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Meet The Author
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Running Legal Blues
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http://www.amazon.com/Running-Legal-Blues-Truckers-Quest/dp/1456466313/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294355201&sr=1-2
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Today's Thoughts 7/7/11 NextIt is often believed that sooner or later each man and each woman will have to face judgment day. Over the years there have been all kinds of beliefs and ideas as to whom one would have to account to and what they would have to answer to. Well in the made up world of my mind, I ofte...
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Nightmares
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Today's Thoughts 6/30/11 NightmaresScary indeed. I guess everyone out there has them. Your mind while in a deep sleep works itself into a state where all your deepest fears come to life. Although only a figment of your imagination, they can seem very real at the time and take a while to work through the...
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Trucking Tea Party
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Saturday, June 25, 2011Trucking Tea Party Today's Thoughts 6/25/11 Trucking Tea PartyAgain today I hear the calls. STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE! I'm sitting at the table eating my breakfast within ear shot of the counter. As normal there is a group a driver's that has never seen each other before and very...
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misconceptions
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Thursday, June 23, 2011Misconceptions Today's Thoughts 6/23/11 Misconceptions In my travels a little ways back I met a driver and had a conversation with him as I usually do from time to time. One of the perks of being a trucker I think is the wide spectrum of people you meet out on the road. Most certa...
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Right Lane Closed 6/12/11
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Today's Thoughts 6/12/11 Right Lane Closed Ah yes, the all unavoidable backups caused accident scenes or construction zones. Seems like our nation's highways are just littered with them come spring time every year. No matter how hard you try, sooner or later you are going to have to deal with them in...
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Damned Truck Drivers 5/26/11
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Today's Thoughts 5/26/11 Damned Truck DriversHow many times have I heard that before over the years? "Damned truck driver". I cannot count the number of faces I've seen over the road that showed just that expression. You know it. Are maybe you’re the one that had it. Well today I'm going to speak to the...
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Who's To Blame 5/25/11
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Today's Thoughts 5/25/11 Who's To Blame?It always amazes me how people look at things. I guess if truth be known I probably amaze the heck out of a few people with the way I look at things sometimes myself. But thats just the nature of being human like we are I guess. There are as you know two sides at least t...
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5/22/11 The Quiet Man
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Today's Thoughts 5/22/11 The Quiet Man Ugg! I really hate this. Here I lay me down to sleep and all I do is look at the ceiling of my truck. You just have to love trying to live your life by what the log book says you are. Right now it's telling me that I'm tired and I just cannot figure out why it is that although...
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My Detractors
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Today's Thoughts 5/24/11 My Detractors Everyone has them I guess. Detractors that is. A detractor could be a person or maybe it's a thing. Whatever it is, it's there to take away from you in some sort of manner. I came across another one yesterday lucky me. As usual he was very fun to deal with. But thats o...
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My Job 3/19/11
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3/19/11Today's ThoughtsMy JobWhat a rainy morning. Left Eugene, OR and headed out across Highway 58 on my way to Reno, NV today. Talk about raining. Pitch black and the wind was howling shaking my truck all over the road. Raining so hard at times that the windshield wipers could barely keep up. But I kn...
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Today's Thoughts 5/19/11 . Define To Fast
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Today's Thoughts 5/19/11 . Define To Fast Today I was heading on up to Washington State for a Monday morning delivery. My route took me west across Interstate 80 in Nebraska. My day started out with sunny skies but soon that gave way to some pretty dark clouds and it was not long before I found myself in so...
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Today's Thoughts 5/16/11 Paying It Forward
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Today's Thoughts 5/16/11 Paying It Forward Knock knock knock on my door. I rise up out of my nap and find some guy rapping on my door. Oh no, not another one I'm thinking. "Hey Driver, can you help a feller out?" he asked. Wonder what this guy's story is going to be? They all have one and some are actually pre...
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Move Right
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Last night … traveling south on Interstate Eighty Five in South Carolina …. I came upon a wreck in the medium of the highway. In front of me … was another eighteen wheeler ….As we passed the wreck … an ambulance pulled out b...ehind me with the lights and siren on. Understanding that this vehicle must hav...
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I've Been Robbed .... 5/12/11
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Today's Thoughts 5/12/11 I've Been Robbed. When will I ever learned. On more time I put myself in a position allowing myself to be suckered out of eighty bucks. Sometimes I don't think I will ever learn. I can see getting took once, but to keep doing it. I'm not going to say what that makes me. Every old tim...
