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  UF STUDY: TRUCKERS AT RISK FOR AIDS FROM ON-THE-ROAD SEX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Truckers frequently drive longer hours than the law permits to make delivery deadlines, with nearly every driver in the study stating that he kept two logbooks, one for the Department of Transportation and another for himself and his company, she said.
Although studies from developing countries suggest long-haul truckers play a significant role in transmission of the human immunodefeciency virus, little information is available about the more than 3 million long-haul truckers in the United States, she said.
Truckers' encounters with prostitutes or "lot lizards," as they called them, took place in motels, brothels or their vehicles, she said.
www.napa.ufl.edu /2000news/truckers.htm   (652 words)

  
 ‘Urine trouble,’ some states warn truckers - Environment - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Truckers, for their part, point to a lack of convenient parking areas and an industry that's become more stressful since deregulation in the 1980s.
Disposing of trucker bombs, aka torpedoes or pee bottles, is a thankless task that in many cases falls to highway cleanup crews.
Hoping to break truckers of the dirty habit, Washington state lawmakers created a "dangerous litter" category in 2002 and increased fines to $1,025 from $95 for general litter.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7912464   (991 words)

  
 Amazon.com: TRUCKERS: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Truckers is funny enough to warrant sequels (at least one more tale is promised), but a clearer resolution would have made this a more satisfying read.
While "Truckers" is a self-contained story in itself, it has plenty of loose threads (mostly involving the Thing and the origins of the nomes) at the end, for the second and third books of the trilogy.
Truckers is the first book of the Bromeliad trilogy (followed by Diggers and Wings).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385299842?v=glance   (1749 words)

  
 CNN.com - Truckers threaten French blockade - Nov. 22, 2002
Unions have said truckers would slow traffic on roads across France, as well as block access to petrol stations, toll booths and fuel depots.
The dispute revived uncomfortable memories for the government of truckers' protests in 1992, 1996 and 1997 that paralysed large parts of the country, disrupting food, freight and petrol transport.
The five-month old centre-right government is anxious in particular to prevent a repetition of the wave of social unrest that swept through the country from 1995 and ultimately led to the demise of the government two years later.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/22/france.blockades   (634 words)

  
 The Trucker's Report - Making Sense Of The Trucking Industry
We intend to show through our forum that the way to change things is not more stupid laws and regulations but rather to hold the shippers/receivers and trucking companies to account for their transgressions.
The trucking industry is basically a slave industry with truckers working on the average over 70 hours per week.
Truckers are only a symptom of the problem.
www.thetruckersreport.com   (541 words)

  
 Truckers' Workdays Debated (washingtonpost.com)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers are lobbying Congress to extend the workday for truckers to 16 hours, something labor unions and safety advocates say would make roadways more dangerous for all drivers.
"Truckers are pushing harder than ever to make their runs within the mandated time frame," Boozman said.
That gives truckers three hours to eat, rest or load and unload their trucks.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A18796-2005Mar8.html   (427 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Truckers abandon trucks on L.A. freeway to protest diesel prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Truckers parked their rigs on a busy freeway outside Los Angeles on Friday morning, snarling rush-hour traffic for miles in a wildcat protest over high diesel prices.
Later Friday, about 600 independent truckers rallied in Wilmington to protest prices, government fees and other costs they say are eroding income.
Another 100 truckers gathered in northern California for a similar protest, Port of Oakland spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur said.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-30-truckers_x.htm   (434 words)

  
 Truckers For Christ-Ministry to Truck Drivers & their Families   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The trucker's profession is one that varies from company to company and from driver to driver.
When truckers do manage to get home they seldom are there on days that the churches have services.
Truckers For Christ will give these men and women the opportunity to fellowship with other Christians while on the job.
www.truckersforchrist.org   (351 words)

  
 DataWind - The True Wireless Internet - PocketSurfer - Wireless Web - Mobile Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Truckers equipping their drivers with the PocketSurfer, to help cut fuel costs.
The PocketSurfer allows truckers to interact with load-bidding services while on the road, and maximize both the use of their capacity and price for their services.
Truckers can additionally update tracking systems to allow customers updated information on their progress.
www.datawind.com /truckers.html   (304 words)

  
 Montana Log Truckers Association
As a single Log Trucker we have little say in our future, no voice loud enough to be heard, no one will stand up for us and take our problems to the powers that be other than us as a group.
So when you see another Log Trucker out there give him a knowing wave and extend out your hand and ask him to join us, because he is going through the same things we are and one more voice makes our cry for a fuel surcharge just a little more louder.
The main reason the Log Truckers parked their trucks, in protest, is not having a fuel surcharge to offset the high cost of diesel fuel.
www.logtrucker.com   (1666 words)

