Bob McCarty Writes

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a National Press Club gathering May 21 that his plan to overhaul the controversial Mexican truck demonstration program is now being vetted by the White House and has the support of “a number of members of Congress.”  If he gets his way, Mexican tractor-trailer rigs will soon be crossing our [...]

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Six weeks ago, Dan Little spearheaded a nationwide truckers shutdown which took place April 1 as a means of drawing attention to the poor economic plight of independent truckers and trucking companies. Today, the owner of a Carrollton, Mo., cattle-hauling operation finds himself in a new position representing the interests of truckers from across [...]

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Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The phrase above is often used to describe futile efforts to fix or save something already past the point at which it can be saved. While many of America’s independent truck drivers are fast approaching the point where their deck chairs are about to go overboard, some have already [...]

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Dan Little, the Carrollton, Mo.-based trucker generally credited with organizing the nationwide shutdown of independent owner-operators April 1, called me yesterday to let me know he’s at it again, this time working with a small cadre of truckers from around the country to launch a new truck drivers organization, tentatively called Owner-Operators United.
The owner of [...]

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“If the politicians in Washington don’t know about it by now, they must be blind or deaf,” said Dan Little, the trucker generally credited with organizing a nationwide shutdown by independent owner-operators and other professional truck drivers. “Now, it’s on their backs. If they choose to let this industry die, it’s up to [...]

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