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OOIDA and Split Speed Limits

OOIDA headquarters at 1 Ooida Drive,
Grain Valley, Missouri

The Owner–Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is an international trade organization dedicated to the interests of truck drivers. Founded in 1973 from a convoy of protesting truckers who drove to Washington to speak with the President, the organization represents professional drivers and actively works to affect state and federal legislation regarding the trucking industry in North America. The nearly 160,000 members of OOIDA are men and women in all 50 states and Canada who collectively own and/or operate more than 240,000 individual heavy-duty trucks and small truck fleets.

The association's headquarters are located near Kansas City in Grain Valley, Missouri, and is staffed with 325 full-time employees. Officers and directors of the OOIDA are all either former or current professional truck drivers, and are elected by the organization's members. The OOIDA is the publisher of Land Line Magazine, a trade publication designed to keep truck drivers informed of current regulations, products, and services.

Land Line Magazine is the business magazine for professional truckers and the official publication of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (www.ooida.com). Editorial policy encompasses informing truckers, the trucking industry and various government agencies about issues related to the industry. News and feature articles are designed to keep professional truckers updated on legislation, industry activities and trends. Land Line Magazine has a direct mail circulation of more than 187,000 that includes owner-operators, small fleet owners and professional drivers. Land Line Magazine is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Peter’s Comment

OOIDA does a great job for truckers. I know from personal experience and I recommend that every trucker on the road should consider membership. Below is just one example of how OOIDA represents truckers.

The Texas split speed limit saga

by  Sandi Soendker, Land Line Magazine

Like “Lonesome Dove,” the story of speed limits in Texas could be a TV series. Only crazier.
Let’s go back to late fall 1996. At that time, OOIDA headquarters was housed in a remodeled truck stop at Exit 24 in Grain Valley, MO.
The national speed limit had been eliminated in 1995, and it was up to the states to set their own. OOIDA had lobbied hard, along with the National Motorists Association, to get rid of 55. ATA was hellbent against it, preaching that eliminating the national limit would be a disaster. After the double nickel was history, OOIDA set its sights on convincing state lawmakers that uniform speed limits were vital to highway safety.
One of those states with split speeds was Texas. The Texas legislature was scheduled to convene in 1997, and that would be OOIDA’s first opportunity to convince Lone Star lawmakers to get rid of the differential. If the issue did not make it to the legislators, it would be another two years that truckers would be saddled with a dangerous speed variance – nearly four years after the national speed limit was eliminated.
A number of Texas members (T.G. Swarb, Bill Harwell, John Hill, Clifford Floeck and Charles Holman were a few that I remember, along with Frank Owen) worked hard with their representatives to see that the issue of truck speeds came up in the legislature in ’97. Clifford, as I recall, virtually camped out in Austin. And Holman, a bullhauler – well, he never did know the meaning of quit.
OOIDA’s Todd Spencer wrote to OOIDA members in the January/February 1997 Land Line: “Achieving uniform speed limits in Texas will be an extremely difficult battle. Are you in it for the long haul?”
It would be a long haul, for sure. Our members pounded their lawmakers and wrote letters to then Gov. George W. Bush. OOIDA found a sympathetic ear with Texas Rep. Anna Mowrey. She filed a House bill that was approved by the Texas Transportation Committee and felt sure the bill would go on to the floor and pass. She continued her tireless effort until the last possible moment. After her original bill missed a scheduling deadline, she succeeded in attaching a uniform car/truck amendment to a Senate bill as it came up for a vote in the House.
Back in Grain Valley, we were all on pins and needles. The Senate bill passed the House with Mowrey’s amendment and then went to House-Senate conference committee. We went home from the office not knowing the outcome – but things looked good and someone said the beer was in the fridge. The next day we were ecstatic to read the AP news and Texas news reports claiming that split speed limits for cars and trucks had been voted out, eliminated. For a few hours, we were on cloud nine. Then the bad news. The news reports were WRONG.
Lawmakers had left the split speed vote for the last item of the day and the last vote of the session. It seems that the Associated Press reporter who covered it left before the vote. He must have thought it was a sure thing, and he had a deadline to meet. The reporter grabbed up the amended version of Mowrey’s bill instead of the version that was voted down after he left and then signed by Gov. Bush. The speed limit part of the bill? It had, in fact, been yanked at the last minute.
I clearly remember that day. What a disappointment. What happened? In spite of all the last-minute faxes, calls, letters from Texas truckers – the lawmakers voted with the bill’s author, Sen. Chris Harris to strip Mowrey’s amendment. We were flabbergasted. Mowrey had met with Gov. Bush and came away with the assurance that if the bill made it to his desk, he would sign it.
Then why did they flip at the last minute and strip the bill? It remained murky. We later found out it could have been due to a last-minute letter from the commissioner of the Texas DOT who said increasing the speed limit on 18-wheelers was not a wise thing to do in his opinion.
Two years later, we were back at it and Todd and other OOIDA members were again beating a path to Austin. One of our most persistent fighters was Charles Holman. Sadly, he succumbed to cancer before we had a chance to do battle with split speeds again.
Todd met with Rep. Carl Isett of Lubbock, who filed a bill to eliminate the split speeds for cars and trucks. Mowrey co-sponsored it. Sen. Teel Bivins introduced the Senate bill, and it passed. The measure was approved by both houses, but there was a snag over some details and it went back to conference committee.
That committee ended up restricting trucks to 60 on farm-to-market and ranch roads during the day and 55 at night. But at OOIDA, it was a victory. Split speeds were mostly gone. I remember we did a full page ad in Land Line saying “THANK YOU TEXAS OOIDA MEMBERS!”
Fast forward to 2011. In today’s news, State Legislative Editor Keith Goble reports on a big speed limit update in Texas. Starting Sept. 1, there will no longer be a distinction between daytime and nighttime speeds, as well as a slower speed for trucks. All vehicles will be allowed to travel the same speed regardless of the time of day.
At last, 12 years after the battle began, it’s the complete elimination of split speeds on Texas roads.
So – is there any beer in the fridge?

