Texas regional hauler James Crow says he’s fed up with “minimal – zero – exposure on the national, regional or industry stage for all of us drivers … who make videos and put them out on YouTube.” Minus a story or two in the trade press, little attention has been paid to the growing cohort of vid-happy haulers documenting their lives in entertaining-to-odd-to-rousing fashion. Crow’s created a catchall portal to promote any driver’s YouTube channel at youtubetrucking.com. Check out his 6-minute appeal to driver unity via youtube.com/593films
Channeling your inner wrestler
Poirrier “noticed police officers separating a child from a middle-aged man,” for whom police had an arrest warrant, reporter Brian Blackwell wrote. When the man broke away, Poirrier was there to catch him. “I got the guy in a full nelson,” he told Blackwell.
Let’s hang out and talk Bosnian
From the blog
Replace horsepower with oxen power?
News about the many hurdles faced by drivers and owner-operators in these tough times had @FreightMachine wondering, via the Internet messaging service Twitter, “just how many oxen it takes to pull a flatbed trailer.” Bonnie Christiansen (@blczz999) had the sage answer: “Too many!”
“ I’m not a rocket scientist, I just play one on Twitter. ”
— Alan Bristol (@alanqbristol), after commenting via Twitter.com that the “real rocket scientists”at the American Trucking Associations say proposed cap-and-trade legislation would do little to reduce trucking’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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