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  1. OOIDA member named Bill came the HQ to visit. Trucker from Colorado. Cool guy. He sat in at our a.m. news meeting.
  2. Kanye is a what? oh dear. For the first time, my husband agrees with President Obama.
  3. For those who asked: If you allergic to eggs, no flu shots for you. Why is that? Because the vaccine virus is grown in eggs.
  4. I just met a neat trucker. Sam Forbes of St. Louis, MO, stopped by OOIDA HQ to say hi to all of us. Best Louisiana accent I have heard.
  5. RT @OOIDAMembership Can't make it to GATS? Call OOIDA to renew/sign up for $25! ONLY on 8/20 & 8/21 800-444-5791 Mention Twitter.
  6. Clarification to many who have asked. The 700 customs agents who were fired were not U.S. They were Mexican. Replaced with new hires.
  7. IL Guv is at the IL state fair instead of in the statehouse signing bills. Time out for a poke chop.
  8. Spread the word -- truckers need to stay off this bridge. Rhode Island have grabbed more than $3 million in fines since Nov. 2007.
  9. anybody got a $3000 ticket for using weight limited Pawtucket River Bridge? Major cash cow for Rhode Island.
  10. Just got my July/Aug issue of Driving Freedoms -- published by the National Motorists Foundation. To Jim Baxter and crew, nice job.
  11. Back in the trucking world after a week's vacation.
  12. Iowa 80 Truckstop hosted Aaron Tippin on Thursday for the Jamboree. The free concert was a huge success -- nearly 10,000 people. Wow.
  13. CA is issuing IOUs in place of tax refunds. OH's rainy-day fund has dwindled from nearly $1 billion to exactly 89 cents.
  14. Peter Slevin, WaPo, gets best lead of the wk. IL has stopped paying $1,655 a funeral to bury the indigent dead. (more in next post)
  15. Word from Walcott: Deluge. Most if not all of the vendors in the outside tents, gone. The big tent -- river runs through it on one side.
  16. Land Line Now news anchor tells me Mich cops plan a wk-long Unified Carrier Registration enforcement blitz beginning Sunday. $500 fines.
  17. I want more updates from LittleRoadDog at the Truckers Jamboree in Walcott, IA. Do they really have a giant cake shaped like a semi?
  18. Gov. Jindal has signed a bill to rein in small towns in LA from relying on traffic tickets to fill local coffers. Speed traps!
  19. High temp of 81 forecast for Walcott, IA, today. Got to be a record for Truckers Jamboree. No egg frying on the pavement this year.
  20. While Ontario began ‘hard’ enforcement of its speed limiter law on July 1, Quebec says it won’t start hard enforcement until July 31.