October 2013 Challenge Magazine

OCTOBER 2013

Old Crow Medicine Show A foot-stomping good time St. Christopher Fund Help AND Hope Off the Road Brent Musburger Airwaves www.ptcchallenge.com

BLACK HAWK

DOWN A look back

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Airwaves

After 50 years of covering some of the greatest moments in sports, you’d think Brent Musburger would be satisfied.

Think again.

Black Hawk Down

Twenty years ago, a special task force was sent to Somalia to take down a notorious warlord. As we look back, one soldier shares his story of a covert operation gone terribly wrong.

A Conversation with Nick Rahall

As the ranking member on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives, Nick Rahall’s influence in the industry is immense. Our conversation with the congressman addresses the role of government in the industry, MAP-21, fuel prices and more.

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Old Crow Medicine Show

The Nashville-based band brings a modern touch to the string-band genre and offers a fresh sound to audiences of bluegrass, country and folk.

Eastbound and Down

Kenny Powers, played by Danny McBride, is not someone you’d like to know, but that hasn’t stopped millions of rabid fans from celebrating one more season of the HBO comedy hit.

St. Christopher Fund

Jesse Massaro, a three-decade veteran driver, never needed help until an accident forced him off the road. Struggling to keep the lights on, he wasn’t sure where to turn next. Then he heard about the St. Christopher Fund.

RV JOURNEY

Mac and the Big Cheese share their black ’n’ blue burger and Anne contemplates the waves of life.

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HEALTHY CHOICES

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gettin’ outdoors

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around the track

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driving thrU d.c.

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CHEW ON THIS

Linda sets the record straight on the risks and benefits of sugar substi-

tutes.

Brenda revels in the arrival of fall, and shares a vital secret to sustainability and hunting.

Mark Martin, a mere mortal? Claire gets to the bottom of things.

Mike wonders if the industry’s trust-fund troubles will ever go away.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but Charles believes it isn’t always the best place to be.

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from the editor Take care of our own.

letters to the editor

Readers share their thoughts and opinions on industry issues and stories from Challenge Magazine.

SHORT RUNS

Broadening the mind with the interesting and inane.

Truck Driver Challenge

A behind-the-scenes look at the challenge.

The Unique U.S.

The U.S. might not lead the world in beer drinkers – the Czech Republic holds that title – but we sure like our hops. The growing number of microbreweries around the country proves it, and a pint at any one of these is sure to refresh, surprise and delight. sponsored by:

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truckers’ corner

The creative side of truck drivers.

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Games

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garmin gallery

Sudoku, word search and crossword puzzles. Some clues for the puzzle come from this issue of Challenge Magazine.

Pictures from the road. Send in your photos and see them published in Challenge Magazine and you may be a winner. sponsored by:

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Drivers recognize these STAR employees who make Pilot Flying J a place you can rely on.

what’s happening Driver Appreciation.

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The comprehensive Pilot Flying J directory lists everything from location addresses to services available.

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hen my assistant editor, Amanda, came to me with the idea of writing a 20th anniversary look back on the Battle of Mogadishu, my first question was, “Has it really been 20 years?” I just couldn’t believe it.

For me, the events of “Black Hawk Down,” as branded in the excellent book by Mark Bowden and the movie that followed, led to my first real understanding of not only the grim realities of war but that there are people in this world that place a very different value on life. It’s one thing to read about war, quite another to watch the bodies of dead U.S. soldiers being dragged through the streets of a foreign capital city. It wasn’t a video game or the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. It was real.

The irony is the battle started for the most humane of reasons. Never leave a man behind. The men who went to rescue the crews of the downed helicopters had only one thought: Save them. So while there were many lessons learned from the battle that are used today – from better body armor and helmets to advances in medical equipment and procedures – to me the most inspirational outcome was that our soldiers acted humanely in the most inhumane environment. They were willing to sacrifice their own lives so no one would be left behind.

Our story on Black Hawk Down (Page 24) takes you back to the battleground and shows, through the eyes of one soldier who was there, the true definition of the warrior’s ethos.

Much like the soldiers never leaving a man behind, many truck drivers believe in taking care of their own. Yes, the knights of the highway have taken some image hits of late, but I know after reading our story on the St. Christopher Fund (Page 44), you’ll come away realizing the good can still outweigh the bad. SCF has provided financial assistance to hundreds of drivers who are out of work due to health issues and most of the donations have come from fellow drivers.

If you tuned into a country music station anytime this summer, I’m sure you cranked up Darius Rucker’s version of “Wagon Wheel” a few times. Well, the original version of the song is by the foot-stomping septet band Old Crow Medicine Show. Our music story (Page 35) takes a closer look at what makes this band tick. And trust me, if you can see them live, I highly recommend it.

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Outdoor Cooking

In regard to the August “Outdoor Cooking”

by Mac and the Big Cheese: I tried it and it was a big hit. I’d like to see more grilling tips like this. Thanks to all.

Harry Walker Heath, Ohio

Geocaching

My son and girlfriend did this all summer a few years ago in southern Illinois, southeast Missouri and Junction City, Kan., and had a blast. However, it is a bit dangerous too, with the possibility of bees, snakes, poison ivy and climbing to get to some items, so be careful.

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RE: Knights of the Highway

Derek Knox wrote you a letter that was posted in your August 2013 issue. Except for a few differences, it’s like I wrote it myself. He is 100 percent right. It’s like a zoo out here. If drivers can’t respect each other, how can they expect anyone else to? The only difference between Derek and me is that I’ve been out here 41 years and I don’t work for JB. It’s nice to see that there are other drivers out there who miss the brotherhood that used to be.

Bill Rost East Norriton, Pa.

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Avett Brothers

Nice article and I like the great parenting tip about ensuring kids can read music. It relates so much.

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Mike Rowe

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Janet Heisenberg El Paso, Texas

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A Closer Look: The World Series

We Asked,

You Answered!

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What’s the best driving music (songs, bands or genres)?

My favorite CD to listen to in the truck is Tony Justice’s “On The Road,” hands down.

I picked this gem up at a Pilot a few weeks ago, and I love it. It makes the miles fly by! If you see it, buy it.

– Tim Fillpot

For more than a century, the World Series has provided America with some of the most treasured moments in sports. From the lore of Babe Ruth calling his shot at Wrigley Field in 1932 to a badly injured Kirk Gibson hitting a magical walk-off home run in 1988, the World Series defines the drama of sports. The 2013 World Series will be played at the end of the month, with the American League claiming home-field advantage. Let’s take a closer look at the crowning achievement for America’s pastime.

The New York Yankees have the most World Series championships, at 27 – the most championships any team has ever won in any sport.

The league of the team that wins the All Star game played in July receives home-field advantage throughout the World Series.

Played in October, it is nicknamed the “Fall Classic.”

The American League Boston Americans (later Red Sox) won the first World Series in 1903, defeating the National League Pittsburgh Pirates 5 games to 3.

The World Series occasionally featured a best-of-nine format until 1922, when the best-of-seven format became permanent.

The “We Are Family” Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979 were the last team to win a Game 7 on the road.

The Chicago Cubs have the longest World Series drought, going on 105 years.

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I dig songs of and about the Civil War and recommend The Rebelaires, 2nd SC String Band, and 97th Regimental String Band.

– Dave Ellis

I tend to always fall back on Fleetwood Mac or Heart. “Go Your Own Way” and “Stranded” turn me into a road rock star.

– Mark Logsdon

Country! ’Cause no matter who you are, there’s always a country song that relates to you.

– Walker Akers

“Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses.”

– Barry Starr

Restless Heart, Joe Cocker, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, George Strait and about 10 others.

– Jason Haggard

Led Zep by day. Pink Floyd by night.

– Mike Singleton

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What trucking regulation annoys you the most?

Post your answers on our Facebook page or send them to editor@ptcchallenge.com by Oct. 31, 2013.

All answers are subject to edits.

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GET HEALTHY

Benefits of the Brew We couldn’t let October slip by without one mention of Oktoberfest, the 16-day festival held in Munich, Germany, every year, as well as smaller celebrations around the United States. Whether you’re attending the largest beer festival in the world or the local one down the street, remember to drink responsibly and then raise your glass to these health benefits of this ancient brew, compliments of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Good for Your Heart – Drinking one or two beers a day may lower your risk of heart disease.

Not a Kick to the Kidneys – Those prone to kidney stones should throw back a couple of brewskies. Beer has been found to reduce the risk of developing kidney stones.

FIber-Full – It won’t take the place of your morning raisin bran, but the fiber content in most dark brews isn’t too shabby. The average 12-ounce dark beer contains 1.3 grams of soluble fiber, which has been proved to help improve heart health.

Provides B Vitamins – Beer can provide small amounts of B vitamins like folate, niacin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, B6 and B12. And vitamins like B6 and B12 may prevent blood clots from forming.

Just one more way that beer is looking out for your heart.

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Road Wisdom “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”

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By the Numbers: United states navy For the past 238 years, the men and women of the United States Navy have devoted their lives to defending the United States and “maintaining freedom of the seas.” Their mission began during the American Revolution on Oct. 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress established the Continental Navy. Although disbanded, Congress re-established the Navy in 1794, recognizing a permanent need for defense on the seas. Secretary of War James McHenry established the independent Department of the Navy in 1798, ensuring it would remain a strong and balanced part of the country’s military. And indeed it has, with the U.S. Navy remaining the largest and strongest navy in the world.

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Number of active ships in the U.S. Navy (about a third are deployed) Number of active-duty personnel Number of United States presidents who served in the Navy Year of the first Army-Navy football game (Navy leads the series 57-49, with seven ties)

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Eight bells was a measure of time when a half-hour sand dial was used to determine the four-hour watches. When the sand ran out, a ship’s boy was responsible for reversing the sand dial and striking a bell to signify the passing of time and to show he was doing his duty.

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Distance in miles equivalent to 1 nautical mile. While a mile is a unit of distance on land, a nautical mile is used to measure distances at sea. Nautical miles are based on the circumference of the planet. There are 360 degrees around the earth, and each degree equals 60 minutes, so 1 nautical mile equals a minute of latitude on the equator. The distance around the earth, at the equator, is 21,600 nautical miles.

Sources: navy.mil, armynavygame.com

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airwaves by john close

t should come as no surprise that Brent Musburger – a broadcasting icon who for decades has entertained millions of sports television viewers – grew up being a sports fan.

And, like most young fans, Musburger had his favorite game and players.

“I was a baseball guy and I loved Stan Musial and Joe DiMaggio,” says Musburger. “And I’ll never forget when my father took me to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field in 1948. It was Jackie Robinson’s second year in the big leagues and I can still remember him running off the field toward our seats down the first-base line after batting practice. Jackie stopped and allowed my father to take a photo of him. He then came over and signed an autograph.

“Through the years, I’ve come to admire Jackie more and more. Looking back, what he had to endure to accomplish what he did probably makes him the most impactful athlete of my lifetime. Just look at the doors that Jackie Robinson opened up for those who came after him. It’s pretty amazing.”

Pretty amazing is also a good way to describe Musburger’s broadcasting career. His folksy “You Are Looking Live At …” call has greeted generations of fans to the Olympics, MLB and NBA games, NCAA college

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football and basketball games, the Masters golf tournament, the Kentucky Derby, the U.S. Open tennis championships, NASCAR, FIFA World Cup soccer, the Indianapolis 500 and, of course, NFL games, including the Super Bowl.

Musburger’s 50 years on the sports media scene, and the sheer weight of his accomplishments, have drawn praise from all levels of the sports world.

“I’ve just been lucky enough to have been around a lot of great events and great people for a long time,” defers Musburger, when his selection to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) Hall of Fame in 2011 is mentioned.

“It’s always nice to be recognized, but really, it’s not something that you ever sit around and think about. It’s not why I do my job.

The thing I’m most proud of in my career is the whole montage of things that I have done. I am very pleased with the variety of events and people that I have been around.

If they told me today that I had to go cover a world championship chess match, I’d be happy to go do it, find something out about the players and try to bring you a great event. You show me competition and I’ll be there for you.”

Musburger’s youthful love of sports, and a degree from Northwestern Univer-

sity’s Medill School of Journalism, led to his first job as a sports reporter for the now defunct Chicago American newspaper in 1963.

Then in 1968, he took over the host chair of a call-in radio show at Chicago’s CBS flagship station – WBBM. “The host of the show, Rick Wheeler, got his dream job doing play-by-play for the Miami Dolphins and right after that, CBS changed to a news radio format,” explains Musburger. “They asked me if I would be interested in working out of my house in the morning and coming down to the studio in the afternoon. They also offered me more money than I was making at the American so, of course, I said yes, no problem. Then I went back to the American and told them I was leaving. My managing editor told me I was crazy, that talk radio would never amount to anything. I didn’t feel that way about it. I also had a mortgage and a family, so off I went.”

In spite of his editor’s dire warnings, Musburger’s new radio career put him on the fast track in the emerging Chicago massmedia market of the late 1960s. There, he quickly piggybacked the WBBM radio opportunity, stepping in front of the cameras as the face of the WBBM TV sports news department.

Being the No. 1 sports guy in the thirdlargest media market in the country, it wasn’t long before Musburger went national, with the NFL asking him to do playby-play for its regional games in 1973. Then, just two years later, Musburger helped usher in a new era of sports television entertainment, becoming the host of the now legendary CBS “The NFL Today” pregame show.

Teamed with Irv Cross, Phyllis George and Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, “NFL Today” was the first show of its kind and changed the way the fans viewed the NFL forever.

“It was a show that came at the right time,” Musburger recalls. “‘The NFL Today’ was a new form of show, it was national, it was live, and it was wrapped around a single sport – the NFL. Television was having a huge impact on sports and on life in general back then. People were really starting to enjoy watching the games on Sunday and they felt comfortable with people like Phyllis, Irv and the Greek around. Me? I was just another unknown voice at the time. Being chosen for that show was easily the biggest break nationally of my career, there’s no doubt about that.”

Musburger continued to work local sports Chicago – as well as news and sports in Los Angeles, where for a short time he co-hosted the evening news with Connie Chung – before becoming a full-time national broadcaster for CBS in 1980. Over the next decade, Musburger would call some of o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 C H A L L E N G E 17

Musburger has called most of the major sporting events in the world, from Super Bowls and the Olympics to the Indianapolis 500 and Little League Baseball World Series. the world’s biggest sports events and add tennis, golf, horse racing and college basketball to his announcing resume – all while continuing to be the face of the NFL at CBS. While Musburger flourished at CBS in the ’80s, the network floundered, suffering ratings drops in both its news and entertainment divisions. After selling off once-profitable properties such as CBS Publishing and CBS Records, the network opted for a change in management in 1990. Nobody was immune in the cost-cutting action, including Musburger, who was suddenly “back on the street.”

It was a position that didn’t last long.

“I had a new job in 24 hours,” Musburger says. “I had a couple of offers, one from Turner Sports and one from ABC. I was really fascinated with what Ted Turner had done with his cable networks. He made an amazing impact on the industry. I went to Atlanta, where we met and had a great lunch. He was married to Jane Fonda back then and I got to meet her too. It’s a day I will never forget. But even then, I was 75 percent certain that I was going to go to work at ABC.” Musburger’s leap to ABC, and its emerging sports giant cable partner ESPN in 1990, only enhanced his resume, as he began covering the Indianapolis 500, Little League Baseball World Series, FIFA World Cup soccer and the BCS national championship football game.

Success withstanding, Musburger has been involved in some controversial moments, like when he had a fight with his “NFL Today” co-host Snyder in a New York bar in 1980, or his recent overthe-top remarks about the beauty of Miss Alabama Katherine Webb during the 2013 BCS national championship football game. But his comfortable down-home style and occasional edgy commentary have made Musburger an oratory staple of the American sports landscape.

Today, Musburger’s ABC/ESPN focus is squarely on national college football, highlighted by “Saturday Night Football” on ABC with booth partner Kirk Herbstreit – the first and only weekly prime-

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time college football series on broadcast television – and ESPN’s “Big Monday” college basketball games that he does with legendary coach Bobby Knight.

“Bob Knight is as knowledgeable a basketball person as I have ever been around,” says Musburger. “Even today, if you gave him a week, I think he could round a team into shape. Yeah, he’s stubborn and he likes to do things his way, but he’s an educator.”

As for Herbstreit, Musburger says, “He’s the hardest working analyst in college football today. What I really like about Herbie is that he doesn’t wear you out, he doesn’t preach.

He can be critical, but he does it in a nice way.

Some people in the booth like to drop a hammer on guys, but he’s not that way.”

Seemingly busier than ever, Musburger goes back to his Chicago roots and “cracks wise” when he’s asked about winding down and giving up the roadie lifestyle that comes with chasing the biggest sports stories in the land. He is 74 years old, after all.

“I don’t even know how to spell that word,” he chuckles when the question comes up. “What did you call it, retirement? Even if I could spell it, my wife wouldn’t allow it.

She’s too comfortable having me on the road at games.”

It’s a luxury sports fans have come to enjoy over the past 50 years.

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Musburger, along with Kirk Herbstreit, now calls college football for ABC Sports and ESPN.

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hen it comes to setting up the Pilot Flying J Truck Driver Challenge, nobody knows how to construct a chicane better than Joe Wernert.

The formidable obstacle courses navigated by NASCAR, IndyCar and NHRA transport drivers are the brainchild of Wernert, who also happened to compete in the TDC during his time as a transport driver for Roush Fenway Racing. As a former competitor, Wernert knows how to challenge some of the best transport drivers on the road.

“I was always a participant in the competition,” he says. “I’m a truck driver, so when I set up the courses I can imagine what will be difficult and what will be easy. As the competition manager, my goal is to build a course that’s competitive and fun. It’s all about testing their skills as a truck driver.”

Wernert started as the competition manager in 2008, ending his run as a full-time NASCAR transport driver after 21 years. “When

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the opportunity came up I was in racing fulltime and looking for a change, so the timing was great,” he recalls. “It was a big decision, but my position now allows me to have more control over my own time. That’s something I really enjoy.”

While he still drives for race teams as a contract driver on occasion, he’s found a real passion for designing the chicanes and developing the TDC’s tough written exams.

“The favorite part of the TDC for me is putting together a competitive challenge that the drivers respect and that is fair,” he says.

“I love it when they tell me that it was a hard and challenging chicane to do. I also like it when they say they actually learned a lot from taking the quizzes. I think a lot of drivers, once they get a CDL, tend not to go back and look at the DOT regulations. That’s what is great about the Pilot Flying J Truck Driver Challenge.

It’s not just about the driving, but also about knowledge and safety.”

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obody’s coming,” the message crackled over the radio. “Nobody’s coming.” The words that no soldier wants to hear in the middle of a firefight when ammo is low and backup is needed. “We can’t get a QR [quick response team] up to you. Hang on, hold on.” The reassurance held no comfort. A look around the room revealed half a dozen men, most of them wounded.

But Rick Landreth remained calm, trained on the present. It was almost dark, and their position in an abandoned building across the street from the crash site was as secure as it could be. He and his team had trained for this type of situation, but practice couldn’t prepare them for the angry mob outside, a smoldering presence

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just yards away. No time to think of the “what ifs” or the family back home; he had to focus.

“It was a time where you go, all right, put that thought behind you, deal with what you have to deal with right now and worry about what’s going to happen later,” Landreth says.

“You just make all the preparations the best you can to get ready for the worst case.” It was safe to say the worst case was happening.

The mission started as a simple capture – remove the top two lieutenants of a notorious and vicious African warlord from their daytime location.

The elite special-operations team, with a couple of hundred Rangers in support, was ready for the carefully planned snatch-and-grab that was supposed to last 30 minutes, an hour

at most. The capture mission encountered some bumps but nothing that deterred the timeline. Prisoners were secured and evacuated. But then Landreth looked up, saw trails of smoke, and the mission suddenly and dramatically changed.

“I watched the first bird get hit, spin and crash,” he recalls. “I was right outside the target on the road and I looked up and saw the bird flying around with snipers shooting at somebody, an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) hit the tail and it started spinning and it crashed probably 400 meters from me. So it was outside our perimeter, it was in bad-guy country.”

Indeed, about four blocks from the target location, a Black Hawk helicopter operating as aerial support for the mission was shot down by an

RPG. Just minutes later, another helicopter went down. It was Oct. 3, 1993, and Landreth would spend the next 18 hours fighting for his life and the lives of his fellow soldiers in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, in a battle that later became known as Black Hawk Down.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the American public learned, thanks in part to the Christian Children’s Fund commercials, of the desperate famine in Somalia. Like many African nations, Somalia is a clan society, governed by warlords, fighting for control of territory and alliances. The warlords often use hunger as a weapon and, coupled with the country’s extreme drought conditions and intense clan warfare, by 1992 more than 500,000 Somalis starved to death, and millions more were at risk.

In December of that year, the United States, along with the U.N., stepped in. Operation Restore Hope provided humanitarian relief. But over the next six months, the continued distribution of supplies by American troops would turn into a power-grabbing opportunity for the warlords, including the notorious despot Mohammed Aidid. Aidid, who had proclaimed himself president of Somalia, resented the U.S.’s presence in his territory of Mogadishu, and encouraged the residents, women and children included, to take up arms against the peacekeepers.

As unrest rippled across Somalia’s capital, the focus of the U.S. operation soon changed from hunger relief to disarming the warlords and their factions, with a particular focus on Aidid.

By the summer of 1993, a bounty was put on Aidid’s head and an elite team of soldiers was formed to dismantle his militia. Previous missions had already picked off several of the warlord’s inner circle. But the capture of the two lieutenants, deep within Aidid’s Mogadishu stronghold, was seen by many residents as a last straw in an already volatile environment.

Landreth happened to be right in the middle of the powder keg, and as he looked outside the crumpling building where he and his fellow soldiers hunkered down, he not only saw the smoldering wreckage of one of the Black Hawk helicopters, but thousands of angry, mob-fueled Somalis.

He recalls the rapid chain of events that led him to his position that day.

The late-afternoon mission hadn’t

gone as smoothly as the team wanted. “We received fire early on, right away,” he remembers. “It wasn’t an ambush, but they were prepared. Their defenses were up so it

This image of a young boy holding an AK47 was on a postcard sold in Mogadishu in the early 1990s.

PHOTO Courtesy of U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum

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wasn’t an easy one. We didn’t walk in and out of there with happiness and smiles on our face.” The first Black Hawk helicopter was shot down 10 minutes after the prisoners were secured. The second bird crashed 10 minutes after the first.

The team recognized instantly that the mis-

sion had changed, the last line of the warrior’s ethos immediately in their thoughts: “Never leave a fallen comrade.” Rescuing their fellow soldiers took precedence.

“Everybody was in a scramble to get there fast so we can help save the guys before they were attacked,” says Landreth.

Past wars had taught Somalis that American soldiers operate by a certain code. “Like the Vietnam War, they knew that if a helicopter crashed, we would come help,” Landreth explains. “So they knew we were coming.

They were prepared for us. They had machine guns everywhere. And running down the streets trying to get to the crash site, we were easy targets.”

