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March 2014 

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Michael Jarvi 

Alias / Nickname: Mickel 

Date of Birth: 1974-01-29 Date Missing: 2002-03-22 

From City/State: Naselle, WA 

Age at Time of Disappearance: 28 

Gender: Male 

Race: White 

Height: 73 inches 

Weight: 170 pounds 

Hair Color: Sandy 

Eye Color: Hazel 

Complexion: Medium 

Identifying Characteristics: Cleft chin, right ear lobe is smaller that 

left. 

Clothing: Blue and black “Columbian Sportswear” jacket, blue jeans 

and white athletic shoes. 

Jewelry: Wrist watch. 

18 Wheel Angels 

If you have seen any of our missing persons, please call the law enforcement agency listed. 

All missing persons are loved by someone, and their families deserve to find the answers 

they seek in regard to their disappearance. 

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Last seen in the 

vicinity of the 9000 block of North Syracuse in Portland, OR. He 

may have also been seen in Roseburg. All of his personal belongings 

were left at his residence. Michael has a medical condition and 

needs medication. 

Investigative Agency: Pacific County Sheriff’s Office 

Phone: (360) 642-9397 

Investigative Case #: 02-1480 

For Case Updates: http://projectjason.org/forums/topic/64-missingman-michael-allen-jarvi-wa-03222002/ 

Michael is Project Jason’s 18 Wheel Angel Poster Campaign for 

March 2014, Campaign 3. Please visit our website, and download 

and distribute his poster, located at http://www.projectjason.org/ 

aan/AAN_MichaelJarvi.pdf 


Sports, Etc. 

March Madness: 

Should College Athletes 

Get Paid? 

The NCAA Basketball March Madness 

tournament is now in full swing. The games 

are filled with upsets, fans young and old 

cheering for their team, bracket challenges are 

everywhere. America loves this tournament. 

The NCAA, the Colleges and Universities, 

the college coaches and the TV stations and 

advertisers also love this tournament. The 

tournament is a huge money-maker for all 

parties. In 2010, the NCAA signed a 14-year 

media rights agreement with CBS Sports 

and Turner Broadcasting for $10.8 billion. For 

2012-13, NCAA revenue is projected at $797 

million, with $702 million coming from the 

Association’s new rights agreement with CBS 

Sports and Turner Broadcasting and the other 

$95 million in revenue generated from ticket 

sales and merchandise sales. 

According to the NCAA, college athletic 

programs are big money makers for colleges. 

Ticket sales, television, radio, alumni 

donations, royalties and NCAA distributions, 

combined bring in over $6.1 billion in annual 

revenue to colleges. This is big money for the 

schools. It also is a wonderful marketing tool 

for colleges. 

The opportunity to bring big money to 

the participating universities with winning 

programs pushes colleges to recruit the best 

coaches to create winning athletic programs. 

A winning record means greater national 

exposure, which in return brings in big money 

and is a tremendous marketing campaign for 

colleges. As opposed to paying for national 

publicity, the colleges are actually paid for this 

huge national exposure. 

Thus, finding a coach that can bring a winning 

program to a college is extremely important. 

Many schools are now offering coaches’ 

salaries in the multi millions to attract the 

best. These multimillion dollar salaries are tiny 

investments that can yield the huge revenue 

returns for the winning college programs. 

With all this money being made by the 

colleges, the TV stations, merchandisers, the 

advertisers, and the coaches, many a college 

player has posed the question, “Where’s my 

cut?” After all, the players are the main attraction 

in these athletic events, so to speak. 

Many college athletes believe they should 

receive compensation for the roles that they 

play. This was highlighted years ago with the 

“Fab Five” at the University of Michigan. The 

entire starting team was comprised of freshman 

players, and they were able to bring 

Michigan to a Championship game in their 

freshman year. 

This almost mythic group of young athletes 

became a national sensation. The merchandise 

with the Fab Five on it, the TV, radio, print 

media, the college, etc. all generated incredible 

revenue. The five freshmen, who were 

the Fab Five, received no revenue from their 

national fame. Does that seem fair when many 

were impoverished kids with families barely 

able to eat? 

Is it right that none of Division I college 

players share in the massive revenue enjoyed 

by so many other people and entities generated 

from the players’ star performances? 

