‘Baby, You Can Drive My Truck’ Desmond has a shipment to the marketplace, but Molly can’t find Klinger and his van. Alan Norr’s Rig ‘B’ picked up some rice from a dock but it got lost in a change. MORE

Just when you though the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate was a settled matter, legislators in South Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Idaho are still fighting the battle. MORE

Ward Draw is located in South Dakota. A GPS For Blogging In the Monty Python movie, the ‘Life of Brian,’ the main character in the movie, Brian (of course), is being chased through the marketplace by Roman Centurions who think he is the Messiah. MORE

Supply chain trends for 2012; update on transportation issues in California, Washington, Kentucky, and South Dakota; reverse logistics helps retailers generate customer goodwill and create demand; airport warehousing demand soars; FAA regulations limit pilot flight time; Coca-Cola extends its environmental stewardship; Trucking industry responds to Hours-of-Service legislation MORE

The percentage of people with disabilities employed was highest in South Dakota (50.1 by Trevor Miles I was at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago earlier this week. MORE

Other states, such as South Dakota and Vermont, show as dark red in this Hot States Map from August 9-15 , meaning that they had high load-to-truck ratios. MORE

Look for loads of trees leaving Oregon, and potatoes out of Idaho or North Dakota. Those other dark red areas on the Hot States map, in Montana and South Dakota, signal a shortage of trucks without a lot of available loads. MORE

South Dakota has also been a hot state for flatbeds lately, with lots of loads originating in the Rapid City market. Demand has declined for flatbeds in the East and South Central regions , partly due to reductions in the steel and energy industries, respectively. MORE