The trek to the first crash site, about a quarter mile away, didn’t take long, maybe 15 minutes. Moving toward the crash site, “branches were falling around us, the ground was dancing all around us,” Landreth describes. “If you leaned against the wall, the dirt, the sand [from the buildings] would roll down your shirt because they were shooting at us and most of the rounds were hitting high.”

While it didn’t take long to get to the crash site, the trek was still costly. One round hit Landreth’s friend Earl in the head. Prior to his friend’s injury, Landreth had expected to get out of the battle in mostly one piece.

He knew there would be casualties from the

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helicopter crash, but he believed the assault team could rescue and defend the crash survivors. But seeing Earl mortally wounded, the intensity of the situation, of the team being outmanned and outgunned, became all too real.

“We received fire from every turn, every corner, and the volume of the fire was so loud, we couldn’t communicate with each other,” Landreth remembers. “It was challenging. It was very, very loud. In all my years afterwards, I never saw that intensity of fire.”

There was so much gunfire from every direction that it was difficult to get a sense of the whole situation. “Most guys knew what happened in their immediate area of influence where you could touch because there were so many things going on,” Landreth explains. “You’re standing there and the guy next to you falls and you notice it but you’re so busy shooting, engaging peo-

Had this mission not had fatalities in it or helicopter crashes, you probably wouldn’t have heard about it.

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ple, you can’t do anything about it. After you do your thing, you look and you grab them and drag them off. It was just so busy. It was challenging just to think what’s next. We secured that building and brought our wounded in there.”

In total, 99 men were spread out among several buildings across several city blocks. The good news: The crew of the first helicopter had been rescued by a Little Bird helicopter crew. The bad news: They were stuck in enemy territory until a rescue convoy was deployed.

At midnight, almost eight hours after securing the building, they waited for a helicopter to drop much-needed medical supplies and water. They knew the rescue convoy that would bring them back to the airfield would take longer. Everybody was severely dehydrated. The semi-arid climate coupled with the scorching sun had drained even the strongest soldier. And when the water bottles dropped from the helicopter shattered, the soldiers resorted to drinking the local, rusty water and just prayed that they didn’t get sick. Landreth recalls wishing he had defied orders and grabbed that second canteen or even that extra mag at the start of the mission.

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supply. Extra ammo would weigh down the Black Hawks, and having an extra man on the mission was deemed more important than extra bullets – in hindsight, a deadly series of decisions by command.

Now in the middle of the night, the stranded soldiers hoped for a reprieve. The moon, the only illumination in the area, was appropriately waning. Had they had their night-vision goggles, the team would have decimated their enemies. But they were one more item left behind. Instead, the team was forced to defend their position.

“Bad guys were sneaking up, crawling up on us, trying to get close enough to see who we were, where we were, and also to drop grenades on you or shoot at you,” Landreth says.

At one point, as Landreth stood watch at a window, a Somali man casually walked by. Another soldier in the house, at the next window, shot the man and “unintentionally hit the light on his gun,” alerting all the enemies to their location. The entire room was immediately lit up with bullets.

“It was intense fire coming in, glass was breaking, things were falling off the roof, and I thought, if a ricochet doesn’t get me, one of the bullets will,” Landreth recalls. The metal bar across the window “looked like a disco light, it was dancing with bullets hitting it.” And then the RPGs came.

“One hit right past [my friend’s] window and hit the window behind us in another room and sprayed that whole room with fragmentation,” he recalls. But miraculously, “[it] didn’t hit anybody.”

The rest of the night, they received intermittent fire, but right before the break of dawn, it was quiet. The bad guys were finally taking a break and the rescue convoy made their move. The

Gen. Garrison modified the famous Shakespeare St. Crispin’s Day speech in “Henry V” when he addressed the soldiers that fought in the Battle of Mogadishu.

Courtesy of U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum

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convoy of U.N. vehicles eventually made their way to Landreth’s team, but the rescue didn’t bring much consolation.

There were only enough vehicles for the wounded.

The able-bodied men would have to make the trek to the airfield on foot. That journey would later be known as the Mogadishu Mile.

“You had to run out next to armored vehicles that were receiving RPGs and we were getting hit by it,” Landreth remembers. “Bad guys again started opening up on us and I was down to my last mag and my weapon was double feeding, so I’m fighting with trying to clear that, running down the street, getting shot at. It wasn’t a fun day.” Eventually he found a vehicle to hop into and was taken back to the airfield.

It was when Landreth finally got back to the “safe zone” that he put the pieces of the events together. He learned that a convoy of trucks retrieving the targets took a wrong turn that cost the lives of five men, that one of the pilots was captured (he was released after 11 days), and that three soldiers died in the first crash while the second claimed the lives of five, including two of Landreth’s good friends, snipers Gary Gordon and Randall Shugart. In fact, Gordon and Shugart volunteered

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As a result of the battle, U.S. forces were pulled out of Somalia. Landreth (inset), pictured a month before the battle, says to this day he believes they should have stayed. “Unfortunately, before we got a chance to go back and do justice … [President Clinton] withdrew us from the country.”

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not once but four times before getting the go-ahead to defend the second downed helicopter.

“They would have fought to their death. Sure enough they did,” Landreth says. Their actions that day earned them Medals of Honor, the highest military honor.

Eighteen U.S. soldiers lost their lives in the Battle of Mogadishu. The other side lost hundreds, with thousands more wounded. Graphic images from the battle, including American soldiers being dragged through the streets, splashed across television sets and newspapers. The media put a spotlight on a group that normally shies away from the limelight. “Had this mission not had fatalities in it or helicopter crashes, you probably wouldn’t have heard about it,” Landreth says. “Special-operation forces conduct so many missions that people never hear about and many of them that they never will hear about. Things are happening right now that you and I don’t know about, good things. There are too many bad guys out there that would love to see America burn.”

Black Hawk Down continues to impact the military and popular culture. Twenty years later, and after several books and a movie, the battle remains an important lesson in military strategy and preparation. But most importantly, it upholds the ethos every U.S. soldier takes into battle, “Always place the mission first, never accept defeat, never quit, never leave a fallen comrade.”

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PHOTOS: Courtesy of the office of Nick Rahall (Rahall, fourth from left)

conversation with nick rahall by mike howe

hen it comes to transportation policy, specifically those policies that impact the trucking industry, Congressman Nick Rahall II, a Democrat from West Virginia, is one of the most influential members of Congress. Serving as the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Rahall leads the Democrats on the committee – a committee that has broad jurisdiction over highways, railways, airports, seaports, bus lines, pipelines and multiple federal agencies.

Rahall represents the 3rd Congressional District of West Virginia and has served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for 36 years. First elected in 1976, Rahall has been a key architect in every federal highway bill since that time. He has worked, and continues to work, to provide federal support to build better highways and safer bridges. Given his vast experience and institutional knowledge, our discussion with Rahall addresses everything from fuel prices to natural disasters to MAP-21.

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Have you ever had the opportunity to experience what the life of an overthe-road (OTR) truck driver is like or work closely with the trucking industry? What are your views of truck drivers and the trucking industry?

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life of an OTR trucker. But during my time on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which I’ve served on throughout my entire tenure in the Congress, I have worked closely with the industry and I have tremendous respect for our truckers who work day and night to help keep our economy moving.

How do you see the trucking industry, and in particular the individual driver, fitting into the new global/e-commerce economy? Is this an economy that will benefit professional truck drivers?

Global freight volumes are exploding. More and more people are shopping online and expect extremely fast shipping. This trend is not going to slow down. Freight volumes are expected to grow by 60 percent in the next three decades. One of the critical challenges facing our committee is how to make sure our transportation system keeps pace with these dramatic changes.

We must bridge the gaps that exist in all modes – highway, rail, water and air – between the current system’s capacity and our growing goods-movement needs. Trucking is an essential component of intermodal goods movement, and it is the mode by which almost all goods reach their final destination, be it a brick-and-mortar store or a consumer’s home. There will be no shortage of opportunities to move freight by truck drivers in this growing economy. Our job in Congress is to make sure drivers can do their jobs efficiently, by investing in our in-

frastructure to reduce congestion and bottlenecks.

Whether an owner-operator or company driver, all are faced with increased government regulation. What do you believe is the role of government in the industry, especially with regard to regulations and taxation?

Trucking companies today face historically low levels of economic regulation. Congress deregulated the trucking industry in the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 and removed significant barriers to entry. As a result, owneroperators are now a vital part of this industry. In 1980, there were approximately 17,000 trucking companies in the industry. Today, there are about 500,000 active carriers – the vast majority of these carriers are very small trucking companies or owner-operators.

The regulations that remain in place govern safety, which I believe to be critically important. In 2011, according to the National Highway Safety Administration, 3,757 people were killed and 88,000 people were injured in crashes involving large trucks.

Truck driving remains among the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ top 10 deadliest occupations. While I believe there is room for improving how trucking companies and drivers can demonstrate that they are safe, it is an appropriate role for, and the responsibility of, the government to set the standards for safety and see that only companies that meet these standards operate on our roads. o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3 C H A L L E N G E 29

The trucking industry recently went through, and is still going through, a challenge with regard to fuel prices. Is there anything that could be done to help cushion the impact of escalating fuel-price increases? How do you feel about a temporary repeal of the federal fuel tax in these situations?

The high cost of diesel fuel has a staggering impact on the trucking industry, its drivers, consumers and our economy. It costs a driver nearly $800 more to fill up a standard tractor-trailer today than it did 10 years ago. I strongly believe that mandatory fuel surcharges can provide significant relief to small companies and drivers struggling to deal with fluctuating costs. I have championed legislation in the past to require fuel surcharges to kick in once the price of fuel goes above a benchmark price.

Any surcharge, however, must be passed through to the driver stuck paying the higher price at the pump. Without clear guidelines and transparency, independent operators and drivers have little control what amount a broker or motor carrier charges a shipper. The federal fuel tax is collected at the rack and is paid by oil companies, not at the pump. This “solution” would do little to provide relief to consumers because high fuel prices have very little to do with the gas tax. The current gas tax rate was put in place in 1993, when the average retail price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.05. The federal gas tax has not changed in 15 years, yet the average price of a gallon of gas has tripled.

Hurricane Sandy, not unlike other natural disasters, resulted in a temporary waiver of several trucking industry regulations. This was done in the name of efficiency. Does this suggest there is overregulation on business by government?

In the wake of a major disaster, time is of the essence in order to respond immediately and deliver supplies to individuals, businesses and communities in need. After Hurricane Sandy, waivers that were issued from federal safety regulations, such as driver hours of service, were only available for a short period and were issued because of the potential for “immediate threat to human life or public welfare” in the region. That is a high standard and still puts public safety first. Waivers were also issued from fueltax payments – available only to companies that could not access their mileage and fuel records due to damaged facilities or power outage. This suggests to me that the federal government supports commerce and offers flexibility in the wake of disaster so that companies can get back to business as usual as soon as possible.

Has NAFTA benefited the American trucking industry in your view? What can be done to further ensure NAFTA works like it was intended? What about the NAFTA-specific Mexican Trucking Cross Border Program? Is it necessary and valuable?

Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, the opening of the U.S.-Mexico border to truck traffic has been delayed due to concerns over the negative impact on safety and the threat to American jobs. Unfortunately, the cross-border pilot program that is currently under way does not alleviate these concerns. The current “pilot program” is little more than a slow border opening, one carrier at a time. Some Mexican carriers under the program already have permanent operating authority – meaning they can continue to operate even if Congress or the administration ends the program.

So far there is little participation, meaning we are not testing the true impacts on safety when the border is fully open.

And to add insult to injury, DOT is using scarce Highway Trust Fund dollars to purchase electronic on-board recorders for

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Mexican carriers. U.S. truckers, through the federal fuel tax, are subsidizing the cost of doing business for their competitors. The trucking provisions of NAFTA are a bad deal for American truck drivers and the traveling public. Congress must remain vigilant to preserve its role in this debate that is so critical to the U.S. economy and its citizens.

The last Congress did not pass a “long term” highway bill, but did pass a shorter version – MAP-21. What is your view on the need for a long-term highway-funding bill (e.g., highway infrastructure)? Are long-term funding bills a thing of the past?

With MAP-21, Congress gave state departments of transportation some assurances to move forward with projects, but the shortterm nature of the new law and the stagnant funding levels provided under it simply do not allow us to make the investments necessary to maintain what we have, let alone rebuild our infrastructure and put in place the transportation network we need to compete in the global economy. I will be pushing hard for a long-term surface transportation bill to follow MAP-21 that delivers the robust investment levels we need to rebuild

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our infrastructure and provide the certainty that state DOTs need to move forward with large-scale projects.

Are you pleased with MAP-21? Are any reforms needed?

I voted for MAP-21 when it was passed a little more than a year ago and supported many of the reforms contained in the new law. But I was disappointed that we could only eke out a two-year bill that provided relatively flat funding for our surface transportation programs. And thanks to today’s hyper-partisan environment in the House, it was a tall order to even get there.

The infrastructure crisis that we face in this country is real. We can’t afford to sit still, as we are essentially doing with the funding levels provided under MAP-21, while other countries pass us by on the infrastructure expressway.

MAP-21 also failed to address the longterm problems facing the Highway Trust Fund. The funding gap in MAP-21 was paid for with General Fund revenues. This begins to walk away from the user pay principle that built the federal highway system.

The future of the Highway Trust Fund is somewhat in question. What do Congress and the Obama administration need to do to make certain there is funding for infrastructure in the future?

Failure to address how the Highway Trust Fund is financed will result in funding for our roads and highways running dry in just over a year from now. It’s high time that we move beyond the rhetoric when it comes to our infrastructure and recognize that it is about the money if we are to develop the transportation network that we all profess to want. I believe that all options need to be on the table and that revenue ideas from both sides of the aisle will need to be considered if we are going to restore the public’s trust in the trust fund.

You recently introduced the SAFE Bridges Act, which has gained good support. With the recent bridge collapse in the state of Washington, is it likely this will move forward? And what is the goal of the legislation?

The number of deficient or obsolete bridges that American trucks and motorists drive over every day exceeds 150,000. We need to get started immediately reducing this stag-

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“Providing the means for safe and reliable transportation is one of the core functions of our government,” says Rahall. gering backlog. The SAFE Bridges Act would provide a needed infusion of federal funding for states to begin to repair and replace these aging structures. While we absolutely need to identify a more sustainable funding source to address the backlog of deficient bridges over the long term, we can’t continue to put at risk the safety of the traveling public in the interim.

Providing the means for safe and reliable transportation is one of the core functions of our government and I will continue to push hard for consideration of this measure in the House of Representatives. Keeping our bridges in safe condition should not be a partisan issue. There are no Republican or Democratic bridges; there are just American bridges.

Transportation industries rely on energy industries. Do you believe increased domestic oil and gas production to be important to the future of American business?

I have long advocated a sustainable, long-term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Our nation should invest in new energy research and technologies aimed at taking full advantage of our domestic energy resources.

In that regard, I have also authored legislation that would promote technology to develop coal-to-liquid (CTL) fuels that could be used to supplement oil-based fuels. Broadening the use of our nation’s abundant coal supplies can help to reduce America’s over-reliance on foreign oil, and bring down prices at the pump.

Drivers often spend weeks away from home, not unlike members of Congress. What comments do you have for the hardworking American truck drivers who are struggling to make ends meet and balance a family life at the same time?

I do know the difficulty of being away from home for extended periods of time. The congressional calendar doesn’t allow for members to return home to their families during the workweek and the weekends can be consumed with official events and other duties in different parts of a member’s district.

Life on the road frequently deprives truckers of precious time with loved ones, be it dinner with the family or tucking their children into bed at night. But I hope that all truckers are able to take some comfort in the knowledge that their sacrifice keeps America moving. Their noble profession enables the delivery of almost every product we use and consume in this country, and the work they do night and day is irreplaceable. w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

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by robert ham

he sound of old-time string-band music – the kind played on mostly acoustic instruments and usually performed with foot-stomping verve – has reached levels of success today that few could have predicted.

Sure, there have been Grammy-winning victories like the soundtrack to the 2000 film

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“O Brother, Where Are Thou?” But even the folks who played on that multi-platinum selling collection would never have foreseen the stadium-sized accomplishments of groups like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers.

For all the attention being directed toward this new generation of fiddlers and

banjo pickers, it’s a wonder that Old Crow Medicine Show isn’t a household name yet.

The Virginia-born and Nashville-bred septet certainly have the pedigree to reach the highest of heights in the music industry. Their signature song “Wagon Wheel” has sold more than 3 million digital copies, thanks in part to superstar Darius Rucker’s

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After performing on “A Prairie Home Companion,” Garrison Keillor called the group, “one of the greatest bands that ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ has ever had the pleasure to host.” recording a version of it for his latest album, “True Believers.” The success of that song also helped propel Old Crow’s latest album, “Carry Me Back,” up to No. 22 on the Billboard album chart.

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The band has also earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the best live acts around. They’ve been invited on tour with everyone from the Avett Brothers to Portugal. The Man, and have taken the stage at

such legendary venues as the Ryman Auditorium, where the Grand Ole Opry has held court for more than 80 years. The group has also become a fixture of the summer festival circuit, making multiple appearances at events like Coachella, Bonnaroo and the Newport Folk Festival.

So while it’s surprising that Old Crow Medicine Show isn’t being revered as much as their friends in Mumford & Sons, no one in the band is going to gripe about his lot in this musical life.

“It brings to mind a minor league ball team,” says Old Crow’s vocalist and fiddle player, Ketch Secor. “We’re on the road all the time and we’re always hoping for something a little bit more, working towards something that isn’t readily apparent. But you never complain too much about this.

We are doing what we love to do. There’s a lot of bad food and lukewarm showers and less-than-desirable hotel rooms along the way, but there’s always a song at the end of the day.”

Considering the trajectory that the band’s career has taken, it’s little wonder that Secor and his bandmates – guitjo player Kevin Hayes, bassist Morgan Jahnig, banjo and dobro player Gill Landry, guitarists Chris “Critter” Fuqua and Chance McCoy, and mandolin picker Cory Younts

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Ketch Secor, fiddler and singer in the band, wrote “Wagon Wheel,” which was covered by Darius Rucker. The song has since sold more than 1 million copies.

– look upon life’s minor inconveniences with a touch of humility.

The majority of the Medicine Show grew up in and around Harrisonburg, Va., absorbing the sounds of country music and culture, Secor says, by choice.

“We weren’t raised in that lifestyle,” he says, speaking on the phone from his home in Nashville. “Our parents weren’t teachers for us. I decided when I was about 14 that I identified more with Willie Nelson than the pop music playing on the radio. That led us to folks like Waylon Jennings and Bob Dylan and beyond. Once we made that connection, boy, we sure began to play our music a

little louder and a little harder.”

Secor cobbled the earliest version of the band together in 1998, after spending a post-high school year wandering the East Coast working odd jobs and doing his own research into the history of American folk, country and bluegrass. It was this lineup of Old Crow Medicine Show that crossed the border into Canada and spent a few months traveling through the country and playing for anyone willing to listen.

“It was just so wild and free,” Secor remembers. “There was no website and nobody was emailing us. We used pay phones and sold cassettes.

We’d walk into a joint and introduce ourselves. ‘We drove

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In September, the band became the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. They were invited by singer/songwriter Marty Stuart. all the way here to Manitoba, don’t you think that we deserve a chance to play?’

There was something so simple to it all.”

Simplicity is the key to all of Old Crow’s music. Everything the band recorded up to “Carry Me Back” was recorded with the

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instruments circled around a single microphone, and each song was given the ultimate old-timey litmus test: it was played live on a street corner.

By 1999, the band had settled in North Carolina, with all six men living a throw-

back communal-style existence in the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Boone. When they needed money, they would haul their instruments into downtown Boone and busk for passersby.

One of the people that happened upon the band ended up helping give Old Crow Medicine Show the biggest break yet of their career. The daughter of bluegrass icon Doc Watson stumbled upon the group performing on the same corner where her father got his start. She then brought her dad down to hear the group play. ”It was one of those moments that felt like it was meant to be,” says Secor. “It felt like a powerful almighty hand was constructing the moment. ‘This is the part where Doc Watson comes out and gives us a big life-changing gig.’”

Watson invited them to play at Merlefest, a celebration of traditional music held every year at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C. Old Crow’s set during the festival was well-received, but things exploded when the band decided to perform an impromptu set in the center of campus. They drew hundreds of people, including the event manager for the Grand Ole Opry, who invited the band to play on weekends in the plaza outside the auditorium.

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The band is originally from upstate New York but eventually moved south to be nearer the roots of their music. They now call Nashville home.

“It’s hard to believe any of it,” Secor says, still awed after all these years. “Did that really happen? Did we really get to play the Grand Ole Opry? Did we really get to play fiddles and old-time music on a street corner and make $600 a night?”

Old Crow hasn’t really slowed down since then.

Apart from a short hiatus they took in late 2011, the group is constantly on the move. They’ve played revuestyle shows with Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings, done a short tour on a railcar with Mumford & Sons (a trip documented in the film “Big Easy Express”), and circled the globe a few times over by this point.

And like most any band, they’ve had to deal with some extreme ups and downs. The biggest low was dealing with the departure of Fuqua, who left the fold for a stretch to seek treatment for alcohol abuse and spend some time in school (he has since rejoined the band).

At the same time, “Wagon Wheel” was continuing to gather commercial steam.

The song was built from a

Bob Dylan track that he attempted but never completed for the film “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.” All Dylan had was a chorus, and Secor built an entire song around that small chunk.

The song has become Old Crow’s calling card and has been covered by the likes of punk rockers Against Me!, the long-running rock group Little Feat and Rucker.

The attention for “Wagon Wheel” and every leap forward they’ve taken has been great, but, says Secor, the band makes sure to stay connected to their roots.

“It’s important to me to keep in check with those forces that inspired me as a young picker. I play on the street corner once a year. I still play in schools. I recently played a nursing home program here in Nashville for these longterm care residents who have become wards of the state.

It’s bleak, real bleak, but this kind of music can put a smile on your face. That’s what I love about country music: It’s a salve for those folks who need it most.”

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eastbound & down by pam windsor

ans of HBO’s “Eastbound & Down” have come to expect surprises. In fact, that’s been part of the attraction all along and the reason the show remains one of the cable network’s most watched comedies – you never know what to expect.

So, when the third season wrapped up with main character Kenny Powers making a bold, shocking move, it seemed the perfect ending to both the season and the series. Fans couldn’t possibly imagine what might happen next.

Then HBO encouraged the creators of the show – who had originally envisioned just that three-season arc – to come back for a fourth season. Now fans are waiting to see what’s next for that down-and-out baseball pitcher whose main goal was to get back in the Major League at all costs, then when he gets there, actually pitching during a big game, changes his mind in dramatic – and true Kenny – fashion.

Kenny Powers, played by Danny McBride, is the joint creation of McBride,

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Jody Hill and Ben Best. The three became friends and co-collaborators while attending the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Chris Henchy, one of the show’s executive producers, along with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, recalls when McBride and the others first pitched the idea.

