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A life well lived is a life lived in trucking

Ralph was very clear to his manager: He would not drive his truck after Memorial Day because of “the terrorists” on the highway.

“Some people call them tourists, but as far as I can tell, they are out to scare the hell out of me, so I consider every damned one of them as a terrorist,” author Ed Miller recalled a driver telling him.

For most truck drivers, the summer months represent a Wild West environment as families hit the roadways for vacation. To Miller, who was working as a terminal manager in Baltimore when driver Ralph told him he was parking his truck for the summer, the story is among his favorites from his 60-year career in the industry.

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Inside J.B. Hunt’s transformational journey

“Disruption is a great theory. It’s wonderful to read about, and hear about and watch from the sidelines, and what we’ve learned together is, it’s a lot harder to do,” said John Roberts III.

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Election 2020: In 2016, Trump promised trucking things would change. Have they?

Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump made a lot of promises, many of them that would impact the freight markets and the nation’s 8 million-strong trucking industry that supports them. 

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