While the potential for media exploitation 

of these young student-athletes is a problem 

that should be addressed, I actually think the 

system as it is right now is fair. The Colleges 

recruit young men and woman to play for their 

respective schools awarding them with athletic 

scholarships. 

The reason we have Colleges and Universities 

is to educate our young people. The 

colleges expect star performances for their 

upfront investments, awarding the college 

players with full paid 4-year college education. 

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Sports, Etc. 

In return, their education is free. 

While so many others, again, the TV stations, 

radio stations, colleges, universities, 

Coaches, etc, are earning huge sums of money 

from great college athletic performances, 

the athletes receive nothing in addition to their 

athletic scholarships. That is their compensation 

and I do not think the students require 

anything else. The system is not perfect, but it 

does work. I do not see it changing any time 

soon. Enjoy the performances for the remainder 

of the March Madness from our young 

college athletes who we hope will receive 

great educations and move onto wonderful 

careers. 

Trivia Questions on Spring 

Training Baseball in Florida 

Spring training baseball is an important 

part of life in Florida and Arizona during the 

waning days of winter. 

Although spring training games have been 

going on almost as long as there has been 

professional baseball, these games have 

taken on more interest every year. Possibly 

because there are more retirees living in Arizona 

and Florida now who come out and watch 

these games, attendance records are being 

set almost every year, and it is estimated that 

the Cactus League (training in Arizona) ac- 


Sports, Etc. 

counts for $300 million a year in economic 

impact for the greater Phoenix Metro Area. 

So to test your knowledge of this growing 

pastime for some of the country, let’s see how 

you can do with some trivia questions. 

1. How many states now host spring training 

baseball in the United States? Only two 

now, but that wasn’t always the case. Presently 

Arizona and Florida are home to 15 teams 

each, the only two states that have spring 

training baseball. 

2. When did spring training baseball start? 

It first kicked off in the 1890s, and by 1910 

most teams had gotten into the act. 

3. Did teams always conduct spring training 

in Arizona and Florida? Early on they trained in 

a variety of venues. They were spread out in a 

variety of places. For instance, the Pittsburgh 

Pirates trained in Honolulu, Hawaii for a while, 

the Brooklyn Dodgers trained in Cuba and the 


Sports, Etc. 

Dominican Republic in the 1940s and as did 

the Yankees in the 50s. Training and games 

were also conducted in northern Mexico and 

Puerto Rico. California was also popular before 

major league baseball reached the state 

in 1958. 

4. Was spring training suspended during 

the World War II? Not fully suspended, but 

most had abbreviated schedules. And in order 

to conserve rail transport for the war effort, 

they moved their training sites closer to their 

respective cities. This meant that all spring 

training was done in an area north of the Ohio 

River and eats of the Mississippi River. 

5. Who was given credit for starting the 

Cactus League in Arizona? That would go to 

that loveable maverick and former club owner 

Bill Veeck. According to his autobiography, 

after an incident in Orlando, Florida that offended 

him because it was racist, later when 

he bought the Cleveland Indians he decided 

to buck tradition and train in Tucson, Arizona. 

He then convinced the New York Giants to 

move to Phoenix, thus starting the presentday 

Cactus League. 

If you’re in Florida during the end of February 

and nearly all March, there are many 

places to go to watch some baseball. It’s just 

another great thing to do when you vacation 

in Florida, and at the time when you have had 

enough of the snow and cold weather in the 

north. I hope you learned just a little bit more 

of the history of this truly American rite of 

spring. 

Spring training for baseball has been a big 

deal in Florida for years, and it seems to get 

bigger every year. It is one of the great things 

to do all around Florida if you like baseball, 

and you can go to a lot of venues if you stay 

centrally located in Florida. Glen Wheaton is a 

writer and avid traveler living in Chicago. • 


NASCAR NEWS 

CHASE CHANGES CREATE 

EXCITEMENT, COMPETITION 

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France 

said he doesn’t expect the new Chase for the 

NASCAR Sprint Cup championship format 

to result in changes to the schedule for the 

10-race program. 

The 2014 Chase will begin at Chicagoland 

Speedway and end once again at 

Homestead-Miami Speedway, with stops at 

New Hampshire, Dover, Kansas, Charlotte, 

Talladega, Martinsville, Texas and Phoenix in 

between. 