“They’d mentioned doing a television show about a down-and-out baseball player who has dreams and is not very selfaware and always gets the wrong lesson,” he recalls, noting that what really helped sell the show was McBride’s portrayal of Powers. “You want to have these smart answers about the character and the journey and the depths they go to but it was first and foremost Danny doing this character that was flat-out funny. I could listen to this guy talk all day.”

The pilot episode started with Powers – who flamed out of a career in baseball – returning home to Shelby, N.C., where he takes a job as a gym teacher at his old middle school and looks ahead to when

he’ll be able to reclaim his former glory.

His massive ego and cocky attitude help steer his choices as he moves from one questionable decision to another, always deliberate, always determined, always hilarious.

In HBO’s “The Making of Eastbound & Down,” McBride explained his character this way: “On paper, he should be, like, an epic hero, but when you really take a look at this guy, he’s, like, the worst person who’s ever lived.”

Powers moves from situation to situation making one inappropriate, offensive, often profanity-laden comment after another. After moving in with his brother’s family when he has no place else to go, Powers joins them around the dinner table. There is a reference to the youngest daughter he’s never met. She’s named Rose, after Kate Winslet’s character in the movie “Titanic.”

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to the youngest son, asking, “What’s his name, (expletive) Shrek?”

After Powers starts his new job at the middle school, the principal, pleased at having the famous Kenny Powers on staff, tells him, “There’s something you need to know about, Kenny. You’re not the only athlete here at Jeff Davis. I happen to be training for a triathlon right now – so, doing a lot of running and cycling, swimming. Well, you know all about that?”

And Powers says, “No, actually, I don’t.

I play real sports, not trying to be the best at exercising.”

When his good friend and fellow baseball player (played by Jason Sudeikis) dies of a drug overdose, Powers shows up at the outdoor funeral service carrying a boom box, playing music and interrupting family speeches to give one of his own. He tells the crowd he and his friend watched a lot of movies together, including “Top Gun.” “Oftentimes we would joke with each other, who was Goose and who was Tom Cruise? Well, now that Shane is dead I guess we know who was Goose. Shane is Goose, because in that motion picture Goose dies, so, Shane is dead, so he would be Goose. And that would make me Tom Cruise. I’m Tom Cruise, guys.”

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But despite his over-the-top, abrupt and rude approach there is something about Powers that makes you root for him.

“Kenny unabashedly knows what he

“It is dark, it is initially assaultive and a punch in the face, but as you start to watch it you realize he’s a very vulnerable but desperate guy who’s insanely funny to watch.”

- Chris Henchy

wants and will go after it unapologetically, and never do it correctly,” says Henchy.

The character is a unique anti-hero of sorts who has garnered a wide and varied audience, despite the edgy nature of the show.

“I’ve always said you’ve got to give this show a couple of episodes. I think you

have to do that with anything,” explains Henchy. “It is dark, it is initially assaultive and a punch in the face, but as you start to watch it you realize he’s a very vulnerable but desperate guy who’s insanely funny to watch.”

McBride and the show’s co-writers are also insanely funny to work with, according to Elizabeth De Razzo, who plays Maria, the Spanish-speaking wife of Powers’ best friend, Stevie Janowski. “Sometimes it’s hard putting on a straight face with some of the things that are coming out of their mouths,” she says. “I end up really cracking up sometimes and have to stop myself from doing so.”

She’s not alone, noting that she and Stevie have been in a few compromising sexual scenes over the years and when things get awkward and funny, things get crazy.

“Where, like, if Danny’s our cue to stop doing something, he’s just laughing so hard that sometimes he won’t cue us because he forgets because he’s laughing.

You know, things like that.”

De Razzo, who had a few small guest spots on TV shows prior to working on “Eastbound & Down,” says the show has been a terrific training ground for her.

“They’re such talented writers and write

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Elizabeth De Razzo, who plays Maria, admits there is never a dull moment on set. “Sometimes it’s hard to put on a straight face.” these amazing scripts, but you’re also allowed to play off the page and sort of just improv and you can keep going and going. I think it’s a great master class in improv. I’ve just learned so much because they do it so brilliantly.”

She too returned to the set for the fourth season interested to see how everything would play out after last season. “It was wrapped up in a pretty bow but the great thing about these guys is they’re amazing, they’re such talented writers and I think fans are going to enjoy the season.”

She couldn’t talk about the storyline but notes that her character does return. “My character does evolve; she evolves a lot. There’s something that happens to Maria

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this season and I can’t spoil it but it was really funny watching how the guys reacted to Maria.”

“Eastbound & Down” has thrived on surprises, twists and taking risks. At the end of the first season Kenny Powers got his shot at the majors with an offer from the Tampa Blue Rays. He bid farewell to family and friends and planned to head to Florida with his girlfriend, April (after just winning her back). At the last minute he got a call informing him the deal was off. Instead of telling the truth, he waved goodbye to his family, then as he and April stopped to get gas on the way out of town and she went inside, he left her at the station, her suitcase on the curb, and drove away. The next w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

season kicked off with Kenny Powers in Mexico and with a whole new cast of characters.

“That’s one of the great things about these guys,” says Henchy. “They don’t hold true to any form that people are expecting. These guys have this first successful season with characters they established and people loved and the second season they throw it all away and send the guy down to Mexico. And we’re all going ‘God, do you do that?’”

They did it. And it worked. So when the show returns Sept. 29, more than 4 million fans will be watching to see how Kenny Powers comes back after last year’s climactic season-ender.

“They’re storytellers … so they put a lot of time into figuring out where they want to go,” Henchy explains. “They were feeling like baseball was getting old for them and it was hard to tell those stories. Those guys don’t play baseball and it’s not the most important part of the show so they were wondering where it went next. And I think they came up with a great storyline for next season.”

Whatever happens, you can bet it will be funny and unpredictable, the very reasons people keep watching.

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Season 3 was to be the last for Kenny Powers, played by Danny McBride, but HBO and a whole lot of fans persuaded McBride to return for one more season. Season 4 debuted on Sept. 29.

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PHOTO: St. Christopher Fund From left, Dr. John McElligott, co-founder and Donna Kennedy, executive director

St. Christopher Fund by greg girard

t wasn’t the way he planned it, but Jesse Massaro was making it work. A veteran truck driver, he had taken a local job hauling concrete, after nearly 30 years of coast-to-coast driving, to care for his wife, Pam, who was diagnosed with cancer. He worked hard, logging in the daily 180-mile round trip from Lexington, Ky., to Louisville. It was tough, he admits, balancing his job and caring for Pam, but the income was steady and they were taking it day by day, until the accident.

Out for a ride on his motorcycle last spring, Jesse crashed. He suffered severe compound fractures to his lower left leg, and the doctor told him he’d be out of work for at least seven months.

“I was driving a truck every day and in a matter of seconds on a Sunday afternoon, here I am out of business for probably a year or a year and a half,” says Jesse.

“All this while my wife was two weeks out from having a lobectomy. They took out the center section of her right lung.” No more income, no more security.

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They did everything to make ends meet. Pam worked the phones, calling numerous government agencies seeking financial assistance, but to no avail. Jesse put jugs on the counter of some local truck stops, telling their story and asking for donations. They sold their cars and some of their gun collection to keep up with it all.

And they did their best stretching Pam’s disability check of $722 per month to pay the bills. “Trust me, that doesn’t go very far.”

It was the electricity that really had them worried. Pam needs oxygen, which requires electricity, for her cancer treatment. “They were going to cut our power off,” Jesse says. “We even went over there with a doctor’s note saying that without oxygen she would die and they said sorry about your luck, buddy, but you either pay your bill or we turn you off.” The bill was $207.

Dispirited and frustrated, Jesse made another trip to check on the jugs at the truck stop. There were a few rolls of cash,

and as he unwound a roll of five $1 bills, he found a note in the center, “Call the St. Christopher Fund.” Jesse had never heard of the St. Christopher Fund but when he got home, he called them. Within a week, $600 was sent directly to the electric company, enough to cover several months of power.

“The St. Christopher Fund has really just flabbergasted me,” says Jesse. “They were there when no one else was. We tried everything and St. Christopher Fund came through for me. I can’t say enough good about them.”

Started in 2007, the St. Christopher Truckers Development and Relief Fund (SCF) was established to help trucker drivers who’ve come under financial hardship due to medical problems. Dave Nemo, host of “The Dave Nemo Show” on Sirius XM radio, was tired of hearing story after story of truck drivers and their families struggling to survive after injury or illness, so he enlisted Dr. John McElligott and together they established SCF to address a problem plaguing the industry. w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

According to SCF, 70 percent of the more than 3 million drivers in the U.S. have at least one serious health problem, with obesity, diabetes, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease topping the list. Exacerbating the problem, nearly onethird of all drivers don’t have health insurance.

So along with financial assistance, SCF also focuses on health and wellness education. The goal is to help drivers avoid the “downward spiral” where a minor health issue turns into something more serious, which could lead to a driver losing his or her job, commercial license or even life.

“We go by the St. Christopher Fund, but our big long name is the St. Christopher Trucker Development and Relief Fund,” explains Donna Kennedy, executive directory of SCF. “The development part is supposed to be for doing some health research and promotional and wellness programs. We want to be proactive and help drivers before we get to that [financial assistance] point.”

But if a driver needs the help, SCF is ready and willing.

Since its inception, SCF has distributed more than $430,000 to 805 drivers in need, helping pay for everything from mort-

PHOTO: Jesse Massaro

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gages and utility bills to hospital and basic living expenses. No jumping through hoops. No red tape.

“I was totally surprised and amazed at the ease to apply for assistance, the speed in which they responded,” recalls Jesse. “The application process was very simple. They sent me an email, I printed it off, filled it out and dropped it in the mail. I think it was about four days later, they called and said I was approved.”

Drivers asking for SCF assistance must give the organization permission to review their medical records and prove they have a commercial license. SCF then allots a certain amount, depending on need, and pays the expenses and bills of the driver directly. Drivers can apply up to three times for assistance.

SCF is a nonprofit, and so relies on donations to provide assistance. In fact, 68 percent of the organization’s donations come from fellow drivers, and while that says a lot about the brotherhood of the profession, SCF is hoping to get more involvement from companies in the industry, like Brenny Transportation.

Joyce Brenny, owner of Brenny Transportation, has given to SCF for years and recently joined its board of directors.

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Her mission is to get more companies involved in a charity that takes care of the industry’s most valuable asset.

“It’s a passion of mine to do what I can to bring attention to the help drivers need,” says Brenny. “Becoming involved in St. Christopher is really telling truck drivers that you respect them. You respect what they do and it’s one more avenue to show our support.” And with driver shortages dogging the industry, Brenny says companies can benefit from supporting SCF. “They’re getting a healthy driver back, ready to roll again.”

For Jesse, SCF gave him breathing room and offers an example of someone who’s not looking for handouts. He just needed a little help. “I’m 56 years old. I’ve never collected an unemployment check.

I’m one of those people, I work. Anytime I needed money, I’d go out and do more work. And then you get hit with something like this.”

Jesse is still in pain. His foot will swell up to twice its size before breakfast unless he straps on boots as soon as he wakes up.

He learned from a visit to the doctor in July that he may need bone graft surgery.

He’s still not sure when he’ll be able to get back out on the road.

He’s also been in touch with SCF and was told he’s eligible for further assistance if he needs it. He says he can’t emphasize enough how vital SCF has been for his wife and him.

“I would urge [drivers] to donate to St. Christopher Fund,” he says. “You never know. It could be you that needs the assistance. You can’t predict life. I was going along fine and then, boom, here I am out of work. I would say St. Christopher is there for the professional driver, when no one else will be. They were lifesavers, no doubt.”

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Outdoor cooking

Black ’n’ Blue Cheese Burgers

BY Mac and the Big cheese

The Big CheesE: I want something spicy, delicious and sweet.

Black ’n’ Blue Cheese Burgers

INGREDIENTS:

Pat: What else is new? If I had a dollar

for every time you said that, I wouldn’t have to work with you anymore.

1 pound ground beef 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon liquid smoke 1 egg 2 tablespoons Italian breadcrumbs 1 tablespoon chopped garlic 1/4 cup white onion, finely chopped 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 pack Gorgonzola cheese Blackened seasoning Salt and pepper to taste

The Big CheesE: I’m craving a burger. I

want it spicy, but also with tasty pungent cheese to go with it – not the typical cheddar or American.

Pat: There is no better cheese on a burger than blue cheese.

The Big CheesE: Who do you think you’re talking too? I’m the Big Cheese.

I already know these things. Besides, I don’t want it melted on top of the burger; I want it in the burger!

DIRECTIONS: Mix all ingredients in a large bowl, and press into patties. Then place on the grill, cooking on both sides on a medium heat for 7 or so minutes. Serve on a bun with barbecue sauce on top – we prefer Sweet Baby Ray’s.

Pat: Finally, you say something intel-

ligent. A burger with blue cheese in it – now that sounds like a treat. What do we call it?

The Big CheesE: Black ’n’ blue cheese

burger.

Pat: Sounds like you beat the burger up.

Sweet Peach Delight

The Big CheesE: True, but I already got rid of the evidence.

Pat: You are so cheesy.

The Big CheesE: That’s why they call

INGREDIENTS: 6 whole peaches, halved 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 5 tablespoons brown sugar 3 tablespoons granulated suga

me the Big Cheese!

DIRECTIONS:

Pat: Should be the big cheesy!

Sauté the peaches with the butter and sugars on a medium-low heat for 20 minutes, then turn over and sauté for another 20 minutes. Cut the halves in half, making sure the non-sautéed parts are sautéed. Cook until entire peach is soft and delicious. Use the sauce from the butter and sugars to plate the dessert and make it look amazing. Enjoy!

Here’s the recipe for our world-famous black ’n’ blue cheese burgers. For dessert, keep the grill hot and try our sweet peach delight.

Mac and the Big Cheese are authors of the best-selling “Ultimate Camp Cooking.”

For more information on the cooking duo, visit www.ultimatecampcooking.com. w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

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sit at my station in the beach store. Computer screen before me, phone to my ear.

Taking another reservation, waiting on another customer, weary, in a funk. It is high summer and another busy Friday afternoon at this northern California coast RV park.

A tall, pale-complexioned man walks in.

Says, “I’m here to check in.” I say, “Welcome to Caspar Beach.” The greeting sounds hollow to my ears. I try a smile (but don’t feel it) as I ring up his bill.

Giving him his car tag and campground map, I look into his eyes. Something there

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tugs at my heart. Helpless? Resigned? Just tired from the road?

Before I can ponder the mystery any further he solves it with words that pluck at my heartstrings. “I have terminal cancer,” he says. “This vacation is part of my bucket list. It’s my first time here. Looks like a nice place.”

Willing sudden tears to disappear, I give him a genuine smile this time and say, “You’ve come to a wonderful place.” What else can I say to someone who knows that death is imminent? Nothing but the truth.

In a nanosecond, my earlier funk is gone. It is replaced by the simple awesomeness of being alive and healthy and happy.

The next day I walk to a lonesome, rugged beach where the waves thunder to shore. The air is filled with sea mist. It’s not a friendly place like Caspar Beach, with melodious waves lapping the shore, soaring varieties of birds and myriad sea life, inviting and commodious to all ages and activities.

Virgin Creek Beach is wild, uninhabited, tumultuous. The waves range from three to five feet, crashing to shore, calling solace to none, daring only the brave or stupid to enter its waters.

I’m here just because I’m curious, wanting to experience this rugged beauty, to savor some alone time.

A lone surfer meanders along the path.

He waves to me; I recognize this man from our earlier encounter at the store. Headed for the beach, he wears a wetsuit and carries a surfboard. Surely he’s not going in.

I watch as he walks right up to the thundering waves, lies on his surfboard and begins to paddle out beyond the breaking of the waves.

He sits on his board, surveying the ocean blue. A mound of water surges toward him.

A good sign it will be a decent wave. He deftly turns on his board, stands, and rides the wave to shore.

I, sitting on a knoll, photograph the moment, as he waves in triumph. I am sole witness to the indomitable human spirit. We take it as it comes to us: sometimes struggling to stay afloat, sometimes riding high on the waves of life.

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Sugar Substitutes by linda mcgirr Linda McGirr is a Registered Dietitian and certified Dietitian-Nutritionist

ave a sweet tooth? Most of us do. Unfortunately, sugar-sweetened foods and beverages have been strongly associated with increased body weight and a number of related conditions, including Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the average American consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is the equivalent of 2.5 cans of regular soda, or 350 calories. The American Medical Association has long recommended limiting your intake of added sugar to reduce the risk associated with gaining weight and obesity.

Luckily, there are plenty of alternatives to sugar out there. There are both nutritive sweeteners (which provide some, but fewer, calories than sugar) and non-nutritive intense sweeteners (which provide very few or no calories) on the market. These substances do not cause cavities and are designed to satisfy our cravings for sweets while decreasing or eliminating our sugar and calorie intake from certain foods.

Remember, though, sugar-free does not mean calorie-free. Calories may be provided from other substances in foods besides sugar, such as carbohydrates, protein and fat. Although artificial sweeteners are not known to provide any specific benefits by themselves, they may assist in short-term weight-loss efforts in adults. Since artificially sweetened foods and beverages may displace more healthful choices such as fruit and milk, you should make an effort to ensure that your diet is well-balanced before adding them to the mix.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for determining the safety of all food additives, including sweeteners. Testing for approval is based on whether the substance is safe from being toxic, from causing cancer and neurological problems and from affecting unborn children during pregnancy.

FDA-approved nutritive sweeteners in-

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clude sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, erythritol, isomalt, lactitol, maltitol and hydrogenated starch hydrolysates. I know, sounds like a different language, but these substances are used in a variety of foods, including gum, candies, beverages and snack foods.

Non-nutritive sweeteners are absorbed in the body slowly and incompletely and require little or no insulin for metabolism. This makes them appropriate for people with diabetes. The down side of these products is that they may cause abdominal gas or have a laxative effect when consumed in excess.

Popular FDA-approved non-nutritive sweeteners include saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose, neotame, stevia and luo han guo. These sweeteners have various brand names that probably sound a little more familiar, like Nutrisweet and Equal, and are used as table-top sweeteners and in baked goods, desserts, candies, beverages and yogurt.

The majority of research available has been done on saccharin and aspartame. The others are still relatively new and more studies are needed to determine long-term effects. Though scientific research has not shown adverse effects, some claim that long-term exposure to substances in these sweeteners could lead to various medical problems. Since the research is limited, moderation is recommended, especially in children and pregnant women. Here’s what we know about each of these to date:

Saccharin is 300 times sweeter than sugar.

Since it has a bitter aftertaste, it is often mixed with other sweeteners. It was previously banned after some studies indicated that it was found to cause cancer in rats. The ban was lifted in 2000, however, when the research used was determined to not be pertinent to humans.

Saccharin keeps its sweetness when heated, so can be used successfully in cooking and baking. (When cooking with any artificial sweeteners, recipes will need to be adjusted to obtain desirable results. Your best bet is to contact the manufacturer for tested recipes.) w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

Aspartame is 200 times as sweet as sugar. It is not heat-stable and therefore cannot be used in cooking unless you can add it at the very end. Aspartame is most often used in soft drinks. It has 4 calories per serving. Despite its being deemed as safe, claims about adverse side effects remain. Fears include toxicity, and a role in causing headaches, attention deficit disorder and seizures in children. Scientific studies do not show that aspartame is associated with these health problems. A person can, however, be sensitive to aspartame just as a person can be sensitive to many different substances in food. If you believe you are sensitive, you should probably avoid it, but the evidence shows that aspartame is safe for most people. People diagnosed with the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) should avoid aspartame since it contains phenylalanine, which cannot be metabolized by people with this disorder.

Acesulfame-K is 200 times sweeter than sugar. It is a zero-calorie sweetener that can be used in cooking. Studies indicate that most of the sweetener is excreted in urine and not retained in the body.

Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sugar. This sweetener is not absorbed in the body and therefore provides no calories. It is heatstable and can be used in cooking.

Neotame is a whopping 7,000-13,000 times sweeter than sugar. Although it is used in items such as beverages, dairy products and gum, it is currently not available for purchase by consumers as a sweetener.

Stevia (green packet) is 200-300 times sweeter than sugar and comes from the leaves of a bush native to South and Central America. It should not be confused with whole stevia leaves, which are sold as dietary supplements. Stevia is heat-stable but may be bitter in higher amounts.

Luo han guo, also known as monk fruit extract, is approximately 300 times sweeter than sugar. This sweetener can be used in cooking but may have an aftertaste in large amounts.

Acceptable Daily Intake

The Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of a substance is the highest amount determined to be safe for a person to consume each day for life. The chart below reflects, of those sweeteners that have an ADI, how much a 150-pound person would have to consume every day to exceed the ADI. A 50-pound child could consume one third of this amount safely.

A 200-pound person could safely consume 25 percent more.

Sweetener

Number of 12-ounce cans of diet soda per day to reach ADI

Number of artificialsweetener packets per day to reach ADI

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2.4

8.6

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97.4

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25.6

20.4

Sucralose

4.8

68.2

Stevia

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Despite the bad hype that sugar substitutes get in the press and on the Internet, the evidence indicates that they can be used safely. Cutting out some of the sugar in our diet can benefit many of us. The bottom line is that having a diet soda, a sugar-free cookie or using a sugar substitute in your coffee will, most likely, not hurt you. But, since studies on humans are limited, moderation is probably wise. Of course, drinking water and having fresh fruit for dessert more often is always a healthy choice. Black coffee, however, is an acquired taste. w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

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the mast of fall by brenda potts

all is my favorite time of year. There are obvious reasons: archery deer season opening in my state on Oct. 1, the fall colors and the lovely weather, to name just a few.

Fall colors are spectacular and can assist even a mediocre photographer in producing a true masterpiece. Fall also inspires poets. “Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak,” wrote Susan Lendroth in her book “Ocean Wide, Ocean Deep.”

In years long past, this time of year was referred to as harvest. But as more folks moved to cities and towns, the words “autumn” and “fall” became more widely used. Fall refers to the “fall of the leaf” or the “fall of the year.” For hunters, “fall of the acorn” may be preferred, as big bucks can be briefly patterned in areas with good acorn crops. The sound of a squirrel cutting nut trees always brings a smile to a hunter’s face.

As you might imagine, acorns are vital to the woodland ecology. They, along with other nuts, are generally referred to as mast. Hunters pay close attention to the mast of fall. Where there are nuts, there are squirrels, turkey and deer – three of the most popular game animals. When there is a good mast crop, vast areas of timber can be difficult to hunt since animals can feed throughout big areas. To narrow down the options, some hunters will pour fertilizer on the ground near a specific tree, hoping to produce a more nutritious mast. Somehow the animals

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know which plants have the most nutrients, so this trick often works, luring a big buck to a particular tree.

And if you need to move some acorn trees, scientists have discovered that blue jays can help with relocation. A study from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University documented 50 jays transporting and caching 150,000 acorns in 28 days, or about 110 acorns per day per bird. No other factor, including wind, water or mammal, can match the work of the blue jay when it comes to moving acorns.

