New health audiobook, convoy for cancer cure, Project 351 gets low
Joe Martin, whom you'll no doubt remember as the operator behind the Truckercise DVDs I wrote about earlier in the year (Martin's pictured, right, with Alex Debogorski of Ice Road fame), announced recently that a ...
Citizen to accident lawyers: Lighten up on anti-truck ads
"How many times a day do you hear on TV ads from lawyers making statements such as, 'big trucks can cause serious injuries?'" So asked a reader, Bill Hughes, of the Tennessean newspaper, based in ...
Fitting insurance to the operator — trends in usage-based pricing
If you missed a feature about insurance costs I wrote for the August edition of Overdrive, it contained a brief item relative to how insurance companies determine customer risk -- and as a result of ...
Why is a JakeBrake important to you?
Answer the question by November 15 and you may just win a weekend in Las Vegas March 9-12, 2012, around the time of the NASCAR events. JakeBrake makers Jacobs Vehicle Systems, as I wrote in ...
How high am I? AutoHaulerSupply.com has the answer
If you’ve ever asked yourself that question after loading a car hauler or an expensive piece of machinery on an open-deck trailer, Oregon-based Stephen Rowe (pictured: don't try this at home) has a tool to ...
A couple for the kids: Truck, stop! Truck, go!
On children's musician, author and childhood development specialist Jim Gill's most recent CD / DVD, "Music Play for Folks of All Stripes," an interactive tune called "Truck Stop" schools listeners in a fun way on ...
Truckers lobbied to support National Pork Rind Day
This wouldn't be the salty snack's first appearance on the Channel 19 blog. For that, we'd have to go back to August 2010, when a driver choked on one and his rig left the roadway ...
Has CSA hit you? And: DeFazio’s cross-border backlash
Today, a novel suggestion from the folks at J.J. Keller, who conducted a webinar yesterday aimed at providing carriers large and small with tools to combat the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability ...
CSA'S DATA TRAIL
Crashes and interventions: The fault handicap
FMCSA may be a long way from accounting for crash fault in the CSA Safety Measurement System. In the meantime, questions about the system's effectiveness loom large with analysis of crash rates.
Staying ahead of the inspectors
Inconsistent enforcement: CSA’s heat index
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Yesterday's hours hearing in the House saw reps wondering over FMCSA's one-size-fits-all hours approach: http://t.co/p06h1lhuHM
