Matt ColeMatt Cole is the Senior Editor for Overdrive and CCJ. Reach him at [email protected].RegulationsEPA settles CARB violations with two fleetsAccording to EPA, the companies failed to install controls to reduce pollution, upgrade model year engines, or verify that the trucks complied with state rules.December 13, 2023BusinessPredatory towing: How common it is, and how truckers can avoid itNew research identifies how stark a problem predatory towing is for truckers, offering recommendations on how owner-operators and fleets can prevent it from happening to them. There's potential, too, for recourse if it does.December 7, 2023EquipmentElectric-truck purchase incentives present big challenges for small fleets, owner-operatorsWhile small fleets are by and large excluded from current "zero-emission" transition requirements in California and elsewhere, funding exists for those looking to be proactive. At once, taking advantage of those incentives could be difficult.December 4, 2023Electronic Logging Devices10 ELDs removed from FMCSA's 'Registered Devices' listDrivers who use the revoked ELDs must stop using the devices and revert to paper logs or logging software to record required hours-of-service data and replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant device before Jan. 30, 2024.December 1, 2023Pride & PolishHard-working 1984 Pete cabover returns to Pride & Polish gloryAfter winning in the Antique category in 2020, C.J. Donovan's 1984 Peterbilt 362 is now a two-time Pride & Polish champ with a win in the Working Combo, 2007 & Older category this year.November 30, 2023Custom Rigs'Tweety Bird': Owner-operator Michael Gerber's 1999 Kenworth W900Gerber's five-year-old Elite Transfer LLC business follows a couple decades behind the wheel as a driver. The owner-operator pivoted to refrigerated freight recently after starting out in business pulling a flatbed. The 1999 KW features a 600-hp Cat.November 23, 2023RegulationsAB 5's latest: Why interstate trucking should be exemptA long-overdue hearing in federal court last week featured OOIDA and the California Trucking Association arguing the detrimental impacts on interstate commerce of California's law that effectively bans the leased owner-operator model in the state.November 22, 2023Custom RigsGeorgia-based small fleet's 2000 Peterbilt 379The Peterbilt 379 today is mostly a show truck, though it does work about 20,000 miles a year, owner Jerry Knowles said. All told, the truck boasts around 1.7 million miles on the odometer.November 16, 2023RegulationsFMCSA tightens screws on brokers who 'do not intend to pay' carriers: Final ruleThe agency said its changes to the broker regulations are intended to reduce freight fraud by "limiting the time brokers can continue to accrue claims" before their authority is suspended, among other changes to broker/forwarder and surety/trust regs.November 15, 2023Overdrive Extra'Way past ridiculous': Owner-ops sound off on FMCSA's baby steps on detentionOwner-ops and trucking groups respond to FMCSA's intentions to further explore the impacts of detention time on trucking. Truckers by and large favor a study, but clearly don't need any more convincing that excess detention is a major problem.November 9, 2023Previous PagePage 28 of 184Next PageTop StoriesBusinessLike a 'bronco buster at a rodeo': Truckers' experience on American roadways todayResponding to Overdrive's "Truckers' Highway Report Card" survey, owner-operators ranked Indiana's I-70 the absolute worst haul route in the nation. Indiana and other state DOTs who made the "worst roads" list, some recognize, can use the naming and shaming truckers' perceptions offer in a new 20-page report charting infrastructure struggles around the nation.RegulationsELP violators do worse at inspections, safety scores: StudyRegulationsHomeland Security explains how 'illegal aliens' get CDLs in the U.S.Custom RigsPride, Class, 50-plus remarkable rigs: Owners honored in Pete paradeFeatured SponsorHowes
