Kentucky Department of Highways Workers Hosting 100-Mile Benefit Ride September 11
August 23, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
Kentucky Department of Highways workers are hosting a 100-mile benefit ride on Saturday, Sept. 11, for the Kentucky Employees Charitable Campaign (KECC).
The ride is open to motorcycle riders, antique car and truck drivers or anyone else who wants to join in to raise money for six accredited statewide charities: United Way of Kentucky, Christian [...]
Plan For Tolls On Three Bridges In The Louisville
July 22, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 1 Comment
Truck drivers and non-commercial drivers – you may or may not have heard the plan to place tolls on three bridges in the Louisville, KY area.
The Louisville and Southern Indiana Bridge Authority wants to fund about half of the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridge projects with tolls on new and existing bridges in the [...]
Boycotts – When Will People Learn
June 5, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 1 Comment
A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest.
This is fine and dandy, I have been apart of boycotts before.
I don’t see a problem with protesting against a company or somebody if [...]
Alert – My ‘BS’ Detector is Overloaded
May 27, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 1 Comment
I swear this year has really overloaded my built-in ‘BS’ detector. From the lies of Obama and Ray LaHood. And the bad part is, the year is not even half over yet. I want a government bail-out to replace my ‘BS’ detector.
I was going to start this article by talking about the movie “How to [...]
Police Allow Trucks to Travel through Tennessee Flooded Road
May 2, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 3 Comments
The image below is either just amazing or just plain stupid. On the part of the truckers for doing it, and on the police for allowing them to do it.
How did the cops know that the integrity of the road was still intact? In the image it looks like the water is at least [...]
HR2156 Why is it needed
January 31, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 21 Comments
Before you go getting all upset, at me for writing this. Please take the time to actually read all of this-post. And yes I have always supported this, but I am beginning to fall towards the non supporting side.
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Oklahoma Senator says “Slow them Trucks down”
January 5, 2010 by Truckdrivernews · 5 Comments
After a wreck in June, 2009 that killed ten people on the Will Rogers turnpike in Oklahoma, Senator Earl Garrison wants to make the trucks go slower.
The Will Rogers Turnpike is 88 miles long, running form Tulsa to the Missouri State line.
At 75 miles per hour, trucks can make the trip in about [...]
OOIDA sues Minnesota over CMV enforcement
November 20, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
More than six years’ worth of citations and out-of-service orders issued to truckers by the Minnesota Highway Patrol aren’t worth the paper they were written on, according to a lawsuit filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
OOIDA claims that’s because the state had no authority to enforce federal regulations.
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