“We have those conversations (about the 

schedule) now,” France told NASCAR.com, 

after announcing a major overhaul of the 10- 

race format. “But we like consistency in our 

schedule, traditionally. 

“And we also believe that the Homestead- 

Miami track, and the drivers will tell you this, 

it’s probably their favorite mile-and-a-half 

track to drive. It allows them to put on an 

unbelievable event, (there is a) lot of passing 

in that event. 

“We’ll see in the future, but I’d be surprised 

if we moved (the site of the final race) 

around.” 

While NASCAR is unveiling a new rules 

package to be used at intermediate tracks, 

and a new qualifying format this season, 

France said the time was right to make the 

changes to the Chase format. 

The program, which debuted in 2004, has 

undergone minor changes in the past, but 

nothing like those that will be in play for 2014 

and beyond. 

The field of qualified drivers has been 

increased from 12 to 16; each of the three 

elimination-style rounds will trim the field by 

four teams, leaving four drivers to battle for 

the championship in the final event. 

A re-setting of points through the rounds 

will mean that the teams that continue to 

advance will begin each round all square. 

“We actually had a lot of discussion about 

changing too many different things,” said 

France. “But we are changing them in such a 

way that delivers on what the fans have told 

us they want. So the idea to wait on something 

that we could give them (now) … we 

just thought that wasn’t the right thing to do. 

We should give them what the future is now.” 

THINK NEW CHASE WILL STOP 

JOHNSON? THINK AGAIN 

Change the rules so that any active driver 

with six or more championships has to compete 

not in a car, but in a camper van with a 

pair of bicycles strapped to the roof. Replace 

his air guns on pit road with the kind that 

shoot silly string. Switch out his racing helmet 

with one worn by a member of Daft Punk. 

Rather than hearing his crew chief and spotter 

over the radio, he gets three-and-a-half 

hours of non-stop Kenny G. 

Maybe then, you’ll stop Jimmie Johnson 

from winning championships, because the 

revamped Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup 

format introduced last week almost certainly 

won’t. 

Oh sure, that was the initial reaction 


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-- in fact, even Johnson himself admitted 

to wondering if the overhauled playoff was 

somehow designed to curb his onslaught 

on the sport’s record books. But the more 

he thought about it, the more the Hendrick 

Motorsports ace realized the revised Chase 

format might instead do something very different 

-- like play directly to his strengths. 

“When I look at the years we’ve won 

championships, we’ve won a lot of races. 

We’ve won a lot of races in the Chase,” 

Johnson said. “And the way this format plays 

out, we would have that opportunity come 

Homestead. So this could be something very 

good for us. If we can keep our stats like 

they’ve been, and the process we’ve used, it 

could be very good for us.” 

On this, Six-Time is spot-on. Given that 

this new elimination-style Chase demands 

excellence at a time of year when Johnson is 

traditionally at his best, it’s far from outlandish 

to envision the driver of the No. 48 car 

using the revamped format as a springboard 

to a seventh championship. 

Or an eighth. 

Or a 10th. 

No question, the championship at NAS- 

CAR’s highest level will now be more difficult 

to win, and the consequences of a single cut 

tire or blown engine loom larger than ever 

before. The level of intensity in and around 

that final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway 

will be downright stratospheric. And yet, 

if you wanted to design a Chase that best fits 

Johnson, you could do much worse than to 

construct a format that ultimately reduces the 

title run to a one-race, four-driver shootout. If 

his past numbers are any indication of what’s 

still to come, go ahead and pencil Johnson’s 

name into one of those four spots for Home- 


NASCAR NEWS 

stead from now until the day he hangs up his 

helmet. 

Indeed, anyone hoping the Chase revision 

is an attempt to “Jimmieproof” the Sprint 

Cup championship may be in for a disappointment, 

given that this new criteria for title 

contention only makes Johnson’s superiority 

stand out in even starker relief. Besides, 

placing Johnson at a disadvantage was never 

NASCAR’s intention anyway. 

“I can say there is speculation, ‘You do this 

because of Jimmie.’ No, Jimmie performs. 

