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POLL: How did you prep for the Roadcheck inspection event this year?
How far outside business as usual — or not — did your preparations for the increased likelihood of inspection this week with the rescheduled Roadcheck 2020 event? Weigh in here.
September 11, 2020
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POLL: Have you taken ill or had to quarantine after exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus?
Several readers have been curious as to what extent their peers have contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus — or had to quarantine/limit contact with others after personal contact with a positive-test case. Weigh in with your own experience here.
June 18, 2020
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POLL: Have you changed trailer type/niche since the beginning of 2020?
Tough times can be a wake-up call for a small trucking business, prompting sometimes dramatic re-evaluations that result in a wholesale change that extends from freight to the equipment on which it has hauled. Have you made a big shift since the beginning of 2020?
June 12, 2020
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POLL: What’s your business’ income outlook for 2020?
Do you expect income earned in 2020 to exceed your business’ 2019 performance? The opposite? Weigh in with your prognosis via this poll.
December 26, 2019
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POLL: Has your truck ever been towed or booted?
Has a truck under your ownership ever experienced the unfortunate circumstance of needing a tow, whether after an accident or mechanical failure — or another reason? Have you experienced the perhaps even more unfortunate application of a wheel or windshield boot in a no-parking area? Weigh in here.
November 28, 2019
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POLL: What’s your view of the trucking impact of the escalating import-tariff tit-for-tat with China?
What do you feel has been the domestic freight/trucking impact of the escalating back-and-forth of levies on import tariffs imposed by the U.S. and China on each other’s goods? Positive? Negative? Not so simple? Weigh in here.
October 14, 2019
Channel 19
More parking modest proposals: Register a truck, purchase a parking spot …
Bit of a tongue-in-cheek solution to the parking shortage. If trailer owners were required to purchase a space for every trailer they registered, why, “this would give us a surplus!” Can you see the billboards now?… “Call 1-800-WE-HAVE-SPACE to break ground now! Low prices for your mandated space!”
August 9, 2019
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POLL: Should sleeper-berth time for company drivers be compensated directly?
While recent high-profile court rulings seemed to suggest that even off-duty sleeper time for employee drivers should be subject to minimum wage compensation rules, but a Department of Labor opinion has more recently contradicted that. What’s your take?
July 24, 2019
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POLL: Do you protect your exposed skin with sunscreen routinely on your hauls?
What’s your strategy for skin protection — if any at all — while you’re trucking? Weigh in via this poll and/or the comments section.
July 10, 2019
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Company drivers: Has your fleet in recent years increased its speed-limiter setting?
This poll looks at the landscape for speed-limiter usage today in trucking — if you’re a company driver, has your fleet increased its top speed setting in the last three years?
July 10, 2019
Hours of Service
POLL: What do you most want out of an hours rule change?
As an expected release date for FMCSA’s pursed hours remap has come and gone once already, it bears asking again — what’s your main hope of the rewrite? Weigh in here.
June 17, 2019
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POLL: Which of these 2020 presidential challengers would you most like to take on a ridealong in the truck?
Ahead of the first Presidential primary debates later this month, this question looks at the challengers hoping to take office after the 2020 election. Scales have flipped for the number of candidates competing among the two major parties since the last race, with just on Republican challenger to Trump (large favorite of readers last time around), and some 23 Democrats. If you could present trucking issues to one challenger …
June 11, 2019
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