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Tag: age
Overdrive Extra
Data, not hunches, should clarify safety prospect of younger drivers
The new pilot program is aimed at collecting data about younger drivers and interstate driving. Discover more about the military-trained driver pilot here.
September 30, 2020
Voices
POLL: At what age do you think you’ll retire from full-time trucking?
Thinking realistically, at what age do you expect you’ll be ready to retire from full-time trucking? Weigh in via this poll.
October 26, 2018
Voices
POLL: When do you plan to start collecting Social Security?
Do you plan to collect between the ages of 62-65, 66-69, or 70 and older? Are you collecting it already? Let us know in our Overdrive poll.
September 21, 2018
Overdrive Extra
A safer, more sensible CDL entry path
The current prohibition on interstate driving for 18-20-year-old CDL holders does only so much to promote safety.
July 31, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Minimum interstate age should be 18, insurance barriers to new owner-operators
Podcast round-up of some reader voices on minimum interstate driving age, insurance challenges for young owner-operators, hours, parking and more.
March 3, 2015
Channel 19
Trucking — or not — with the twenty-somethings
A twenty-something attempts a (well-considered, lengthy) answers to the question of why his generation seemingly isn’t interested in truck driving, by and large.
February 17, 2015
Parking
Barriers to the next generation of drivers detailed in ATRI’s demographics study
It will be difficult, noted ATRI President Rebecca Brewster, to keep drivers in trucking if “the drivers are forced … to drive during periods of increased risk” due to the nature of the hours of service regulations.
February 14, 2015
Channel 19
Pay by performance, rate trends
Was 2013 the year that changed driver pay forever? Gordon Klemp seems to think so. Catch a vid with him here from the TCA meeting in Nashville and find out why. Some potentially good news in it for independents.
February 1, 2014
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