Acorns were also once an important food source for Native Americans and could be stored for up to two years. For some domestic animals, such as cattle, acorns can be deadly. If suitable forage is absent, cattle will sometimes eat acorns, but if they consume too many it can cause oak toxicity where the tannic acid in acorns concentrates in milk, causing problems for calves.

Legend has it that placing an acorn on a windowsill will prevent a house from being struck by lightning. I’m not sure I believe this one, but I do have several acorn-themed decorations in my house and so far, so good.

Every fall hunters hope to find a good mast crop with oak limbs weighed down by hundreds of acorns. October is a prime month for acorns and other masts of fall.

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,” L.M. Montgomery wrote in “Anne of Green Gables.” So am I! w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

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mark martin: mere mortal? by claire b. lang

was in a pack of reporters getting ready to interview NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart a week before he broke his leg in a dirt track race at Southern Iowa Speedway. He had just flipped his car multiple times and I knew he’d be testy talking about the crash.

“Mere mortals” who watched the crash thought it looked scary, I told him. Was it?

As I expected, Stewart wasn’t keen about calling more attention to the crash – so he gave a tongue-in-cheek reply that “mere mortals” should watch more sprint car races because those cars flip all the time.

His reply to my question that day was played all over national media after Stewart, the very next week, suffered a seasonending injury in yet another sprint car crash.

Who could possibly fill in for Tony Stewart? Who could match his testy nature, great sense of humor, superior racing talent and legion of fans? Enter Mark Martin.

So many larger-than-life, true-grit stories exist about the 54-year-old Martin that the tales, while common in the garage, have grown to epic proportions. Most of them are true.

I have seen Martin over the years, long after other drivers have left the garage, sitting on a bucket talking with his crew. I’ve seen every other driver pour every ounce of courage he could muster and come out trembling after his qualifying laps. Then I’ve witnessed Martin go out last, get the pole and proceed to jump out of the car laughing and looking to the sky.

Martin has been through all of the pain and joy that racing can dish out. His rookie NASCAR Winston Cup season in 1982 left him with such serious debt after a sponsor reneged on a deal that it forced him to auction off the equipment he owned. He had to drop back and make his return to shorttrack racing until 1988, when he returned full-time to NASCAR. And he never left.

Martin has had his share of pain and driving with injuries, so watching him fill in for Stewart these last few months has a sense of right about it.

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Martin competed at Daytona in July 1999 about 24 hours after he broke his left wrist in a practice crash. He also suffered a fractured a rib and a bruised knee in the incident, but he didn’t know that until later.

Regardless, he raced only after being lifted by a crewmember and eased into the car.

I remember Martin telling me he cut the cast off his arm, with scissors no less, during the race. He knows now how ridiculously dangerous that was.

Martin’s dad raised him tough. Julian Martin, who died in an airplane crash in 1998, was a colorful and hard-charging “man’s man” who built his trucking business from the ground up in Batesville, Ark. Martin told me of the day when, as a boy, his father made him drive a semi, telling him to take the wheel as they rolled down the road in a drive-it-or-crash, death-defying challenge. Martin drove that day and he hasn’t stopped since.

Tony Stewart’s dad, Nelson, is similarly tough. In an interview with him after the dirt track crash that took Tony out of his Sprint Cup Series car this season, Nelson told me that he and Tony know how to weather the storm and race despite pain or obstacles because “that is what Stewarts do.” It’s what Martins do too.

Mark Martin is a big-hearted family man who adores his wife, Arlene, and his son, Matt. In every situation I have ever seen him in these many years, he always acts as if he’s afraid one day he will not be blessed to drive in the sport he so loves.

One day, that will be the case and he’ll decide that he doesn’t want to race anymore. For now, though, we get another opportunity to watch Martin drive, and to see what determination and desire can do.

When Stewart gets back, I’m sure Martin will be more than proud to return his steering wheel to him, hoping that StewartHaas Racing will be better for him having been there a little while.

Mark Martin, a mere mortal, in the midst of one more legendary run, asks for no more.

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Trust Fund Troubles by mike howe Follow Mike on Twitter: @TruckingDC • Like Mike on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TruckingPoliticsMore

he Highway Trust Fund (HTF) has seen its share of scrutiny this year, and for good reason. There are real questions about its solvency and whether reforms are needed for funding infrastructure issues. The increased scrutiny is also the result of some high-profile bridge collapses, President Barack Obama making infrastructure a priority, and the reality that the HTF simply is not working as it once did.

Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, said at a recent hearing, “MAP-21 is set to expire on Sept. 30, 2014, and current projections show that the trust fund will once again become insolvent and unable to meet its obligations starting in fiscal year 2015. Without changes in spending levels or additional revenue, the trust fund will continue to be unable to meet its obligations over the 10-year budget window.”

Earlier this year, I spoke with Petri. During our conversation, he addressed the future of the HTF, saying, “We have to figure out how to pay for the transportation needs of the country. We’ve done that historically through a trust fund, principally through diesel and gasoline taxes. They are kind of a proxy for road use.

The revenue stream really has not been keeping up with needs. The level of user fee has not been changed since 1992 and has not been indexed for inflation. The costs have certainly changed over the last 20 years, though.”

One witness at the hearing was U.S. Department of Transportation Undersecretary for Policy Polly Trottenberg. Trottenberg addressed the reasons why the HTF is no longer able to meet the demands of infrastructure requirements.

“A number of converging factors have brought the trust fund to its current state: a structural deficit that is not projected to subside,” she said. “Beginning with sharp increases in fuel prices last decade, the rate of growth of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) declined as Americans began to economize their fuel consumption. This trend was exacerbated by the Great Recession in late 2007. Per capita VMT peaked in 2005 and continues to fall. Annual VMT dropped from approximately 3.03 trillion in 2008 to approximately 2.95 trillion as of April 2013.” Increased demands for alternative

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forms of transportation, such as transit, rail, walking and biking, have also contributed to the challenge.

Trottenberg added that estimates from the 2010 Conditions and Performance Report for maintaining the nation’s highway system, and improving it to meet future demand, would require that all levels of government combined increase capital investments from $91 billion to $170 billion annually over a 20-year period.

The president’s fiscal year 2014 Mid-Session Review estimates that the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund will have a cash balance of $4.6 billion, while the Mass Transit Account will have a cash balance of $300 million, by the end of fiscal year 2014.

Trottenberg indicated that after the end of fiscal year 2014 there will be another cash shortfall in these accounts to meet the growing number of projects needed.

Beginning in 2008, Congress addressed the shortfalls in the HTF by transferring money from the general fund, for a total of $41 billion thus far. Another $12.6 billion is scheduled for transfer in 2014 and $15 billion in 2015. The numbers continue to grow as the years pass.

Kim Cawley, chief of the Congressional Budget Office’s Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit, noted in the hearing that “bringing the trust fund into balance in 2015 would require entirely eliminating the authority in that year to obligate funds (projected to be about $51 billion), raising the taxes on motor fuels by about 10 cents per gallon, or undertaking some combination of those approaches.”

Congress has some difficult decisions to make on the future of the HTF and infrastructure funding in general – decisions that can’t be put off. Given the highly polarized climate in Washington, D.C., however, and a congressional campaign season fast approaching, followed by the next presidential campaign season, it’s unlikely any bipartisan approach will be realized. Raising revenues through increased taxes would not be popular during an election year, nor would cuts to funding. The hearing was a nice start to addressing the challenge, but it is incredibly disappointing that Congress chose not to fix the problem prior to 2008, or any other year to date. It’s time for real leadership and real action – it’s time for Congress to do its job.

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don’t think I’ve ever met a driver that hasn’t had at least one complaint about a past employer. Now, I readily admit that we drivers would probably be able to find something to complain about in Eden. Griping is part of our DNA. I think there’s even a griping course at CDL school.

And that’s not to say the complaints aren’t warranted. Some employers, whether because of unreasonable demands or downright negligence, deserve to be complained about. No one would argue that there isn’t a long list of disreputable companies out there. I’ve heard stories of drivers being forced to lie on their logbooks and asked to ignore all sorts of safety issues. Scary stuff for any driver to deal with, particularly when it risks a driver’s livelihood.

But then there are those complaints that just leave you shaking your head. “I didn’t like the color of the trucks.” Yup, heard that one before. “The dispatcher hates me.” Probably true, but was she really keeping you from loads? “Too many nights away from home.” Welcome to the world of OTR. “Can’t haul anything that starts with a ‘b’ or is purple.” Maybe I made that one up.

Don’t get me wrong. Sometimes a situation is untenable and the only thing to do is get out of there. I think we’ve all been in situations like that before. But I worry that the lure of signing bonuses and false promises is making too many drivers nomads in an already nomadic world.

What happened to sticking it out and trying to fix the problem? I think we’ve made it too

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easy on ourselves to jump at the smallest of slights. “That dispatcher didn’t respect me.”

Well, did you deserve respect? Did you make an effort to get to know the dispatcher? Did you ask, “Did I do something wrong?”

I don’t know if it’s that whole entitlement generation thing. I’ve seen young and old respond with the same knee-jerk reaction. But would you rather have your kids emulate the guy that complains and then tries to fix it or the guy that complains and jumps ship?

There’s a quote: “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. I prefer snow.”

That’s my way of thinking. Try to make it work where you are, because most people who think it’s better on the other side will keep thinking that way the rest of their lives.

Do you have an industry issue you would like to gripe about? Send it to editor@ptcchallenge.com.

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Microbreweries by jack markham

microbrewery differs in scale and practice from a normal brewery. According to U.S. regulations, a microbrewery is classified as a brewery that produces no more than 15,000 barrels in one year. Whether it’s the atmosphere, the beer or the way it’s brewed, microbreweries have been known to provide their customers fun and unique experiences found only on the local level.

Although microbreweries are known for their local popularity, their quality rivals popular national beers. Whether it’s capturing the identity of the surrounding neighborhood or paying homage to local history, microbreweries frequently mix in the flavor of the world around them. But the drink is not always the draw; the environment and setting of a microbrewery are part of the appeal. What they may lack in national attention, they make up for in novelty.

There are numerous microbreweries with something unique to offer. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting and memorable ones around the United States.

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Barrio Brewery

In Tuscon, Ariz., Barrio Brewery is a local favorite that’s tucked away in the industrial part of town. While their Phoenix sandwich and their Tucson Blonde beer are enjoyable on their own, locals and tourists alike get most excited for the railroad specials. The

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Barrio Brewery is directly next to train tracks running through town; every time the crossing guards come down, pints of beer are $3. Affectionately known as “rail pints,” customers liven up to order this happy-hour special during every passing train.

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chocolate undertones, will satisfy more adventurous beer fanatics. For entertainment, this microbrewery houses a theater. Not only can customers listen to live music, but they can also see full-scale musicals between October and April while enjoying their brews.

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Anchor Brewing

In the great ale town of San Francisco, Anchor Brewing is the grandfather of them all. Founded by German immigrant Gottlieb Brekle in 1871, Anchor Brewing is widely considered the oldest microbrewery in America. The brewery quickly gained notoriety for its steam-brewing method, which ferments the lager yeast at warmer temperatures, giving the beer a richer, creamier finish. The historical value and unique taste of this method have made Anchor Steam beer a local favorite.

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The Firehouse Brewing Company

The Firehouse Brewing Company in Rapid City, S.D., offers a number of entertaining aspects. Founded in 1991, the brewery resides in the city’s original firehouse, which offers customers a cozy and interesting atmosphere. A popular brew in the firehouse is Brown Eyed Girl, a sweet dark ale with a roasted nut flavor. The Honey Badger on tap, described as a sweet brown ale with

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Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

To sample some of the most interesting flavored beers, travel to Richmond, Va. The Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has dedicated itself to creating some of the most unusual yet delicious beers around. In the early winter around the holidays, Hardywood offers the Gingerbread Stout, brewed with Madagascar vanilla, milk chocolate, cinnamon and of course ginger. But if keeping warm in the winter is the priority, then the Chocolate Heat is the answer. Made with chocolate and locally grown chile peppers, this brew will most definitely leave a lasting impression. There’s a wealth of taste at the Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, offering “beers with a truly ethereal experience.”

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Cigar City Brewing

Combining Latin culture with homemade goodness, Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla., is all about heritage and good beer. Located in the historic neighborhood of Ybor, Cigar City takes its name from the neighborhood’s roots in the cigar-making industry, dating back to the late 19th century. Some of the brews on tap include the Maduro Brown Ale and the Cubano-style Espresso Brown Ale, but the most popular beer in Cigar City is the Jai Alai IPA. Named after the Spanish sport of Jai Alai, this drink is a local favorite with a “citrus bitterness,” followed by a hint of caramel. Cigar City Brewing itself is a warehouse only, so in order to experience these unique brews, customers must visit Cigar City Brewpub. Owned by Cigar City Brewing, this is where the public can enjoy their beer with a fresh Cuban sandwich.

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Photo: Hardywood park craft brewery

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery co-founders Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh named their company after a sheep station in Australia where they worked more than a decade ago.

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On Fire

BY Scott Gambrell

My kiss for you is long and deep, The road I travel was dark and steep.

All night I drove, constantly thinking of you For my love for you was persistent and true.

Blue eyes and smiles were in every thought, My nerves and my fears, troubled feelings I fought.

To your open arms I travel those miles, To help your yearning heart smile.

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Grabbing Gears

By Danny Richardson

Grabbing gears and rolling coal On 18 wheels is how we roll.

If haulin’ reefers is what you do That’s tons of food for me and you.

Don’t forget about flatbedders Rolling car lots and those bedbuggers.

Then you have the ol’ stepdecks And drivers calling for radio checks From Tallahassee to Spokane New York City to the Rio Grande.

Hitting scales and sliding tandems Wish there was a way around ’em.

From way out west to the East Coast, We always hear drivers boast Dodging bears and rolling coops Strap those tarps; don’t want them loose.

Pilot cars for the oversize Guess everything needs a ride.

It don’t matter how you do it All us drivers are going through it.

One small group had to be last Can’t forget the hazmat.

Roll it hard and roll it safe Arrive alive even if you’re late.

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A customer wrote, “I am sending this message to clarify an issue – actually, to share a wonderful experience I had with Aaron Mangini, the manager of the Pilot Travel Center in West Wendover, Nev. Several weeks ago, my husband and I stopped after visiting the Bonneville Salt Flats and found some T-shirts with Bonneville racing designs. We had stopped at a couple of places looking for T-shirts and these were the best we found. Unfortunately, they were out of the sizes my husband needed, but I was able to purchase some.

“My husband raced motorcycles at Bonneville many years ago (he set 17 land speed records and two still stand) and he was disappointed that there were none available in his size. When we returned home, I pursued the issue, tracked down the travel center phone number and spoke with Aaron Mangini, who, in my opinion, went above and beyond his role as a manager. He was familiar with the shirts and since the new shipment, including the shirts we wanted, was on its way, he took down my information. A few weeks later, we spoke again and he verified the shirts were in and he had pulled the ones we wanted. He then guided me through the process of how to handle payment and shipping. In addition to his professional manner, Aaron was extremely pleasant to speak with. He completely took care of this issue in every detail. It’s rare to encounter someone these days who goes out of his or her way to locate and ship two T-shirts – not exactly a big-ticket item!

“So congratulations on having such a great member of your team. He’s a great asset. If we ever get out to West Wendover again, we’ll certainly stop by to meet Aaron personally. My husband was delighted.”

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369 BIRMINGHAM 7 S DEF 100 I-20/59/65 AL 78, Exit 123 901 Bankhead Highway West, 35204 602 BIRMINGHAM DEF 157 15 rv dump I-65 & SR 94, Exit 264 224 Daniel Payne Drive North, 35207 603 Dothan DEF 158 9 rv dump Ross Clark Hwy/Hwy 231 2190 Ross Clark Circle, 36301 604 Hope Hull (Tyson) 9 S DEF 75 rv dump I-65 Exit 158 900 Tyson Road, 36043 497 Lincoln DEF 80 7 I-20, Exit 165 121 Honda Drive, 35096 601 McCalla DEF 150 15 rv dump I-20/I-59 Exit 104 6098 MacAshan Dr, 35111 302 MOBILE (THEODORE) DEF 65 5 I-10 & Theodore Dawes Rd, Exit 13 6955 Theodore Dawes Road, 36582 441 PRICEVILLE 7 S DEF 100 rv dump I-65, Exit 334 3240 Point Mallard Parkway, 35603 75 SATSUMA 8 S DEF 125 I-65, Exit 19 6109 US 43 South, 36572 76 TUSCALOOSA 8 S DEF 125 I-20/59, Exit 76 4416 Skyland Boulevard East, 35405

609 Eloy DEF 350 11 rv dump I-10 Exit 208 16189 S Sunshine Blvd, 85231 610 Kingman DEF 95 11 rv dump I-40 Exit 53 3300 East Andy DeVine Ave., 86401 211 LAKE HAVASU CITY 12 S DEF 110 I-40 & AZ 95, Exit 9 14750 South Highway 95, 86404 279 NOGALES (RIO RICO) DEF 90 11 I-19 & SR 289, Exit 12 769 East Frontage Road, 85648 611 Phoenix DEF 185 15 rv dump I-10 Exit 137 6700 West Latham, 85043 593 Tucson 7 S DEF 80 I-10, Exit 268 5570 E. Travel Plaza Way, 85756 328 QUARTZSITE DEF 100 4 I-10 & US 95, Exit 17 1201 West Main Street, 85359 612 Winslow DEF 250 15 rv dump I-40 Exit 255 400 Transcon Lane, 86047 505 Yuma 6 100 I-8, Exit 12 108000 North Frontage Road, 85367

145 SPRINGDALE DEF 33 4 US 412 & 71 Bypass 5660 West Sunset Avenue, 72762 606 Texarkana DEF 157 15 rv dump I-30 Exit 7 Rt 12 Box 254B, I30 & Hwy 108, 71854 429 West Memphis 11 S DEF 150 I-40, Exit 280 1100 Martin Luther King Blvd, 72301 607 West Memphis DEF 225 15 rv dump I-40 Exit 280 & I-55 Exit 4 3400 Service Loop Road, 72301

p 205-324-4532 f 205-324-5897

p 205-323-2177 f 205-323-7885

p 334-792-5152 f 334-792-5293

p 334-613-0212 f 334-613-0849

p 205-763-2225 f 205-763-2229

p 205-477-9181 f 205-477-6870

p 251-653-8834 f 251-653-9556

p 256-353-5252 f 256-353-5235

p 251-679-6260 f 251-679-6235

f 520-466-9588

p 928-757-7300 f 928-757-1085

p 928-764-2410 f 928-764-2021

p 520-377-0001 f 520-377-0003

p 623-936-1118 f 623-936-3611

p 520-663-3348 f 520-663-3439

p 928-927-7777 f 928-927-7000

p 928-289-2081 f 928-289-3798

Day Breaker CafĂŠ p 928-342-2696 f 928-342-1619

ARKANSAS p 205-553-9710 f 205-553-3089

ARIZONA 459 AVONDALE 13 S DEF 145 rv dump I-10, Exit 133A 900 North 99th Avenue, 85323 180 BELLEMONT 7 S DEF 90 I-40, EXIT 185 12500 West I-40, 86015 608 Ehrenberg DEF 300 13 I-10 Exit 1 Box 801, I-10 Exit 1 S. Frontage Rd, 85334 458 ELOY 5 S DEF 145 rv dump I-10, Exit 208 619 South Sunshine Boulevard, 85231

p 520-466-9204

p 623-936-0900 f 623-936-7376

p 928-773-0180 f 928-773-0205

p 928-923-9600 f 928-923-7735

p 520-466-7550 f 520-466-7575

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118 BENTON 7 S DEF 70 I-30, Exit 121 7801 Alcoa Road, 72015 492 Caddo valley 7 S DEF 80 I-30, Exit 78 & Hwy 7 170 Valley Street, 71923 332 N. LITTLE ROCK 7 S DEF 100 I-40 & SR391 Galloway Road, Exit 161 3300 Highway 391 North, 72117 430 RUSSELLVILLE 5 S DEF 130 I-40, Exit 84 215 SR 331 North, 72802 605 Russellville DEF 165 15 rv dump I-40, Exit 84 42 Bradley Cove Road, 72801

p 501-794-5900 f 501-794-5904

p 870-245-3119 f 870-245-3084

p 501-945-2226 f 501-945-2282

p 479-967-7414 f 479-964-0112

p 479-890-6161 f 479-890-2639

p 479-872-6100 f 479-872-6103

p 870-774-3595 f 870-772-1006

p 870-732-1202 f 870-732-1340

p 870-735-8200 f 870-735-3300

CALIFORNIA 613 Bakersfield DEF 250 14 rv dump Hwy 99 Exit Merced Ave. 17047 Zachary Ave., 93308 282 barstow 7 S DEF 30 I-15/40 & US 58 2591 Commerce Parkway, 92311 614 Bartsow DEF 171 15 rv dump I-15 & Lenwood Exit 2611 Fisher Boulevard, 92311 372 CASTAIC 7 S DEF 125 I-5 & Lake Hughes Exit 31642 Castaic Road, 91384 168 DUNNIGAN 10 S DEF 155 I-5, Road 8 Exit 554 30035 County Road 8, 95937 616 Frazier Park 18 285 rv dump I-5 Frazier Park Exit 205 42810 Frazier Mtn Park Road, 93243 381 HESPERIA 11 S DEF 300 I-15 & US 395 8701 Highway 395, 92345 200 KRAMER JUNCTION DEF 50 7 US 395/US 58 5725 Highway 58, 93516 617 Lodi DEF 187 15 rv dump I-5 & Hwy 12, Exit Fairfield 15100 North Thornton Road, 95242 154 LOST HILLS 7 S DEF 100 I-5 & CA 46 14808 Warren Street, 93249

p 661-392-5300 f 661-392-5307

p 760-253-2861 f 760-253-2863

p 760-253-7043 f 760-253-7051

p 661-257-2800 f 661-257-2109

p 530-724-3060 f 530-724-3029

p 661-248-2600 f 661-248-2610

p 760-956-2844 f 760-956-1198

p 760-762-0041 f 760-762-5231

p 209-339-4066 f 209-339-4287

p 661-797-2122 f 661-797-9772

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FLORIDA (cont.)

FLORIDA (cont.)

