Tag: accidents: Page 3

Overdrive Extra

A shot in the arm for fixing CSA

The added weight of an objective party is welcome, especially knowing it gives Congress a clear vision of CSA problems. FMCSA has made relatively superficial changes – slowly – to CSA. It’s a shame it’s taken so many voices to repeat the call that change needs to be faster and more substantive.

August 1, 2017

Business

State of insurance for independents with new authority: Pricey, and getting pricier

When it’s time to shop coverage around: With a fleet at around four years old and no significant history of claims, a seven truck fleet’s liability insurance rates had risen substantially in its fourth year to roughly $15,000 annually per truck, all in. That’s not how it’s supposed to go, noted presenters at an insurance session at Expedite Expo.

July 14, 2017

Voices

Between cynicism and hope: Readers, associations weigh in on ramifications of CSA study

While many readers were cynical about the entire project, associations from OOIDA to ATA were hopeful that the National Academies’ CSA revision recommendations would be taken seriously by the FMCSA.

June 30, 2017

Business

Livin’ on potato time

“You could put 40 clocks and 25 cameras inside of every single commercial vehicle on the road, and those items would not prevent accidents.” More on the push for so-called “safety” devices from on high …

May 3, 2017

Business

Anybody got a copy on the dinosaurs, come on?

Before you turn the CB off, take a tip from the dinosaurs out here: “Sometimes, being the one and only person who will break with something positive can change the entire mood from grumpy bugs to brothers and sisters of the road, and I challenge each of you to be that person.”

January 30, 2017

Overdrive Radio

‘Common sense, you’ve got it for a reason’ -- Use your CB already, owner-ops say

And if you don’t run with a CB, get one. Too many seem to think that the CB is little more than a “movie prop from a silly movie from the 1970s,” as Kenneth Williams put it, echoing the sentiment of a bevy of truckers after a deadly highway pileup.

January 24, 2017

Channel 19

When enforcement is well necessary — a note from Rich Wilson

Wilson’s letter follows news of a box-truck owner-operator shut down after a fatality crash. Also: Do owner-operator hotshot truckers (at 10,001-26,000 lbs.) need to join a random drug/alcohol testing consortium? Depends on the CDL status and desires …

January 21, 2017

Channel 19

Scott LeVan’s radio warning to drivers ahead of deadly EB I-80 crash went unanswered

Driver LeVan used his CB to broadcast several warnings to EB drivers to spread out, impending a traffic back-up ahead, before a later crash that killed two truckers in Pennsylvania. Yet another reason to keep the radio on.

January 12, 2017

Channel 19

No, a truck did not kill a bunch of anti-Trump protestors trying to block a highway in Seattle

A dead giveaway that this little item of fake news is what it is: Though it was purported to have happened in Seattle, the location was I-15. Last time I checked …

January 10, 2017

Channel 19

Website maps 2016 ‘year in truck spills’

Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to highway accidents? For those among you who might answer in the affirmative, the folks behind the AtlasObscura.com argue otherwise with this map of notable spilled loads of 2016.

January 4, 2017

Voices

‘Close call’ with Colin Young and his dashcam outside metro Denver

SB on I-25, “headed into the Denver Metro area,” after another tractor-trailer passed Young, an impatient motorist “going too fast nearly wrecked while making an unsafe lane change.”

December 13, 2016

Voices

Dashcam to the rescue: Trucker assists law enforcement twice — in two days — with video evidence

Two days, two near-fatalities with plenty of motorist impatience at fault caught on the dashcam of independent owner-operator Howard Salmon. In both incidents, Salmon provided a principle piece of evidence to local law enforcement in Sarasota and Palmetto, Fla.

October 25, 2016