SOME OF THE OOIDA TEAM

OOIDA President	Jim Johnston
OOIDA Executive VP & Publisher	Todd Spencer
Editor-in-Chief	Sandi Soendker
Managing Editor	Jami Jones
Copy Editor	Elizabeth Andersen
State Legislative Editor	Keith Goble
Associate Editor	David Tanner
Staff Writer	Charlie Morasch
Staff Writer	Clarissa Kell-Holland
News Clerk	Kerry Evans-Spillman
Senior Technical Editor	Paul Abelson
Field Editor	Suzanne Stempinski
Art Director	Debbie Johnson
Production Manager	Kim Borron
Production Assistant	Nikohle Ellis
Columnists		Terry Scruton Donna Ryun Laura O’Neill Ryan Bowley Cyndi Cramblett Bill Hudgins Jeff McConnell and James Mennella Dave Sweetman Bryan Martin Dr. John McElligott Howard Abrams OOIDA address is PO Box 1000, Grain Valley, MO, 64029. Phone (816) 229-5791.

BURIED WARBIRDS

Buried treasure in Burma:

Squadron of lost WWII Spitfires to be exhumed

Published April 19, 2012

FoxNews.com

A Spitfire LF Mk IX, flown by New Zealander Ray Hanna in 2005. (Wikipedia / Franck Cabrol)

Yar -- it's buried PILOT treasure! 

Like a treasure chest stuffed with priceless booty, as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes are perfectly preserved, buried in crates beneath Burma -- and after 67 years underground, they're set to be uncovered.

The planes were shipped in standard fashion in 1945 from their manufacturer in England to the Far East country: waxed, wrapped in greased paper and tarred to protect against the elements. They were then buried in the crates they were shipped in, rather than let them fall into enemy hands, said David Cundall, an aviation enthusiast who has spent 15 years and about $200,000 in his efforts to reveal the lost planes.

The 62-year-old man -- a British farmer by trade -- realized the fate of the aircraft thanks to an offhand comment a group of American veterans made to a friend, he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

'We've done some pretty silly things in our time, but the silliest was burying Spitfires.'

- David Cundall, aviation enthusiast

''They told Jim: 'We've done some pretty silly things in our time, but the silliest was burying Spitfires.' And when Jim got back from the U.S., he told me,'" Cundall said.