365 MADERA DEF 150 11 CA-99 at Ave 18.5 22717 Avenue 18 1/2, 93637 307 N. PALM SPRINGS DEF 80 5 I-10 & Garnett & Indian Ave. 6605 N. Indian Canyon Drive, 92258 343 Otay Mesa 9 S DEF 150 I-905, Exit 7, CA905 1497 Piper Ranch Rd, 92154 618 Ripon DEF 197 15 rv dump Hwy 99 Exit Jack Tone Rd 1501 North Jack Tone Road, 95366 879 Sacramento 49er Travel Plaza DEF 300 12 I-80, Exit 85 (W. El Camino Ave) 2828 El Centro Rd, 95833 237 SALINAS DEF 75 7 US 101 & Sanborn 951 Work Street, 93901 765 Thousand Palms 9 88 rv dump I-10 Ramon Exit 72235 Varner Road, 92276 137 weed DEF 80 7 rv dump I-5, Exit 745 395 E Vista Drive, 96094

89 ELLENTON DEF 2 2 I-75, Exit 224 1526 51st Avenue East, 34222 352 FT. MYERS DEF 80 6 I-75, Luckett Rd, Exit 139 6050 Plaza Drive, 33905 90 FT. PIERCE 8 S DEF 80 I-95, Exit 129 7300 West Okeechobee Road, 34945 471 Haines City DEF 80 7 rv dump US Hwy 27 North 35647 US Hwy 27 North, 33845 91 JACKSONVILLE DEF 50 5 I-95, Exit 329 1625 County Road 210 West, 32259 374 MARIANNA 7 S DEF 90 I-10 @ FL 71, Exit 142 2209 Highway 71, 32448 873 miami 3 65 Hwy 27 12200 NW South River Road, 33178 874 miami 2 30 US 41 & SR 997 17696 SW 8th Street, 33194 897 Miami Gardens Dades corner Plz 1 20 SR 826, Exit SR 817 16650 NW 27th Avenue, 33054 425 MIDWAY 8 S DEF 90 rv dump I-10, Exit 192 33333 Blue Star Highway, 32343 293 OCALA DEF 60 7 I-75 & FL 484, Exit 341 2020 SW 135th Street, 34476 92 OCALA 7 S DEF 130 I-75, Exit 358 4255 NW Highway 326, 34482 424 OCALA 5 S DEF 150 I-75, Exit 358 4032 West Highway 326, 34482 94 PUNTA GORDA DEF 40 5 I-75, Exit 161 26505 Jones Loop Road, 33950 623 Quincy DEF 150 15 rv dump I-10 Exit 192 32670 Blue Star Highway, 32343 626 St. Augustine DEF 160 9 rv dump I-95 Hwy 206 Exit 305 950 State Road 206 West, 32086 622 St. Lucie DEF 156 15 rv dump I-95 Hwy 68 Exit 131 100 North Kings Hwy 625 Tampa 4 30 rv dump I-4 & SR 579 Exit 10 11555 East Sligh Ave.

95 WILDWOOD 5 S DEF 10 I-75, Exit 329 493 East State Route 44 96 YEEHAW JUNCTION 0 40 US 60 & FL Turnpike, Exit 193 3050 SR 60 Yeehaw Junction

p 559-673-3878 f 559-673-7679

p 760-329-5562 f 760-329-0083

p 619-661-9558 f 619-661-9814

p 209-599-4141 f 209-599-4265

p 916-927-4774 f 916-923-3677

p 831-775-0380 f 831-775-0360

p 760-343-1500 f 760-343-1330

p 530-938-9600 f 530-938-9700

COLORADO 619 Aurora DEF 149 15 rv dump I-70 Exit 285 (South) 16751 East 32nd Ave., 80011 316 DENVER 7 S DEF 100 I-70 & Steele Street, Exit 276A 4640 Steele Street, 80216 621 Limon DEF 200 2 rv dump I-70 & Exit 359 2495 Williams Ave., 80828

p 303-366-7600 f 303-367-5657

p 303-292-6303 f 303-292-3647

p 719-775-9286 f 719-775-9306

CONNecticut 255 MILFORD 12 S DEF 150 I-95, EXIT 40 433 Old Gate Lane, 06460 882 N Stonington American Auto Stop 6 119 I-95, Exit 93 273 Clarks Falls Rd, 06359

p 203-876-1266 f 203-876-9473

p 860-599-2020 f 860-599-5771

FLORIDA 87 BALDWIN DEF 50 5 I-10, Exit 343 1050 US 301 South, 32234 88 COCOA 2 LTD I-95, Exit 201 4455 King Street, 32926 624 Dade City DEF 180 15 I-75 Exit 285 & SR52 29933 State Road 52, 33576 w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

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p 321-639-0346 f 321-639-0351

rv dump

p 352-588-5444 f 352-588-4629

p 941-729-6288 f 941-729-7523

p 239-693-6868 f 239-693-1253

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p 352-748-4486 f 352-748-6095

p 407-436-1224 f 407-436-1919

GEORGIA p 772-460-0611 f 772-460-9492

p 863-421-3571 f 863-421-6032

p 904-826-3618 f 904-825-2760

p 850-482-2148 f 850-482-2136

p 305-883-1004 f 305-883-1799

p 305-553-6203 f 305-207-7967

Arline’s Big Apple Seafood Restaurant

Wingstop

p 305-623-3434 f 305-623-3439

p 850-576-3200 f 850-576-3213

p 352-347-8555 f 352-347-3082

p 352-402-9081 f 352-622-5233

p 352-867-8300 f 352-867-8448

p 941-637-3974 f 941-637-5729

p 850-574-1299 f 850-574-6546

p 904-794-0426 f 904-794-7582

p 772-461-0091 f 772-461-0291

260 ALBANY DEF 80 4 Hwy 300 & Clark Ave 310 Cordele Road, 31705 331 ATLANTA (EAST) 7 S DEF 100 I-285 & Bouldercrest Road, Exit 51 2605 Bouldercrest, 30316 344 ATLANTA (WEST) 5 45 I-285 & South Atlanta Road, Exit 16 4600 South Atlanta Road, 30080 65 AUGUSTA 3 30 I-20, Exit 194 4091 Jimmie Dyess Parkway, 30909 144 AUGUSTA DEF 90 6

I-20, Exit 200 2975 Gun Club Road, 30907 66 BRASELTON 7 S DEF 70 I-85, Exit 129 5888 Highway 53, 30517 627 Brunswick DEF 150 15 rv dump I-95 Exit 29 2990 US Hwy 17 South, 31523 628 Carnesville DEF 190 15 rv dump I-85 Exit 160 10226 Old Federal Road, 30521 67 CARTERSVILLE 8 S DEF 100 I-75, Exit 296 968 Cassville-White Road, 30120 416 CORDELLE DEF 60 10 rv dump I-75, Exit 101 2201 East 16 Avenue, 31015 319 DALTON DEF 100 7 I-75/Connector 3, Exit 328 244 Connector 3 SW, 30720 421 DALTON 9 S DEF 210 rv dump I-75, Exit 326 142 Carbondale Road, 30721 68 DUBLIN DEF 6 2 I-16, Exit 51 2185 US 441, 31021 630 Jackson DEF 200 14 rv dump I-75 Exit 201 I-75 & Exit 66 Bucksnort Road, 30233 69 LAGRANGE DEF 60 3 I-85, Exit 13 1960 Whitesvillle Road, 30240

p 229-878-1355 f 229-878-1302

p 404-212-8733 f 404-212-8568

p 770-434-9949 f 770-434-8341

p 706-860-6677 f 706-869-9074

p 706-667-6557 f 706-481-9940

p 706-654-2820 f 706-654-9326

p 912-280-0006 f 912-280-9555

p 706-335-6656 f 706-335-4432

p 770-607-7835 f 770-607-7873

p 229-271-5775 f 229-271-5774

p 706-277-7934 f 706-277-3337

p 706-370-4060 f 706-370-5769

p 478-275-2143 f 478-275-0070

p 770-775-0138 f 770-775-1134

p 706-884-6318 f 706-884-1872

p 813-612-9438 f 813-612-9297

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IDAHO

631 Lake Park DEF 200 15 rv dump I-75 Exit 2 7001 Lake Park-Bellville Rd., 31636 420 MADISON DEF 110 6 rv dump I-20, Exit 114 1881 Eatonton Road, 30650 422 NEWNAN 7 S DEF 95 I-85, Exit 41 1645 South Highway 29, 30263 71 PORT WENTWORTH 8 S DEF 125 I-95, Exit 109 7001 Highway 21, 31407 632 Resaca DEF 200 15 rv dump I-75 Exit 320 288 Resaca Beach Blvd. NW, 30735 415 RISING FAWN DEF 150 8 I-59, Exit 4 319 Deer Head Cover Road, 30738 72 SAVANNAH DEF LTD 1 I-16, Exit 160 1504 Dean Forrest Road, 31408 575 St. marys DEF 235 12 I-95, Exit 1 491 W. St. Mary’s Street, 31558 312 TALLAPOOSA 6 S DEF 90 I-20 & GA 100, Exit 5 882 Georgia Highway 100, 30176 417 TEMPLE DEF 140 14 rv dump I-20, Exit 19 625 Carrollton Street, 30179 634 TEMPLE DEF 164 15 rv dump I-20 & Hwy 113 Exit 19 15 Villa Rosa Road, 30179 192 TIFTON 12 S DEF 200 I-75, Exit 60 4431 Old Union Road, 31794 633 union point DEF 189 9 rv dump I-20 & Exit 138 3600 Highway 77 South, 30642 73 VALDOSTA 5 S DEF 90 I-75, Exit 11 3495 Madison Highway, 31601 398 VIENNA DEF 85 5 I-75, Exit 109 39 Victory Lane, 31092 267 WARNER ROBINS (BYRON) 11 S DEF 150 I-75, Exit 146 2965 Highway 247C, 31008 254 WILDWOOD DEF 20 3 I-24 Exit 169 650 Highway 299, 30757

777 East Boise 6 60 I-84 Exit 54 (Federal Way) 3353 Federal Way, 83705 638 Caldwell DEF 100 9 I-84 Exit 29 3512 Franklin Road, 83605 641 McCammon DEF 100 4 I-15 Exit 47 587 E. US Hwy 30, 83250 350 MOUNTAIN HOME 7 100 I-84 & US 20, Exit 95 1050 Highway 20, 83647 639 Post Falls DEF 100 8 I-90 Exit 2 N 400 Idahline Rd, 83854 640 Twin Falls DEF 100 6 I-84 Exit 173 5350 Highway 93, 83338

p 229-559-6500 f 229-559-3008 TM

p 706-343-1455 f 706-343-1033

p 770-252-3551 f 770-252-2197

p 912-964-7006 f 912-964-7808

p 706-629-1541 f 706-629-2003

p 706-462-2455 f 706-462-2702

p 912-964-5280 f 912-964-5098

p 912-576-5424 f 912-882-8867

p 770-574-9922 f 770-574-9697

p 770-562-9773 f 770-562-2269

p 770-562-4009 f 770-562-3571

p 229-382-7295 f 229-382-4910

p 706-486-4835 f 706-486-4845

p 229-244-8034 f 229-244-6020

p 229-268-1414 f 229-268-4880

p 478-956-5316 f 478-956-3726

p 706-820-7353 f 706-820-9539

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rv dump

p 208-385-9745 f 208-344-3624

rv dump

p 208-453-9225 f 208-453-9409

rv dump

p 208-254-9845 f 208-254-9893

p 208-587-4465 f 208-587-3071

rv dump

p 208-773-0593 f 208-773-0404

p 208-324-3454 f 208-324-4097

ILLINOIS 642 alorton 15 202 rv dump I-255 & Exit 17A 140 Racehorse Drive, 62207 299 BLOOMINGTON 6 S DEF 160 I-55/74 & IL 9, Exit 160A 1522 West Market Street 526 Champaign road ranger DEF 150 3 I-57, Exit 240 4910 Market St 473 channahon DEF 45 0 I-55 & Route 6, Exit 248 23841 SE Eams 378 Chicago road ranger 0 LTD I-55 MM 288 “Stevenson Expressway” 3401 South California Avenue, 60632 368 Decatur DEF 60 7 I-72, Exit 144 (SE Quad) 4030 E. Boyd Road 523 Dixon road ranger DEF 45 5 I-88 Exit 54 1801 South Galena Ave. ,61021 313 EAST ST. LOUIS 11 S DEF 200 I 70/55 Exit 4 699 State Route 203 165 EFFINGHAM 7 S DEF 100 I-57/70, Exit 162 2500 North 3rd Street 643 Effingham DEF 180 15 rv dump I-70 & I-57, Exit 160 1701 W Evergreen / I-70 & I-57 468 Gilman DEF 80 7 I-57, Exit 283 815 Hwy 24 West, 60938

p 618-337-4579 f 618-337-4851

p 309-827-7867 f 309-827-2355

p 815-315-4991 f 217-643-7809

p 815-467-0918 f 815-467-0972

p 815-977-7020 f 773-847-1438

p 217-876-0208 f 217-876-0522

Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-516-1998 f 815-284-0469

p 618-875-5800 f 618-875-4234

p 217-342-3787 f 217-342-6672

p 217-347-7161 f 217-347-5815

p 815-265-4754 f 815-265-4795

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ILLINOIS (cont.)

543 Hampshire road ranger Dan’s Big Slice pizza DEF 30 4 I-90, Exit 43 p 815-209-9013 19 N. 681 US Hwy 20 f 847-683-7609 644 LaSalle DEF 186 15 rv dump I-80 Exit 77 p 815-220-0611 343 Civic Road f 815-220-0617 514 Lincoln Thorntons Subworks DEF 100 6 2903 Woodlawn Road p 217-732-3915 I-55, Exit 126 f 217-732-4875 540 Loves Park road ranger 0 LTD I-90 & Riverside Blvd p 815-580-4221 7500 East Riverside Blvd, 61111 f 847-232-3058 595 marion DEF 45 5 I-57, Exit 54B p 618-993-2697 2611Vernell Road, 62959 f 618-993-8100 347 Mclean road ranger Dan’s Big Dixie Slice pizza DEF 80 10 I-55, Exit 145 p 815-315-0774 501 South Main Street, 61754 f 309-874-2048 530 mendota road ranger DEF 25 3 I-39, Exit 72 p 815-315-4210 2705 12th Street, 61342 f 815-539-2340 326 Minonk road ranger Dan’s Big Woody’s Slice pizza DEF 100 4 I-39, Exit 27 p 815-315-4189 1311 Carolyn Dr, 61760 f 309-432-2002 236 MINOOKA 7 S DEF 100 I-80, Exit 122 p 815-467-4416 301 Ridge Road, 60447 f 815-467-5409 39 MONEE DEF 90 5 I-57, Exit 335 p 708-534-2483 6002 Monee-Manhattan Road, 60449 f 708-534-3980 482 MT. VERNON 7 S DEF 100 I-57, Exit 95 p 618-244-1216 4610 Broadway, 62864 f 618-244-1262 520 new berlin road ranger DEF 25 3 I-72, Exit 82 p 815-209-9009 700 King Rd, 62670 171 Oakwood 7 S DEF 100 I-74, Exit 206 p 217-354-4270 503 N. Oakwood St, 61858 f 217-354-4070 534 Okawville road ranger DEF 50 2 I-64, Exit 41 p 815-656-4143 905 Hen House Rd, 62271 f 618-243-6479 515 ottawa road ranger Dan’s Big Slice pizza DEF 25 2 I-80, Exit 93 p 815-516-0946 3041 North IL Route 71,61350 f 815-434-4081 645 Pontoon Beach DEF 185 15 rv dump I-270 & Exit 6B p 618-931-1580 1310 East Chain of Rocks Road, 62040 f 618-931-3587 541 Princeton road ranger Dan’s Big Slice pizza DEF 250 7 I-80, Exit 56 p 815-315-4951 2835 N Main St, 61356 f 815-875-1718

539 Rochelle road ranger DEF 55 5 I-39, Exit 99 890 E Hwy 38, 61068 535 Rockford road ranger 0 LTD US 20 4980 S Main St, 61108 536 South Beloit road ranger DEF 75 5 I-90, Exit 1 6070 Gardner Street, 61080 646 South Beloit DEF 186 15 rv dump I-90 & HWY 75 16049 Willowbrook Road, 61080 512 Springfield road ranger DEF 25 2 I-55, Exit 90 500 Toronto Road, 62711 525 Springfield road ranger DEF 50 6 I-55, Exit 100-A 3752 Camp Butler Rd, 62707 249 TROY 7 S DEF 135 I-55/70 & IL 162, Exit 18 820 Edwardsville Road, 62294 529 Tuscola road ranger 3 15 I-57, Exit 212 1112 East Southline Dr., 61953 537 Winnebago road ranger 0 LTD US 20, MM8 101 S. Winnebago Rd, 61088 476 woodhull DEF 80 5 I-74, Exit 32 900 Plaza Ave, 61490

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Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-209-9038 f 815-562-6573

p 815-315-4974 f 847-232-1183 Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-264-4311 f 815-389-3917

p 815-389-4760 f 815-389-4793

Dan’s Big Slice pizza p 815-516-0863 f 217-585-1883

Star 66 Café

Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-209-9059 f 217-528-9169

p 618-667-0946 f 618-667-0966

p 815-315-4988 f 217-253-3793

Dan’s Big Slice pizza p 815-957-4049 f 847-897-2600

p 309-334-4550 f 309-334-4556

INDIANA 444 BRAZIL 10 S DEF 110 I-70, Exit 23 4376 North SR 59, 47834 531 BRAZIL road ranger DEF 30 3 I-70, Exit 23 990 West State Rd 42, 47834 445 BURNS HARBOR 7 S DEF 115 rv dump I-94, Exit 22 243 Melton Road, 46304 247 CRAWFORDSVILLE 5 S DEF 110 I-74 & SR 32, Exit 39 4367 East State Road 32, 47933 28 DALEVILLE DEF 35 3 I-69, Exit 234 15151 Commerce Road, 47334 446 DALEVILLE DEF 125 5 I-69, Exit 234 15876 West Commerce Road, 47334 447 EVANSVILLE (HAUBSTADT) 5 S DEF 145 rv dump I-64, Exit 25B 1042 E Warrenton Road, 47639

p 812-446-9400 f 812-446-6116

p 815-209-9052 f 812-442-5206

p 219-787-5705 f 219-787-9656

p 765-361-9603 f 765-361-9601

p 765-378-3599 f 765-378-3592

p 765-378-0246 f 765-378-4248

p 812-868-1048 f 812-868-1050

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indiana (cont.)

362 FORTVILLE (PENDLETON) DEF 50 4 I-69, Exit 214 7455 South State Rd. 13, 46064 29 FREMONT 7 S DEF 130 I-80, Exit 144; I-69 N, Exit 157 6900 Old US 27, 46737 881 Ft Wayne Ft Wayne travel plz 6 260 I-69, Exit 309A 3037 Goshen Rd, 46808 271 GARY 9 S DEF 215 I-80/94 & Burr Street, Exit 6 2501 Burr Street, 46406 30 Greenfield DEF 150 5 I-70, Exit 96 2640 North 600 West, 46140 542 Greenwood road ranger DEF 40 7 I-65, Exit 99 1615 East Main Street, 46143 647 Haubstadt DEF 145 9 rv dump I-64 & SR 41 Exit 25B Rural Route 1, Box 254A, 47639 448 HEBRON 8 S DEF 135 I-65, Exit 240 18011 Colorado Street, 46341 31 HIGHLAND DEF LTD 2 I-80 & 94, Exit 2 8150 Indianapolis Boulevard, 46322 318 INDIANAPOLIS 7 S DEF 90 I-465 & IN37, Exit 4 4607 South Harding Street, 46217 649 Indianapolis DEF 190 15 rv dump I-465 Exit 4 1720 West Thompson Road, 46217 546 Lake staTIon - S – road ranger 4 15 I-80, Exit 15A 2151 Ripley St., 46405 650 Lake Station DEF 375 14 rv dump I-94 & Exit 15B 1401 Ripley Street, 46405 478 LEAVENWORTH DEF 65 5 I-64, Exit 92 6921 South SR 66, 47137 652 Lebanon DEF 150 9 rv dump I-65 Exit 139 520 South State Road 39, 46052 653 Lowell DEF 375 15 Rt 2 & I-65 Exit 240 3231 East 181st Street, 46356 152 MEMPHIS DEF 70 10 I-65, Memphis Road, Exit 16 14013 Memphis Blue Lick Road, 47143

304 new haven DEF 80 9 rv dump I-469, Exit 19 Hwy 30 & Doyle Road, 46774 198 PLYMOUTH 7 S DEF 110 US 30 & US 31 10619 9A Road, 46563 34 REMINGTON DEF 75 5 I-65, Exit 201 4154 West US Highway 24, 47977 339 RILEYSBURG (COVINGTON) DEF 50 6 I-74 & SR 63, Exit 4 16502 North State Road 63, 47932 242 SHELBYVILLE 7 S DEF 90 I-74, Exit 109 1851 West 400 North 35 SOUTH BEND DEF 70 5 I-80, Exit 72 6424 West Brick Road 655 Spiceland DEF 193 15 rv dump I-70 Exit 123 5300 South State Rte. 3 297 TERRE HAUTE DEF 70 5 I-70 & IN46, Exit 11 5555 E. Margaret Avenue 36 VALPARAISO DEF 25 3 US 30 & SR 49 4105 US 30 East 37 WHITELAND 8 S DEF 110 rv dump I-65, Exit 95 2962 County Road 500 North 656 WHITELAND DEF 173 15 I-65 & Whiteland Road, Exit 95 4982 North 350 East

p 317-485-6211 f 317-485-4527

p 260-833-1987 f 260-833-6794 The Point Restaurant

p 260-482-7814 f 260-482-7780

p 219-844-2661 f 219-844-7957

p 317-894-1910 f 317-894-3499

p 815-315-4987 f 317-881-7301

p 812-768-5304 f 812-768-9215

p 219-696-8265 f 219-696-8281

p 219-923-6405 f 219-972-4134

p 317-783-1033 f 317-783-0851

p 317-783-5543 f 317-783-5648

p 815-239-6205 f 219-962-5723

p 219-962-8502 f 219-962-3259

p 812-739-2002 f 812-739-4034 TM

p 765-483-9755 f 765-483-9762

p 219-696-6446 f 219-696-2456

p 812-294-4233 f 812-294-4237

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TM

p 260-493-4035 f 260-493-4921

p 574-936-6525 f 574-936-4348

p 219-261-3786 f 219-261-3986

p 765-793-7307 f 765-793-2155

p 317-392-8771 f 317-392-8721

p 574-272-8212 f 574-272-9914

p 765-987-1833 f 765-987-1836

p 812-877-9977 f 812-877-9978

p 219-464-1644 f 219-464-9019

p 317-535-7656 f 317-535-3058

636 Davenport DEF 146 15 rv dump I-80 Exit 292 8200 N.W. Blvd., 52806 373 DES MOINES 17 S DEF 350 I-35/80 & Douglas Ave, Ext 126 11957 Douglas Avenue, 50322 532 elk run heights road ranger DEF 100 6 I-380, Exit 68 100 Plaza Drive, 50707 637 Evansdale DEF 80 7 rv dump I-380 & Evansdale Dr. 445 Evansdale Drive, 50707 131 Osceola DEF 80 5 rv dump I-35, Exit 34 2010 West Clay Street, 50213 238 Percival DEF 50 7 I-29, Exit 10 2495 210th Ave., 51648 594 Sioux city DEF 100 7 I-29, Exit 143 2815 Singing Hills Blvd, 51111 43 WALCOTT 8 S DEF 160 I-80, Exit 284 3500 North Plainview Road, 52773 268 WALCOTT DEF 25 3 I-80, Exit 284 2975 North Plainview Road, 52773 572 williams 7 S DEF 100 rv dump I-35, and SR 20, Exit 144 3040 220th Street, 50271

p 563-386-7710 f 563-386-8243

p 515-276-1509 f 515-276-8599

Dan’s Big Slice pizza

Junies Family Restaurant

p 815-315-0271 f 319-235-5237

p 319-291-7714 f 319-291-7720

p 641-342-8658 f 641-342-1782

p 712-382-2224 f 712-382-1556

p 712-258-3816 f 712-258-3320

p 563-284-4100 f 563-284-4103

p 563-284-5074 f 563-284-5076

p 515-854-9117 f 515-854-9124

KANSAS p 317-535-1124 f 317-535-4123

IOWA 913 ALTOONA DEF 350 18 I-80 & US 65, Exit 142 3231 Adventureland Drive, 50009 496 Atalissa DEF 45 4 I-80, Exit 265 2086 Atalissa Rd., 52720 893 avoca wings america/Flying j 15 200 I-80, Exit 40 7005 N. Chestnut St, 51521 495 brooklyn 5 S 140 I-80, Exit 201 4126 Hwy 21, 52211 407 CLEAR LAKE DEF 125 6 I-35, Exit 194 2411 US Highway 18 East, 50428 329 COUNCIL BLUFFS 7 S DEF 80 I-80/29, Exit 1B 2647 South 24th Street, 51501

restaurants outlined in a red box do not accept MYREWARDS points

p 515-967-7878 f 515-967-5726

p 563-946-3761 f 563-946-3871

p 712-343-4007 f 712-343-5026

p 319-685-4221 f 319-685-4575

920 colby 5 90 I-70, Exit 54 110 East Willow Street, 67701 657 Dodge City DEF 62 4 Hwy 400 & Hwy 283 2524 E. Wyatt Earp Blvd., 67801 658 Emporia DEF 74 7 rv dump I-35 & US 50 Exit 127 4245 West Hwy 50, 66801 903 SALINA 16 200 rv dump I-70, Exit 252 1944 North 9th Street, 67401 659 Salina DEF 120 9 I-70 Exit 253 2250 North Ohio Street, 67401

p 785-460-5832 f 785-460-5878

p 620-338-8888 f 602-338-8829 TM

p 620-343-2717 f 620-343-3692

p 785-825-6787 f 785-827-3394 TM

p 785-825-5300 f 785-452-9221

Kentucky p 641-357-3124 f 641-357-4939

p 712-322-0088 f 712-322-0236

356 BROOKS (SHEPHERDSVILLE) 5 100 I-65 & Brooks Rd, Exit 121 2050 East Blue Lick Road, 40165 660 catlettsburg DEF 155 9 rv dump I-64 SR 180 Exit 185 15236 State Route 180, 41129

p 502-955-5049 f 502-955-9717

p 606-928-8383 f 606-928-4546

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KENTUCKY (cont.)

