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roadside attractions CHANNEL 19 Iraq hauling: High miles, high risk A 1,100-mile convoy in Iraq typically consists of six nights' worth of hauling on city roads and highways both. Every inch of every rural or urban mile is "possibly hiding a bul- let, roadside bomb or rock," Air Force reps say, and the year was ending with plenty of miles. The 70th Medium Truck Detachment, after averaging 11 convoys a month last January, was looking at as many as 60 missions in December to meet the year-end mili- tary withdrawal deadline. For a fantastic window into stepped-up hauling U.S. Air Force Sergeant and convoy commander David Perez of the 70th Medium Truck Detachment walks through the armed forces equivalent of a truck stop after completing a successful first leg of a seven-day convoy Oct. 22. missions, check out the photo gallery in the Dec. 1 entry on the Channel 19 blog. Truckers News Editor Randy Grider said it best in his recent editorial, titled "Your most impor- tant call," in reference to the Truckers Against Trafficking hotline number for reporting child sex trafficking information. TAT's recently released training film centers around the story of an Ohio You can make a difference last September when Roholt, S.D., herd owner James Larsen bought newspaper ads offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the herd's recovery, reporter Mikkel Pates wrote in AgWeek in November. Though the thief pled guilty, he's never come clean about what happened to the herd. If you hauled a load of cattle from time for their theft and the owner receives a theft-insurance payout? Well, heads turned W hat happens when a herd of 175 cattle goes missing, a man serves Rosholt between November 2008 and January 2009, the approximate time of the theft, you may want to revisit your records. For details, including links to Pates' full story – exploring the long relationship between Larsen and the thief, who worked under a share- crop arrangement for Larsen at the time of the theft – see the Nov. 29 entry on the blog. For more of the interesting and odd parts of trucking, visit Senior Editor Todd Dills' CHANNEL 19 BLOG at OverdriveOnline.com/channel19. 12 OVERDRIVE JANUARY 2012 Managing loads teen who was abducted from her neighborhood and then forced to walk truck stop parking lots. A driver's call to TAT's hotline – (888) 373-7888 – sprung her from that life. For links to TAT's web- site, where you can watch the film, check out the Nov. 4 entry on the blog. via phone Posting your truck and booking loads via your smartphone got a little simpler with the launch of the TruckersEdge. net mobile site, says Transcore's Scott McCollister. Above is a screen shot of the load search page on the optmized site that helps navigate the load-search, credit-check and rate-indexing tools there. If you're a small fleet or other carrier, you also can access 3sixty Express and 3sixty Power. Scan this QR code to pull up the site. Master Sergeant Jeffrey Allen, USAF