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• Sleepy docs get grumpy when long hours make them dopey - Terry Scruton says truckers don’t need an hours of service rule nearly as much as some doctors do. To read Terry’s rant, click here. Air date: Dec. 19, 2008.

 

• With the recent bailout of Wall Street, they just haven’t learned - Terry Scruton offers up a few of his own thoughts in the rant today. To read Terry’s rant, click here. Air date: Nov. 7, 2008.

 

• Attitude Adjustment - Terry Scruton shared his thoughts on how some truck stops may want to change their way of thinking. To read Terry’s rant, click here. Air date: Oct. 31, 2008.

 

• There really is ‘power in one’ – Land Line Magazine’s Keith Goble talks about the difference one person can make in an election.  To read Keith’s thoughts, click here. Air date: Oct. 17, 2008.

 

• The Road Hammers – David Tanner of Land Line Magazine offers an update on a musical group that has some strong trucking connections. To read David’s rant, click here. Air date: Oct. 10, 2008.

 

• Things are not as they seem – Terry Scruton discusses an experts advice – printed in a national magazine – that the expert says he never gave. To read Terry’s comments, click here. Air date: Sept. 19, 2008.

 

• Are you tired? – Land Line Magazine’s Charlie Morasch discusses how the people who are “worried” about you being fatigued are also people who profit from it. To read Charlie’s rant, click here. Air date: Sept. 5, 2008.

 

• Where’s the soup-to-nuts freight? – Sandi Soendker shared her thoughts on how economic conditions affect the freight truckers haul. You can read Sandi’s comments here. Air date: Aug. 29, 2008.

 

• FRIDAY RANTS: Hatchet job – Charlie Morasch shares his thoughts on mainstream media’s coverage of the GAO study that perpetuates bad stereotypes about truck drivers in general. To read Charlie’s rant, click here. Air date: Aug. 15, 2008.

 

• FRIDAY RANTS: Strike up the (lap) band – Terry Scruton discusses weight loss surgery, and how views about it have changed. To read Terry’s rant, click here. Air date: Aug. 1, 2008

 

• The good, the bad and the obvious – Jami Jones offers a few thoughts on brokers, truckers and how they interact. To read Jami’s rant, click here. Air date: July 18, 2008.

 

• So, DOT, you wanna play word games? – Jami Jones offers her take on the latest round of the Mexican cross-border trucking battle. To read Jami’s rant, click here. Air date: July 11, 2008.

 

• It only takes one – Land Line Now Traffic Coordinator Sherry Murry talks about the effect truckers can have on other people’s lives. To read Sherry’s rant, click here. Air date: July 3, 2008.

 

• Where the beef? – During a previous food safety crisis – which involved meat – Land Line Magazine staff writer Clarissa Kell-Holland offered her thoughts, and some information, about the situation. The issue came up again recently when people across the country started to get sick, the result of salmonella in some varieties of tomato. To read Clarissa’s blog on the topic, click here. Air date: June 20, 2008.

 

• Bridge Post-Holing – On today’s show, Elizabeth Anderson of Land Line Magazine offered her opinion of the safety of our nation’s transportation infrastructure. To read Elizabeth’s rant, click here. Air date: June 13, 2008.

 

• On your own – Reed Black offered some observations he had after witnessing a truck wreck on a dangerous exit ramp. To read Reed’s rant, click here. Air date: June 6, 2008.

 

• The three R’s – recovery, rally, reality – Terry Scruton talked about how language is being used to make the public more easily accept increased oil prices. To read Terry’s rant, click here. Air date: May 30, 2008.

 

• 18-year journey comes to an end too soon – Last year, OOIDA’s Joe Rajkovacz wrote a column for The Kansas City Star as part of the newspaper’s Midwest Voices series. First published on Jan. 14, 2007, the column described his family’s experience standing by their son as he started his military career. To read Joe’s story, click here. Air date: May 23, 2008.

 

• GREENSburg – Charlie Morasch recently took at look at the tornado-ravaged town of Greensburg one year after the tragedy. You can read his thoughts here. Air date: May 16, 2008.

 

• Debunking a few myths about TRUCC – Joe Rajkovacz has heard some of the arguments against the TRUCC Act – and he’s not buying what they’re selling. You can read Joe’s comments here. Air date: May 9, 2008.

 

• Bad brokers – Land Line Magazine’s Senior Editor, Jami Jones shared her thoughts on bad brokers. You can read Jami’s blog here. Air date: May 2, 2008.

 

• Oregon continues smear campaign – Land Line Magazine Senior Editor Jami Jones offered up a few thoughts regarding Oregon’s annual “Operation Trucker Check.” To read Jami’s blog on the topic, click here. Air date: April 25, 2008

 

• Joe Rajkovacz testifies in LA
  OOIDA Regulatory Affairs Specialist Joe Rajkovacz recently spoke out for truckers before the Harbor Commission, the body that runs the Port of Los Angeles – and we brought you his speech on Land Line Now. You can read his remarks here. Air date: April 11, 2008.