231 CORBIN DEF 40 5 I-75 & US25E, Exit 29 249 West Cumberland Gap Prkwy, 40701 46 FRANKLIN DEF 150 3 I-65, Exit 6 2929 Scottsville Road, 42134 438 FRANKLIN 8 S DEF 80 I-65, Exit 6 Highway 100 & I-65, Exit 6, 42134 661 FRANKLIN DEF 172 15 rv dump I-65 US Hwy 31 W. Exit 2 4380 Nashville Road, 42134 47 GEORGETOWN DEF 90 5 I-75, Exit 129 259 Cherry Blossom Way, 40324 353 GEORGETOWN 12 S DEF 175 I-75, Exit 129 110 Triport Road, 40324 48 GLENDALE DEF 125 8 I-65, Exit 86 58 Glendale-Hodgenville Road, 42740 399 LEBANON JUNCTION 7 S DEF 85 I-65, Exit 105 150 Park Plaza Boulevard, 40150 240 MIDDLESBORO DEF 40 2 Rt 2, Hwy 25E 3000 US Highway 25 East, 40965 156 MORTON’S GAP DEF 90 5 Highway 813, Exit 37 Pennyrile Parkway, Exit 37, 42440 41 MT STERLING DEF 80 7 I-64, Exit 113 3060 Owingsville Road, 40353 49 OAK GROVE 8 S DEF 300 I-24, Exit 89 8190 Pembroke-Oak Grove Road, 42262 439 OAK GROVE 5 S DEF 125 I-24, Exit 86 12900 Fort Campbell Boulevard, 42262 662 OAK GROVE DEF 130 9 rv dump I-24 Exit 86 18750 Herndon Oak Grove Road, 42262 358 PADUCAH DEF 65 8 I-24 & KY 305, Exit 3 5353 Cairo Road, 42001 440 PENDLETON DEF 100 5 I-71, Exit 28 205 Pendleton Road, 40055 278 RICHWOOD (WALTON) DEF LTD 5 I-75/71 & KY 338, Exit 175 118 Richwood Road, 41094 321 RICHWOOD (WALTON) DEF LTD 3 I-75/71 & KY 338, Exit 175 11229 Frontage Road, 41094

354 SIMPSONVILLE DEF 60 7 I-64 & Veechdale Rd, Exit 28 819 Buck Creek Road, 40067 50 SULPHUR DEF 175 8 I-71, Exit 28 489 Pendleton Road, 40070 392 SONORA 6 S DEF 200 I-65, Exit 81 450 East Western Avenue, 42776 663 Waddy DEF 110 9 rv dump I-64 & HWY 395 Exit 43 1670 Waddy Road, 40076 664 Walton DEF 200 15 rv dump I-75 Exit 171 13019 Walton Verona Rd., 41094 437 WILLIAMSBURG DEF 80 3 rv dump I-75, Exit 11 481 West Highway 92, 40769

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p 606-528-0631 f 606-528-1003

p 270-586-4149 f 270-586-5171

p 270-586-9544 f 270-586-9887

p 270-586-3343 f 270-586-8984

p 502-868-7427 f 502-867-1847

p 502-863-2708 f 502-863-5012

p 270-369-7360 f 270-369-6991

p 502-833-2727 f 502-833-2759

p 606-248-4057 f 606-248-4149

p 270-258-5213 f 270-258-9830

p 859-497-4041 f 859-497-8709

p 270-439-1776 f 270-439-7624

p 270-439-0153 f 270-439-0765

p 270-640-7000 f 270-640-7060

p 270-443-2044 f 270-442-8538

p 502-743-5222 f 502-743-5123

p 859-485-6100 f 859-485-6113

p 859-485-1327 f 859-485-8519

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p 502-722-5636 f 502-722-5630

p 502-743-5496 f 502-743-5228

p 270-369-7300 f 270-369-8596

p 502-829-9100 f 502-829-5600

p 859-485-4400 f 859-485-6886

p 606-549-0162 f 606-549-0166

LOUISIANA 274 BREAUX BRIDGE 7 S DEF 105 I-10, Exit 109 2112 Rees Street, 70517 79 DENHAM SPRINGS DEF 60 3 I-12, Exit 10 2601 South Range Avenue, 70726 665 Greenwood DEF 190 15 rv dump I-20 Exit 3 9510 Greenwood Road, 71033 300 HAMMOND DEF 60 5 I-12 Exit 40 / I-55/US 51 2111 SW Railroad Avenue, 70403 199 HAUGHTON 7 S DEF 90 I-20, Exit 33 490 North Elm Street, 71037 82 LAPLACE DEF 150 8 I-10/55, Exit 209 4301 South Main Street, 70068 335 RAYVILLE DEF 85 5 I-20 & LA137, Exit 138 103 Grimshaw Street, 71269 428 WEST MONROE DEF 100 5 rv dump I-20, Exit 112 300 Well Road, 71292

p 337-332-1253 f 337-332-0618

p 225-665-4151 f 225-665-4122

p 318-938-7744 f 318-938-5697

p 985-345-5476 f 985-542-5028

p 318-390-9709 f 318-390-9713

p 985-652-0531 f 985-652-4141

p 318-728-4100 f 318-728-4236

p 318-329-3590 f 318-329-3592

MARYLAND 875 Elkton DEF 225 23 I-95, Exit 109A 221 Belle Hill Rd, 21921 408 GRANTSVILLE 7 S DEF 65 I-68, Exit 22 3000 Chesnut Ridge Road, 21536 150 HAGERSTOWN 7 S DEF 90 I-70 & MD 63, Exit 24 11633 Greencastle Pike, 21740

p 410-398-0287 f 410-392-3543

p 301-895-4536 f 301-895-4548

p 301-582-9004 f 301-582-9008

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maryland (cont.)

MINNesota

MISSOURI (cont.)

179 HAGERSTOWN 9 S DEF 111 I-81, Exit 5B 16921 Halfway Blvd, 21740 784 North East DEF 200 15 I-95, Exit 100 One Center Drive, 21901 290 PERRYVILLE 5 80 I-95 & MD 222, Exit 93 31 Heather Lane, 21903

590 alexandria DEF 50 6 I-94, Exit 100 & SR 27 3181 Evergreen Lane, 56308 521 AUSTIN 3 60 I-90, Exit 179 1509 10th Place NE #2, 55912 581 Inver Grove Heights DEF 45 5 Hwy 52 & 117 Street 11650 Courthouse Blvd, 55077 576 northfield DEF 80 6 rv dump I-35 & Hwy 19, Exit 69 8051 Bagley Avenue, 55057 134 ST. CLOUD DEF 40 7 I-94, Exit 171 (CR 75) 4231 Clearwater Road, 56301

533 fenton road ranger DEF 25 2 I-44 W, Exit 275; I-44 E, Exit 274B 205 North Highway Dr., 63026 442 HAYTI 8 S DEF 150 rv dump I-55, Exit 19 1701 Highway 84 East, 63851 443 HIGGINSVILLE 6 S DEF 125 rv dump I-70, Exit 49 6676 Highway 13, 64037 317 JOPLIN 7 S DEF 90 rv dump I-44 & MO 43S, Exit 4 4500 Highway 43 South, 64804 669 JOPLIN DEF 160 15 I-44 U.S. 71 Exit 11A 11570 Hwy FF, 64804 768 Kansas City DEF 121 6 I-435 Front Street 1300 North Corrington Ave., 64120 252 Kearney 7 S DEF 125 I-35, Exit 26 600 West SR 92, 64060 301 MARSTON DEF 70 6 I-55, Exit 40 917 East Elm Street, 63866 671 Matthews DEF 188 15 rv dump I-55 Exit 58 703 State Hwy 80, 63867 167 nevada DEF 45 3 US 71 & Camp Clark Road 2424 East Austin Road, 64772 208 Pacific DEF 90 7 I-44W, Exit 257; I-44E, Exit 256 1475 Thornton Street, 63069 672 Peculiar DEF 165 9 rv dump US Hwy 71 Exit J 700 J Hwy, 64078 547 st. robert road ranger DEF 75 6 I-44, Exit 163 22345 Hwy 28, 65584 673 Sullivan DEF 160 15 rv dump I-44/Hwy. 185 Exit 226 1500 AF Highway, 63080 674 Warrenton DEF 200 14 rv dump I-70 Exit 188 24004 West Veterans Mem. Pkwy, 63383 675 Wayland DEF 99 6 rv dump Hwy 136 & Hwy 61 102 Fore Drive, 63472

p 301-582-6111 f 301-582-5004

rv dump

p 410-287-7110 f 410-287-7116

p 410-642-2883 f 410-378-4941

MASSachusetts 222 STURBRIDGE 6 S DEF 222 I-84 Exit 1 400 Route 15 (Haynes Street), 01566

p 508-347-9104 f 508-347-9165

MICHIGAN 17 BATTLE CREEK 5 S DEF 25 I-94, Exit 104 15901 Eleven Mile Road, 49014 666 Benton Harbor DEF 135 6 I-94 Exit 30 1860 East Napier Ave., 49022 21 DEXTER DEF 80 3 I-94, Exit 167 750 Baker Road, 48130 296 DEXTER DEF 80 5 I-94, Exit 167 195 Baker Road, 48130 667 Grand Ledge DEF 265 9 rv dump I-96 & Exit 90/I-69 & Exit 81 7800 West Grand River Ave., 48837 23 IONIA DEF 18 4 I-96, Exit 67 7205 South State Road, 48846 24 MONROE DEF 20 3 I-75, Exit 15 1100 North Dixie Highway, 48162 284 MONROE DEF 60 5 I-75, Exit 18 1200 Nadeau Road, 48161 26 OTTAWA LAKE DEF 170 8 US 23, Exit 5 6158 US 223, 49267 596 port huron DEF 65 5 I-69, Exit 196 2424 Wadhams Road, 48074 668 Saginaw DEF 50 3 rv dump I-75 & Washington St. Exit 151 3475 East Washington, 48601 895 Woodhaven Detroiter DEF 225 12 I-75, Exit 32A 21055 West Road, 48183

p 320-763-9222 f 320-763-2339 Watt’s Cooking!

p 507-437-6702 f 507-437-0089

p 651-438-3397 f 651-480-4800

Big Steer Restaurant

p 507-645-6082 f 507-645-6082

p 320-251-8455 f 320-251-7750

MISSISSIPPI p 269-968-9949 f 269-968-9610

p 269-925-7547 f 269-925-7508

p 734-426-4618 f 734-426-7836

p 734-426-0065 f 734-426-0339

p 517-627-7504 f 517-622-4960

p 616-527-6520 f 616-527-5913

p 734-242-9650 f 734-242-6538

p 734-457-3500 f 734-457-2835

p 734-854-1772 f 734-854-6912

p 810-987-7823 f 810-987-7869

p 989-752-6350 f 989-752-6842

p 734-675-0222 f 734-675-4973

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676 Gulfport DEF 165 15 rv dump I-10 Exit 31 9351 Canal Road, 39503 77 JACKSON 5 S DEF 120 I-55/I-20, Exit 45 2520 South Gallatin Street, 39204 388 MERIDIAN 7 S DEF 100 I-59, Exit 151 1555 Tommy Webb Drive, 39307 586 Moss Point DEF 70 7 rv dump I-10, Exit 69 6705 Hwy 63 174 NEW ALBANY DEF 90 7 US 78, Exit 64 500 State Highway 15 South, 38652 677 Olive Branch DEF 51 9 rv dump Hwy 78 and Bethel Road 4740 Bethel Road, 38654 678 Pearl DEF 175 15 rv dump I-20/I-55 Exit 47 685 Hwy 80 East, 39208 519 Senatobia kangaroo pantry 4 75 I-55, Exit 265 510 E Main Street, 38668 261 WINONA 5 S DEF 110 I-55 & Hwy. 82, Exit 185 403 SW Frontage Road, 38967

p 228-868-2711 f 228-868-3711

p 601-968-9491 f 601-968-0699

p 601-484-5106 f 601-484-7370

p 228-474-6511 f 228-474-6549

p 662-539-0222 f 662-539-0212

p 662-895-1001 f 662-895-0008

p 601-936-0190 f 601-936-0196 TM

p 662-560-1973 f 662-560-1992

p 662-283-5985 f 662-283-5906

MISSOURI 44 BOONVILLE 8 S DEF 150 I-70, Exit 101 1701 Ashley Road, 65233 571 CHARLESTON DEF 65 7 I-57 Exit 12 2460 E. Marshall/E US Hwy 60, 63834 385 collins DEF 35 3 US 54 & Hwy 13 South Hwy 13 South, 64738

p 660-882-9120 f 660-882-9710 TM

p 573-683-4153 f 573-683-4196

p 417-275-4796

p 815-566-4043 f 636-326-6922

p 573-359-2007 f 573-359-2031

p 660-584-8484 f 660-584-8486

p 417-781-0255 f 417-781-0179

p 417-626-7600 f 417-626-8802

p 816-483-7600 f 816-483-1492

p 816-635-4015 f 816-635-4116

p 573-643-2320 f 573-643-2252

p 573-472-3336 f 573-471-1161

p 417-667-3271 f 417-667-4843

p 636-257-4100 f 636-257-4107

p 816-779-8000 f 816-779-4441

Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-315-4953 f 573-336-3080

p 573-860-8880 f 573-860-8892

p 636-456-2001 f 636-456-2016

p 660-754-1550 f 660-754-1556

MONTANA 968 Belgrade Pilot/broadway 3 125 I-90 Exit 298 6505 Jack Rabit Lane, 59701

p 406-488-4124 f 406-388-4231

f 417-275-4796

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MONTANA (cont.)

Nebraska (cont.)

New Jersey (Cont.)

915 billings Pilot/town pump DEF 150 14 I-90, Exit 455 2711 N Frontage Road, 59101 923 Billings Flying j/town pump 9 75 I-90, Exit 455 2775 Old Hardin Road, 59101 905 BONNER Pilot/town pump DEF 100 11 Junction of I-90 & Hwy 200 7985 Highway 200 East, 59851 924 Butte Flying j/town pump DEF 125 14 I-15 Exit 122 & I-90 MM220 122000 W. Browns Gulch Road; 59701 922 COLUMbia falls Pilot/town pump DEF 20 1 Hwy 2 West 6102 Hwy 2 West, 59912 906 COLUMBUS Pilot/town pump 7 150 I-90, Exit 408 602 8th Avenue North, 59019 917 GREAT FALLS Pilot/town pump DEF 100 5 Junction of I-15 & Hwy 87 3700 31st St SW, Suite 1, 59404 925 Great Falls Flying j/town pump 4 80 rv dump I-15 & 31st Street Exit 277 3715 31st St SW, 59404 964 Hardin Pilot/broadway 1 50 I-90 Exit 495 315 E 13th Street, 59034 916 LOLO Pilot/town pump 1 40 Junction of Hwy 93 & Hwy 12 11822 Highway 93 South, 59847 907 MILES CITY Pilot/town pump DEF 100 6 I-94, Exit 138 1210 South Haynes Street, 59301 914 MIssoula Flying j/town pump DEF 125 14 rv dump I-90 & MT Hwy 93, Exit 96 8475 Hwy 93 N Suite B, 59808 908 ROCKER/BUTTE Pilot/town pump DEF 195 10 I-90, Exit 122 1000 Grizzly Trail, 59701 909 SHELBY Pilot/town pump DEF 70 6 I-15, Exit 363 1350 West Roosevelt, 59474 911 SUPERIOR Pilot/town pump 2 10 I-90, Exit 47 403 Diamond Match Road, 59872 910 THREE FORKS Pilot/town pump DEF 90 5 Junction of I-90 & US 287, Exit 274 10800 Highway 287, 59751

901 ELM CREEK 5 75 I-80, Exit 257 5085 Buffalo Creek Road, 68836 902 GRAND ISLAND bosselman DEF 400 21 I-80, Exit 312N 3335 West Woodriver Road, 68803 686 Gretna DEF 150 15 rv dump I-80 Exit 432 15010 South State Hwy 31, 68028 687 North Platte DEF 123 9 rv dump I-80 Exit 179 3400 S. Newberry Road, 69101 912 WOOD RIVER 5 30 I-80 & Hwy 11, Exit 300 I-80 and Highway 11 and Exit 300, 68883

253 CARNEYS POINT DEF LTD 2 I-295 at Jersey Turnpike, Exit 2B 600 Pennsville-Auburn Road, 08069 688 Carneys Point DEF LTD 16 rv dump I-295 Exit 2C 326 Slapes Corner Road, 08069 190 CLINTON 6 95 I-78, Exit 12 68 Rt. 173, 08827 210 mahwah 0 LTD 230 Route 17 South, 07430

p 406-238-9823 f 406-238-9825

p 406-256-8826 f 406-256-9256

p 406-258-6588 f 406-258-6693

p 406-723-4325 f 406-723-8956

p 406-892-0747

f 406-892-0747*22

p 406-322-4833 f 406-322-5273

p 406-452-0342 f 406-452-0547

p 406-727-7945 f 406-761-2599

p 406-665-1237 f 406-665-3123

p 406-273-6666 f 406-273-3018

p 406-232-2582 f 406-232-2582

p 406-542-0400 f 406-327-0802

p 406-723-0088 f 406-723-4940

Country Skillet p 406-434-5221 f 406-434-7019

p 406-822-4444

904 BIG SPRINGS DEF 500 16 rv dump I-80, Exit 107 I-80 and Big Springs Road, 69122 w w w. p t c c h a l l e n g e . c o m

p 308-382-2288 f 308-381-7464

p 402-332-4483 f 402-332-4576

p 308-532-4555 f 308-532-8077

p 308-583-2493 f 308-583-2115

p 406-285-3807

f 775-635-0371

p 775-754-6384 f 775-754-6025

p 775-575-5115 f 775-575-4619

p 702-644-1600 f 702-644-8432

p 702-679-6666

p 775-752-2400 f 775-752-2406

p 775-664-3400 f 775-664-3347

p 775-625-2800 f 775-625-2814

p 775-623-0111 f 775-623-0120

p 603-223-6885 f 603-223-5204

NEW JERSEY

f 308-889-3352

280 BLOOMSBURY 5 S DEF 30 I-78 & NJ 173, Exit 7 979 Route 173, 08804

f 856-299-8563

p 856-351-0080 f 856-351-0293

p 908-735-7711 f 908-735-8153

p 201-529-2704 f 201-529-1784

f 973-293-3177

689 Albuquerque DEF 165 15 rv dump I-40 Exit 153 9911 Avalon Road NW, 87105 490 Carlsbad 2 S 20 Hwy 180 & Hwy 285 3202 S. Canal Street 305 JAMESTOWN 16 S DEF 450 I-40, Exit 39 I-40, Exit 39, 87347 266 LAS CRUCES 5 40 I-10 & NM 292, Exit 139 2681 West Amador, 88005 163 LORDSBURG 7 S DEF 95 I-10 & East Motel Dr, Exit 24 1050 East Motel Drive, 88045 690 Lordsburg 9 285 rv dump I-10 Exit 24 11 Old Highway 70, 88045 475 Moriarty 7 S DEF 85 Hwy 41 and I-40, Exit 196 305 Abrahames RD W, 87035 691 Tucumcari DEF 136 9 rv dump I-40 & Exit 333 2021 S. Mountain Road, 88401

p 775-635-5424

p 856-299-5700

p 973-293-3477

NEW MEXICO

896 bow 3 60 I-93, Exit 11/12C 728 SR 3A, 03304

p 308-889-3686

880 Montague Gulf 0 LTD I-84, Exit 1 15 Route 23 S, 07827

966 Battle MTN. Flying j/broadway 9 70 I-80 Exit 231 650 W Front St., 89820 387 CARLIN DEF 60 5 I-80/NV 278, Exit 280 791 Tenth Street, 89822 340 FERNLEY 7 S DEF 100 I-80 & US 95, Exit 46 465 Pilot Road, 89408 341 LAS VEGAS 7 S DEF 80 I-15 & Craig Rd, Exit 48 3812 East Craig Road, 89031 513 Primm 6 S DEF 125 I-15, Exit 1 115 West Primm Blv, 89019 692 Wells DEF 105 9 rv dump I-80 & HWY 93, Exit 352 (South) 156 Hwy 93 South, 89835 147 WEST WENDOVER DEF 250 11 I-80 @ Peppermill Casino, Exit 410 1200 West Wendover Boulevard, 89883 485 Winnemucca 5 S DEF 140 I-80 & West Interchange, Exit 173 5625 I-80 W Winnemucca Exchange, 89445 770 Winnemucca 10 S 105 rv dump I-80 Exit 176 1880 West Winnemucca Blvd., 89445

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEBRASKA

f 308-856-4457

NEVADA

f 406-822-4444

f 406-285-6976

p 308-856-4330

p 505-831-2001 f 505-833-0464

p 575-887-7033 f 575-887-0466

p 505-722-6655 f 505-722-2674

p 575-523-2700 f 575-525-6727

p 575-542-3100 f 575-542-3111

p

575-542-3320

p

505-832-4954

f 575-542-3324

f 505-832-4953

p 575-461-6590 f 575-461-3879

NEW YORK 322 KANONA DEF 40 4 I-86, Exit 37 7767 State Rt 53, 14810 394 NEWBURGH 6 S DEF 110 I-84, Exit 6 239 Route 17K, 12550 693 Pembroke DEF 150 9 I-90 Exit 48A 8484 Allegheny Road, 14036

p 607-776-2012 f 607-776-4179

p 845-567-1722 f 845-567-1773

rv dump

p 585-599-4430 f 585-599-4436

p 908-479-6443 f 908-479-6394

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North dakotacont.)

