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What Are the Most Popular Names for CEOs?

Business networking website LinkedIn has answered the eternal question: “What’s in a name?” Your name could be the difference between being the CEO of a company and working in a restaurant, according to a survey of the most popular names for different …

Close call: Truckers tell of tornadoes in the South

OOIDA member Mike Canady was on Interstate 20 in Tuscaloosa, AL, late Wednesday when a mile-wide tornado came into view within several hundred feet of his truck. Further east, in Virginia, a tornado hit the small town of Glade Springs on Interstate 81 …

Driver forced to ‘ride it out’ in truck during tornado in TN

More than 250 people have died during the month of April as a result of the massive number of tornadoes that have touched down in the U.S. On Monday, April 25, an OOIDA member from Maryland told Land Line that he was in the process of being unloaded at…

Cellphone restriction advancing for hazmat haulers

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has jurisdiction over intrastate hazmat haulers and intends to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on Friday, April 29, relating to hand-held use of cellphones …

Ten states move forward with ‘distracted driving’ efforts

The feds have already singled out truckers for texting while driving. Now states dotting the country are pushing forward with legislation that is intended to curb driver distractions for all drivers. During 2010, nearly a dozen states acted to prohibit…