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Sandy Long
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Sandy Long with her book "Street Smarts" has touched on a subject that most drivers and companies put on the back burner when in actuality it should be the number one thing on any drivers mind. I know from experience the places I myself ha...ve been into with my truck making deliveries and the situation...
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5 Hour Energy Petition
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Safe Truck Drivers Ask 5 Hour Energy My name is Jeff Head. I am the author of the book "Running Legal Blues." I'm a thirty year trucking veteran that works toward improving highway safety from a driver's level. I have noticed that 5 Hour Energy is promoting, that tired and fatigued drivers of large e...
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Who's Allowed? 3/14/11
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3/14/11 Today's Thoughts. I was just wondering ….. who is allowed to be a trucking advocate? I mean what are the rules? What are the standards? Do you have to be a certain religion? Is it based on the color of your skin? Perhaps it's you have to dress a certain way or keep certain friends. Is there a "y...
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Parking
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3/22/11 Today's Thoughts Parking "SCREEERUNCH" …… Yup, there goes another hood. I'm coming out the door and walking across the front of the fuel isle up at the Petro in Reno, NV last night. And that’s what I hear, "SCREERUNCH". I look up and the driver making the noise is coming out from one isle loo...
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Guest Becca Burke Allison,,,, I've Had It With You People
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I've Had it with You People 03/03/2011 Not you people! You people are my fellow drivers! Most of you are nice, hard working, safe, courteous-well, if not, I'll get to you later. No, this blog is for ranting about Those Other People. You know, the ones we run into every day. Oh no, not actually run...
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Gone Fishing 3/20/11
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3/20/11 Today's Thoughts Last night, I finished up watching the TV series "That 70 Show" on Netflix. It was kind of sad to see it come to an end. I guess that after eight years worth of shows, you really become connected with the characters and their day to day lives as the show relates them. There ha...
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Showers 12/9/10
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Well... It seems like Petro and TA have decided to change their shower policy again. Let me see .... this is like the eighteenth time in as many months is seems .... Now ... if you do not have one of their special points card ... yo...ur fuel ticket will get you a shower for just 24 hours .... no more shower c...
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Book Signing 12/16/10
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Did the book signing tonight .... Scary getting up in front of people and talking .... Clara ... the other author did way better then I did .... I liked the Q&A after a lot better .... I was able to put out a lot of info on the... trucking industry .... most of what I found is people had a lot to say about it...
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It's Cold Outside
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It's cold out side ..... I know I could run .... but ... today I think I'll sit .... Why You might ask .... it's because some drivers feel that it's OK to run top speed on highways that are covered in l...ight powdered snow and ice ..... I happen to believe that if the highways are slick .... and the people you...
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Arizona Shooter 1/8/11
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What was todays shooting about ..... I mean Actually about .... They had this guy's Internet stuff shut down in hours ..... FOX picked a few statements that made the guy look like a nut and basically destroyed him all day long ..... ... If you summed up my life .... or anyones for that fact ... buy the stup...
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Safe Truck Drivers 1/23/11
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After being in trucking in one way or another since 1980, I have come to the understanding that drivers that follow the rules are quickly ejected from this industry. As such, I wrote a book called "Running Legal Blues" Available on Amazon.... Also, free to anyone in government that wishes to underst...
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Guest Sandy Long 3/18/11 Yes Sir, Thank You Ma'am
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Yes Sir, Thank You Ma'amby Sandy Long on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:44pm We hear a lot about rude cashiers and attendants at truck stops; about rude shipping and receiving clerks, and about the rudeness shown to us by the public numerous times. We scratch our heads and wonder why in the world we are so...
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Perception vs Image 3/15/11
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3/15/11 Today's Thoughts Perception verses Image As I was riding along today, thinking about the events of the last few days. My thoughts turned into the events of, well just about as long ago as I can remember. Basically, all my thoughts boiled down to what others perceive my image to be. I cannot reme...
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Did he not just say 3/6/11
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Today's Thoughts 3/6/11 Did he not just say ….. "A friendlier environment for American small business". Obahama, that's who. I swear I heard him say just those words. Well, that is what his right hand was saying. What his left hand was whispering behind our backs is "Let's take American tax dollar...
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Unions 2/26/11
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Today's Thoughts 2/26/11 Unions …. Any truck driver eventually will bump a union dock. I hate to even estimate how many docks I've bumped over the years. So I think I have a pretty good idea of what goes on in the minds of union members. I also can tell you that union members in the south seem to have a lit...
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Street Smarts
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Today's Thoughts Sandy Long with her book "Street Smarts" has touched on a subject that most drivers and companies put on the back burner when in actuality it should be the number one thing on any drivers mind. I know from experience the places I myself have been into with my truck making deliveries an...
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Do Letters Work
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Today's Thoughts Do letters work….. I'll let you decide …. Once upon a time … In the state of Georgia…. The American Trucking Association was able to convince the state to make it mandatory for every commercial driver to join their Highway Watch program or the driver would not be able to get...
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Mechanics
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Today's Thoughts As you read Today's Thoughts ... The thing you should know is I have no intention a bashing anyone. But sometimes for a company to improve themselves as I know TA to be doing, they have to understand the problem so they can look in to it and make our lives as truck drivers a little easier a...
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My Job 3/19/11
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3/19/11 Today's Thoughts My Job What 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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