We’d like to thank the guests on our program this past week, including:

• OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer;
• Calhoun County, South Carolina, Sheriff Thomas Summers;
• Butch Savage, father-in-law of murdered trucker Jason Rivenburg;
• OOIDA Regulatory Affairs Specialist Joe Rajkovacz;
• Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Joe Doucette;
• Lindsey Hord of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission;
• Tom Weakley, director of operations at the OOIDA Foundation;
• Bandit the trucking dog;
• Martha Dooley, a spokeswoman for the Knox County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office;
• Rod Nofziger, Mike Joyce and Melissa Theriault of OOIDA’s Washington, DC, office;
• Financial adviser Steve Freidell of DeWaay Financial Network;
• Major Tim Stephenson of the Calhoun County, South Carolina, Sheriff’s Department;
• Ed Briley of OOIDA’s Truck Insurance Customer Service Department;
• Trucking company owner Donna Vanderveen;
• Knox County, Tennessee, Deputy District Attorney John Gill;
• OOIDA member Gordon Alkire of Riley, Kansas;
• Registered dietitian Pam Whitfield;
• Cookbook author Don Jacobson;
• Paul Yurkovac, member of OOIDA and the Owner-Operators Coalition of Virginia;
• And all of you who called our Listener Comment Line.

Our stories this past week on Colorado tolls, Arkansas seat belt laws, a murdered trucker, a recovering eagle, a trucker and his dog, crocodiles and magnets, Maryland speed cameras and Alabama steel coil regulation were all the work of Reed Black, who also writes and voices our daily newscast.

Terry Scruton reported on truck insurance, the OOIDA Foundation, the price of diesel fuel, personal finances and eating while on the road.

Mark Reddig reported on RFID use at the border, the Hours of Service, a GAO report, Mexican trucks, earmark reform, and Virginia rest areas.

Our theme music is performed by Webb Wilder and his band out of Nashville, TN.

And we’d like to thank the members of the Land Line Magazine staff, who write and research stories used on the program, including:

• Managing Editor Sandi Soendker;
• Senior Editor Jami Jones
• State Legislative Editor Keith Goble;
• Staff writers David Tanner, Clarissa Kell-Holland and Charlie Morasch;
• Copy editor Elizabeth Andersen;
• And news clerk Kerry Evans-Spillman.

Thanks also to the lady who keeps the trains running on time, our own traffic coordinator, Sherry Murry, as well as the head dolphins in our sonic sea world: Producer and Senior Sound Engineer Barry Spillman and Second Engineer James Fetzer.