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OOIDA Life Member Ron Mermis and his NASCAR simulator are taking a break. We’ll let you know when they settle in to a new location. Meanwhile, you can join OOIDA for a discount by calling Membership and mentioning our show. Dial (816) 229-5791.

For more information about the simulator, click here.

Air date: Feb. 9, 2012.

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SPECIAL FEATURE ARCHIVE 2009

 

 

SPECIAL FEATURE: Paying the piper
OOIDA goes to incredible lengths to collect cash owed truckers – including seizing personal assets
Mark Reddig talks with OOIDA President and CEO Jim Johnston and attorney Belinda Harrison about the Association’s attempts to collect what truckers are owed from Ledar Transport, a Kansas City, MO-based motor carrier. To read more, click here.  

SPECIAL FEATURE: Checklist Fatigue- A Special Series
A print version of Land Line Now’s four-part series about the Fatigued Driving Evaluation Checklist, which is being used in Minnesota and Indiana as part of a process that frequently leads to truckers being put out of service. To read the stories in the series, click on the links below:

SPECIAL FEATURE: OOIDA members show their support for our military
Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of truckers go the extra mile to honor or even help our military overseas. Host Mark Reddig tells about four OOIDA members who have gone the extra mile to say thanks to those who served. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Trucking pair make the plunge into the word of music
Mark Reddig tells the story of two truckers who have created a CD intended for our troops, but which they’re also offering to truckers who join OOIDA. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL BLOG: Prime Time
Reed Black takes a humorous look at some possible additions to the fall TV lineup – with a trucking twist. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Comforting words in a world of pitted concrete and rusted metal
Mark Reddig checks into a series of signs along Missouri highways that lead truckers and others to think that bridges are safe, when the opposite is true. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: NHTSA reduces truck stopping distances 30 percent
The government issued a new braking standard for heavy trucks Friday, July 24, which is designed to improve stopping distance by 30 percent. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: West Virginia lawmaker gives directions around tolls
While many lawmakers are scrambling to raise tolls in their states as transportation budgets dry up, one lawmaker in West Virginia is telling his constituents how to avoid paying tolls. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Winter Olympics
Did you hear that one of the venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will actually be 2,400 miles away in the Flying J parking lot in Carneys Point, NJ? It’s the “Truckers on Ice” competition. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL BLOG: Bon voyage to the double nickel
OOIDA and its Illinois members have spent years trying to get rid of the state’s split-speed limit for trucks. Those efforts were repeatedly stymied by a corrupt former governor who vetoed legislation that would have eliminated split-speed limits. After all our collective efforts, who would have thought all it took was getting a governor impeached? To read more, click here.

SPECIAL BLOG: Welfare Trucking 101.
For the past couple of years, the plight of owner-operators who dray containers from the nation’s ports has been a battleground pitting the interests of port authorities, motor carriers, retailers, organized labor, politicians, social activists, environmentalist – including state agencies and even one state Attorney General at each other’s throat. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: In Sunny CA, silly has no bounds. Really.
Mark Reddig sends an open letter to the California Air Resources Board. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: People who have a reason to be thankful
Land Line Now brings you a compendium of soldiers’ thank-you letters regarding OOIDA’s Truckers for Troops Care Packages. To read more, click here.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Transcript from Land Line Now, Nov. 25, 2009
At the request of a number of OOIDA members, we are publishing a transcript of my conversation with Melissa Theriault Rohan regarding the health care reform debate currently under way in Congress.We should make clear at this time, that this information was up-to-date as of the day it aired on Land Line Now. New information is available daily. To read more, click here.