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Channel 19
Back to basics in apnea debate: The importance of sleep
Last night on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program of fuel hauler Allen Smith and his wife, Donna, discussion of the FMCSAās Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Boardās joint work on the issue of sleep apnea gave way at a crucial moment to a reiteration of the reality of the [ā¦]
February 24, 2012
Channel 19
More than a typo? Split sleeper wishful thinking
Trans Products / Trans Services Regulatory Manager Rich Wilson, during a break between sessions of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., early this month, pointed out a couple curious problems with the medical forms some states are using. One, he pointed out, defined stage 3 hypertension as a blood pressure reading [ā¦]
February 23, 2012
Business
Lawyer uses social media to promote trucker rights
Paul Taylor discussed protections from various retaliatory acts drivers may experience.
October 17, 2011
Business
Truckers urged to use social media
Truck Driver Social Media Convention speakers discuss using social media tools to combat regulations.
October 17, 2011
Channel 19
Tony Justice among performers Saturday at driver convention
Iām excited about seeing East Tennessee-based B&B Transport driver and songwriter Tony Justice make his driver-event debut Saturday at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention in Tunica, Miss., on Saturday. Iāve heard him play before, as the vids below are evidence of, but at the show heāll be with a full band of seasoned Nashville [ā¦]
October 13, 2011
Channel 19
Channel 19 news round-up: flooding, radio, TSE, petitionā¦
Vid tour through I-680 flood damage As Missouri River floodwaters receded from flood stage this month after a long summer of high water, Iowa DOT officials finally got a look at I-680 at the I-29 interchange, and the damage done to both roadways is just stunning (pictured courtesy of Iowa DOT; more info on detours/outlook [ā¦]
September 1, 2011
Channel 19
Bank robbery: The things some will do for health care
Perhaps youāve heard this story already ā desperate for something he thinks is totally out of his financial range, man does something over-the-top, creating a national media circus along the way. The latest variant comes from Gaston County in North Carolina in the form of a former beverage delivery driver feeling so much in need [ā¦]
June 23, 2011
Channel 19
āMedically certifiedā ā join us for radio show Wednesday to probe driver health regs
At 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow evening (Wed., June 22) Iāll join Truth About Trucking Live hosts Allen & Donna Smith as well as my colleague Max Kvidera for a special show probing the issues raised by the current, June Truckers News cover story Kvidera and I penned about state and federal regs for driver [ā¦]
June 21, 2011
Business
How do you protect yourself?
Dear Carolyn, You asked us how we protect ourselves on the road? Well, I use extra strength/extra large Trojans!!! HAAAAAAAA!! Frank Dear Frank, That was funny the first time. But you are about the 11th one to send this and well, Iāve moved from laughing to rolling my eyes. Really? This is a serious topic. [ā¦]
April 17, 2011
Business
Show to focus on personal safety
āCrime Against Truckers ā Protection on the Roadā airs Thursday, April 14 online.
April 12, 2011
Channel 19
Tools for trucking career, issues advocacy at social media meeting
Making the wider world work to your particular advantage, whatever you choose that to mean, has always been the goal of the more ambitious among us ā in todayās world, the tools toward making that a reality are multiplicitous and downright confusing in the pace at which the written and unwritten rules for their use [ā¦]
March 28, 2011
Business
Editors to talk trucking history Feb. 17
Overdrive editors will discuss 50 years of trucking history on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio show.
February 15, 2011
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