Land Line Magazine Articles

2010

• Five Arizona rest areas open this week (07/27/10)
• Medical regs: driver attendance thin at first FMCSA listening session (07/22/10)
• Trucker struggles to find off-duty parking in home town (07/20/10)
• Rep. Tonko urges truckers to push for ‘Jason’s Law’ bills (06/28/10)
• OOIDA: Call lawmakers on ‘Jason’s Law’ bills on June 28 (06/25/10)
• DOT allocates $6 million for truck parking projects (06/23/10)
• ADOT announces plan to reopen nine closed rest areas (06/22/10)
• Truckers urged to attend parking ban meeting in Doña Ana County, NM (06/21/10)
• OOIDA members in Chaparral, NM, fight truck parking ban (06/18/10)
• New York lawmaker pursues better truck parking options (06/16/10)
• Widow of slain trucker urges drivers to call lawmakers on June 28 (06/14/10)
• Arizona officials want feds to end rest area commercialization ban (06/02/10)
• Arizona pursues commercialization as way to reopen 13 rest areas (05/27/10)
• Nebraska town backs off parking ban (05/06/10)
• It's time we had the tax talk (May 2010 Magazine Issue)
• Small Nebraska town seeks to stamp out truck parking (04/29/10)
• Cash-strapped New Mexico considers shuttering 13 rest stops (04/23/10)
• Shuttered Virginia rest areas reopen for business (04/16/10)
• Virginia lawmakers approve notable truck bills (03/25/10)
• OOIDA, Hope Rivenburg, lawmakers urge support for Jason’s Law bill (03/16/10)
• Lawmakers, Hope Rivenburg host news conference for Jason’s Law bills (03/15/10)
• Truckers urged to call lawmakers on anniversary of slain trucker’s death (03/14/10)
• OOIDA to FHWA: Truck parking still and issue (March/April 2010 Magazine Issue)
• Four rest areas shuttered in SC (01/27/10)
• New Virginia gov comes through: will reopen 19 rest areas (01/20/10)
• Truckers to FHWA: ‘We have a parking problem’ (01/15/10)

2009

• Maryland reduces operating hours at many rest areas to save money (12/10/09)
• Hope Rivenburg: Jason’s killer ‘can’t hurt anybody else’ (12/07/09)
• Jury handed Jason Rivenburg case on Friday, Dec. 4 (12/04/09)
• FHWA seeks comments on critical truck parking problem (12/04/09)
• Guilty verdict reached in Jason Rivenburg case (12/04/09)
• Jason Rivenburg murder trial begins in South Carolina (12/03/09)
• OBAC: Take Canada’s parking survey and make a difference (11/20/09)
• Wal-Mart banishes truckers from parking lot in Ephrata, PA (11/19/09)
• Community where slain trucker was found has truck parking ban (11/09/09)
• 'Jason’s Law’ House bill adds another co-sponsor (10/19/10)
• Truckers move forward with parking plan in Littlerock, CA (07/29/09)
• Virginia adds truck parking to offset 18 rest area closures (07/21/09)
• OOIDA ramps up pressure on Virginia before rest area closures (07/17/09)
• Truckers want resolution on truck parking ban in Littlerock, CA (07/10/09)
• City council reconsiders stance on truck parking ban in Hobart, IN (06/04/09)
• SPECIAL REPORT: OOIDA urges VA governor to keep rest areas open (05/28/09)
• SPECIAL REPORT: VDOT puts 19 rest areas on chopping block (05/21/09)
• Final decision on VA rest area closures, two-hour limit expected May 20 (05/20/09)
• Public comments welcomed at meeting in VA on rest area closures on April 16 (05/15/09)
• Deadly Consequences (May 2009 Magazine issue)
• Virginia: Rules of engagement (May 2009 Magazine issue)
• VDOT reviews two-hour rule at rest areas after hearing truckers’ input (04/23/09)
• Still time to comment on VDOT’s plan to close 25 rest areas (04/14/09)
• OOIDA members fight for truck parking standards in Littlerock, CA (04/01/09)