Todd Dills

LETTER: Go niche to avoid being the last independent standing

| May 22, 2013

The May issue showed numerous examples of profitable niche short-haul operations. Read the piece online here. Today we say “long live the owner-operator,” but 10 years from now will we be saying the same thing? ...

Hours recap: New regs bringing old practice to the fore?; OK tornado intel

| May 21, 2013

The comments of John Solliday in the Voices round-up of views on the new restart provisions in the revised hours rule (compliance date: July 1) reminded me of a conversation I had with former Overdrive ...

Hours restart looming July 1

| May 19, 2013

Barring a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling throwing out or requiring further agency work on the hours of service final rule announced back in December 2011 in the next month and a half, the Federal Motor ...

Ever been pulled by a big rig?

| May 18, 2013

Scary, huh? Not exactly. This picture was staged by Cookeville, Tenn.-based eight-year driver and current Greatwide subagent/dispatcher Michael Winton when he came upon the somewhat infamous Tennessee Highway Patrol Peterbilt 379 parked locally two weekends back. ...

Poll: What is the best venue for trying terrorism suspects?

| May 17, 2013

Looks like we got ourselves a parade!

| May 16, 2013

Sam Peckinpah's 1978 "Convoy" flick memorialized the truckers' protest convoy in the days of the 55-mph speed limit. The C.W. McCall song on which it was based scored No. 4 on our 2011 reader-provided-and-voted-on ...

What have you done to prepare for the new hours rule?

| May 16, 2013

National truck-parking driver survey launched

| May 15, 2013

An online survey being conducted to ferret out national needs for expanded truck parking availability is now under way. Drivers have through August 10 to complete the survey, accessible via this link. It's the product of ...

How to DataQ: 9 tips

Indiana State Police DataQs coordinator Michael Wilson shared these at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance workshop April 22, 2013.

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Who’s keeping score: PSP is driver-info ‘gold standard’

Crashes and interventions: The fault handicap

Todd Dills

Todd Dills is Senior Editor of Overdrive magazine and writes from Nashville, Tenn. His Channel 19 blog covers a grab bag of on-highway hearsay, owner-operator news and driver views from the roadways the nation over. His work in trucking journalism builds on a background of news feature, fiction and other creative writing and editing. Find him here at the Channel 19 blog and via his Twitter feed, or send tips to tdills@randallreilly.com.

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