GEARS.GUTS.GLORY
A Senseless Tragedy
MAY 2007 As I sit here tonight contemplating which of several issues I want to share with you, I can not seem to get past the act of senseless violence on the Virginia Tech campus. I can not come to grips with anyone who would harm someone else that has done nothing to wrong you. I was in my office when I got the news of a shooting on the campus. Only to find out later that 32 people were killed in a rampage before the killer turned the gun on himself. I found myself feeling much like I did w...
...click for full articleLet’s Pretend
When you were growing up, did you like to play dress-up? Did you ever pretend that you were a cowboy riding the open range or a sheriff chasing an outlaw? Were you a fairytale princess waiting for the prince to come riding to your rescue? We long to be someone special; to have someone look at us and say “You are great!” We laugh at those things now and may not readily admit to our childhood pretending. Slowly but surely, we outgrew the idea of cowboys and fairytales. We began to realize what...
...click for full articleVain Imaginations
JUNE 2007 Many people today worry about global warming. They burn incredible energy fretting and sweating over a controversial theory. They chase vain imaginations as if they were proven facts. I believe their time would be better spent reading Gods word. Words from the mouth of God explain today’s events with authority. They tell you more than any man. Don’t you agree? I was blessed a couple of weeks ago to take a trip to Israel. To tell you the truth, ever since I was a young man, the Lor...
...click for full articleStanding in the Sun
MAY 2007 It was an immense shadow, and how it was cast made it even more overwhelming. But Kevin Harvick found his way out into the sunlight, and he kicked off this year with a win in the biggest NASCAR race of them all — the Daytona 500. When the 2001 Nextel Cup season began at Daytona, Harvick was preparing for his second year in the Busch Series and serving as an understudy to Dale Earnhardt in the Richard Childress Racing camp. The idea was to hone his craft in the support series, then...
...click for full articleTrue Fear
We have all seen the T-shirt that says NO FEAR. I’m not sure who came out with those, but I can bet you this: they never had to stand in front of a room full of kindergarten children and try to explain what they do for a living! In 1992, I ran for my hometown school board. Seemed like a good idea at the time. I had graduated from Glen Rose High School, my children were in the system, and I just wanted to be involved. After I signed up, I found out the schoolteachers wanted all of us candidate...
...click for full articleRoehl Transport
JUNE 2007 Already recognized as one of the safest carriers on the road, Roehl Transport recently added to a string of top industry honors for safety with a prestigious Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) Safety Award. The award, based on an independent audit of the company’s DOT recordable accident record, is the latest earned over the past three years confirming Roehl’s superior safety performance. Roehl has also won top-level safety awards from the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...
...click for full article“Power of Love”
MAY 2007 “You are My Sunshine, My only Sunshine” Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling. They found out that the new baby was going be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael sang to his sister in mommy’s tummy. He was building a bond of love with his little sister before he even met her. The pregnancy progressed normally for Karen, an active member ...
...click for full articleBarr-Nunn Driver Watches Kenseth
JUNE 2007 Granger, IA- April 26, 2007- On April 14th, 2007, you could barely hear the crowd’s cheers over the roar of the engines as the race cars flew around the track. Among the thousands of spectators yelling for their favorite drivers were Roger Roberts, a driver for Barr-Nunn Transportation, his daughter and his son-in-law. They stood tall and proud in the Pits at Texas Motor Speedway because they were there as part of the Barr-Nunn and Roush Fenway Team. They listened intently fo...
...click for full articleLoneStar Transportation
JUNE 2007 LoneStar Transportation has grown from 600 trucks two years ago to over 900 today. Thanks to the continuous growth at LoneStar, new trucks keep rolling in. You can join today and start driving a top-of-the-line 379 or 389 Pete. “It is very exciting to experience growth plus stability of this nature,” said Larry Moody, Recruiting and Retention Manager at LoneStar. “Even more exciting is what we are able to offer drivers and owner operators — highly competitive pay and great equi...
...click for full articleWant to Achieve Financial Goals? Do the Math
If you breathed a sigh of relief when you put away that algebra or geometry textbook for the last time, you might not be eager to take up the subject of math again. However, by doing some number crunching, you can put a "price tag" on your long-term financial goals - and that's the first step toward achieving them. To quantify the costs of your objectives, you must be specific about what you're trying to accomplish. Do you want to retire as soon as you possibly can and then spend your time tr...
...click for full articleFlorilli Transportation, LLC
We would like to thank you for your interest in Florilli Transportation, LLC. Florilli was established in 1987. We are located in West Liberty, IA. The company has grown over the years to 224 trucks. We are a refrigerated carrier specializing in the delivery of time and temperature sensitive products primarily for the food industry. Some of the accounts we handle may be familiar to you: Kraft, Oscar Mayer, and Hormel. Our Team of professional drivers and the excellent service they have provided ...
...click for full articleTrivia Check
JUNE 2007 1.What is the definition of Amen? 2.What is the location of the theme park, Silver Dollar City? 3.What restaurant as the logo “Eat more chickin?” 4.True or False. Jesus fed 4000 people with a few loaves of bread and some fish. 5.What is the hardest mineral? 6.What’s the name of the egg in the nursery rhyme that sat on a wall? 7.Chum, sockeyes and Chinook are all species of what very common and well-loved food fish? 8.He tried to walk with Jesus on water. A.Bartholomew B.Pete...
