Tag: state laws

Channel 19
APU weight-exemption guide, state by state
Wide variability in state law governing weight exemptions for owner-operators utilizing APUs is what drove the creation of this chart, showing just what states allow for the 400- or 550-lb. federally encouraged weight exemptions.
June 9, 2016
Dynasys APU on David McDaniel truck
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
Drivers under attack from vulnerable positions
Wendy argues advocates might do well to fight for carry-permit reciprocity rather than a special federal permit for interstate truckers: “If you have a concealed carry permit in your state of residence, it’s asinine that it wouldn’t be observed in all states.”
March 20, 2016
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Channel 19
Pit bulls in-cab: Resource for local laws?
In which reader Mary Hanlon adopts a pit bull and wonders, Is there a good central location to map routes to avoid locales with anti-pit ordinances? Any of the pit owners in the audience have suggestions?
January 4, 2014
Operator Hanlon certainly wouldn’t be the first driver to run with a pet pit. Gilbert (pictured) was an entry in our Most Loved Pets competition, recently rounded up. He’s the pet of owner-operator Lee Williams, who says he was adopted “from Villalobos Rescue Center” in New Orleans after having been there seven years following rescue from a California fighting ring. “We had applied to other places for a pet, but because we are truck drivers they wouldn’t adopt to us. Thank god Villalobos thought outside of the box.” Gilbert “loves riding…. His forever home is with us.”
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