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Today's Thoughts 5/10/11 Fickle Fate
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Today's Thoughts 5/10/11 Fickle Fate Just have to love it. You know. That part of life that just as you get to a really, really good spot in life. Things really start going your way. Then fate comes along and kicks you right in the groin. Thats been my luck here lately. About six weeks ago, just as freight s...
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Today's Thoughts 5/7/11 Life After Trucking
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Today's Thoughts 5/7/11 ….Life After TruckingInstitutionalized, is that what I am? Institutionalized? It could be I think. I've been doing this trucking thing for so long that I don't think I would know how to act in the real world. Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman talk about this very subject in one of m...
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5/1/11 Little Brake Please
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Today's Thoughts 5/1/11 Little Brake Please Or maybe I should call this piece, "Little courtesy Please" or maybe even "How about some common since please". Grrr People! Got to love them I guess. What am I so frayed about. Just another fine specimen of a truck driver I ran across today. Thats all. Go fig...
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4/26/11 The Doc and the Soda Pop Junkie
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Today's Thoughts 4/26/11 The Doc and the Soda Pop Junkie A few weeks back it was once again time for my DOT physical. You know, go in and prove once again I was able to walk and talk and chew gum at the same time and therefore able to drive a truck. Naturally being a diabetic the subject of how my sugar came int...
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4/18/11 There's A Bear Round Here
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Today's Thoughts 4/18/11 There's A Bear Round Here Long lonely highways can really make a feller board. Lots of drivers know this. You finally get loaded around eight at night and they want the freight bumping the dock five hundred miles away by six the next morning. Lord only knows how many pots of cof...
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may I keep my job Please? 1/17/11
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Today's Thoughts 4/17/11 Please may I keep my job? I said please. I'll even add a cherry on top. Promise to be a really good boy too if the government of the United States of America would allow me to keep the job I busted my butt for. I mean I really busted my arse to get to where I'm at. Back twenty seven years...
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4/1/11 What Price Safety
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Today's Thoughts 4/1/11 What Price Safety Safety. What does it really cost? We all know the cost of a new tire or a set of breaks. What is the cost of training and replacing old equipment? All companies eventually have to deal with this type of cost. But what about the personal cost to us as drivers. To our...
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3/31/11 A Tooth Brush and the Crack Pipe
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Today's Thoughts 3/31/11 A Tooth Brush and the Crack PipeInevitably somebody somewhere along the way says something so stupid that it makes everyone that heard it just draw up and get that weird look on their face. This happened to me the other day while standing in line to pay for my fuel. The driver t...
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Big Rig Dodge Ball 3/29/11
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Today's, Thoughts 3/29/11Big Rig Dodge Ball Seems like that some days. A big olé game of Big Rig Dodge Ball played out on our nation's highways. Just yesterday I had to dodge a big truck sitting at a dead stop in the right lane while I was doing seventy plus over in Arizona. When I finally made it to Flagsta...
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Please Help 3/27/11
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We beg and we beg for better training standards for truck drivers .... look at what the trainee was doing .... LOOK AT WHERE THE TRAINER WAS ..... look at even more dead people .... because ... THEY WON'T LISTEN TO US. Sorry peeps .... just a little out of sorts about this one .... Please ca...
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Truckers Against Trafficking
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The video http://vimeo.com/21392891 3/25/11 Today's Thoughts Watchful Eye's We do get around, don't we? As truckers I mean. Traveling from town to town as we do. We see a lot of things out there that most people never see. Rest areas and truck stops are full of people from all over the globe. Cars pass...
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Watchful Eye's 3/25/11
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3/25/11 Today's Thoughts Watchful Eye's We do get around, don't we? As truckers I mean. Traveling from town to town as we do. We see a lot of things out there that most people never see. Rest areas and truck stops are full of people from all over the globe. Cars pass us and we keep a watchful eye on them so we c...
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Guest Christy Spiliotis Kuppler 18 Commandments of Trucking
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A Commandment for Each Wheel 1) Thou shalt not tailgate 2) Thou shalt not drive fatigued. 3) Thou shalt not drive distracted. 4) Thou shalt not drive more than 5 mph over the posted speed limit 5) Thou shalt not change lanes abruptly and without signaling. 6) Thou shalt not intimidate, terrify, or bull...
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It's All About Me
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3/24/11 Today's Thoughts It's All About Me I guess it was about two weeks ago when I got my truck out of the shop. While I was there I was able to help Russell do the work needed to replace my bull gear and front cover. I really enjoyed that time for one reason; I was able to spend some time out of the truck with s...
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