We’d like to say a big thank you to our guests this week, including:
- Don L. Rondeau, senior security adviser to OOIDA;
- U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota;
- Tom Weakley, director of operations at the OOIDA Foundation;
- Larry Overcast, port director at Sweet Grass, MT;
- Rod Nofziger, Mike Joyce and Laura O’Neill of OOIDA’s Washington, DC, office;
- Ben Goodin of the Missouri DOT;
- Bill Johnson of the American Truck Historical Society;
- OOIDA member Ken Quick of Geneva, NE;
- Dr. John McElligott of the PDMD clinics;
- California cattle hauler Ed Rocha;
- Ruth Schukman-Dakotas of the University of Kansas Hospital;
- OOIDA Life Member Paul Rutherford of Sterling, KS;
- Fuel hauler George Wacker and his wife, Lois, of Manchester, MI;
- Vinton County, OH, Sheriff Dave Hickey;
- Ed Briley of OOIDA’s Truck Insurance Department;
- Vincent Gramuglia, owner of Betty Beaver’s Truck Stop;
- Stephen Keppler of the CVSA;
- OOIDA member James Heflin;
- And all of you who called our Listener Comment Line.
Our stories this past week on gamma ray machines at the border, diesel siphoning, the gun trucks of Vietnam and state legislation were all the work of Reed Black, who also writes and voices our daily newscast.
Reed also offered his thoughts in the wake of a tragic truck wreck in Kansas City.
Terry Scruton reported this week on insurance questions, the upcoming June issue of Land Line Magazine, bariatric surgery and the price of diesel fuel.
Mark Reddig reported on trucking history, Canadian speed limiters, energy market manipulation, the TRUCC Act, a highway funding commission meeting, the newly created Transportation Security Program. He also responded to calls on the Listener Comment Line.
Charlie Morasch wrote our coverage of Arizona’s laptop controversy.
Our theme music is performed by Webb Wilder and his band out of Nashville, Tennessee.
Thanks also to the lady who keeps the trains running on time, our own Traffic Coordinator, Sherry Murry, and to the mad scientists in our sonic lab, Producer and Senior Sound Engineer Barry Spillman and Second Engineer James Fetzer.
And we’d like to thank the members of the Land Line Magazine staff, who write and research stories used on our show, including:
- Managing Editor Sandi Soendker;
- Senior Editor Jami Jones;
- Copy Chief Coral Beach;
- State Legislative Editor Keith Goble;
- Staff writers David Tanner, Clarissa Kell-Holland and Charlie Morasch;
- And Copy Editor Elizabeth Andersen.
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