We’d like to thank the guests who were on our program this week, including:

 

• OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer;
• U.S. Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota;
• AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley;
• Rod Nofziger and Mike Joyce of OOIDA’s Washington, DC, office;
• U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico;
• Rose McMurray, the chief safety officer of the FMCSA;
• U.S. Rep. John Duncan of Tennessee;
• Ed Briley of OOIDA’s Truck Insurance Department;
• Tom Coogan of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce;
• U.S. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada;
• Loveland, Colorado trucker and inventor of the AeroWing Dan Pursley;
• OOIDA member Mike Hagan;
• JayEtta Hecker, director of physical infrastructure issues for the Government Accountability Office;
• John Ewing of the Trucker’s Helper;
• U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon;
• David Enright of New Jersey-based financial consulting firm Northwest Financial;
• Graduate student Jeff Serman of the University of Michigan;
• Independent owner-operator Tony Sifford;
• And all of you who called our listener comment line.

Our pieces this week on the AASHTO bridge report, an aerodynamic tractor-trailer link, a world record farm tractor wheelie and state legislation were all the work of Reed Black, who also writes and voices our daily newscast.

 

Terry Scruton reported on truck insurance, switching computers, a House hearing on medical certification, the price of diesel fuel, a Senate hearing on highway privatization, a Republican news conference on energy, and lap band surgery.

 

Jami Jones hosted our program Monday; she and Charlie Morasch brought us the Dragnet.

Keith Goble wrote our coverage of a new California emissions plan.

 

Mark Reddig reported on Mary Peters’ news conference, the Mexican truck bill, Wisconsin diesel emissions reduction grants and energy legislation.

 

Our theme music is performed by Webb Wilder and his band out of Nashville, Tennessee.

And we’d like to thank the other members of the Land Line Magazine staff who write and research stories used on our show, including:

 

• Managing Editor Sandi Soendker;
• Copy Chief Coral Beach;
• Staff writers David Tanner, Clarissa Kell-Holland and Charlie Morasch;
• And copy editor Elizabeth Andersen.

Thanks also to the lady who keeps the trains running on time, our own traffic coordinator, Sherry Murry, as well as the chief clowns in our personal sound circus, Producer and Senior Sound Engineer Barry Spillman and Second Engineer James Fetzer.