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		<title>Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) censors protest comments to his Female Trucker campaign ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[censorship on the Facebook page of Congressman James Oberstar began this week when comments were removed repeatedly that asked why truck parking and "Jason's Law", was not addressed in the "Joyce" ad campaign. Comments have also been censored from YouTube where "Joyce" campaign ad is being featured]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/congressman-james-oberstar-d-mn-censors-protest-comments-to-his-female-trucker-campaign-ad/</link>
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		<title>OOU Call For Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owner Operators United Inc.
Po Box 53
Carrollton, Mo. 64633
Carrollton, Mo. – Owner-Operators United Inc. (a nationwide drivers association) today issued an alert to all commercial truck drivers in the United States. 
“We are asking all truck drivers to be on the alert in the following weeks for terrorist activity.” – Dan Little / President
This alert is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/oou-call-for-action/</link>
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		<title>Practical Truck Driver Training Solutions &#8211; Part 3 Personal Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men in trucking often have not worked around women before so you should expect to hear things you have not heard in your former work environments. Everyone in the trucking industry should have increased training BUT it is often women in support positions who are the greatest harm to entering female students. These are often the culprits who cover up abuse by a few guys who harm many. This is frequently because these women get a good deal of flattery, flirting and sometimes more and feel compelled to protect the offender at the expense of the targets of abuse.]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/practical-truck-driver-training-solutions-part-3-personal-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>Practical Truck Driver Training Solutions Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The root core problem in truck driver training is irresponsible recruiting and predatory lending. We always come back to one word, GREED !
Greed over safety seems to be a recurrent theme over the past few months. The tragedy of the coal miners in West Virginia and the devastating BP Oil Spill that may very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/practical-truck-driver-training-solutions-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Practical Truck Driver Training Solutions &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

 This series of posts on Solutions for Ethical Truck Driver Training comes as a result of many long ignored suggestions made by actual truck drivers to their companies who train students and receive a good deal of government funding. The turnover rate in trucking is 125% which is outrageous and most of this turnover is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/practical-truck-driver-training-solutions-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Federal Truck Safety Records Raises Suspicion for OOU Board of Directors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owner Operators United Inc. [OOU], a nationwide drivers association has asked the Federal Department of Transportation [DOT] in Washington, D.C. to investigate SafeStat records for Mexican trucking companies who operate in the United States. OOU is concerned that specific data has been possibly falsified and thus could compromise the integrity of the SafeStat system. Carrollton, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/federal-safety/</link>
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		<title>Jasons Law- Day of Recognition and Call to Action- June 28th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Rivenburg Family

Hope Rivenburg, the widow of slain trucker Jason Rivenburg, along with Congressman Paul Tonko, AskTheTrucker, and everyone who has worked so diligently  to get HR 2156 passed into law, has designated June 28th 2010, the official day for Jason’s Law – Bill HR 2156.
Jason’s Law, otherwise known as Bill H.R. 2156, was introduced on April 28th, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/jasons-law-day-of-recognition-and-call-to-action-june-28th-2010/</link>
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		<title>OOU has Two New Staff Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrollton, Mo.- Owner-Operators United Inc. [OOU] announced today two new staff writers had joined the association.
&#8220;We are very pleased that these two ladies have agreed to work for the betterment of both the association and the trucking industry.&#8221; &#8211; Dan Little &#8211; President OOU
Donna Smith and Desiree Wood have both taken staff writer jobs with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/new-writer/</link>
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		<title>Sleep Apnea and You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sleep Apnea Mandate – Does the Data Really Indicate 28% of Truckers have Sleep Apnea?
by Donna Smith
On May 18th we wrote a blog post to explain the data and results conducted by the FMCSA regarding a study on Sleep Apnea;
“Sleep Apnea- A Smoke Screen for Many Truck Driver Fatigue Issues”
In that article we discussed how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/sleep-apnea-and-you/</link>
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		<title>We Need to Help This Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heres a story that we are tring to help, it is not truck related but is a justice issue, I have spoken with Mrs Behenna and feel her son needs a FAIR trial, story made KMBC 9 news last night KMBC is an ABC station
http://www.kmbc.com/video/23675579/index.html
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		<link>http://owneroperatorsunited.org/we-need-to-help-this-family/</link>
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