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Channel 19
Former hauler Ed Miller’s ‘A Trucker’s Tale’ memoir of his trucking days, out now
Former truck driver Ed Miller has released his memoir 'A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories From 60 Years on the Road'. Learn more here on Overdrive.
April 15, 2020
Channel 19
Pro drivers clear air on the practice of flashing brights to signal space to merge, and a highway-speed-cutoff PSA
A West Coast newspaper columnist corrects the record on signaling with truckers leading the way, and: A PSA of sorts for motorists with a tip from pro Gary Buchs — use your turn signal early and often when passing a combination truck to combat impatient traffic behind you and the “highway-speed cutoff.”
December 3, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Time to get tougher on the motoring public’s distraction
Is it time to treat distraction behind the wheel among the motoring public as tough as DUI? Clifford Peterson suggests trucking organizations would do well to team up with insurers to at the very least increase penalties for motorists’ distraction, to combat what’s clearly a safety problem.
August 15, 2019
Channel 19
Speed limiters: Senate bill to mandate a 65 mph setting a ‘terrible idea’
Voices on the Senate bill from a Georgia Republican that would mandate a 65 mph speed setting for trucks capable of it. And more on the ‘careful what you wish for’ dynamics in regulatory change.
July 10, 2019
Business
Colin Young presents another ‘Crazy Pass’ from Colorado’s Loveland Pass
As Young tells it: “Another typical day going over Loveland Pass. I was pulling a fully loaded gasoline tanker down the pass when the Jeep decided they needed around me. I guess this is what we get when we allow video games to replace driver education.”
May 23, 2019
Channel 19
‘Be pro out there’: More share-the-road resources
ATEF received a grant from the Office of Highway Safety. The grant allows ATEF to continue educating the public about safe highway behaviors around trucks.
February 14, 2019
Channel 19
Latest highway blockade, in service of burned-rubber donuts
Video footage showed a car doing donuts as highway traffic backed up and travelers looked on. Get more details on the story here on Overdrive Online.
February 12, 2019
Voices
Colin Young has a message for Colorado State Patrol: Enforce increasing problem of unsafe passing on mountain roads
Dashcam Central video from Colin Young shows a precarious Loveland Pass two-lane pass made by a pickup’s driver with just a hair of space available between the pickup, oncoming traffic and the nose of Young’s rig. “Worst part is that the State Patrol does nothing to stop this increasing problem.”
February 12, 2019
Channel 19
Round-up: Plea for common sense at the counter of knowledge, bucking the blockchain hype machine, more
Opposing blockchain views, the march of technology and one longtime owner-operator's plea for a return to common sense by drivers and more.
June 14, 2018
Voices
Colin Young presents ‘Basalt drive’ hall of shame
This collection of video clips from the dashcam of trucker Colin Young was assembled from several during “a load from Denver to Basalt, Colo., on the Friday before Father’s Day” this year, Young says, via Loveland Pass. “After 20-plus years of driving it still surprises me how many people continue to take the risks they take around big trucks.”
November 8, 2017
Channel 19
Extra amateur day on the roads for total eclipse, particularly in these areas
Will you be in the “zone of totality,” as the scientist-types are saying, this coming Monday for the solar eclilpse? More than one trucking company shutting down for the day anticipating an influx of that most unpredictable of highway users: the four-wheeled one.
August 15, 2017
Business
The difference between passionate speech and the truth
Passion is great, but the truth is often found far from it: The sleep apnea rulemaking being shelved does not mean a truck driver is now “more likely” to be nodding off behind the wheel, as noted a former Federal Railroad Administration official on CBS news.
August 9, 2017
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