{"id":74,"date":"2004-08-04T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=74"},"modified":"2004-08-26T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T04:00:05","slug":"truckers-coordinate-to-guard-us-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Coordinate to Guard US Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, being stuck behind them on the highway can be suck, but I understand the importance of truck drivers to the economic vitality of our nation.  Heck, my dad spent about two decades in a rig.  However, I did not know the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=F5E128EB-0E0A-49D5-8F524434AF076018&#038;title=Truckers%20Coordinate%20to%20Guard%20US%20Highways&#038;catOID=45C9C78F-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&#038;categoryname=USA\" target=\"_blank\">role truckers are filling<\/a> in the homeland defense efforts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. anti-terrorism officials recently alerted the public that al-Qaeda terrorists may be planning a truck bomb attack in the northeastern United States. The nation&#8217;s trucking industry has been on alert for some time, in large part, due to a federally-funded, $20 million program called Highway Watch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a pledge. It&#8217;s a person pledge. It&#8217;s an industry pledge and that&#8217;s to do our level best to see that one of our trucks is never used as a weapon,&#8221; says Mike Russell, a spokesman for the American Trucking Association (ATA), the trade group that represents more than three million truck drivers nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If anyone wants to see how dangerous a trucker&#8217;s life can be or how tough these people really are, I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090728\/\" target=\"_blank\">this movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, being stuck behind them on the highway can be suck, but I understand the importance of truck drivers to the economic vitality of our nation. Heck, my dad spent about two decades in a rig. However, I did not know the role truckers are filling in the homeland defense efforts. U.S. anti-terrorism officials recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}