Here we go folks, its mid week and I?m just now getting to posting about the weekend?s Nascar activity. I swear that I am going to get an air card for this laptop sometime before the summer is gone. There have been many places in the last few days where I could have wrote this [...]
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Oil fell almost $2 in early trading Monday to below $98 a barrel on speculation that a cooling U.S. economy will lower fuel demand, Bloomberg reported.
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Wild racing and breath taking crashes were the norm at Dover so far this weekend. Kyle Busch wins the Camping World truck series race as usual; can any body stop him in a truck? Kevin Harvick gave Kyle all that he could handle but in the end Kyle prevailed as he so often does in [...]
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These Government Lobbyist Organizations represent the largest trucking concerns in Canada and the United States.
Their primary goal: To increase profits and decrease competition in the trucking industry. This is the only logical reason speed limiters are being promoted for future legislation in the USA.
Here’s a video of OOIDA Life Member, Ed Wesselius of Guelph, Ontario explaining why speed governors are actually more dangerous and create added driver stress, fatigue, and frequent incidents of road rage against the driver’s. The volume is low, crank up your speaker’s.
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Turtles are cool. If I see one trying to cross the road, I’m the kinda guy that’ll pull over and carry him across the road to safety. That is, unless…