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Get your ears on for News in Review. This time we’ll check stories on supply and demand, Con-Way Freight is 25 years old, Layover.com reported an interesting statistic, the driver shortage isn’t over but fewer companies are actively recruiting, hybrid cars, yes; hybrid trucks, maybe; the strike in Spain makes labor problems plain; no more cats under the hood and the Aussies are striking – but announcing it ahead of time so consumers can stock up.

Truckin' Trivia

First, let’s take a quick side trip for the Truckin’ Trivia. Last week’s question was: It has 56 miles of seashore with a famous lighthouse as well. Inland, the state flower is the Flowering Dogwood, and the State Tree is the pine, found of course in the Joyce Kilmer (I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree…) Memorial Forest. We were speaking of – North Carolina.
This Week's Truckin' Trivia

Now here’s your new Truckin’ Trivia question: This state has mountains, rivers and the second-lowest population density in America. It’s known as the Equality State because it was the first state to allow women to vote. What state is it?

And here’s the News in Review.

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