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		<title>The Science is Settled</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Weisser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many know, my truck is on the road without me and I&#8217;m playing Safety Manager at my current company. I am taking this opportunity and going back to school and one of the rules of higher education is, you must take required classes to fulfill any degree requirements. I suppose they think it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing The Line&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ the picket line that is. This was the second time I had to deal with this &#8220;dispute&#8221; at a small steel mill in Canada. The first time, there were more people &#8220;on strike&#8221; &#8211; about 50 men and women &#8211; and they were far more boisterous. There is nothing like waking up in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Might be Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Weisser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, right. &#8220;Very likely over&#8221; and how about, &#8220;&#8230;but it&#8217;s going to feel like a very weak economy.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been hearing not only Bernanke but variety of people in and out of the administration talk about how the economy is getting better. There&#8217;s a theory that if you say something often enough and loud enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/09/07/labor-day/4174.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I didn&#8217;t know where the holiday originated, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It says that the first Labor Day here in the US was celebrated back on September 5th 1882 in NYC. After workers were killed by US Army soldiers and US Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike &#8211; the President at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message to America&#8217;s Railroads&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/09/06/a-message-to-americas-railroads/4171.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;ve seen your billboards. I&#8217;ve heard your commercials. You know the ones. How one freight train will take 250 trucks off the road and improve highway congestion. How your trains are so fuel efficient. How service via rail is so superior. How you protect the environment. How by using trains I can reduce my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life On The Road &#8211; Canada Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I arrived in North Bay Ontario in the late afternoon. Small factory in a somewhat residential neighborhood. Lots of trees and definitely working middle class. I could park in their driveway overnight. Another company truck later parked along side me until the morning. That night though, a terrestrial downpour with pellet sized hail pounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Mess&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ reporting from North Bay, Ontario &#8211; and what a mess it is. The way things are going I&#8217;m going to have to drive this damn truck until I die. Hopefully it won&#8217;t be at the Flying J in Houston or somewhere equally horrible. The state of America can pretty much be summed up by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After a long absence&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/08/15/after-a-long-absence/4010.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terence Smelser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been gone for a bit. Life has a way of sneaking up on you from behind and felling you with a 2&#215;4.  First, the economy, yeah yeah, I know, old rant and not just mine, but this has been going on for longer than many realize and certainly longer than the gubberment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Immersion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/07/31/total-immersion/3835.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is a point in every OTR truckers life that he or she must get away &#8211; far away &#8211; from being on the road. A person can only take so much of everything &#8220;trucking&#8221; that is thrown at them. That being the rules, regulations, personalities, safety and fuel managers, truck stops, rest areas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care vs. Education</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/07/19/health-care-vs-education/3734.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As far as I know education is NOT guaranteed under U.S. Constitution. Neither is health care. I&#8217;m not going to throw out a lot of numbers about how much our government spends on education, but it&#8217;s somewhere in the neighborhood of a TRILLION dollars. That of course, comes out of the money we pay [...]]]></description>
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