Frank Amerosa, a retired trucker, had been diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago.
Hunt, the biggest trucker in the business, has managed just a 6% return in 2010.
By the mid-1980s, the CB-trucker craze had faded like disco into an obscure cultural curiosity.
"He's a former trucker, so he relates very well to truckers, " Weidner says.
He and Hunter oversee arguably the two largest groups for trucker chaplains in the nation.
The trucker index is jumpy, falling 0.3% in April after strong increases in December, Januaary and February.
On January 24th a striking lorry driver was run over and killed by a German trucker, who was detained by police.
The most successful of the trucker tunes was "Convoy, " released in 1976.
After the recession hit, her husband, a trucker, saw his business dry up and his costs soar with the price of fuel.
"I never thought I'd be involved in supercomputing, " says Max Fuller, chairman of trucker U.S. Xpress, which employs 1, 100 at its Chattanooga headquarters.
Walking back to the subway I passed a chubby man in his early thirties selling Northface and Burton trucker style hats on the sidewalk.
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The trucker encampment was surrounded by a thin cordon of police.
Broad-chested and bearded, he sat by himself in the back row of the auditorium, wearing a camouflage trucker hat, a brown polo shirt, and cargo pants.
In the mid-1970s this mini-mania was kicked off in part by a TV advertising campaign pushing a brand of bread and centering on a fictitious trucker named C.
Hunter became a trucker four days after returning from Vietnam.
Bernard Johnson is a trucker and a math problem.
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To decrease that percentage and increase awareness of BlueCool, Webasto hired a trucker named Buck Threehouse to take a BlueCool-equipped truck on a summer publicity tour of truck stops across the country.
Then there's that mysterious trucker who shows up at the campsite and looks straight out of "Deliverance, " that strange smell that could fell an ox, and their car, unaccountably on the fritz.
Christian Audigier, the man beyond the Von Dutch trucker hat phenomenon, the bedazzled Ed Hardy line and an eponymous clothing brand, has just listed his Western-inspired Topanga ranch for sale and for rent.
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In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
When Jack was a trucker riding up and down the California highways delivering goods for K-Mart, he always kept his head and drove steadily even when thick fog, known in California as tule fog made the journey treacherous.
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In fact, the ex-trucker who dismantled his first 35mm movie camera to see how it worked took tech matters into his own hands, teaming up with longtime collaborator Vincent Pace to develop the most advanced camera rig using stereoscopic (3D) cameras yet for the film.
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While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.
You're the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard-working men and women who don't always make the headlines, but have always written America's story.
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