The location of the planes, which remains a closely kept secret, was confirmed during a recent trip to the Far East country, he said.

''We sent a borehole down and used a camera to look at the crates. They seemed to be in good condition," Cundall told the Herald.

The Spitfire Mark XIV planes are rare for more than one reason: They used Rolls Royce Griffon engines rather than the Merlins used in earlier models to achieve tremendous speeds. Griffon-powered planes could reach 440 mph thanks to the hefty, 2,050-horsepower engines.

When production of the planes ultimately ended in 1947, 20,334 Spitfires of all versions had been produced, but just 2,053 of them were Griffon-powered versions, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

The planes were deemed surplus and were buried in Aug., 1945 -- potentially along with another eight later in the year. At that time, propeller planes were falling out of fashion in favor of newer jet-engine designs -- Cundall said Spitfires "were 10 a penny." British military officials decided burying them was cheaper and more practical than bringing them home.

International sanctions prevent military material from leaving the country, but a recent visit by British Prime Minister David Cameron may enable the safe exhumation and return of the planes to England.

Only about 35 Spitfires are currently flying.

Peter’s Comment

I have a selection of Spitfires on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. They are a real pleasure to fly and very realistic. In fact they are so realistic that all models can swing on take-off if you let them take over your concentration. However, the contra-rotating prop version will only swing if you’ve factored in some wind. Great for aerobatics.

The End of a Long Mystery?

Amelia Earhart mystery may be solved in Pacific

AFPJune 10, 2012, 11:20 pm Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific, a research team is setting off July 2 with high hopes of resolving the mystery surrounding the pioneering aviatrix.

Amelia Earhart

For the tenth time in 23 years, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) will set off for Nikumaroro island in Kiribati to establish whether Earhart survived the apparent crash of her aircraft.

"This time, we'll be searching for debris from the aircraft," TIGHAR's founder and executive director Richard Gillespie, himself a pilot and former aviation accident investigator, told AFP.

Earhart vanished on July 2, 1937 at age 39 with navigator Fred Noonan during the final stage of an ambitious round-the-world flight along the equator in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra.

The holder of several aeronautical records, including the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, Earhart had set off from New Guinea to refuel at Howland Island for a final long-distance hop to California.

In what turned out to be her final radio message, she declared she was unable to find Howland and that fuel was running low.

Several search-and-rescue missions ordered by then-president Franklin Roosevelt turned up no trace of Earhart or Noonan, who were eventually presumed dead at sea.

Conspiracy theories flourished. One contended that Earhart was held by Japanese imperial forces as a spy. Another claimed she completed her flight, but changed her identity and settled in New Jersey.

TIGHAR is working on the hypothesis that the duo reached Gardner Island, then a British possession and now known as Nikumaroro, and managed to survive for an unknown period of time.

Nikumaroro, uninhabited in Earhart's time, and a mere 3.7 miles (six kilometers) long by 1.2 miles (two kilometers) wide, is about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southeast of Howland Island.

Earhart and the Lockheed Electra

This year's TIGHAR expedition will see about 20 scientists depart Hawaii to explore over 10 days both the island and an underwater reef slope at the west end of the island.

It will be equipped with a multi-beam sonar to map the ocean floor, plus a remote-controlled device similar to the one that found the black boxes from the Rio-to-Paris Air France that crashed into the South Atlantic in 2009.

If debris is found, it will be photographed and its location carefully documented for a future expedition, Gillespie said.

Sustaining the search are clues worthy of detective story, including items from the 1930s previously discovered on the island such as a jar of face cream, a penknife blade, the heel of a woman's shoe and a bit of Plexiglas.

Skeletons of birds apparently cooked over a campfire have also contributed to the mystery, and settlers who reached Nikumaroro after 1937 have spoken of the existence of aircraft wreckage.

Bone fragments have meanwhile been subjected to DNA testing that turned out to be inconclusive, said Gillespie, who remains hopeful that parts of Earhart's Electra remain to be found.

The US government is lending technical and diplomatic support to the TIGHAR effort, budgeted at $2 million and otherwise privately funded. A documentary is due to be broadcast on the Discovery cable television channel.