494 Rotterdam DEF 50 4 I-88, Exit 25 1128 Duanesburg Road, 12306 146 SCHODACK LANDING DEF 15 4 I-90, Exit 12 995 US Route 9, 12033 380 SYRACUSE (LIVERPOOL) DEF 85 5 I-81, Exit 25; I-90, Exit 36 107 Seventh North Street, 13088

550 Minot DEF 55 4 Hwy 2 & 52 West 3800 Hwy 2 & 52 W, 58701 589 Williston DEF 75 5

p 518-356-5616 f 518-356-5634

p 518-732-7272 f 518-732-7228

p 315-424-0124 f 315-424-0126

North Carolina 275 CHARLOTTE DEF 60 5 I-85, Exit 39; I-77, Exit 13 3807 Statesville Avenue, 28206 885 dunn Kangaroo Pantry 3 40 I-95, Exit 71 873 Longbranch, 28334 900 dunn Saddler bros.

9 300 I-95, Exit 75 65 Sadler Rd, 28334 682 Graham DEF 251 14 rv dump I-85 & I-40 Exit 150 1043 Jimmie Kerr Road, 27258 56 KANNAPOLIS DEF 55 8 I-85, Exit 63 2825 Lane Street, 28083 683 Kenly DEF 145 9 rv dump I-95 & Exit 106 1800 Princeton-Kenly Road, 27542 57 MEBANE 8 S DEF 140 I-40/85, Exit 152 1342 Trollingwood Road, 27302 549 Mount Airy 10 S DEF 150 I-77, Exit 100 125 Plaza Lane, 27030 58 PLEASANT HILL 4 50 I-95, Exit 180 Route 1 - Box 202, 27866 393 WAYNESVILLE DEF 60 4 I-40 & NC 209, Exit 24 3712 Crabtree Road, 28786

p 704-358-1006 f 704-358-1506

p 910-892-3642 f 910-980-2364

p 910-892-0106 f 910-892-2084

p 336-578-2427 f 336-578-0804

p 704-938-6800 f 704-938-6900

p 919-284-4548 f 919-284-4214

p 919-563-4999 f 919-563-4929

p 336-352-3167 f 336-352-3456

p 252-537-4476 f 252-537-3666

p 828-627-8611 f 828-627-9499

North dakota 684 Beach 9 89 I-94 & Hwy 16 I-94 & Hwy 16, 58621 685 fargo DEF 165 9 3150 39th Street SW, Suite A, 58104 489 grand forks DEF 145 10 rv dump I-29, Exit 138 4401 32nd Avenue South, 58201

p 701-872-4737 f 701-872-4985 TM

p 701-282-7766 f 701-282-7259

p 701-746-8145 f 701-746-4342

76 C H A L L E N G E o c t o b e r 2 0 1 3

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ohio (cont.) rv dump

13553 Hwy 2, 58801

p 701-839-5061 f 701-839-3623

p 701-826-2500 f 701-826-2504

ohio 2 AUSTINBURG 7 S DEF 150 I-90, Exit 223 2246 State Route 45, 44010 694 AUSTINBURG DEF 165 15 rv dump I-90 & State Rd 45, Exit 223 2349 Center Road, 44010 3 AUSTINTOWN 8 S DEF 200 I-80, Exit 223 1150 North Canfield-Niles Road, 44515 4 AVON DEF 55 3 I-90, Exit 151 39115 Colorado Road, 44011 457 BEAVER DAM 10 S DEF 105 I-75, Exit 135 427 East Main Street, 45808 695 BEAVER DAM DEF 150 15 rv dump I-75 Exit 135 420 East Main Street, 45808 696 Berkshire DEF 150 15 I-71 Exit 131 7735 State Route 37, 43074 309 CALDWELL DEF 45 5 I-77, Exit 25 44133 Fairground Road, 43724 6 CAMBRIDGE DEF 35 3 I-70, Exit 178 61700 Southgate Road, 43725 469 CAnton 7 S DEF 130 I-77, Exit 101 2320 Faircrest Street, 44706 8 CIRCLEVILLE DEF 55 3 US 23 and Pittsburgh Road 25600 US 23, 43113 213 COLUMBUS DEF 100 7 I-70 & Wilson Road Exit 94 3600 Interchange Road, 43204 286 EATON 5 S DEF 50 I-70 & OH 127, Exit 10 6141 US 127 North, 45320 360 FINDLAY 5 80 I-75 & OH 613, Exit 164 11471 State Route 613W, 45840 9 FRANKLIN 7 S DEF 200 I-75, Exit 36 6830 Franklin-Lebanon Road, 45005

p 440-275-3303 f 440-275-3311

p 440-275-1515 f 440-275-3289

p 330-505-3532 f 330-505-3548

p 440-934-0110 f 440-934-1168

p 419-643-6023 f 419-643-6085

p 419-643-8001 f 419-643-8106

p 740-965-9835 f 740-965-9770

p 740-732-5656 f 740-732-1404

p 740-439-0989 f 740-432-9607

p 330-484-3965 f 330-484-6304

p 740-420-8942 f 740-420-3972

p 614-308-9195 f 614-308-9673

p 937-456-6303 f 937-456-6497

p 419-299-3381 f 419-299-3096

285 HEBRON 9 S DEF 90 I-70 & OH 37, Exit 126 10258 Lancaster Road SW, 43025 697 Hubbard DEF 150 15 rv dump I-80 & Hwy 62, Exit 234B (Eastbound) 2226 North Main, 44425 698 Jeffersonville DEF 148 9 rv dump I-71 Exit 69 9935 SR 41, 43128 700 Lake Township DEF 150 15 rv dump I-280 Exit 1B; I-80/90, Exit 71 26415 Warns Dr., 43551 287 LODI (BURBANK) DEF 105 7 I-71 & OH 83, Exit 204 10048 Avon Lake Road, 44214 454 LONDON 9 S DEF 125 I-70, Exit 79 1365 SR 42 NE, 43140 455 MARENGO DEF 65 5 rv dump I-71, Exit 140 488 State Route 61, 43334 699 Millersport DEF 152 15 rv dump I-70 St Rd 158 Exit 122 10480 Baltimore, 43046 11 N. LIMA 5 S DEF 50 I-76, Exit 232 10920 Market Street, 44452 303 NAPOLEON DEF 75 5 Rt. 24 905 American Road, 43545 130 RICHFIELD DEF 80 7 I-77S, Ex 146; I-77N, Ex 145; I-80, Ex 173 5219 Brecksville Road, 44286 13 SEVILLE 10 S DEF 190 I-71, Exit 209 8924 Lake Road, 44273 12 STONEY RIDGE (PERRYSBURG) 5 S DEF 50 I-80/90, Exit 71 3430 Libbey Road, 43551 14 SUNBURY DEF 115 5 rv dump I-71, Exit 131 7680 East State Route 36, 43074 15 TOLEDO DEF 70 5 I-75, Exit 210 5820 Hagman Road, 43612 239 UPPER SANDUSKY DEF 70 5 St. Hwy 23 & 30 1600 W. Wyandot Avenue, 43351 97 Vandalia DEF 110 9 I-75, Exit 64 175 Northwoods Blvd, 45377

p 740-928-5588 f 740-928-6032

p 330-534-3774 f 330-534-4372

p 740-426-9136 f 740-426-9156

p 419-837-2100 f 419-837-2199

p 330-948-4571 f 330-948-4575

p 614-879-4128 f 614-879-4137

p 419-253-1400 f 419-253-1402

p 740-964-9601 f 740-964-9611

p 330-549-9203 f 330-549-1930

p 419-599-0043 f 419-599-0051

p 330-659-2020 f 330-659-2021

p 330-769-4220 f 330-769-2202

p 419-837-5091 f 419-837-5658

p 740-965-5540 f 740-965-5641

p 419-729-3985 f 419-729-0905

p 419-294-2971 f 419-294-3812

p 937-264-8520

p (937)

264-8525

p 937-746-4488 f 937-743-3006

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ohio (cont.)

Oregon (cont.)

Pennsylvania (cont.)

16 WILMINGTON DEF 20 3 I-71, Exit 50 5772 US 68 North, 45177 281 YOUNGSTOWN (GIRARD) 7 S DEF 80 I-80 & Salt Springs Rd., Exit 226 2786 Salt Springs Road, 44420

504 Klamath Falls DEF 50 4 rv dump Hwy 97 3817 N. Hwy 97, 97601 934 LaGrande A&B 4 50 I-84 Exit 265 I-84 & Exit 265, 97850 232 ONTARIO DEF 105 7 I-84, Exit 376A 653 East Idaho Avenue, 97914 233 RICE HILL 10 S DEF 160 I-5, Exit 148 800 John Long Road, 97462 390 STANFIELD DEF 90 9 I-84/82 & Hwy 395, Exit 188 2115 Highway 395, 97875

555 Milton Penn 80 Milton Truck Plaza penn 80 grill 16 300 I-80, Exit 215 p 570-742-2663 1460 North Ridge Rd, 17847 f 1-877-395-0850 81 NEW CASTLE 7 S DEF 90 I-79, Exit 99 p 724-368-3028 2010 New Castle Road, 16051 f 724-368-3059 710 New Milford DEF 125 9 rv dump I-81 Exit 219 p 570-465-2974 1623 Oliver Road, 18834 f 570-465-2979 522 Pine Grove 3 160 I-81, Exit 100 p 570-345-8800 482 Suedberg Rd, 17963 f 570-915-6278 370 SCRANTON (PITTSTON) 7 S DEF 80 I-81N, Exit 175; I-81 S, Exit 175B; I-476, RT 315 p 570-655-4116 417 Route 315, 18640 f 570-655-2479 620 Smithton DEF 110 7 rv dump I-70 & Exit 49 p 724-872-4050 122 Fitzhenry Road, 15479 f 724-872-9471

p 937-382-0464 f 937-382-3069

p 330-530-8500 f 330-530-8318

Oklahoma 701 Ardmore DEF 136 9 rv dump I-35 & Exit 33 2450 Cooper Drive, 73401 702 Checotah DEF 150 9 rv dump U.S. Hwy 69 & U.S. Hwy 266 1255 W. Gentry, 74426 556 Choctaw Thunder Travel Plaza DEF 25 0 I-40, Exit 166 7501 S. Choctaw Road, 73020 704 Edmond DEF 73 8 rv dump I-35 & N.E. 122nd Street 4801 NE 122 Street, 73013 259 muskogee 7 S DEF 125 US 69 3006 N. 32nd Street, 74401 460 OKLAHOMA CITY 15 S DEF 145 I-40, Exit 140 400 South Morgan Road, 73128 703 OKLAHOMA CITY DEF 172 15 rv dump I-40, Exit 140 701 South Morgan Road, 73128 196 ROLAND DEF 125 7 I-40 & US 64, Exit 325 123 West Ray Fine Boulevard 705 Sayre DEF 150 9 rv dump I-40 & US 283 2400 South 4th Route, 73662 706 Tulsa DEF 185 9 rv dump I-44 & Exit 236 121 North 129 E/I-44 Exit 236, 74116

TM

p 580-226-3833 f 580-226-3546

p 918-473-1243 f 918-473-1957

p 405-638-3000 f 405-638-3006 TM

p 405-475-9440 f 405-475-9435

p 918-686-7856 f 918-686-0597

p 405-440-1048 f 405-440-1093 TM

p 405-324-5000 f 405-324-7181

p 918-427-0895 f 918-427-0862

p 580-928-2216 f 580-928-2354

p 918-437-5477 f 918-437-5660

oregon 195 BIGGS JUNCTION DEF 55 5 I-84 & US Hwy 97, Exit 104 91485 Biggs Rufus Highway, 97065 386 BROOKS 7 S DEF 110 I-5, Exit 263 4220 Brooklake Road, 97305 391 CENTRAL POINT DEF 100 7 I-5, Exit 33 1600 East Pine Street, 97502 133 CHEMULT 4 60 US 97 341 Damon Street, 97731

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p 541-739-2174 f 541-739-2479

p 503-463-1114 f 503-463-0409

p 541-664-7001 f 541-664-7006

p 541-365-0991 f 541-365-0995

p 541-884-0400 f 541-884-0409 Full Service Restaurant

p 541-963-9762 f 541-663-9822

p 541-889-9070 f 541-889-4117

p 541-849-2133 f 541-849-2137

p 541-449-1403 f 541-449-1430

Pennsylvania 348 BENTLEYVILLE 7 S DEF 90 I-70 Exit 32-B 205 Wilson Road, 15314 516 breezewood all american 12 280 I-76, Exit 161; I-70, Exit 147 167 Post House Road, 15533 707 Brookville DEF 140 15 rv dump I-80 Exit 78 246 Allegheny Blvd., 15825 708 Carlisle DEF 278 22 rv dump I-81 Exit 52/I-76 & Exit 226 1501 Harrisburg Pike, 17013 336 DUBOIS 7 100 I-80, Hwy 219, Exit 97 1742 Rich Highway, 15801 517 Duncannon DEF 85 6 US 22 and 322 30 Benvenue Ave, 17020 311 ERIE DEF 85 5 I-90 & PA97, Exit 27 8035 Perry Highway, 16509 518 Frystown DEF 240 8 I-78, Exit 10 (PA 645) 2210 Camp Swatara Road, 17067 245 HARRISBURG DEF 30 3 I-81 & PA39, Exit 77 7961 Linglestown Road, 17112 298 HAZLETON (DRUMS) DEF 60 5 I-80, Exit 256 1114 SR 93, 18222 1 MILL HALL 5 S DEF 70 I-80, Exit 173 5868 Nittany Valley Drive, 17751 709 MILL HALL (Lamar) DEF 155 15 rv dump I-80 and Exit 173 5609 Nittany Valley Drive, 17751

p 724-239-5855 f 724-239-5801 Pizza Shop

Perkins

Taco Maker

p 814-735-4076 f 814-735-4823

p 814-849-2992 f 814-849-2440

p 717-243-6659 f 717-243-2510

p 814-375-6046 f 814-375-6047

p 717-834-3156 f 717-834-3208

p 814-864-8536 f 814-866-0332 TM

p 717-933-4146 f 717-933-5008

p 717-545-5507 f 717-545-6768

p 570-788-3262 f 570-788-2163

p 570-726-7618 f 570-726-5092

p 570-726-4080 f 570-726-4363

south carolina 711 Blacksburg 15 200 I-85 Exit 102 1011 North Mountain Street, 29702 60 BOWMAN 8 S DEF 100 I-26, Exit 159 2064 Homestead Road, 29018 346 CAMDEN (LUGOFF) 5 S DEF 60 I-20 & US 601 Exit 92 522 Highway 601 South, 29078 884 Campobello Kangaroo Pantry 2 35 I-26, Exit 5 8998 SC Hwy 11, 29322 338 CAYCE (COLUMBIA) DEF 90 5 I-26/77 & US321, Exit 115 3008 Highway 321, 29033 61 CLINTON 3 40 I-26, Exit 52 12818 Highway 56 North, 29325 712 Columbia DEF 180 15 rv dump I-20 Exit 70 5901 Fairfield Road, 29203 310 DUNCAN DEF 70 8 I-85 & SC290, Exit 63 1405 East Main Street, 29334 62 FLORENCE DEF 75 6 I-95, Exit 170 3006 North Williston Road, 29506 337 FLORENCE DEF 90 5 I-95 & US 52, Exit 164 2015 West Lucas St., 29501 453 GAFFNEY 7 S DEF 100 I-85, Exit 90 909 Hyatt Street, 29341

p 864-839-5934 f 864-839-5942

p 803-829-3541 f 803-829-3352

p 803-438-5175 f 803-438-3947

p 864-472-2128 f 864-472-2280

p 803-739-2921 f 803-739-4521

p 864-833-4555 f 864-833-3765

p 803-735-9006 f 803-735-0917

p 864-433-1221 f 864-433-1210

p 843-662-6972 f 843-662-7013

p 843-662-2646 f 843-662-2893

p 864-206-0050 f 864-206-0052

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at stores listed with a yellow tag

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South Carolina (cont.)

tennessee (cont.)

texas

713 Latta DEF 200 15 rv dump I-95 Exit 181A 111 Mill Branch Road, 29565 63 PIEDMONT 5 S DEF 90 I-85, Exit 35 110 Frontage Road, 29673 714 Rock Hill DEF 140 9 rv dump I-77 & Hwy 901, Exit 73 2435 Mount Holly Road, 29730 493 St. George DEF 120 8 rv dump I-95, Exit 77 113 Motel Drive, 29477 64 SUMMERVILLE 3 S DEF LTD I-26, Exit 199 1521 North Main Street, 29483

720 Fairview DEF 150 9 rv dump I-40 & Hwy 96, Exit 182 1420 Hwy 96 North, 37062 51 GREENEVILLE DEF 25 3 I-81 Exit 36 11190 Baileyton Road, 37745 403 HEISKELL DEF 25 1 I-75, Exit 117 1915 East Raccoon Valley Road, 37754 53 HURRICANE MILLS 8 S DEF 250 I-40, Exit 143 15559 Highway 13 South, 37078 366 Jackson 7 S DEF 85 I-40, Exit 85 32 Sand Pebble Rd., 38305 241 KNOXVILLE DEF 80 0 I-40, Exit 398; @ John Sevier 2801 East Govenor John Sevier Hwy, 37914 722 Knoxville DEF 187 13 rv dump I-40 & I-75 Exit 369 800 Watt Road, 37932 270 KNOXVILLE (LOVELL ROAD) 7 S DEF 80 I-40/75, Exit 374 314 Lovell Road, 37922 219 KNOXVILLE (STRAW PLAINS) 9 S DEF 250 I-40, Exit 398 7210 Straw Plains Pike, 37914 52 LAVERGNE DEF 40 4 I-24, Exit 64 535 Waldron Road, 37086 411 LEBANON 8 S DEF 150 rv dump I-40, Exit 238 921 Murfreesboro, 37090 363 MEMPHIS DEF 70 5 US 78 @ Pleasant Hill 5021 Highway 78, 38118 405 MEMPHIS 5 S DEF 100 I-240, Hwy 78S 4949 Lamar Ave, 38118 404 Murfreesboro 7 S DEF 90 I-24, Exit 81 2441 S. Church St, 37127 413 nashville DEF 25 2 Briley Pkwy, Hwy 155N, Ex 26A, Hwy 155S, Ex 26 6418 Centennial Blvd., 37209 224 ONeiDA (PIONEER) DEF 85 4 I-75, Exit 141 304 Howard Baker Highway, 37847 149 STANTON DEF 50 5 I-40 Exit 42 7720 Highway 222, 38069 412 WHITE PINE 10 S DEF 130 rv dump I-81, Exit 4 3624 Roy Messer Highway, 37890

436 AMARILLO 12 S DEF 150 rv dump I-40, Exit 75 715 South Lakeside Drive, 79118 723 AMARILLO DEF 200 13 rv dump I-40 Exit 76 9601 I-40 East Exit 76, 79118 477 anna DEF 100 8 1700 US Hwy 75/Hwy 75, Exit 48 714 South Central Expressway, 75409 435 ANTHONY 8 S DEF 100 I-10, Exit 0 2015 Antonio Street, 79821 724 ANTHONY DEF 175 13 rv dump I-10 Exit 0 3001 Mountain Pass Blvd., 79821 725 Baytown DEF 200 15 rv dump I-10 & Exit 789 Thompson Road 1876 East Freeway, 77521 740 Brookshire DEF 115 9 rv dump I-10, Exit 732 204 South Waller Ave., 77423 367 CADDO MILLS DEF 80 6 I-30 & FM1903, Exit 87 & 88 2725 FM 1903, 75135 883 Canton 4 S DEF 100 I-20, Exit 533 9800 Interstate 20, 75103 488 Cotulla 7 S DEF 75 I-35, Exit 69 921 N. IH35, 78014 433 DALLAS 11 S DEF 150 I-20, Exit 470 8787 South Lancaster Road, 75241 726 DALLAS DEF 180 12 rv dump I-20 Exit 472 7425 Bonnie View Road, 75241 727 Edinburg DEF 200 9 rv dump Hwy 281 & FM 1925 1305 East Monte Cristo, 78539 728 El Paso DEF 120 11 rv dump I-10 and Exit 37 1301 North Horizon Blvd., 79927 553 FORT Stockton 9 S DEF 100 I-10, Exit 259 2571 North Front Street, 79735 434 FORT WORTH 12 S DEF 185 rv dump I-35, Exit 65 2400 Alliance Gateway, 76178 375 HOUSTON 7 S DEF 90 I-610, Exit 24A US 90 E 4440 N. McCarty Street, 77013 729 Houston DEF 235 15 rv dump I-45 Richie Rd, Exit 64 15919 North Freeway, 77090

p 843-752-5047 f 843-752-7265

p 864-845-8177 f 864-845-8178

p 803-328-5700 f 803-909-5800

p 843-563-8989 f 843-563-8986

p 843-486-5770 f 843-486-5702

south dakota 932 Hermosa MG Oil 2 25 25 Heartland Express Hwy 79 25 Heartland Express Hwy 79, 57744 599 murdo DEF 50 4 rv dump I-90, Exit 192 601 E. Fifth Street, 57559 918 Rapid City DEF 200 5 I-90, Exit 55 2783 Deadwood Ave., 57702 931 Rapid City MG Oil 8 150 I-90 Exit 61 4200 N I-90 Service Rd Exit 61, 57701 716 Sioux Falls DEF 158 9 rv dump I-29 Exit 83 5201 Granite Lane, 57107

p 605-255-4555 f 605-255-4522

p 605-669-2465 f 605-669-2859

p 605-348-7070 f 605-348-3438

p 605-342-5450 f 605-342-3011

p 605-977-1438 f 605-977-1538

tennessee 481 Cleveland DEF 75 7 I-75, Exit 20 281 Pleasant Grove Rd, 37353 265 COOKEVILLE DEF LMTD 1 I-40, Exit 287 1111 South Jefferson, 38501 406 CORNERSVILLE DEF 40 2 I-65, Exit 22 9211 Lewisburg Highway, 37047 114 CROSSVILLE 7 S DEF 80 I-40, Exit 320 2449 Genesis Road, 38571 226 DANDRIDGE DEF 80 6 I-40, Exit 417 505 Patriot Drive, 37725 409 DICKSON 11 S DEF 90 I-40, Exit 172 2320 Highway 46 South, 37055

p 423-476-3892 f 423-476-5430

p 931-528-7100 f 931-528-3893

p 931-363-3290 f 931-363-8248

p 931-787-1901 f 931-787-1905

p 865-397-3547 f 865-397-3699

p 615-446-4600 f 615-446-0763

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p 615-799-4116 f 615-799-4120

p 423-234-0414 f 423-234-0641

p 865-938-1439 f 865-938-1146

p 931-296-7180 f 931-296-7719

p 731-422-5545 f 731-422-5780

p 865-546-6776 f 865-546-7475

p 865-531-7400 f 865-531-7982

p 865-966-0445 f 865-966-2918

p 865-544-1067 f 865-544-1138

p 615-793-9856 f 615-793-9085

p 615-453-8866 f 615-453-8860

p 901-366-0337 f 901-366-1712

p 901-202-5520 f 901-202-5522

p 615-907-9595 f 615-907-3982

p 615-350-7225 f 615-350-7318

p 423-562-5000 f 423-566-1335

p 901-466-3535 f 901-465-7822

p 865-674-8570 f 865-674-8572

p 806-335-3323 f 806-335-2868

p 806-335-1475 f 806-335-1058 TM

p 972-924-2035 f 972-924-2051

p 915-886-3090 f 915-886-3404

p 915-886-2737 f 915-886-3522

p 281-424-7706 f 281-424-7730

p 281-934-4133 f 281-934-4153

p 903-527-2150 f 903-527-2103

p 903-829-2600

p 830-879-5363 F 830-879-5359

p 972-228-2467 f 972-228-4386

p 972-225-3566 f 972-225-3681

p 956-316-0149 f 956-316-4732

p 915-852-4141 f 915-852-4101

p 817-337-5324 f 817-337-5137

p 713-675-3375 f 713-670-7629

p 281-893-0423 f 281-893-9368

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texas (cont.)

texas (cont.)

