Tag: operation black and blue

Overdrive Radio

‘Bringing the cultural diversity of trucking together’: ELD protest outcomes

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, you’ll hear ELD protest part organizer Scott Reed’s reflection on outcomes and next steps, and owner-operator Mike Landis offers his narration of what it was like to have been a part of the effort, with his 1999 Peterbilt cabover along for the ride.

October 27, 2017

Channel 19

Round-up: The parking issue’s grassroots problems; And the California convoy that capped the ELD protest week

Too often, the roots grow against new-parking development — Love’s Travel Stops pulls out of Otsego, Minn., truck stop plans after local opposition. And: Video and more from the sizable anti-ELD demonstrations two weeks back out west.

October 19, 2017

Overdrive Radio

‘It’s time somebody starts looking out for the little guy’ — more voices from the ELD protests

On Overdrive Radio: As ripples continue to emanate from a renewed sense of camaraderie among many of the ELD-mandate-protest participants in D.C. and around the country, a run through a variety of conversations during protest days 1 and 2 a week and more back, and more from the mailbag.

October 16, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD protests Day 2: Truckers roll in, stage along rigs in front of DOT headquarters

Early Wednesday, roughly 30 trucks rolled into Washington, D.C., bobtail, and parked along Constitution Ave. and in front of Department of Transportation headquarters, where truckers protested the ELD mandate, the hours of service rule and more.

October 4, 2017

Channel 19

It’s the little things: ELD conversations where it matters short- and long-term, on Capitol Hill

Poll results: Nearly half of respondents are reporting being shut down this week, and more from D.C. with a slow start to ELD protest events scheduled to run through this coming weekend. Drivers meet reps, Congressional staffers, more …

October 3, 2017

Channel 19

Truckers converge on Washington, D.C., for events this week

Scenes from Doswell, Va.: Among other efforts, the “ELD or Me” anti-ELD mandate group’s planned D.C. activities have gotten under way today, after things got started in earnest as the group members set up shop at the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.

October 3, 2017

Overdrive Radio

ELD mandate protest efforts set to stage October 3

Podcast: Two unaffiliated groups — Tony Justice and company’s ELD or Me, and the Texas-headquartered Operation Black and Blue — share details for ELD mandate protests coalescing around a beginning date of October 3.

September 16, 2017