Speed Limiter Dangers on Trucks and Buses

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Court rules speed-limiters are unsafe By David Tanner, Land Line associate editor The Owner Operator Independent Driver Association building, Grain Valley, Missouri 1 NW OOIDA Drive, Post Office Box 1000 Grain Valley, MO 64029 1-800-444-5791 (816) 229-5791 Fax: (816)443-2227 Email: sandi_soendker@landlinemag.com www.ooida.com www.landlinemag.com Wednesday, June 6, 2012 – An Ontario trial judge ruled in favor of owner-operator Gene Michaud today, setting a precedent that the requirement for speed limiters on heavy trucks violated the trucker’s right to personal safety. The judge also said the law violates the principles of fundamental justice because it does not make the roads safer as the province claimed, in fact, it creates a danger. Michaud, an OOIDA life member from St. Catharines, Ontario, filed a constitutional challenge last year against the province over the law that requires heavy trucks 1995 and newer to have a working speed limiter set no higher than 105 kilometers per hour, or 65 mph. OOIDA President Jim Johnston says truckers far and wide have had an interest in this case because of the precedent it could set. “This is really the reason we took this case on to start with, and funded it, not only because of the impact on our Canadian members, but the even greater impact it could have on our U.S. members, both those who travel in Canada as well as those who may be subject to similar types of rulings in the U.S.,” Johnston said. “Right now, we’re battling with ATA and other interests that very much want to see speed limiters put on trucks.” Michaud runs the majority of his miles in the United States. He testified that the speed-limiter law violated his right to security as a person under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because his vehicle speed was capped below the flow of traffic in many jurisdictions. The trucker recalled numerous incidents in which he felt “bound and unsafe” during certain traffic situations. “We argued that the security of the person, in this case commercial driver Michaud, was threatened because of the speed limiter,” Michaud’s attorney, David Crocker of the Toronto firm Davis LLP, told Land Line Magazine. Testimony included an affidavit on behalf of Michaud from retired assistant administrator Julie Cirillo of the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. In the affidavit, Cirillo cited research showing that uniform speeds are safer than when vehicles travel at different speeds. A forced speed differential, then, created an unsafe condition. Justice of the Peace Brett A. Kelly of the Ontario Court of Justice, Provincial Offences Division, agreed with those points. “His ability to have full care and control of all aspects of the vehicle and therefore safety is impaired as opposed to improved, and the situations described by Mr. Michaud – while they may be at times examples of poor driver practice – they are directly and indirectly the result of the regulation,” Kelly wrote. “Mr. Michaud has reason to be concerned for his security of person as he is being placed in a dangerous situation.” Additionally, Kelly said the speed-limiter law violates the principles of fundamental justice because it is arbitrary and does not do what the province said it would do in making roadways safer. Kelly does not have the power to strike down the law. If and when the province of Ontario appeals the case, a superior court does possess jurisdiction to strike down a bad law. Johnston said the judge made the right call in saying the provincial law does not accomplish what the province said it would. “He definitely ruled that it was arbitrary. Down here we call it ‘arbitrary and capricious,’ that there was no basis for it, and that there was also no evidence to show that this change has any effect whatsoever on safety,” Johnston said. The province of Ontario has a 30-day window to file an appeal in the case. Courtesy of Landline Magazine Peter’s Comment My own personal experience of speed limiters is not good. I could have been killed by a speed limiter on my tour coach while in conflict with a truck and car that were presumably not speed limited. I overtook a truck going up a hill in a passing lane while returning empty from Wellington to Auckland after my first tour in that coach. The truck speed I estimated at 80 kph when I started passing but as the road leveled out the truck picked up speed and started gaining on me. My speed increased to 92 kph (the speed limited speed) as we came to the end of the passing lane and I was unable to pull clear. At that point a car approached from the opposite direction and I was powerless to do anything other than straddle the center line so that all three vehicles had a small piece of road each. Neither the truck or car driver took any evasive action other than to flash their lights, blow their horns and keep the pedal down, a totally useless gesture to a driver who was an innocent victim of bureaucratic madness, not to mention the same two drivers prepared to die maintaining their right-of-way rather than yield. One of the hazards of speed limiters is that there is no warning that acceleration will cease and there is no way to override it in an emergency. Speed limiters should be outlawed.