  
 Randall Publishing Launches Truckers News en Espanol
In an effort to understand the unique preferences and needs of the Hispanic trucker, TransPerfect is conducting innovative research in Spanish at truck stops throughout the U.S. and analyzing findings to obtain detailed information about the demographics of this market.
"While Hispanic truckers need the same news, regulatory, safety and equipment information as other drivers, their lifestyle issues and interests are unique," says Linda Longton, Randall vice president of editorial.
Like its sister publication Truckers News, Truckers News en Espanol will be distributed by Randall's TruckStop's Express Division, which hand delivers the publication to the nation's premier truck stops, including Love's, Pilot and Petro locations.
www.ereleases.com /pr/20050106005.html   (475 words)

  
 Big Mutha Truckers for Xbox Review - Xbox Big Mutha Truckers Review
Big Mutha Truckers, a game by UK-based developer Eutechnyx, tries to remedy this by combining a simulation-style, economy-based gameplay system with the campy, over-the-top characters and storylines that have been so prevalent in previous trucking games.
Each trucker must set out on a 60-day trek through the game's various cities, hauling and delivering merchandise.
The story of Big Mutha Truckers goes something like this: Ma Jackson, an over-50 renowned and well-respected trucker, is finally retiring from her longtime profession.
www.gamespot.com /xbox/driving/bigmuthatruckers/review.html   (1084 words)

  
 Big Mutha Truckers Impressions - PC News at GameSpot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Unlike other truck games, which have focused primarily on driving and racing 18-wheelers, Big Mutha Truckers features a campaign mode in which you'll be required to pick up cargo and haul it to your choice of five different cities in the fictional Hick State County.
Big Mutha Truckers' campaign mode, which is called trial by truckin', is an open-ended affair where you'll have 60 days to rack up as much cash as possible as you compete against your three siblings.
Although the actual truck-driving aspects of Big Mutha Truckers are simplified, the inclusion of a more complex economic campaign and the ability to customize your truck with better parts adds quite a bit of depth to the gameplay.
www.gamespot.com /pc/driving/bigmuthatruckers/preview_6029569.html   (753 words)

  
 Ziggy's Video Realm: Dennis Hopper in Space Truckers (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Unfortunately, Space Truckers tries too hard to be "entertainingly bad", to the point where it ceases to be entertaining and puts the "bad" into overdrive.
Nay, Space Truckers stinks like a lutefisk and limberger sandwich left to rot on the kitchen counter for a week and a half next to an open jar of pickled eggs.
Whatever the intention may have been, in the end, Space Truckers is about as enjoyable as week-old grits left to fester in a spittoon under the hot sun in the middle of an open-air transmission shop run by nearsighted Skoal chompers with post-nasal drip.
www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/spacetruckers.html   (1574 words)

  
 My Truckers Page
Once you understand the things that truckers have to go through it makes since as to why Truckers tend to get so upset at inconsiderate people on the roads with them.
With laptops and such the trucker can keep in touch with friends and family on a more personal approach and not cost a lot.
I am proud to be a trucker and proud to be a truckers wife.
www.angelfire.com /ar/cherispage/Truckers.html   (2387 words)

  
 Trucker's Diamonds
Trucker's Diamonds stands with, all truckers and their families.
Truckers make sure the world has food in our bellies, clothes on our backs, vehicles to drive, buildings to live in.
Truckers deal daily with dispatchers and brokers that treat them like robots instead of human beings.
groups.msn.com /TruckersDiamonds   (252 words)

  
 GameSpy: Big Mutha Truckers 2
Big Mutha Truckers 2 begins with Ma Jackson, the proprietor of Big Mutha Truckers Haulage, being taken into police custody for tax evasion.
The go-anywhere, any-time philosophy that was utilized in the original Big Mutha Truckers is expanded for Big Mutha Truckers 2 with additional routes, hidden shortcuts, and the ability to drive numerous vehicles.
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Announced (12/06/04) - The Mutha's are back, and they are even bigger than before.
ps2.gamespy.com /playstation-2/big-mutha-truckers-2-truck-me-harder   (178 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Some truckers consider giving up the road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He estimates that diesel costs for truckers and trucking companies are on pace to increase 25% this year from 2004.
And Costello says truckers have been able to pass along some of the costs to customers, easing some of the pain of the higher prices.
But trucker Corey Coffin, 35, of Lockeford, Calif., says some drivers, particularly those who own their own trucks and have to deal with the extra diesel costs directly, are considering giving up if prices go much higher.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-03-30-gas-prices-trucks_x.htm   (448 words)

  
 Truckers Advantage™
Truckers Advantage™…What It Is Truckers Advantage™ is designed specifically for OOIDA members just like you – independent owner-operators who drive a truck for a living.
Truckers Advantage™ cards are accepted at over 4,000 Fleet One fueling sites nationwide.
Truckers Advantage™ gives you access to a world-class discount tire replacement program through a partnership with Bridgestone/Firestone.
www.truckersadvantage.com   (254 words)

  
 Welcome to the Haven - Truckers Haven - Internet Truckstop - Trucking Directories - Trucker's Chapel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Truckers Chapel - trucking news - christian truck drivers - trucking companies - owner operators - trucking regulations - trucking ministries
Worse: Over-regulation of the trucking industry while using trucking heavy use funds to subsidize trains without the demanding weight restictions truckers must follow, allows the train industry to grossly overload their cars and take business from the trucking industry.
We are delighted to finally start rennovating the Truckers Haven site.
www.truckers-haven.org   (227 words)

