We’d like to thanks the guests on our show this past week, including:

 

• OOIDA Regulatory Affairs Specialist Joe Rajkovacz;
• Country music singer Aaron Tippin;
• Tom Weakley, director of operations at the OOIDA Foundation;
• Kathryn O’Leary Higgins of the National Transportation Safety Board;
• Terry Button, a member of the OOIDA Board of Directors;
• Lou Gregoire of the Gwinnett County, GA, Police Department;
• OOIDA Life Member David Zorn of McDonough, GA;
• Donn Kramer, director of product and customer marketing for Goodyear;
• Rod Nofziger, Mike Joyce and Laura O’Neill of OOIDA’s Washington, DC, office;
• Lillie Coney at the Electronic Privacy Information Center;
• Ed Briley of OOIDA’s Truck Insurance Customer Service Department;
• Oregon DOT spokeswoman Shelley Snow;
• OOIDA member and Capitol Christmas Tree hauler Gordy Grove of Langley, WA;
• University of California-Berkeley Engineering Professor Alexandre Bayen;
• And all of you who called our listener comment line.

Our stories this past week Colorado severance tax plan for roads, tougher DUI penalties in New Jersey, an OOIDA hauling the Capitol Building Christmas Tree, the Vehicle Miles Traveled tax and a traffic information pilot program were all the work of Reed Black, who also writes and voices our daily newscast.

 

Terry Scruton reported this week on a Goodyear Highway Hero, insuring special equipment, the price of diesel fuel and country music star Aaron Tippen.

 

Jami Jones joined us to discuss drug testing.

 

Charlie Morasch shared information on Ohio overweight and overlength fines, and wrote our coverage of TWIC.

 

David Tanner discussed the speed limiter debate in Canada.

 

Mark Reddig reported on speed limiters, Veterans’ Day activities, the hours of service, House and Senate activities and an independent study of the cross-border trucking pilot program.

 

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

 

And we’d like to thank the rest of the Land Line Magazine staff, who write and research stories used on the program, including:

 

• Managing Editor Sandi Soendker;
• Copy Chief Coral Beach;
• State Legislative Editor Keith Goble;
• Staff writer Clarissa Kell-Holland.
• 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 turkeys in our holiday oven, Producer and Senior Sound Engineer Barry Spillman and Second Engineer James Fetzer.