Bad Judge

I normally wouldn’t write about this, but after reading an article this morning at a Dayton, Ohio news website I have to have my say.
This happened here as well a few months ago, our “County Judge Executive” was caught speeding and drunk driving, and the county seat’s police chief was also caught drinking and driving.
The story out [...]

Truckers Dying – When is Enough Going to be Enough?

When is enough going to be enough, how many truck drivers must die? What am I talking about?
I’m talking about idling restrictions and truckers trying to stay warm.
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Ontario truck driver faces $305 fine for smoking in workplace: his truck

TORONTO – The burning question about precisely where a person can smoke these days is flaring up again in Ontario, where a 48-year-old trucker faces a $305 fine for lighting up on the job: while driving his big rig along Canada’s busiest highway.
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Texting and Driving part II

Welcome back for part II, of the distracted driving summit. Again I will ask what does Jason’s Law have to do with distracted driving? Today ended a two day summit with Ray Lahood making an announcement at the end, that Obama had in fact signed into affect a ban on texting behind the wheel for Federal workers. A [...]

Texting and driving

What does texting and driving have to do with Jason’s Law? If you have not noticed, today started the Distracted Driving Summit with Ray Lahood leading the way. It is going on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, it can also be followed on twitter by searching #d2Summit or you can simply go and click Here.
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It’s finally over Virginia lifts two hour parking limit for Truck Drivers

I want to start out, by giving some credit where it is actually due. When this news actually broke, some news Websites mistakenly gave all the credit for this to an organization who may have had something to do with it but, did not have everything to do with getting this law changed.
The REAL credit here deserves to go to [...]

Virginia hopes to reopen rest stops

It’s a long shot, but Virginia officials are hoping that they will be able to find a way to reopen 19 closed rest stops on the state’s interstate highways in a couple of years.
The state is going to mothball until at least 2011 the 18 rest areas and one welcome center slated for closure and eventual demolition because of [...]

Updates from the Rivenburg family (Jason’s Law)

On June 27th we traveled to Lake George, New York to take part in the Convoy for the Kids. Many people stopped by and signed our petition. As in New Jersey, some of the people were not aware of what Jason’s Law is. Most of them gave us the opportunity to explain what it was and why we [...]

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