NMA: A Former Truck Driver's Perspective on Whether 18-year-olds Should Drive Big Rigs
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
Thoughtful, well written article thanks to Thomas Beckett and published in The National Motorists Association newsletter #690 April 3, 2022. You can help support the NMA by joining at the links provided: I read with interest the NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #685 on allowing 18-year-olds to drive in interstate commerce.  I come to this discussion with some experience, having been both a driver and a fleet manager for JB Hunt. In addition to that experience, I also have some insight into Greer Woodruff's approach, having worked under him (we didn't know each other, aside from an occas ..read more
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The Bane of Truckers - Grocery Warehouses
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
One of the unfortunate necessities of driving for a food company is having to deal with grocery warehouses. I’ve had to put up with a lot of them over my trucking career, some are not too bad, but many are disgusting places with poor management and union employees that like to abuse drivers just for the fun of it. Management sees them as free labor that they take advantage of. Back in the 1980’s the abuse was widespread and it isn’t much better these days. After getting rehired by Frigo Cheese in Lena, Wisconsin in 1983 I was pretty much a local driver staying mostly in Wisconsin and getting ..read more
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A Rookie Driver Comes Across His First Accident Scene
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
In 1980, I was a newbie, only a few weeks into my first trucking job with Harry H. Long Moving, Storage and Express out of Milwaukee when I came across my first accident scene. I had to deliver a load to a small town in northwest Wisconsin early and was on a very rural two lane highway at about 3am in the morning. Coming around a shallow curve I saw an object in the center of my lane which turned out to be a large truck tire and wheel which had evidently fallen off a semi. It was very dark but I saw it in time to go around and as I came back into my lane saw the taillights of a car sitting pa ..read more
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Classic Car Stories - My 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
After graduating high school in 1970, I continued to drive a 1957 Chrysler New Yorker for a while which I kind of  “inherited” as my dad had bought another vehicle. The car had a hemi engine and I was satisfied with it. One night I stopped at the Clark gas station I worked to visit for a while, staying an hour or two. It was a winter evening and I walked out to the car to leave, opening the door to a cloud of electrical smoke billowing out! The car was not running as I had the keys in my hand. I raced to the front and opened the hood to disconnect the battery which took a few minutes as ..read more
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What's Next in the War Against Motorists? Noise Cameras!
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
I'll preface this post by saying that am not a fan of people driving around in unmuffled cars, trucks, motorcycles, atvs, etc. The older I get, the more I enjoy peace and quiet. And I feel that sensible noise laws should be on the books and enforced by law enforcement. However, if you read the following newsletter put out by the National Motorists Association, we need to be aware of the reasoning behind ideas of such things as "noise cameras". The number one "government" motive behind this is revenue generation. But the more insidious backing of this bad idea is the anti-car tree hugging crow ..read more
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Comments on "The Mad Bomber" Frank Balistrieri
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
The following two very interesting comments were submitted this week by an anonymous contributor concerning my Tales of the Milwaukee Mob and Two Cigarette Men post. Great first person accounts of him meeting Frank Balistrieri on a couple of occasions way back in the 1970's. There are so many great comments I have received at the end of this very popular post that are interesting facts and not well known. There is a link to the original post after his comments. Many thanks to all the people contributing great information! Comment received, July 24, 2021: After a divorce, I lived in the Antler ..read more
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Ever hear of Anaplasmosis?
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
2y ago
Be aware of ticks, this update from my cousin's wife last night. He got bit by a tick at his cabin near Lakewood, WI. Tim got home today: "18 days in the hospital, 7 days in rehab at a nursing home and now he's home. Tim got bit by a tick, he got Anaplasmosis, which is an infection in your blood and got septic, Which caused his kidneys to shut down and other issues. It took 9 days to find out what was wrong and then they started treating for it. He's tired and weak, kidneys are working a little, so he's still on dialysis 3 times a week, but he's home and on his way to recovery. WE ARE BLESSED ..read more
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Vision Zero is a NO for me
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
3y ago
I received an email this morning from a Susan Caro at meritmile.com asking if I wanted  to speak to an "expert" in support of vision zero issues. I assume she was expecting me to use this blog to promote the "plan". For the record, I do not agree with the "plan" and fully support the National Motorists Organization's stance on the issue, of which I attached an article by written by a NMA board member below: The Orwellian Era of Transportation Planning By Christopher M. DiPrima, NMA Board Member 1/31/2021 George Orwell’s seminal 1984 has defined political discourse for over ..read more
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Memorial Day Weekend - Remembering Our Fallen Heroes
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
3y ago
January 14, 1945. On that single day in the history of World War II there were 810 American casualties. One of those was my father’s cousin, Captain Gene Sucharda, who was killed while commanding a tank company at the Battle of the Bulge. I remember seeing his picture hanging on the wall of Gene in uniform when we visited my dad’s Aunt Claire and Uncle Edmund in Akron, Oh. It was above a small table with his memorabilia laid out on it, like a small shrine. He was their only child and I, even at my young age, wondered how the parents could have gotten through something like that. His remains n ..read more
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3PL Explained: What Is It, Benefits and How to Choose
Daniel S Bridger
by Dan
3y ago
Photo: Kevin Bidwell 3PL, or third-party logistics, is an order fulfillment strategy. To best understand what 3PL is, it helps to talk about 1PL and 2PL. Imagine a maple syrup farm that has to transport its produce to market. The owner decides that the most convenient way to do this is to buy a truck and do the transportation himself. That is a first-party logistics strategy or 1PL. As the farm grows it might start producing so much maple syrup that it doesn’t make financial sense to invest in more trucks. It hires another company to take care of transportation. The company that the ..read more
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