http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just came across a provocative take on the pronouncement last month by the grand poobah of investors, Mr. Warren Buffett, who declared the U.S. recession is for all intents and purposes over. Not so fast, argues Motley Fool contributor Rich Smith. As Smith sees it, one just needs to review ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/10/06/the-fedex-indicator/ “The road to success is always under construction” --Lily Tomlin Despite the promise of federal stimulus bucks flowing into public construction projects-- for everything from roads and bridges to schools-- and the various faint indicators that the economy has begun to turn itself toward recovery, the view of better times ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/09/04/hard-hat-blues-play-on/ It's the end of the road for our dynamic duo of truckers as Mike O'Neill takes the wheel just in time to turn into the driveway of the new World Headquarters of O'Neill Public Relations. Yes, that's turn into-- not back into. It has been my pleasure to turn this ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/08/06/mikes-trucking-trails-end/ Today we find our intrepid reporter Mike O'Neill and the world-renowned journalist driving his truck, the inimitable David Kolman, pushing ever southwesterly with at least one eye on the road-- and the other firmly glued on what the future may hold for them... Day Four: Working it Clip ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/08/05/mikes-trucking-working-it/ The odyssey continues. In this third installment of PR king Mike O'Neill's on-the-road blog of his cross-country rental truck jog, we find the reluctant trucker all too happy to toss the keys to veteran trucking journalist and accomplished road scholar (as testified to by his well-traveled CDL) David Kolman... Start of ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/08/04/mikes-trucking-welcome-kolman/ PR maestro Mike O'Neill is still trucking-- it's Day Two-- and good thing he's doing so on his own time as he's headed from the Northeast to the Southwest by way of Central Michigan... Day Two: Playing the Father Card Today is going to be an easy one. My son and ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/07/31/mikes-trucking-cereal-city/ Mike O’Neill, one of the stalwarts of the public relations corps that so ably serves trucking as a conduit of information for suppliers, is relocating from Philly to Vegas and, yes, he’s doing it by truck. When Mike told us of his journey by Penske rental truck, I ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/07/30/welcome-to-mikes-trucking/ The other, er, brake shoe has at last dropped. More than two years after trucking first anticipated it being finalized, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has FINALLY issued it's new final rule on truck-braking standards. It's all rather de facto and totally anti-climactic given that heavy-truck brake suppliers long ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/07/24/at-last-a-new-brake-rule/ Keep your seat belts buckled because the economy is not yet about to pull onto smooth pavement. Boiled down, that's Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's view of where the U.S. economy stands per the testimony he gave the House Committee on Financial Service today. On the one hand, Bernanke had good news ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/07/21/ben-yes-but-on-economy/ It's not every day I find out about a potentially exciting piece of safety legislation by coming across an ad while flipping through a consumer magazine at the doctor's office. The folks charged with promoting passage of the federal STANDUP (Safe Teen and Novice Driver Uniform Protection) Act of 2009 ... http://blog.fleetowner.com/reading_between_the_lines/2009/07/14/graduating-teen-drivers/