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This is the trade show I picked up in Vegas and took to Garden City, CA (south of LA). One shows a flatbed being loaded while the other shows a bulldozer on the left loading the end dumps with trash and debris. This is all inside the Sands Convention Center. I’ve driven inside herebefore. Trucks [...]

I got an interesting email the other day, asking my opinion about Mini Coopers. Do we (as truck drivers) have trouble seeing them since they’re so small? The simple answer is – It’s not what you drive around big trucks, it’s HOW you drive around big trucks. Ask any truck driver and you’ll here [...]

What an idiot –
Trucker’s Search for Party Girls Ends in Robbery, No Girls.
According to the truck driver’s statement he
picked up a hitchhiker in Texarkana. The hitchhiker told the driver he
knew where there were some party girls and a party in Beaumont and told
the driver to take the Magnolia exit.
Once on Isla Avenue the [...]

Leave it to Volvo to come up with the first hybrid commercial truck. It’s not out yet, but they say it will be available in a few years. That’s part of the reason I’ve loved my Volvo’s, the innovation and new thinking built around the driver.
Volvo fires up new hybrid heavy truck
03/10/2006
STOCKHOLM, Sweden [...]

Sorry, I just didn’t know what else to call this –
Fatal crashes prompt concern over truckersby Gary EmerlingTHE WASHINGTON TIMESMarch 9, 2006
Two fatal accidents in the past two weeks involving area motorists
slamming into parked tractor-trailers have renewed safety concerns
about the commercial-trucking industry.
The accident Monday morning in which a Temple Hills motorist was killed
on the [...]

And fuel prices are rising. Another non-story and it’s nothing new. But the press is talking to these poor truckers and listening to shutdown rumors.
Truck Drivers May Impose Shutdown To Protest High Gasoline Prices.Tulsa – How would you like to pay more than seven hundred dollars to fill up your tank? That’s what truck drivers [...]