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PRO Navigation System
The 5550 PRO Navigation System has a 5-in. LCD screen. It features Junction View with Lane Assist, state mileage log, hours-of-service Log and last-mile routing for road coverage on secondary highways....
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What’s cool about being a truck driver? Video contest details
The Minnesota Trucking Association has an ongoing video contest — taking entries through July 31 — that asks drivers to answer the question “What would be cool about being a truck driver?” The winning...
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Four-wheeler scare-quotes ‘professional’
A four-wheeler letter writer to the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune’s “Ask a Trooper” column, and I quote: It seems to me that too many “professional” drivers let the “power” sensation of operating such...
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‘Monkey Gouger’ Jimmy Ardis in Real Life Trucking Hero running
Progressive Commercial’s ongoing “Real Life Trucking Hero” contest will at the end of hte month award $15,000 to a winning driver/owner-operator for lifetime achievement in the industry. Up for vote...
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5 things members of the general public don’t know about truckers
Private-sector businesses in the U.S. employ an estimated 8.9 million people in trucking-related jobs; nearly 3.5 million of those jobs are that of truck driver. The United States economy depends on...
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Horror or not: Growing consumer interest in driverless cars
A full 90 percent of respondents to Carinsurance.com polling answered yes if a potential insurance rate decrease was added into the driverless-car purchase mix — money talks, thought it’s not like...
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Surly Long-Haul Trucker spotted, and: How many ‘professional’ scare quotes...
If this letter to the Wyoming Eagle Tribune newspaper, published Saturday, is any indication, the magic number is four, or nearly one for each of the letter’s seven small paragraphs. The writer started...
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