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US$5.3 Million for Lunch

Buffett fans front hard cash for lunch

Warren Buffett says it's a miracle that he found one of Berkshire's two new investment managers through his famous annual lunch auction. He offered Ted Weschler a job after he'd paid nearly US$5.3 million over two years to dine with Buffett.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

Buffett said he just hopes the 13th annual online auction will again raise a significant amount of money for the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco.

Bidding is under way and will run until next weekend. The previous four winning bids have all exceeded US$2 million with new records set every year.

"It's gone way, way, way beyond my expectations," Buffett said. "We'll see what happens this year."

Besides his business success, Buffett's philanthropy is also a draw for bidders. Buffett has slowly given away the bulk of his fortune since 2006. He plans to eventually divide most of his shares of Berkshire stock between five charitable foundations, with the largest chunk going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett and Gates have also been encouraging other wealthy people to give away at least half of their fortunes. Nearly 80 of the nation's wealthiest families have signed the pledge. The auction provides a significant portion of the Glide Foundation's roughly US$17 million annual budget. Buffett's late first wife, Susan, introduced him to Glide's founder, the Reverend Cecil Williams, after she became a supporter of the charity.

"We were really blessed to run across Warren Buffett years ago," Williams said.

Buffett said he was impressed by the work Glide does in helping people whom the world has forgotten to find hope again.

"I just think what they do is extraordinary."

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, but remained committed to the auction. Williams said he was impressed by Buffett's commitment.

"He let us know that he was going to make sure things will work. We're just very excited about it again this year."

Buffett has said that his prostate cancer was detected early and isn't remotely life-threatening. He plans to undergo six weeks of radiation treatments next month.

At the lunch, Buffett will spend several hours discussing whatever it is the winner would like to talk about, traditionally at New York's Smith and Wollensky steak house. The restaurant donates at least US$10,000 to Glide each year to host the auction lunch. The only topics the billionaire chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway will not address are potential future investments. Buffett says many of the questions he gets at the lunches are about non-business subjects such as family and philanthropy. Past winners of the auction have said they believe the time with Buffett was well worth the price they paid in the auction.

Buffett's company owns roughly 80 subsidiaries including insurance, furniture, clothing, jewellery and sweet companies, restaurants and natural gas and corporate jet firms, and has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo & Co.

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is a business magnate, sharemarket investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. He is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 ^]and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011. In 2012, Time named Buffett one of the most influential people in the world.

Buffett is called the "Wizard of Omaha", "Oracle of Omaha"^], or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. He still lives in the first house he purchased for $31,000 in 1958. Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation. On April 11, 2012, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Warren Buffett

Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of three children and only son of U.S. Representative Howard Buffett.  Buffett began his education at Rose Hill Elementary School in Omaha. In 1942, his father was elected to the first of four terms in the United States Congress, and after moving with his family to Washington, D.C., Warren finished elementary school, attended Alice Deal Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947, where his senior yearbook picture reads: "likes math; a future stock broker."

Even as a child, Buffett displayed an interest in making and saving money. He went door to door selling chewing gum, Coca-Cola, or weekly magazines. For a while, he worked in his grandfather's grocery store. While still in high school he was successful in making money by delivering newspapers, selling golfballs and stamps, and detailing cars, among other means. Filing his first income tax return in 1944, Buffett took a $35 deduction for the use of his bicycle and watch on his paper route. In 1945, in his sophomore year of high school, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in the local barber shop. Within months, they owned several machines in different barber shops.

Buffett's interest in the stock market and investing also dated to his childhood, to the days he spent in the customers' lounge of a regional stock brokerage near the office of his father's own brokerage company. On a trip to New York City at the age of ten, he made a point to visit the New York Stock Exchange. At the age of 11, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred for himself, and three for his sister. While in high school he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a farm worked by a tenant farmer. By the time he finished college, Buffett had accumulated more than $90,000 in savings measured in 2009 dollars.

His current net worth is estimated at US$44 billion but was US$62 billion before he teamed up with Bill Gates and started giving his fortune away.

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