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POLL: Is electronic mobile signature capture part of your protocol with receivers?
With the COVID-19 pandemic, signature-capture technologies on documents sent between devices have made their way more extensively into the operator-receiver interaction to limit personal contact. Do you have such a system in place yourself, whether a fleet’s system or your own?
November 29, 2020
Truck Stops
Continuing proliferation of self-serve mobile tech reducing in-person contact at truck stops
As the coronavirus continues proliferating, drivers and truck stop operators are minimizing contact with more tech-based innovations. Details here on Overdrive.
October 22, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Over the Road episode 8: The Road Ahead
Over the Road hauls to Dallas and the Great American Trucking Show to probe the question on many truckers' minds: Will automation render them obsolete?
May 28, 2020
Business
Oversize/overweight permitting tech tools multiplying
More states are auto-issuing permits as technology platforms continue to improve functionality for users and their state counterparts. More on Overdrive.
May 1, 2020
Channel 19
‘Venture capital is a little fickle’: Autonomous-truck developer and trucking company Starsky Robotics closes shop
Venture capital funding issues has caused the autonomous truck developer and trucking company Starsky Robotics to lay off drivers and close shop. Details here.
February 24, 2020
Overdrive Radio
‘Autonomy’ for whom? The independent owner-operator and tech skeptic featured in new film
In this Overdrive Radio edition, count Debbie Desiderato among technology skeptics when it comes to the choice our society is likely to be presented eventually in some form — whether to fully accept high-speed vehicles on public roads without an operator capable of reason and judgment behind the wheel.
January 7, 2020
Overdrive Extra
Can you hear me now? Anybody out there?
Gary Buchs on the “lost” art of communication: “When I think about the way brokered freight seems to be going — tap a button on a screen, get a load – the phrase ‘trust but verify’ comes high to the mind. Don’t give up on due diligence with the shippers and receivers in such transactions. … In small business ownership, everything is personal.”
October 4, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Goodbye, AOBRD: Shifting loyalties, yard moves and other challenges
Considering options with any ELD provider when making an upgrade from AOBRD technology can involve much more than just the basic differences between regulatory requirements of AOBRDs and ELDs — many devices come with a host of ancillary functions. Also: More on yard moves, edits and other new challenges.
September 23, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Engineering realities v. hyperactive marketing: The ‘driverless’ trucking future explored
The Overdrive Radio podcast transports you like so many teleporting time machines back to the Aug. 22 panel at GATS about the $64,000 question: What’s the role of the driver look like at it changes over time with increasingly advanced layers of auto-assist technology?
September 6, 2019
Business
C.H. Robinson updating ‘Carrier Advantage’ incentive program for partner owner-ops and fleets
Since introduction in 2016, the Carrier Advantage program for first access to freight has updated its internal metrics — on which participating carriers’ scores in it are based — on a quarterly basis. In the new year, that scoring will move to being available and updated on a near-real-time basis.
August 23, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift
The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.
August 13, 2019
Business
Fleet survey probes tech-advancement challenges
A new survey conducted by TD Bank’s equipment-finance group at the April-held annual expo of the NAFA association showed more than half of the respondents naming new technology as posing the biggest challenge for the coming year.
August 5, 2019
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