We fully expect Jimmie to dominate again,” 

said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR’s executive 

vice president for racing operations. “Jimmie 

has been a champion of NASCAR. You heard 

(chairman) Brian (France) say, ‘You’ve got to 

beat the best of the best in the Chase.’ If you 

look back at Jimmie’s history, I think we’d be 

surprised if he wasn’t there in Miami.” • 

SPRINT CUP 

SCHEDULE 2014 

SUNDAY, MARCH 2 

PHOENIX 

3 P.M. ET, FOX 


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Daily Express Launching 

High-Mileage Expedited 

Division 

Daily Express, which specializes in the 

transport of heavy equipment, is launching of 

Daily Expedited, an open-deck, high-mileage 

division within the company and is seeking to 

fill positions within that division. 

“Expedited means just that — prioritized, 

on time, dependable, efficient, and above all, 

safe,” says CEO Todd Long. “It’s what our 

customers expect. 

Although the name is Daily Expedited, 

the freight still consists of construction and 

agricultural equipment, Long said, adding 

that Daily Express’ extensive freight network 

of construction equipment loads would allow 

owner-operators to work as hard as they want. 

“Daily Expedited drivers can expect minimal 

down time between loads and reliable 

home time, features that will be critical in 

efforts to recruit owner-operators for this new 

fleet,” Long said. 

Each truck in this new fleet will operate between 

110,000 to 130,000 miles a year moving 

both legal and less than 12-foot wide loads 

moving on stepdeck and lowboy trailers. 

“Our customers have an abundance of this 

type of freight and expect us to move it with 

the same Daily Express standard of excellence 

that they know and appreciate,” Long said 

Among the freight transported by Daily 

Express are construction equipment, agricultural 

equipment, machinery, and wind energy 

products. 

Daily Express will need to hire about 30 

owner-operators for the new fleet. 

TCA Names Best Fleets to 

Drive For Winners 

Results are in and the Truckload Carriers 

Association and CarriersEdge have 

announced the 20 trucking companies from 

across North America as winners in the 2014 

Best Fleets to Drive For. 

The annual survey and contest, now in its 

sixth year, identifies for-hire trucking companies 

that provide the best workplace experiences 

for their drivers. 

This year’s winners are as follows: 

Bison Transport, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

Canada; Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd., Breslau, 

Ontario; Central Oregon Trucking Co., Redmond, 

Ore.; DJ Knoll Transport Ltd., Emerald 

Park, Saskatchewan, Canada; Fremont Contract 

Carriers, Fremont, Neb.; FTC Transportation, 

Oklahoma City; Gordon Trucking 

Inc., Pacific, Wash.; Grammer Industries Inc., 

Grammer, Ind.; Grand Island Express, Grand 

Island, Neb.; Halvor Lines Inc., Superior, Wis.; 

Kriska Holdings Ltd., Prescott, Ontario; Landstar 

System Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.; Load One 

LLC, Taylor, Mich.; Motor Carrier Service Inc., 

Northwood, Ohio; Paramount Freight Systems 

LLC, Fort Myers, Fla.; Prime inc., Springfield, 

Mo.; Sue Vinje Trucking, Superior, Wis.; Time- 

Line Logistic International Ltd., Saskatoon, 

Saskatchewan, Canada; Transpro Freight 

Systems Ltd., Milton, Ontario; and Trimac 

Transportation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

In addition, five companies have been 

identified as “Fleets to Watch” (honorable 

mentions) for demonstrating innovation in 

their driver programs, including Drive Logistics, 

Windsor, Ontario; Erb Group of Companies, 

New Hamburg, Ontario; Roehl Transport 

Inc., Marshfield, Wis.; Steelman Transportation 

Inc., Springfield, Mo.; and Tennant Truck 

Lines, Inc., Colona, Ill. 

The nomination process began in the fall 

of 2013 when company drivers and owneroperators 

were asked to nominate carriers 

that operate 10 or more trucks. 

After confirming the validity of the nominations 

and the trucking companies’ desire to 

participate, CarriersEdge interviewed human 

resources representatives and executives of 

the nominated fleets about their corporate 

direction, policies and programs. 

