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	<title>RoadKing.com &#187; May-2008</title>
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		<title>Return to Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, tradition in most departments is for an engine to serve as the hearse, with six or eight uniformed pallbearers accompanying the casket. That ritual presented problems for the Detroit Fire Department. Its engines stay busy with an average of 10 calls per day. Vehicles have gotten larger, so maneuvering from funerals to cemeteries was often challenging. And there was Detroit&#8217;s often brutal weather.   All of the difficulties of using an in-servic&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Driver News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri&#8217;s Top Driver  William Girdler of Pomona, Mo., was named the 2007 Missouri Driver of the year by Missouri Motor Carriers Association (MMCA). A 33-year veteran of the road, Girdler drives for Prime and has never had a chargeable accident in the more than 4.5 million miles he&#8217;s driven throughout his career. Girdler received a trophy and a certificate noting his new title.  Millions of Safe Miles  Johnny Thompson of El   Dorado, Ark., who has driven for CalArk Internati&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bangs, Bangs, You&#8217;re Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the Fashion Police have a highway patrol? A survey by Sheila&#8217;s Wheel, a British car insurer, found that nearly 190,000 female drivers have had an accident, a near miss or swerved suddenly due to their hair obscuring their ability to see. &#8220;With the latest trends requiring styling around the face and eyes, it&#8217;s essential that female motorists are aware of this safety issue,&#8221; says Jacky Brown of Sheila&#8217;s Wheel. The solution: a headband.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Does It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that I am not the world&#8217;s greatest truck driver, nor even second best behind you, my current reader. I will agree that my driving skills are commensurate with my experience. After all, I drive big rigs as much every year as many of my friends do in a week, especially a week with a holiday in it.   Why do I bring up my relative inexperience? Because I found International&#8217;s new MaxxForce 13, the subject of my test drive earlier this year, to be a versatile, forgiving eng&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Four Decades of Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Growing up, Don Thompson learned the truckstop business firsthand. His father owned one, and Thompson worked there during high school. In 1958, he followed in his dad&#8217;s footsteps and became a truckstop operator, and in 1969, he opened the Indianapolis West Travel Center in Clayton, Ind., which became a TA in 1997. &#8220;My dad eventually sold his truckstop and went into the motel business,&#8221; Thompson says with a laugh. &#8220;But I stuck with it.&#8221;     Nearly 50 years later,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>It Came From Outer Space</title>
		<link>http://roadking.com/2008/05/it-came-from-outer-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who hasn&#8217;t experienced the joy of creating the perfect paper airplane, carefully folding, creasing, adjusting, and then watching in wonder as it soared? Well the folks at the Japan Origami Airplane Association are aiming for ultimate hang time. Working with researchers from the University of Tokyo, the paper-folding enthusiasts want to launch a paper plane from the International Space Station, hoping it will land on Earth &#8212; about 200 miles straight down.  A prototype using paper ch&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping Points</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the brakes that stop your 80,000 pound rig are directly descended from wood blocks? That&#8217;s what was used to stop or slow down horse-drawn wagons in the earliest days of commercial transportation. Wood wheels had iron bands as tires to protect the wheels from rocks and ruts. The metal presented a perfect surface to apply a clamping force to stop the wheel turning. That&#8217;s wheel, singular. In those days, &#8220;trucks&#8221; had one wheel braking.   The driver used a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>In Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://roadking.com/2008/05/in-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I DON&#8217;T have to tell you that it&#8217;s tough out there. Truckers are being squeezed by the price of fuel. Believe me, TA is also being squeezed by fuel prices. All of us have been affected by the slow economy, but TA remains dedicated to provide you the widest variety of services and products in the travel center industry. We will also continue improvement projects started in 2007, including better lighting, new parking lots, shower and restroom upgrades and more at nearly every proper&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>One Singular Sensation</title>
		<link>http://roadking.com/2008/05/one-singular-sensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever loved an album so much that you listened to nothing but that for days? Or gone through a phase where you listened to only one artist for weeks? Satellite radio, with its unique approach to programming, is increasingly tapping into that idea with dedicated artist stations.   For the months of April and May, XM Radio Channel 17 has played nothing but George  Strait, in conjunction with the release of the country music star&#8217;s 37th album, Troubadour. The channel mixes in interv&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Through</title>
		<link>http://roadking.com/2008/05/breaking-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first experience with trucking began around 1948. My grandfather had an open-bed six-wheel truck with tall wooden sides all around it. I remember him coming into our neighborhood to round up all of the little children, loading us on to that truck and taking us with him for the whole day on any given Saturday. In 1953 my mother moved us from South  Carolina to Brooklyn,  N.Y. I didn&#8217;t care for the city, but I establishe&#8230;]]></description>
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