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Archive for January, 2010

Okay Truck, Your Turn to Drive Me

Wouldn’t it be great if you could flip a switch and let your truck take over the inch-along-in-traffic chore while you read a magazine, enjoy a leisurely snack or do all the text-messaging and cell-phone calling you’d care to do?

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High Steppers

Things were looking up in Berlin as residents celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall with an enormously entertaining bit of street theater.

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Backcountry Barnstormers

Bush pilots fly hunters and fishermen to hot spots in the Alaskan wilderness

It was meant to be a joke, an attempt to calm the tension Curly Warren sensed from the passenger sitting behind him, but when Warren suggested he “put this thing down on a rockpile” next to a rushing Alaska river, I wasn’t laughing. The “thing” was his Piper Super Cub — a two-seat, 1,200-pound engine, frame and wings wrapped in paper-thin skin — which serves as Warren’s primary mode of transportation. Warren banked his little airplane hard, looked down at the gin-clear river below and spoke into the microphone against his lips.

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People Person

A veteran mover gets to know his customers

If you look at most truckers, they are picking up a commodity and taking it wherever they’re going and that’s that. As a household mover, I deal with people’s lives and belongings on every trip. I’ve spoken at some customer service rep meetings at my company, Alexander’s Mobility Services, to get them to understand what […]

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Thank You, Drivers!

Thanks to your generosity, TA and Petro were able to help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Drivers who participated in our Halloween Pumpkin Promotion by donating a dollar to pin up a pumpkin made a big difference to a lot of kids

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