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Latest updates for a longtime brakes-maintenance resource: The Air Brake Book
Check out the latest updates to The Air Brake Book, including new air disc brake market penetration information and new brake technology. Details here.
August 21, 2020
Overdrive Radio
A closer look at the freight-demand and planning app for owner-ops with Load One
In the sort of emergency-freight service that is the expedited trucking business, having information about where best to be for the next load is, to say the least, a difficult proposition. Load One’s “Ultimate Advantage” smartphone app, though, delivers relevant demand information to leased owner-ops, as Load One head John Elliott explains in this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast,
February 15, 2019
Business
Load One’s new app brings measure of self-dispatch to its expedited haulers
To combat the problem of extended layovers, very common in expediting, Load One has put tools in the hands of its drivers that allow them to be more proactive in positioning themselves for optimum dispatch.
February 14, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Log-editing ‘flexibililty’ in current-generation AOBRD e-logs v. ELDs
At least one company is promoting functionality in its electronic log that allows use in “AOBRD mode” to make edits from the back office account and not leave a trail showing the original log. Problem is, regs require retention of the original log …
August 31, 2017
Channel 19
ELD mandate pre-2000 exemption: How will carriers leasing owner-operators treat it?
Answers here from respondents to a recent carrier survey conducted by CCJ. And: Reader Gary Carlisle’s thoughts on the limited potential for the ELD mandate to impact rates for the positive.
January 26, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
Drivers stand to benefit from ELDs?
Jack Roberts, writing in CCJ, highlights “growing evidence that ELDs won’t be all bad for drivers” and the core of ELD opposition as of a piece with reaction to the growing “surveillance state”…
April 23, 2014
Overdrive Extra
You read it here first: CSA’s built-in unfairness
With the March and May issue installments of Overdrive’s CSA Data Trail stories, Senior Editor Todd Dills scooped GAO’s report this week by at least seven months.
February 4, 2014
Channel 19
Obamacare: Counting down, misplaced incentives
For large carriers (more than 50 employees), paying the per-employee penalties after they opt for exchange-purchased and subsidized coverage could well mean considerably less money spent by the employer…
May 23, 2013
Overdrive Extra
High-altitude jumper was also a …
Yeah, you guessed it. Today over on the CCJ blog find the story of onetime New Jersey-based truck driver Nick Piantanida (pictured), who also holds the distinction of being a 1960s pioneer of extreme high-altitude skydiving — and who holds the unofficial record for the highest-ever manned balloon flight, 123,500 feet. He was trying to beat a […]
July 24, 2012
Business
Fleet conference to discuss viability of alt fuels
The CVOC, held prior to GATS, will feature much discussion on natural gas as a viable fuel option.
July 12, 2012
Channel 19
Vegas trucking tweets and Music City peeps
The Great West Truck Show gets going today out in Las Vegas, running through Saturday with vendor exhibits, the Custom Rigs Pride & Polish competition, CCJ‘s Fleet Executive Conference (under way as of yesterday — some news here from the first panel on challenges and opportunities trucking the rarefied California environment of late) and more. Follow Overdrive‘s Twitter feed @OverdriveUpdate — […]
June 14, 2012
Overdrive Extra
When burned-out lights glare
The top equipment-related violation is lighting, according to a “CSA: One Year Later” panel discussion at the Commercial Carrier Journal Fall Symposium in Phoenix.
November 11, 2011
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