UTah (cont.)

234 HUNTSVILLE 6 S DEF 90 I-45, Exit 118 639 State Highway 75 North, 77320 507 Jarrell 8 140 I-35 & Exit 275 11710 North Interstate 35, 76537 377 LAREDO 12 S DEF 300 I-35 S, Exit 13; I-35 N, Exit 12B 1101 Uniroyal Drive, 78045 730 LAREDO DEF 190 15 rv dump I-35 S, Exit 13; I-35 N, Exit 12B 1011 Beltway Parkway, 78045 733 Lubbock DEF 50 4 rv dump I-27 & 4th Street Exit 602 4th Street, 79401 257 MIDLAND 7 S DEF 84 I-20, Exit 126 4015 S. FM 1788, 79706 330 New Braunfels 7 S DEF 80 I-35, Exit 184 4142 Loop 337, 78132 734 New Caney DEF 150 9 rv dump US 59 & Exit 242 23412 Hwy 242, 77357 580 ODESSA 10 S DEF 100 I-20, Exit 121 5900 E. Interstate 20, 79766 431 ORANGE 8 S DEF 110 rv dump I-10, Exit 873 2205 North Highway 62, 77630 735 ORANGE DEF 150 15 rv dump I-10 Exit 873 7112 I-10 West, 77630 736 Pecos DEF 200 9 rv dump I-20 Exit 42 100 East Pinehurst, 79772 432 ROBINSON 10 S DEF 285 I-35, Exit 328 8055 South I-35, 76706 306 SAN ANTONIO 6 S DEF 50 I-10 E.bound, Ex 581; I-10 W.bound, Ex 582 5619 I-10 East, 78219 467 SAN ANTONIO 7 S DEF 85 I-37, Exit 125 4105 S Loop 1604 E, 78264 737 SAN ANTONIO 13 S DEF 200 I-10, Exit 583 1815 N. Foster Road, 78244 157 SULPHUR SPRINGS 7 S DEF 85 I-30, Exit 122 1200 South Hillcrest, 75482 888 Tulia 5 S 71 I-27 & Hwy 86, 79088 1200 South Hillcrest, 75482

738 Tye DEF 200 15 rv dump I-20 & FM 707 Exit 277 101 North FM 707, 79563 486 Tyler 7 S DEF 85 I-20 & FM 14 12881 FM 14A, 75706 209 VAN HORN 6 S DEF 75 I-10, Exit 140 501 Van Horn Drive, 79855 568 VoN ormy DEF 65 7 I-35, Exit 140 14555 IH35 South, 78073 739 Waco DEF 200 9 rv dump I-35 & New Road 2409 South New Road, 76711 206 WEATHERFORD 7 S DEF 110 I-20, Exit 406 1201 I-20 West, 76087 741 Wichita Falls DEF 50 3 rv dump US 287 & Jacksboro Highway 2311 Jacksboro Highway, 76301

510 Scipio 4 100 I-15, Exit 188 810 North 800 West, 84656 774 Snowville 3 50 rv dump I-84 Exit 7 90 South Stone Road, 84336 747 Springville DEF 80 8 I-15 Exit 261 1460 North 1750 West, 84663 775 St. George DEF 60 4 I-15 Exit 4 2841 South 60 East, 84790 748 Willard Bay DEF 50 4 rv dump I-15 Exit 357 600 West 750 North, 84340

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p 936-291-1125 f 936-291-2421 Q Eats

p 512-746-4341

p 956-717-5006 f 956-717-5012

p 956-712-3265 f 956-791-3057

p 806-744-0539 f 806-744-7423

p 432-563-1683 f 432-563-1748

p 830-629-1424 f 830-629-1254

p 325-691-9974 f 325-691-5365

p 903-593-5466 f 903-593-3204

p 432-283-8067 f 432-283-8071

p 210-622-9384 f 210-622-9302

p 254-714-0313 f 254-714-1798

p 817-341-4600 f 817-341-4602

p 940-720-0598 f 940-720-0725

utah p 281-689-8065 f 281-689-8271

p 432-366-0812 f 432-366-0845

p 409-745-1124 f 409-745-3336

p 409-883-9465 f 409-886-8224

p 432-445-9436 f 432-445-7171

p 254-662-4771 f 254-662-4951

p 210-661-5353 f 210-661-4660

p 210-626-9183 f 210-626-9201

p 210-666-2266 f 210-666-2280

p 903-885-0020 f 903-885-1580

509 Beaver DEF 150 6 I-15, Exit 112 653 West 1400 North, 84713 892 Green River West winds truck stop 5 100 I-70, Exit 164 1085 East Main St., 84525 742 Lake Point DEF 130 9 rv dump I-80 Exit 99 1605 East Saddleback Blvd., 84074 743 Nephi DEF 110 9 rv dump I-15 Exit 222 1597 South Main, 84648 772 N. Salt Lake 4 40 I-215 & Redwood Rd, Exit 27 885 W. North Point Circle, 84054 294 OGDEN 5 60 I-15 & UT 39, Exit 344 1670 West 12th Street, 84404 744 OGDEN DEF 100 9 I-15 Exit 343 1172 West 21st Street, 84401 508 Perry DEF 25 2 I-15 Exit 362 1674 W. 1100 S., 84302 773 Richfield DEF 50 4 rv dump I-70 Exit 40 35 East Flying J Drive, 84701 746 Salt Lake City DEF 110 9 rv dump I-15 & I-80 SR201, Exit 17 2025 South 900 West, 84119

roberto’s Taco Shop

p 435-438-5191

West Winds restaurant

p 435-564-3495 f 435-564-8162

p 801-508-7400 f 801-508-7404

p 435-623-2400 f 435-623-2421

p 801-936-1408 f 801-936-1457

p 801-731-2900 f 801-731-2380

p 801-399-5577 f 801-399-9353

p 435-723-9999

p 435-896-5050 f 435-896-4044

p 801-972-3711 f 801-972-6174

p 435-758-2345

p 435-872-8181 f 435-872-8171

p 801-489-3622 f 801-489-3059

p 435-674-7104 f 435-652-3627

p 435-723-1010 f 435-723-1044

virginia 749 Carmel Church DEF 239 15 rv dump I-95 Exit 104 24279 Roger Clark Blvd., 22546 256 DANVILLE DEF 45 3 Hwy 58 & 29, Exit 104 110 River Point Drive, 24541 898 Emporia Sadler’s Truck Stop 10 250 I-95, Exit 11B 918 West Atlantic Street, 23847 750 Ft. Chiswell DEF 270 14 I-81 & I-77 Exit 80 I-81, I-77 & VA Route 52, 24360 396 Greenville 11 S DEF 100 I-81S, Exit 213A;I-81 N, Exit 213 3541 Lee Jackson Highway, 24401 491 Harrisonburg DEF 100 7 I-81m Exit 251, 22802 3634 North Valley Pike, 22802 384 RICHMOND 9 S DEF 110 I-95 N, Exit 58; I-95 S, Exit 58A 2126 Ruffin Mill Road, 23834 876 Ruther Glen DEF 250 22 I-95, Exit 104 23866 Rogers Clark Blvd, 22546 899 South hill Sadler’s trk. Stp. 3 20 I-85, Exit 12A 1011 East Atlantic Street, 23970 159 TALLYSVILLE DEF 60 4 I-64, Exit 211 6721 Emmaus Church Road 23140 258 TROUTVILLE 3 LTD I-81, Exit 150A or B 2966 Lee Highway South, 24175 752 Winchester DEF 144 15 rv dump I-81 Exit 323 1530 Rest Church Road, 22624

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p 434-634-4312 f 434-634-5397

p 276-637-4115 f 276-637-6968

p 540-324-0714 f 540-324-0718

p 540-434-2529 f 540-434-2076

p 804-524-9556 f 804-524-9522

p 804-448-3077 f 804-448-8350

p 434-447-4528 f 434-447-6388

p 804-966-1880 f 804-966-9231

p 540-992-2805 f 540-992-1534

p 540-678-3641 f 540-678-3651

p 806-995-4597 f 806-995-3501

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754 Wytheville 13 177 I-77 & I-81 Exit 77 3249 Chapman Rd, 24382

40 OAK CREEK 8 S DEF 150 I-94, Exit 322 2031 West Ryan Road, 53154 538 Oakdale road ranger DEF 100 5 I-90, Exit 48 102 E Woody, 54660 324 RACINE (FRANKSVILLE) DEF 80 5 I-94 & CR K, Exit 329 13712 Northwestern Avenue, 53126

793 AB-Calgary 2 15

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Washington 965 Ellensburg Flying j/broadway 7 100 I-90 Exit 109 2300 Canyon Rd., 98926 583 Ferndale DEF 25 4 1678 Main Street #3, 98248 970 Pasco (spokane) Flying j/broadway 2 75 U.S. Hwy 395 2216 E Hillsboro Road, 99301 963 Spokane Flying j/broadway 2 LTD I-90 Exit 276 3709 S. Geiger Blvd., 99224 967 Spokane Flying j/broadway 7 80 I-90 Exit 286 6606 E. Broadway Ave., 99212 151 TUMWATER DEF 100 7 I-5, Exit 99 2430 93rd Avenue SW, 98512

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p 360-213-1822 f 360-312-1851

p 509-547-5561 f 509-547-4570

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p 509-535-3028 f 509-535-7589

p 360-754-0151 f 360-754-0159

west virginia 474 flatwoods (sutton) DEF 70 5 I-79, Exit 67 270 Scott Fork - Bonnie Rd, 26601 243 NITRO DEF 60 6 I-64 & SR 25, Exit 45 4304 First Avenue, 25143 503 morgantown DEF 50 5 I-79, Exit 146 2309 Smithton Rd, 26508

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p 304-755-8654 f 304-755-8655

p 304-284-8518 f 304-284-8509

wisconsin 289 BELOIT DEF 55 5 I-43/90 & WI 81, Exit 185A 3001 Milwaukee Road, 53511 756 Black River Falls DEF 150 14 rv dump I-94 & Exit 116 780 State Hwy 54, 54615 528 Cottage Grove road ranger DEF 50 2 I-90, Exit 147 2762 County Hwy N, 53527 544 East troy road ranger 1 5 I-43, Exit 38 1946 A. Energy Drive, 53120 470 roberts (hudson) DEF 100 9 US 65 & I-94 1191 70th Avenue, 55023 164 MAUSTON 7 S DEF 95 I-90/94 & WI 82, Exit 69 1101 State Road 82 East, 53948

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f 608-873-1610

p 815-315-4979 f 847-232-1186

p 715-749-4238 f 715-749-4241

p 608-847-3321 f 608-847-3316

f 414-761-0165 Dan’s Big Slice pizza

p 815-209-9040 f 608-374-2001

p 262-835-2292 f 262-835-2564

wyoming 758 Casper DEF 45 4 rv dump I-25 Exit 185 41 SE Wyoming Blvd., 82609 402 CHEYENNE DEF 120 10 rv dump I-80, Exit 367 8020 Campstool Road, 82007 759 CHEYENNE DEF 180 16 rv dump I-25 Exit 7 2250 Etchepare Drive, 82007 760 Cokeville DEF 90 4 rv dump US Hwy 30/SR 232 10501 US Hwy 30, 83114 141 EVANSTON 6 S DEF 75 I-80, Exit 6 289 Bear River Drive, 82930 761 Evanston 9 80 I-80 Exit 3 1920 Harrison Drive, 82930 762 Gillette DEF 50 4 rv dump I-90 & Hwy 59 1810 South Douglas Hwy, 82718 308 LARAMIE DEF 100 8 I-80 & Curtis St., Exit 310 1564 McCue Street, 82072 763 Rawlins DEF 200 10 rv dump I-80 Exit 209 I-80 Johnson Rd., 82301 764 Rock Springs DEF 85 6 rv dump I-80 Exit 104 650 Stage Coach Drive, 82901

85 East Lake Cres., T4B 2B5 792 AB-BROOKS 2 20 1260 Cassils Road East, T1R 1B7 785 AB-Calgary DEF 130 9 11511 40th Street SE, T2H 1L4

2525 23 ST N. E., T2E 7M1 848 AB-Calgary 9 80 4949 Barlow Trail Se, T2B3B5 815 ab-Drayton Valley 0 0

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15609 121 A. Ave, T5V 1B1 850 ab-Edmonton 8 100

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16806 118 Avenue, T5V1M8 818 ab-Edson Motco 0 0

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2520 - 2 Ave., T7E 1T9 819 ab-Fort McMurray 0 0

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345 Sakitawaw Trail, T9H 4E4 820 ab-Grande Prairie 0 0

p 307-789-9129

9212 - 108 St., T8V 4C9 845 ab-Grassland 2 75

p 307-682-3562

1st Ave. 1st Street, TOA 1V0 846 ab-Hanna 2 100

p 307-742-6443

Hwy 9 & Hwy 36 South, T0J 1P0 794 AB-High Level 0 25

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10529 96 St., T0H 1Z0 817 ab-Hinton 0 0

p 307-362-4231

294 Kelly Road, T7V 1H2 821 ab-Lethbridge 0 20

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f 307-328-1668

f 307-362-9710

1005 43 St, T1K 7B8 822 ab-Lloydminster 1 0

alberta , canada 813 ab-Airdrie 0 10

4216 72 Ave SE, T2C 2C1 814 AB-Calgary 0 0

5505 Jubilee Ave., T7A 1S3 816 ab-Edmonton 0 0

canada

Dan’s Big Slice pizza

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p 403-720-0904 f 403-720-4937

5109 63 St Ave, T9V 2E7 869 AB-nanton 3 130 Hwy #2 2810 21st Ave., T0L 1R0 795 Ab-Nisku 2 8 302 20th Avenue, T9E 7T8 796 AB-Red Deer DEF 26 4

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p 403-250-3835

p 403-273-4949 f 403-273-0628

p 801-725-1370

p 708-413-9116

p 780-455-1111 f 780-482-4448

p 780-743-3545

p 780-532-2378

p 780-525-2295 f 780-525-2299

p 403-854-5000

p 780-926-2066

p 801-725-1370

p 403-328-4735

p 780-875-2990

humpty’s restaurant

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p 780-955-3535

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manitoba, canada

Ontario , canada (cont.)

826 ab-Redcliff 1 0

802 BC-Vancouver 0 0

461 ON-TILBURY DEF 150 6 Rural Route #5, Highway 401, Exit 56 19325 Essex County Road 42, N0P 2L0

115 Lockwood St, T1A 7T9 797 Ab-Rycroft 0 8 Hwy #49 & Hwy #2 Hwy #49 & 2, Box 73, T0H 3A0 786 AB-Sherwood Park DEF 140 9 Yellowhead Hwy 16/ Broadmoor Blvd.

50 Pembina Rd., T8H 2G9 824 ab-Whitecourt 0 10 Hwy #43 & West Mtn. Road, T7N 1S9

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p 780-765-3740 f 780-765-3748

p 780-416-2035 f 780-416-2084

p 780-706-0471

British columbia, canada 827 bc-Abbotsford 1 10 929 Coutts Way & Sumas Way, V2S 4N2 798 BC-Annacis Island 1 LTD 1291 Cliveden Ave, V5M 6G4 799 BC-Chilliwack 4 20 7970 Lickman Road, V2R 1A9 828 bc-Cranbrook 0 0 2209 Theatre Road, V1C 4H4 829 bc-Creston 0 0 1411 Northwest Blvd, V0B 1G6 830 bc-Dawson Creek 0 0 1725 Alaska Ave, V1G 1P5 861 bc-HOPE 4 S DEF 65 Hwy 1, Exit 168 63100 Flood Hope Road, VOX 1L2 800 bc-Fort St John 0 0 Alaska Hwy & 109 St. 9407 109th Street, V1J 6K6 847 bc-Kamloops 5 125 175 Kokanee Way, V2C 6Z2 831 bc-Merritt 0 0 1885 Cold Water Ave. 2190 Douglas Street North, V0K 2B0 832 bc-New Westminster 0 0 24 Braid St, V3L 3P3 801 BC-Prince George 3 LTD 4869 Continental Way, V2N 5S5

8655 Boundary Rd & Marine Way, V5S 4H3 788 MB-Headingley DEF 150 9 Hwy #1 & Camp Manitou Rd. 4100 Portage Avenue, R4H 1C5 803 MB-Portage La Prairie 0 40 Hwy #1 East, R1N 3B2 804 MB-Winnipeg 2 LTD 1747 Brookside Blvd., R2C 2E8 835 MB-Winnipeg 0 0 131 Warman Road & HWY. #59, R2J 3R3

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p 250-573-3032 f 205-573-7828

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862 ON-Ayr 5 30 Hwy 401, Exit 268 2492 Cedar Creek Road, N0B 1E0 805 ON-Etobicoke 0 0 1765 Albion Rd & Hwy 27, M9W 5S7 806 ON-Kapuskasing 4 40 410 Government Road E, P5N 2X7 852 ON-lancaster DEF 110 9 Hwy 401, Exit 814 20382 Old Hwy #2, K0C 1N0 789 ON-London DEF 230 16 Hwy 401 & Highbury Ave. Exit 189 3700 Highbury Ave. South, N6N 1P3 807 ON-Mississauga DEF 50 3 1400 Britannia Road Exit 401 and Dixie Road 790 ON-Napanee DEF 165 15 401 & Cnty Rd 41 Exit 579 628 County Road #41 RR6, K7R 3L1 866 ON-Pass Lake 3200 Hwy 11/17, Shuniah, ON POT 2MO 865 on-Pickering 9 50 Hwy 401 2000 Clements Road, L1W 4A1 838 on-Sault Ste Marie 0 0 987 Great Northern Road, P6A 5K7 836 on-Schreiber 0 0 Hwy # 17, P0T 2S0 837 on-Sudbury 0 0

p 519-682-1140 f 519-682-9221

Quebec, canada p 204-832-8952 f 204-832-9104

p 204-857-9997

p 204-633-0663

p 204-231-5485

808 QC-Berthierville 0 10

p 450-836-6581

1181 Ave Gilles Villeneuve, J0K 1A0 809 QC-Napierville 0 10 Hwy 15 Exit 21 1 Rang St-Andre, J0J 1L0 810 QC-Ste Helene 4 10 HWY 20, Exit 152 569 Rue Principale, J0H 1M0

p 450-245-3539 f 450-245-9642

p 450-791-2232 f 450-791-2495

Saskatchewan, canada 811 SK-Moose Jaw DEF 20 5

ontario, canada

17 Duhamel Road, P3E 4N1

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papa Joe’s hot kettle p 519-624-9578

370 North Service Rd. Hwy #11, S6H 4N9 842 sk-Regina 3 12

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1511 Ross Ave. East, S4R 1J2 791 SK-Saskatoon DEF 85 4

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3850 Idylwylde Drive North, S7P 0A1 844 sk-Yorkton 0 0 Hwy #16A Bypass on York 1910 York Road West Box 794, S3N 2W8

p 306-693-5858

p 306-721-0070

p 306-955-6840 f 306-955-6846

p 801-726-8288

p 613-347-2221 f 613-347-1970

p 519-686-9154

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Bass Boat Sweepstakes Winner! he end of summer can be a disappointment, but not for one truck driver. Baldev Singh is the winner of the 2013 “Healthy Lifestyles” Bass Boat giveaway sponsored by Kellogg’s.

The Tracy, Calif., resident has been driving professionally for eight years and is a father of three.

Singh has used his MyRewards card for about eight years, usually stopping at the Pilot Travel Center in Bakersfield or the Flying J in Ripon, Calif.

“We are very excited about winning,” Singh says.

“I like fishing but rarely have the time as I have a business to run.”

As a holder of the Professional Driver rewards card, he likes the Coffee Club and the Pump Start, which he says saves him a lot of time. He usually uses his accumulated points to buy cold drinks and maybe a snack or two. He always makes sure to swipe his card with every purchase and that due diligence paid off – he’s now the proud owner of a 2013 Tracker Pro Team 175 TXW boat. Congratulations!

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Driver Profile: FRank Garcia ’ve been driving for 14 years and as long as there has been a program, I’ve used the points. I think I’ve been through three different cards or card styles. I am so very thankful for the rewards program.

I pull a reefer for a company based near Austin, Texas, and I usually make a West Coast run and come back to Austin.

I left home not too long ago and my oldest daughter had a medical need the day before I shipped out that left my bank account depleted. My company does not offer any sort of cash advances, but I had been saving my points to purchase a new Road King microphone for my radio and had just reached my goal of 7,500 points. I actually wasn’t able to get the microphone due to the financial crunch, so I used those points for things I needed. Those points helped keep body and soul together for a week. But in the past I have used them to buy everything from tire thumpers to toys, air fresheners to work gloves. I absolutely love the card! Thank you so much for offering a program that helps drivers in time of need.

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