Many of you read our daily news, listen to our Sirius XM
show and read our magazine. We also deliver several thought-provoking and
popular commentaries each week in the way of blogs.
It wasn’t that long ago that we didn’t even know what a blog
was. This year, we posted 84. Our entire Land
Line staff writes blogs, as does our staff from our OOIDA satellite radio
show “Land Line Now.” Several OOIDA staffers contribute blogs regularly to the
OOIDA website, as well.
Land
Line Associate Editor Dave Tanner banged out the top blog of
2011 on the magazine website, catching readers’ attention with a “Farewell to
Willie’s Place.” It is, of course, a comment on the end of that famous truck
stop at Carl’s Corner, TX. There was the rumor that Willie Nelson won the truck
stop in a poker contest. And that’s true. Willie actually told “Land Line Now”
host Mark Reddig that was the truth – and I heard him say it.
Number two this year was a blog
written in November by Senior Editor Jami Jones. A pig is a pig. You can
dress it up and put some lipstick on it, but underneath it’s still a pig.
That’s what you’ll hear Jami say every time someone says Mexican trucks are as
good as U.S. trucks. That claim is just not true and in her blog – “Lipstick on
the pig” – she put a sharp point on it, backed up by facts. Ouch!
Our most prolific blogger was Bob “Cowpoke” Martin, a Land Line columnist who died on Oct. 11
from liver cancer. His style was inimitable. The third most popular blog of
2011 was one by Bob called “End of the trail” and it’s Bob’s farewell to his
readers. How many people get to do the “by the time you read this I’ll be gone”
blog?
Here is the entire top 10 list, based on number of readers.
- Farewell to Willie’s Place
- Lipstick on the pig
- End of the trail
- Now we’re footing the bill too?
- So I walk into the Midway Truck Stop …
- On the Travel Channel: ‘Truck Stop, Missouri’
- HOS? Where’s the respect?
- TWIC: Where’s the pot of gold?
- Five feet high and risin’ …
- Entering the border zone