...click for full articleFrom the Publisher
MAY 2007 Hello all! Welcome to this month’s newest issue. You will find amazing changes between the pages thanks to some of your suggestions in the past few months. I am finding it a little difficult to be excited in a general sense though. The tragic killings on the Virginia Tech campus have really hit me hard even though I have no direct connection with the school or its students. But being a soldier for Christ, I cannot help but fell saddened and grief stricken by the recent events which ...
...click for full articleFuel is How Much?
JUNE 2007 Well here we go for another stint of outrageous fuel costs. I mean over $ 3 dollars a gallon? Are you crazy? With fuel costs like that we should be getting $3 dollars a mile... So why aren’t we? Why has the industry overlooked us? Why do we haul for less than half of that amount when fuel is costing so much? These are questions I ask myself on a regular basis. I’ve been trying to determine what we can do as truckers, owner operators and drivers to battle this chapter of the truc...
...click for full articleNASCAR News
The Nextel Cup has proven to be just as exciting as advertised for the 2007 season so far. Many teams are wondering why they did not do more testing and investigating during the off season. Toyota, the newest manufacturer in the series, has discovered just how tough it can be to compete at the highest level of motorsports. Only four races into the season has seen a small representation from Toyota. Two of the more popular drivers in the circuit, Michael Waltrip and Jeremy Mayfield, have not even...
...click for full articleBad Spam
MAY 2007 You have to feel sorry for Hormel, the maker of the original Spam. Its product, never a winner in the esteem stakes, has suffered the horrible indignity of sharing its name with the scourge of the new millennium. The new spam – also known as junk email or unsolicited commercial email – has established itself as one of the biggest problems on the Internet. In its infancy, a few years ago, spam was little more than an annoyance. These days, it has become so pervasive it is a threat ...
...click for full articleD.M. Bowman, Inc.
JUNE 2007 D.M. Bowman, Inc. today announced that it has made significant efficiency gains as a SmartWaySM Transport Partner. The Partnership is an innovative collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the freight industry designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. D.M. Bowman, Inc reduced its CO2 emissions by over 5 percent from 2005 to 2006. It also achieved a 14 percent decrease in emissions of nitr...
...click for full articleGettin’ Your “Woo, Woo” On!
All of us are aware how important it is that we do some common sense things to help ourselves stay healthy. For example, we know that watching our weight, eating the right foods and exercising can help our immune systems cope with disease and illness. Getting regular medical check-ups of health parameters such as blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol and glucose levels will help us to know if we are going in the wrong direction with some of the things we are doing in our current lifestyle and ...
...click for full articleD.M. Bowman, Inc’s Ken Seville: A True Trucking Champion
Williamsport, MD – Having completed 18 successful years with D.M. Bowman, Inc. and still counting, Company Driver Ken Seville knows what accomplishment is all about. Aside from recently becoming a member of the Maryland State Million Mile Club, Seville has also achieved a highly impressive 16 year Safety Award with the company for his excellent driving. These are just 2 of the numerous honors he has received during his career with D.M. Bowman, Inc. No stranger to the road, Seville first purs...
...click for full articleWiest Truck Line
Wiest Truck Line is proud to be a part of the trucking industry, a profession, which is highly respected, and one that the entire nation depends upon. Without it, the wheels of progress truly grind to a halt. Much of the American public does not realize that the commodities they use on a daily basis are brought to them by truck. There is no other mode of transportation that can deliver these necessities of life with the reliability or efficiency of an eighteen-wheeler. Wiest Truck Line Inc., ...
...click for full articleTrivia Check
MAY 2007 1. Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in May; however, what is the actual Memorial Day? 2. What letter of the alphabet does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States? 3. The only mobile national monuments in the United States are found in San Francisco. What are they? 4. Approximately what is the number of letters that the standard blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox can hold at a time? 5. The ZIP in “ZIP code” means? 6. What is the name of the ball that si...
...click for full articlePublisher’s Perspective
JUNE 2007 Hello again! Wow, I can’t believe we are already half way through this year. It only seems like yesterday we were watching the ball drop on television in New York. It has been a bit bumpy so far this year with the fuel prices and we can hope that they will fall again. I feel like we are talking about 30 years ago when we say, “Boy, I can remember when we were paying .99 cents per gallon,” yet that was not too many years ago. I hate to think so, but I believe those days are gone. ...
...click for full articleBrenda Meacham
JUNE 2007 For Trucker Buddy Brenda Meacham, the best birthday present of all is the gift of giving. In 2006, she surprised her class with bicycles on March 24, her birthday. In 2007, Meacham gave her class laptops. Not a woman of means, this feisty truck driver knows how to reach out to family, friends and employers, seeking their assistance with fulfilling dreams and needs for children. “I am just the cheerleader,” she said modestly of her endeavors. Indeed, this is an inspiring stor...
...click for full articleAngels in the Industry
Well, it has been a few months since I started my goals of making the Appalachian region of the West Virginia Mountains known to this industry. It has been a personal goal and a sacrifice since joining the board many months ago. There is true poverty in this country and is often overlooked. We all know and hear about the other areas in the world that are in need. But what has not been such a focus is the starving people right here in this country. There are plenty of kids with no clothes with pa...
...click for full articleSeward Motor Freight
The origin of Seward Motor Freight can be traced back to the early 1940's when it was formed to haul freight between Omaha and Seward, Nebraska. After having had several owners through the years, Wayne and Joan Tanderup purchased and incorporated the business in 1969. At the time they purchased the business, they had seven employees currently working for them. The business continued to grow throughout the 1970's and Wayne and Joanie acquired long haul permits from the I.C.C. (Interstate Comme...
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