Tag: laws

Business
The decline of human civilization began with ‘safety concerns’
“Hey y’all, guess what? You can pump your own gasoline in Oregon now. Legally, even.” … How ‘safety’ was used to justify retention of the self-service ban over the years …
January 3, 2018
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Business
Why language is important
Wendy on Congressional move to institute lifetime CDL ban for human traffickers: “Language matters, especially when crafting laws. You see, laws are a lot like lies, the more specific and convoluted you make them the easier it is for them to be picked apart.”
July 19, 2017
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Business
Push back
Wendy on the importance of individual advocacy efforts: “I hear so many people say, ‘You can’t change things, no one listens, I’m just going to complain on Facebook and waste valuable time I could be calling my Representative with and eat worms.'” …
January 9, 2017
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Business
Abracadabra autonomous!
“They’re not opponents of tech, but it might be a failure of imagination” –Venture capitalist on disconnect between truckers’ expectations of self-driving tech and those of the folks in Silicon Valley. Wendy: “Let’s slow the row on the imagination-bashing a little and get real.”
December 16, 2016
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Voices
Favor for minimum wage hike growing among truckers
Since Overdrive queried readers in 2014 about prospects for the $7.25/hour minimum wage, more truckers today believe it’s time to raise the wage, following a series of states and localities that have raised their own minimums.
April 19, 2016
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Business
One ring to get you suspended
“I get the concern with threats… I do not, however, get why suspending a fourth grade kid for telling his classmate he was going to ‘render him invisible with the One Ring’ is OK.”
February 4, 2015
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Business
On banning the Big Gulp
“If the Mayor of New York City is concerned about public health, he should ban all automatic air fresheners.”
March 29, 2013
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Voices
Where do you stand on immigration reform?
Vote in our latest Hot Buttons poll on immigration reform law, and sound off in the comments.
March 27, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Putting agency heads in trucks makes good sense
It makes sense that if someone is going to regulate the trucking industry, he or she should get real-world experience by spending time riding in a tractor-trailer.
February 1, 2013
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Voices
Hot buttons poll: Same-sex marriage
January 11, 2013
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