There’s a vital race that happens across the country – everywhere there’s a paved road. It’s the reason you have ripe tomatoes or ice cream or paperclips. Those in Moab know the race well. Trucks move over 70 percent of the nation’s freight by weight, and Moab is on the trucking routes supplying products across the Southwest. Today on the news, we hear from truckers passing through our community hauling goods.

// Plus, the Weekly News Reel! Doug McMurdo of The Times-Independent talks skunk problems, flood debris removal and Grand County High School’s new principal. Alison Harford of the Moab Sun News discusses financing flood recovery, a new round of covid boosters available and the upcoming YGP Harvest Festival.

// Show notes:

// Photo: Moab is on the trucking routes supplying products across the Southwest / Credit Rennett Stowe

// ATA: Economics and Industry Data
https://www.trucking.org/economics-and-industry-data

// Trucks: Federal Data Shows Trucking Remains One of America’s Deadliest Jobs
https://www.trucks.com/2021/01/11/federal-data-shows-trucking-remains-one-of-americas-deadliest-jobs/

// CDC: Long-Haul Truck Drivers
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/truck/health.html

// Sounds in Today’s Newscast include ‘truck semi-trailer approach slow to stop turn and pull away slow heavy rattly diesel’ by kyles, ‘cb junk on 19’ by goose278, and ‘CB-Radio Report’ by sentryx86

// Weekly News Reel Mentions:

// The Times-Independent: A skunky problem
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/a-skunky-problem/

// The Times-Independent: City removes 2,800 tons of debris
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/city-removes-2800-tons-of-flood-debris/

// The Times-Independent: County approves flood relief grant program
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/county-approves-flood-relief-grant-program/

// The Times-Independent: Meet Grand County High’s new principal
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/meet-grand-county-highs-new-principal/

// Moab Sun News: Moab reviews flood recovery
https://moabsunnews.com/2022/09/15/moab-reviews-flood-recovery/

// Moab Sun News: Another round of COVID boosters available at Health Department
https://moabsunnews.com/2022/09/15/another-round-of-covid-boosters-available-at-health-department/

// Moab Sun News: Celebrating the harvest
https://moabsunnews.com/2022/09/15/celebrating-the-harvest/