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This is from a letters to the editor about truck only tolls on I-81 in Virginia. Surprisingly, it’s not from a trucker, but an insurance executive.

roanoke.com – Commentary Stories -Increase the gas tax to pay for Interstate 81
“Virginia’s approach to tolling I-81 may need a change because of trucks’ ability to divert to other routes.”
“We [...]

FRAMINGHAM — When a tractor-trailer is involved in a highway crash, it’s more likely a life will be lost and traffic will be blocked for hours. Big-rig drivers, though, are to blame for fewer than half of those accidents.

What? Fewer than half are the truck drivers fault? There’s a study that CRASH doesn’t like that [...]

Truckers have long had a couple of late night talk shows on the AM dial. The Truckin’ Bozo, Dave Nemo and Bill Mack. I admit I don’t listen very much to any of these shows.
For one, it’s not my taste in music, they play mostly old style country and old trucking songs. Between songs most [...]

This is serious stuff. I could bore you with the numbers and a dozen web sites talking about sleep apnea, instead this is from a personal perspective with a few numbers and facts thrown in.
At The Wheel With Sleep Apnea! – Sleep Disorders including, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, Insomnia, Snoring and Nightmares
They also noted that the [...]

This lawyer thinks he has a good handle on what the court is looking for when the FMCSA comes back on the deadline on Aug 30. And it’s not a pretty picture for companies or drivers.
Opinion: There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise
If trucking companies, owner-operators and shippers did not like the hours-of-service regulations that [...]

People think this whole North American Union (NAU) is good idea???
A Mexico-U.S.-Canada highway? Roll it out | ajc.com.By ROBERT P. CADY
Published on: 06/23/06

Reading
recently on a conservative Web site about the Bush administration’s
quiet support for a major highway from Mexico through the heart of the
United States to join Canada — a so-called NAFTA superhighway — I
couldn’t [...]