(SAINT LOUIS) — This morning, this blogger visited two truck stops in the St. Louis area in an effort to follow up on two earlier posts and try to determine firsthand whether many independent owner-operators and professional truck drivers seems to be participating in a shutdown to protest high fuel costs and other factors making [...]
Truckers’ Shutdown Effort Produces Varied Results
April 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: · carrollton, cattle hauler, crete carrier corp., dan miller, foristell, Fuel, fuel prices, independent owner-operators, independent truckers, Missouri, owner-operators, quiktrip, shut down, shutdown, South Carolina, st. peters, strike, travel centers of america, truck, truck driver
How Will the Trucking Shutdown Impact You?
March 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments
In a post three days ago, I reported on the threatened April 1 shutdown by independent truckers. Today, I take a look at the number of truck drivers likely to participate in the effort, the likelihood of the shutdown getting the attention of members of Congress and the impact such a shutdown is likely [...]
Tags: · april 1, April Fools, April Fools Day, Congress, dan little, fuel prices, fuel surcharge, independent owner-operator, independent truckers, jim johnston, ooida, owner-operator independent drivers association, shutdown, strike, truck, truck driver, truck fleets
No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1
March 28th, 2008 · 16 Comments
One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened nationwide shutdown by independent truck drivers — possibly hundreds of thousands of them — April 1.
Though set to take place on April Fools Day, the effort — [...]
Tags: · april 1, April Fools, April Fools Day, dan little, federal regulations, fines, fuel taxes, grassroots effort, grocery, independent truck drivers, Iowa, iowa newspaper, level playing field, little and little, livestock hauling, nationwide shutdown, newspaper reporter, strike, truck drivers, truck insurance, trucking industry, u.s. cattle haulers, uscattlehaulers.com
Ideas Offered for Coverage of Presidential Race
December 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Two negative influences are impacting Americans at this time: Reality television and presidential politics.
Thanks to the ongoing strike by film and television writers, television viewers are being subjected to increasingly-desperate examples of reality TV programming. The latest unfortunate example, NBC’s Clash of the Choirs, airs Monday and pits amateur choirs against [...]
Tags: · 2008, America's best choir, Barack, Barack Obama, choirs, chuck, Chuck Norris, clash of the choirs, clash of the liars, Clinton, decision '08, Democrat, elephants vs. asses, film and television writers, hilla-copter, hillacopter, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Huckabee, lawyers, lawyers on parade, liars, Mike Huckabee, NBC, norris, oprah, Oprah Winfrey, Politicians, presidential politics, presidential primary, race to the white house, Reality Television, Reality TV, Republican, strike, writers strike
Entertainment Blogs Break Promise to ‘Go Dark’
November 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments
TV Week ran an article Sunday, reporting that 17 entertainment blogs would go dark today, replacing their sites with statements showing their support of striking film and television writers. Though I don’t recall ever having read one of these blogs, I did take an interest in seeing whether any of them would follow through [...]
Tags: · bret harrison, film and television writers, give me my remote, I Don't Listen to Hollywood, reaper, sarah connor, strike, televisionary, the Sarah Connor Chronicles, the tv addict, tv week, writers, writers guild of america, writers strike
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