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Voices
Trucking ‘in trouble’ if it doesn’t solve the payroll problem for drivers
Peter Harrigan says that if all trucking companies started paying that rate, the millennial would be flocking to this industry. Details on Overdrive.
September 5, 2018
Channel 19
Hopeful and careful-what-you-wish-for dynamics in reader commentary in wake of FMCSA’s hours moves
Everybody's favorite subject of debate -- the hours of service rule -- has engendered plenty among Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readers.
September 4, 2018
Channel 19
Tesla Semi and its clean inspection violate the eye test of more than one reader
The Tesla Semi, inspected at Donner Pass Inspection Station, received a clean inspection report; however, many Overdrive readers are not impressed by its looks.
August 17, 2018
Channel 19
How many people are affected by the One20 F-ELD’s shuttering?
Owner-op Jerry Allen expresses his thoughts on how the One F-ELD shuttering was handled. He wonders how many others went through something similar. Have you?
June 18, 2018
Voices
NATSO: Overdrive asked wrong question in rest area commercialization report
Could rest area commercialization lead to a reduction in truck parking? NATSO's Lisa Mullings offers her opinion about rest area commercialization on Overdrive.
June 18, 2018
Voices
ATA v. OOIDA dust-up: Truckers respond
Truck drivers weigh in on the ATA and OOIDA following ATA President Chris Spear's claims that individuals associated with the OOIDA threatened the ATA.
May 7, 2018
Voices
Report: Truckers take to D.C. streets (one Tased and arrested) and engage FMCSA, Congress on hours change, more
Grassroots groups of owner-operators and drivers returned 30-40 power units to Constitution Ave. between the White House and Washington monument yesterday, April 9, to press concerns to the public, lawmakers and regulators over the ELD mandate and hours of service flexibility. In an otherwise productive day, according to participants, one owner-op tells a story of use of force gone wrong.
April 10, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Double-brokered loads, ELD issues, pausing that 14-hour clock already: Friday podcast round-up
This edition of Overdrive Radio further digs in around the expectation mismatch between brokers and carriers in load negotiations — plus more views on the potential for hours of service change from readers.
March 16, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Split sleeper-berth option high on haulers’ hours wish list
The large majority of reader respondents you’ll hear in this mailbag edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast took the notion of a pause button for the 14-hour rule farther. It’s split rest, or split sleeper berth period flexibility, that most want,
February 17, 2018
Channel 19
Let the 14-hour conversations … begin?
‘Continue’ rather than ‘begin’ is probably the best word to describe what’s been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDA’s lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.
February 15, 2018
Voices
More tolls or no tolls? Two-thirds of readers say no
Just a third of readers favored any liberalization whatsoever in the ability of government to toll interstate routes, whether current or new routes or expansion lanes.
February 12, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Profit — what this trucking thing is all about: A new, simple freight-bid calculator app
In the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet owner Scott Jordan intros the ICG ProfitCalc app for Android/iOS, a freight bidding app that allows users to input their own annual cost projections as a benchmark for load-by-load rate calculations, per-mile and per-hour, to ensure a chosen profit margin.
January 25, 2018
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