Nominated fleets were evaluated against a 


scoring matrix covering a variety of categories, 

such as total compensation package 

– including base pay; bonuses; vacation and 

sick day allotment; health benefits; pension 

plans; professional development opportunities 

(training, coaching programs, etc.); career 

path/advancement opportunities; commitment 

to employee personal growth including 

work/life balance, driver family support and 

employee-directed charitable contributions; 

commitment to continuous improvement, 

including dispute resolution processes and 

including of driver feedback in policymaking; 

team building and driver community development 

activities; annual driver turnover rate; 

and fleet safety record. 

“The biggest trend we saw this year was a 

shift to mobile technology. Most companies 

are using smartphones and tablets to deliver 

information to their drivers, and some are 

even developing their own custom mobile 

apps,” Mark Murrell, president of CarriersEdge, 

said. 

The winners represent a wide range of fleet 

sizes and business focus areas. The smallest 

fleet has 25 drivers, while the largest has 

more than 8,500. 

“Each year, I am more and more amazed 

at the innovative programs these fleets are 

implementing, regardless of their size. And 

several of the Best Fleet winners are also in 

contention for TCA’s National Fleet Safety 

Awards, so clearly these are not just nice 

places to work — they’re also safe,” TCA 

President Chris Burruss said. 

The names will be announced at the March 

25 awards ceremony during TCA’s Annual 

Convention at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, 

Texas. • 



Ad Index 

March 2014 

ACT ...................................................................... 25 

Alabama Motor Express ........................................ 50 

Anderson Trucking Services .......................cover, 2-5 

Barr-Nunn .......................................................... 9,51 

Bay and Bay ......................................................... 41 

Boyd Brothers ....................................................... 57 

BTC ...................................................................... 83 

CalArk...............................................................Insert 

Carroll Fulmer ....................................................... 21 

Celadon ................................................ Insert, 85-87 

Central Hauling Company ..................................Insert 

Central Refrigerated Service .............................Insert 

Covenant Transport ..........................................18-19 

CRST Malone ........................................................ 45 

DART ................................................................Insert 

Decker Truck Line ................................................. 53 

Dotline .................................................................. 43 

E&H Transport ....................................................... 24 

Earl L. Henderson ................................................. 38 

Federal Logistics ................................................... 66 

Freymiller ............................................................. 70 

Gemini Motor Transport ......................................... 69 

Gibson .................................................................. 48 

Gordon Trucking .................................................... 59 

Graebel Van Lines ................................................. 78 

Harris Quality ........................................................ 58 

Heartland Express ................................................6-7 

High Country Transportation .................................. 76 

Hirschbach ........................................................... 61 

Hogan Transports .................................................. 35 

Hurricane Express ................................................. 26 

ICS Logistics ......................................................... 46 

Interstate Distributor ............................................. 39 

J&R Schugel ......................................................... 37 

J.S. Helwig and Son .............................................. 80 

Jacobson Transportation ..................................62-63 

JK Hackl ............................................................... 54 

K&B Transportation ..........................................14-15 

KLLM ................................................................Insert 

Knight Transportation ............................................ 67 

Koch ................................................................12-13 

Kreilkamp ............................................................. 40 

Lone Star Transportation ....................................... 23 

Marten .............................................................10-11 

Maverick .........................................................16-17 

MCT/Comcar ....................................................Insert 

Mid-America Truck Show ...................................... 20 

Milan Express ....................................................... 75 

MTB...................................................................... 74 

National Van Lines ................................................ 66 

New Waverly ......................................................... 52 

Ozark .................................................................... 88 

P.A.M. .................................................................. 77 

Paschall Truck Lines ............................................. 33 

Pegasus TransTech ............................................... 29 

Roehl .................................................................... 27 

RTI ....................................................................Insert 

RWI ...................................................................... 73 

Schuster Co. ......................................................... 68 

Seward Motor Freight ........................................... 48 

Smith Transport .................................................... 42 

Southern Refrigerated Transport ........................... 65 

Super Service ....................................................... 30 

Swift ..................................................................... 71 

Tango Transport .................................................... 34 

TMC Transportation ............................................... 81 

Total Transportation of MS .................................... 22 

Trans Am .............................................................. 47 

Transport Designs ................................................. 78 

US Xpress ............................................................. 49 

USA Truck ............................................................. 79 

Van Wyk................................................................ 60 

Warren Lease Purchase ........................................ 84 

Western Flyer Express .......................................... 55 

WTI ....................................................................... 31

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