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Archive for January, 2010

Snack Roll

Be careful what you drive when passing by the woods

These furry food foragers in Yosemite National Park let the RVs and compact cars pass with barely a second look, but when a minivan starts rolling down their roads, the park bears pounce. Officials speculate that most minivan drivers are families with children who keep a generous supply of juice boxes, cereal and other food on hand. The scents waft into the woods, and the bears do what comes naturally. They reach in for a snack.

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The Road to Ruin

The spray that kicks up from a road treated with chemicals settles into some hard to reach spots

At the TMC Meeting in 2001, Roy Gambrell shocked the truck maintenance community by making everyone aware of a new phenomenon — rust jacking. Gambrell, the director of maintenance for Truck It, a small flatbed operation in Franklin, Ky., found that his fleet’s brake linings were cracking after only 30,000 to 40,000 miles of service. When shoes had been repaired or replaced, the cracking was found to occur even more rapidly.

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