20, 2017
Business
The Whataburger connection
…to alien abduction? Yes: “Poor George has the implant, and he’s unable to fight the urges of the evil radio signals that emit from it, even under great duress.”
April 13, 2014
Business
The nuances of winning
“There are distinct trade-offs in self dispatch. The security of a regular thing is awesome, but it’s not the adventure of pinging yourself around the country” — then there’s the new boots…
March 5, 2014
Channel 19
Stowaway diary: Keep an eye on your roof fairing in Laredo
What’s wrong with this picture? Taken by owner-operator Henry Albert, with whom we just checked in last week, it shows a desperate attempt by a couple to stow away on a rig on its way from the border zone into the U.S. interior. A testament to the value of drivers looking out for each other, […]
November 14, 2011
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