American Trucking Associations

Todd Dills | May 14, 2013

An overwhelming majority (79 percent) of Overdrive readers find themselves in full-throated agreement with a message delivered by American Trucking Associations Vice Chair and Bulldog Hiway Express head Phil Byrd at the April Commercial Vehicle ...

FMCSA’s focus on inspections a point of contention at CVSA workshop

Todd Dills | April 23, 2013

Bulldog Hiway Express President Phil Byrd, speaking as First Vice Chair of the American Trucking Associations, delivered a salvo aimed at the national focus on roadside vehicle inspections during an April 23 General Session of ...

voices

Readers on the crash-fault ‘shell game’

Todd Dills | March 17, 2013

The public relations blame-game back-and-forth between the American Trucking Associations and advocacy groups like Parent Against Tired Truckers and Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways saw a particularly pathetic entry in February, as Overdrive Editorial ...

Channel 19

The smell of an EOBR by any other name

Todd Dills | January 15, 2013

It's official -- the public-use name-change game is on among supporters of the electronic-log mandate written into last year's highway bill. A back-and-forth between National Association of Small Trucking Companies President David Owen and American ...

honors

19 drivers earn Road Team captain distinction

Overdrive Staff | January 10, 2013

The American Trucking Associations this week at a banquet in Washington, D.C., named 19 professional truck drivers the 2013-2014 American's Road Team captains. As part of the group, the drivers will travel the country the ...

voices

Making the most of idle time with uncompensated detention solutions

Todd Dills | November 07, 2012

The comments section under Overdrive Contributing Editor Jill Dunn's story on the issue of uncompensated detention in October lit up with a raft of commentary from readers debating the issues at hand. Chief among them was ...

Overdrive Extra

How to get caught up for the election

Max Heine | October 18, 2012

Haul the Vote, created by a group of carriers, provides a great resource for getting registered to vote, seeing who will be on your ballot, and learning about issues inside and outside of trucking. If ...

Overdrive Extra

You can help stop child trafficking

Randy Grider | October 12, 2012

Many years ago, I was escorting an oversize load from Boaz, Ala. to Summerville, S.C, when we shut down for the night at a truck stop just outside of Columbia, S.C. My boss, who was ...

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