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• Cover Story: Expedited advantage- Time-sensitive niche offers good money, plentiful leisure, fewer headaches.
• Fit for business: Bakersfield, Cali- based team tackles maintenance, health the same way.
• Path of least resistance : Aero trailers compliement tractors for major reduction in fuel use.
• Test drive: Western Star 4700SF - A tough rig proves itself on serious ascent from dessert floor.
• Business: Income replacement insurance can keep you afloat amid crisis.
• Equipment Spotlight: Security products help protect your payload.
• SEVERE SERVICE: Choosing a dump trailer.
• Gear Guide: Air filter line, LED lights.
• FLEET NEWS: U.S. Xpress offering free trail as owner-operator.
• Regulating GPS units to combat bridge strikes.
• Channel 19: Pollution from charbroiling smokes heavy-duty diesel fumes.
• Hot Button: How should lawmakers deal with fiscal cliff?
• Trucking impacted by Superstorm Sandy.
• Apnea proposal could come within months.
• Navistar, Cummins reach parts agreement.
• Driver-songwriters CD back on store shelves for a good cause.
• Dont let cold weather keep you from a good workout.
• Go behind the scenes with blogger Wendy Parker.
• Working 05 379 feeds owner-operators show truck ambitions.
• Pro Tips: Find the right paint for a hot engine; straight mufflers perform.
• Reader Rigs: Tricked-out Pete 389, Freightliner cabover, Western Star tractor.