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Written by Ellen Voie
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Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:01 |
 Opinion: Women in the Trucking Industry
By Ellen Voie
Founder and CEO
Women in Trucking Association Inc. This Opinion piece appears in the Jan. 11 print edition of Transport Topics. A friend once told me to “lead from a position of strength.” This helpful piece of advice is a reminder that people don’t want to follow negativity — especially in these turbulent times. They want leaders who can offer them something positive. The late Edwin Friedman, who was both a rabbi and a leadership consultant, once defined leadership as “a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.” |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:09 |
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Lady Chemical Tanker Driver |
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Written by Sandy Long
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Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:29 |
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Lady Chemical Tanker Driver Copyright Sandy Long Truck driving as a career was not in Carol H’s mind when she was in high school. The girl whose father was a Yale graduate and whose mother was a graduate of Duke University instead was on the college bound fast track. Then fate intervened. Carol got a job driving an ice cream truck. She loved driving around neighborhoods and meeting new people and seeing new places even though it was in her hometown. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:35 |
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Written by Sandy Long
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Friday, 01 January 2010 11:39 |
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Caves Copyright Sandy Long Caves are filled with bats, spiders and things that are creepy crawly right? Not in many parts of the country where limestone and salt caves are used for everything from colleges, military bases, storage, and manufacturing. Though caves systems are used for many purposes throughout the country, the underground caves in the Kansas City area are perhaps the best known, comprising more than 10% of KC’s industrial and business space and over 20 million sq ft of space. Most caves are the end result of mining operations for either salt or limestone, and some are still active mines in part such as the caves in Quincy IL. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 January 2010 07:19 |
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One of the Joys of Trucking |
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Written by Sandy Long
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Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:13 |
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One of the Joys of Trucking By Sandy Long I have had it with winter! Enough all ready with the snow packed roads, vehicles sliding past and ending up in the ditch and with having to shovel out drop trailers so you can get hooked up to them. Also, I am tired of having to deal with fighting trailers away from docks when the dock apron is icy, pounding on brakes to unfreeze them and standing outside in below zero weather fueling. I am specially sick of the drivers both male and female, yelling at people on the cb for going too slow on bad roads. I AM READY FOR SPRING!! |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:25 |
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They Are At It Again: Serial Killers |
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Written by Sandy Long
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Sunday, 27 December 2009 09:09 |
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They Are At It Again Serial Killers By Sandy Long The bashing and fear mongering towards truckers that has been rampant in the media for years is continuing with the help of the FBI. In 2009, the FBI launched the Highway Serial Killings Initiative to track suspicious slayings and suspect truckers. A computer database now includes more than 500 female murder victims whose bodies were discarded at truck stops, motels and other locations found over the last 30 years. Because in the last decade or so, a very few people, who were currently working as truckers, have been identified and arrested as serial killers, it has been extrapolated out that truckers are responsible for any dead bodies found along highways or where truckers congregate. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 January 2010 07:18 |
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