Putting the highway back in Highway Hero

Jorge Orozco-Sanchez is an OOIDA member from Firestone, CO. You may recognize that name from the pages of our May issue. Jorge is the 2008 Goodyear Highway Hero.Last fall, he was involved in a wreck in which an SUV veered into the path of his truck. The horrific head-on crash took the life of a 27-year-old mother, but Jorge was able to rescue the two children strapped in the car seats in back.

Declawing CARB (temporarily)

The California Air Resources Board has drawn heaping piles of criticism from truckers for years, and especially during the last two to three years, when the environmental agency began aggressively implementing emissions regulations on trucks.Whether it was the ban on idling that took effect in 2008, this year’s impending reefer regulation, or the upcoming ban on older trucks by 2015, truckers

Longer, heavier trucks won’t help environment

I don’t know where the Canadian Trucking Alliance gets its environmental statistics from, but perhaps the greater mystery is why some provincial governments take the bait.The CTA and affiliate Ontario Trucking Association continue to say that putting longer, heavier trucks on the highways will conserve fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.A single tractor would replace two tractors hauling