  
 Truckers United
As well as learn the reason behind Truckers United.
We hope you come away from Truckers United with a better appreciation of the hard working truck driver.
Or deepen the respect that you already have for them and their profession.
www.truckers-united.com   (174 words)

  
 Truckers and Community Health Project
Recent small scale studies dramatically underscore the need for social and health scientists to improve their understanding of those risk factors that are present in a variety of trucking contexts.
This study (Truckers and Community Health Project) has since been moved to Atlanta where it is presently being run out of Emory University's School of Medicine.
One hundred, in-depth interviews with truckers and their social networks are planned for the spring of 2004.
www.fpm.emory.edu /prev_med/Truckers/research.htm   (349 words)

  
 IGN: Big Mutha Truckers Review
She can't pick which of her charming offspring is qualified to take over "Big Mutha Truckers," her trucking company, so whoever can make the most money in sixty days (so that she has a nice wad o' cash to retire with) gets the business.
Earl is the oldest of the group, and his size shows it as he rocks his rig upon entry.
Here, you've got to outhaul your kin so that you can be the heir to Big Mutha Truckers, Inc. You've got a truck full of booze, the southern heat in your cab, and sixty days to figure out how to make some cash.
cube.ign.com /articles/433/433716p1.html   (832 words)

  
 Trucker Lawyers - Good advice for Injured Truckers
This website is aimed at helping truckers who have suffered a work-related injury or sickness.
For truckers, the difficulty is compounded by differences in state laws and the fact that the laws of several different states may apply.
Avoiding mistakes that often keep truckers from collecting full and fair benefits.
www.truckerlawyers.com   (191 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Entertainment - Live Music Scene: Truckers shift gears for New Year's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The album is filled with tales of down-and-out folks trying without success to make their way in a world where tornadoes wipe out entire towns and corporations get rich by shutting down factories.
The Truckers' front man, Patterson Hood, recognizes that the group's new material isn't quite the New Year's Eve blast most people are looking for.
The Truckers have changed substantially since their 1998 debut.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/266755p-228513c.html   (488 words)

  
 Space Truckers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The three get themselves in and out of all sorts of adventures with pirates, aliens, and the military, who all seem to want to get their hands on the secret load.
The cargo itself turns out to be troublesome in its own right, and the space truckers must pull out all the stops if they are to reach Earth alive.
With SPACE TRUCKERS, Gordon proves that he is one of the few directors who can take a small budget and make the film look like a $100-million blockbuster.
www.videoflicks.com /titles/1084/1084664.htm?14107   (472 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Space Truckers (Spanish) (1997) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The story involves the last of the independant space truckers, Dennis Hopper, and how he's hired to take a shipment of supicious cargo to Earth which turns out to be ultra high tech killer robots that someone is planning to use to overthrow Earth's government.
While far from profound, the film's acceptable Odyssy-esque story takes second chair to a wacked-out, 100% convincing vision of the future and the community of characters who inhabit the portions of it that the film concerns itself with, some of which was quite memorable;
Space Truckers is a lot of fun to watch, but it is very dumb.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305336237?v=glance   (910 words)

  
 GamerFeed : News : General : Big Mutha Truckers Sequel US Bound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Developed by Eutechnyx out of the United Kingdom, Big Mutha Truckers 2 is scheduled to release in Summer 2005 and will be available on the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and Xbox videogame system from Microsoft.
In the original Big Mutha Truckers, players were introduced to Ma Jackson, the proprietor of Big Mutha Truckers Haulage, Inc., who had decided she was going to retire.
The go-anywhere, any-time philosophy that was utilized in the original Big Mutha Truckers will be expanded for Big Mutha Truckers 2 with additional routes, hidden shortcuts, and the ability to drive numerous vehicles.
general.gamerfeed.com /gf/pr/8031   (472 words)

  
 News: Big Mutha Truckers demo - GamersHell.com
When playing "Big Mutha Truckers" on a minimum specification computer, be sure that no other programs are open in Windows, as this will cause the game to play slower than normal.
If you manually remove the game from your hard drive by dragging the "Big Mutha Truckers" folder to the Recycle Bin, certain files may be left behind causing problems if you reinstall the game at a later time.
To play "Big Mutha Truckers", the game CD must be in your CD-ROM drive at all times.
www.gamershell.com /news/6448.html   (1524 words)

  
 Terry Pratchett, Truckers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The second rule is that it does not wink broadly over the heads of the children at the adults to whom it is appealing.
In Truckers, the first of his Bromeliad trilogy, Terry Pratchett succeeds admirably.
There plenty of suspense laced in with the humor, although overall Truckers appeals to a very specific appreciative audience, and it is not for every reader.
www.rambles.net /pratchett_truckers.html   (482 words)

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