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		<title>The Great Divide&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I didn&#8217;t know what else to call this post. Its about Haiti. As you know, there was a terrible earthquake there last week &#8211; another one this morning. Many thousands have lost their lives. People are in need. The entire country appears to be destroyed. And day after day on the front page of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prize or Booby Prize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reporting from Clovis, NM &#8211; Cooks Cafe next to the Love&#8217;s T/S on US 84 &#8211; in the 60&#8217;s style dining room are gathered cattle haulers, milk transporters, flat-bedders, a Wal-Mart driver and a few Swift folks sitting by themselves over the in corner. Tonight &#8211; the Sunday special &#8211; is &#8220;real&#8221; turkey and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Hear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Most drivers don&#8217;t even get the courtesy call. I did. It softened the blow. My dispatcher said: &#8220;What do you want me to do? There is no freight to Florida. There is nothing I can repower right now. I see nothing at all.&#8221; This is worst Southbound freight has been in a very long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Held Captive For 20 Years&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Every so often I like to reach beyond trucking to bring you a story that tugs at the emotions of drivers. I did that a while back with the Susan Boyle post. Well, a women who was kidnapped almost 20 years ago&#160;was found being held in a hidden &#8220;compound&#8221; in Antioch, CA. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Energize or Not to Energize&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ is that the question? There was a time early on in my truck driving career that I would do, let say, questionable things, in order to get freight delivered on time. Most recently, I indulged in my old technique of consuming a 64 oz diet coke at 7 PM to keep me and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Immersion&#8230;</title>
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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>Truck Stop Review&#8230;T/A Spartanburg SC</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/07/23/truck-stop-reviewta-spartanburg-sc/3760.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A while back, I did a bunch of truck stop reviews for another blog which, unfortunately, was deleted. A lot of great material was lost. What prompted me to do this post was yesterday&#8217;s visit to the T/A off I85 in Spartanburg SC. As I saw the terrible condition of the parking lot and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care vs. Education</title>
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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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		<title>Reverse Engineering&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/07/12/reverse-engineering/3564.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Passed through Knoxville, Nashville and will spend the night in Memphis. What miserable &#8211; boring looking places. Maybe it&#8217;s the 55/65 split truck/car mph thing? How stupid is that? I have put Tennessee in double secret probation along with Virginia. And one of these days, I&#8217;ll actually get off the interstate to see what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Feed The Bears&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lifeontheroad.com/2009/07/11/dont-feed-the-bears/3537.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marshall J. Gruskin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Linda Sunkle-Pierucki and I have been giving you updates on the rest area closings in Virginia. Be aware that these closures occur beginning the week of July 20th. If you are a OTR truck driver, you had better take a few more minutes before you start out in the morning pre-planning where you intend [...]]]></description>
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