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KeepTruckin adds recall, annotation features to dashcam offering

The road-facing Smart Dashcam can now recall video footage from the previous 35 hours of recordings as well as add annotation to video clips that describes the context leading up to a captured event. These features allow fleets to prioritize events for review, filter them based on tags and monitor changes.

March 20, 2019

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Rough weather clouds the spot rate forecast

With extreme weather events across the Rockies, Plains and into the Midwest, it’s notable that the number of loads moved last week increased 3.5 percent compared to the previous week. But the number of trucks looking for loads gained 3.4 percent, and van and reefer rates slipped, flatbed holding steady.

March 20, 2019

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Federal report casts serious doubt on ‘driver shortage’

The report, published by BLS, contends that though fleets struggle with driver retention, there’s little evidence of a shortage of those willing to drive a truck, pushing back against what it calls the “industry’s own account” that there’s a labor shortage in the long-haul trucking segment.

March 19, 2019

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Truckers arrested for police chase, drugs, human smuggling, more

Several truck drivers have recently been involved in highway incidents, including drug busts, a multi-state police chase and human smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border.

March 19, 2019

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Dealing with DEF quality: Certification program turns 10, amid continued assurance work

Issues that can arise with out-of-spec diesel exhaust fluid include the perhaps most obvious one — improper urea concentration, which at a drastic-enough level can trigger derating of the engine. Other issues can include expensive repairs.

March 19, 2019

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Readers voiced variety of views on North Korean nukes amid meetings

Amid the U.S.-North Korea summit, held Feb. 27-28 in Hanoi, Vietnam, almost 4 in 10 Overdrive reader respondents to a poll question seemed to endorse a long game in dealings with the nuclear-armed country, naming relationship-building between Kim and Trump as the necessary principal focus of engagement.

March 19, 2019

Flooding shuts down major highways in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri; hours regs suspended in some counties

Interstates affected by flooding in the region include I-29 in both Iowa and Missouri and I-680 in both Nebraska and Iowa. Hours of service regulations are also suspended in Iowa and Nebraska for truckers providing direct relief to the affected areas.

March 18, 2019

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Trucking’s take on infrastructure blame: Toll’d you so

After decades of federal negligence, states are floating plans to add truck tolls to help pay for highway improvements, sounding alarms from the trucking industry.

March 18, 2019

Driver arrested, nine out-of-service orders issued during two-day inspection blitz in Indiana

A truck driver was arrested for marijuana possession and inspectors issued nine out-of-service orders and 19 citations during a two-day inspection blitz in Indiana last week.

March 18, 2019

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Overdrive Extra

Cultivating happiness in work: Time for a new approach

“For truckers who already have the deck stacked against them when trying to maintain health, poor work performance as a result of stress can have deadly results. This reality goes largely unaddressed by many carrier support structures, and drivers begin to feel more like a number, or a cog in a giant machine that is eating away their lives.”

March 18, 2019

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Daimler recalls more than 3,000 Cascadia tractors over air bag issue

The recall affects approximately 3,365 model year 2018-2020 Cascadia trucks equipped with the optional air bag. In these trucks, the air bag could deploy unexpectedly.

March 18, 2019

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ATBS owner-op income benchmarking conference call rescheduled for this Wednesday

ATBS’ annual owner-op benchmarking study provides income averages for a variety of segments and other analysis, against which owner-operators can analyze their own performance. During the call, Todd Amen will provide insight on 2018 average miles driven, net income, fuel mileage and freight rates, among other things.

March 18, 2019

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NACFE looking for owner-operators to participate in fuel economy study

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency is accepting applications from fleets and owner-operators for its Run on Less Regional which will get underway this October.

March 18, 2019

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Owner-operator-heavy household goods segment could be upended by DOD transition

A recent announcement by the DOD that it’s transitioning its 400,000 household goods loads a year to a single-source provider has rattled the household goods segment — a segment in which many small carriers and owner-operators feed.

March 15, 2019

Overdrive Radio

90-plus-inch double-bunk sleeper in a cargo van? You bet

Cargo-van owner-operators Darren and Trish Ayres, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, haul in the CDL-required hazmat military-freight niche, and worked with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Fastlane Products to build a unique sleeper set-up in their Mercedes Sprinter van. Also: More onerous inspection practices that could use discouragement.

March 15, 2019

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Interstate speed limits could increase to 75 in parts of West Virginia

Lawmakers in West Virginia this month passed a resolution that gives the state’s transportation secretary the ability to raise speed limits on interstates within the state to 75 miles per hour. It is unclear at this point which interstates WV DOT may target for a speed limit increase.

March 15, 2019

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Westbound I-74 bridge from Illinois to Iowa to close for construction

The Illinois and Iowa departments of transportation say that, beginning Monday, March 18, construction of the new I-74 Mississippi River Bridge will require all westbound interstate through-traffic to be detoured to I-80 and I-280.

March 15, 2019

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DOT establishes council to address self-driving vehicles, other emerging tech

The NETT Council will be a point of access for developers seeking approval to deploy new transportation tech, DOT says. It’s intended to ensure that deployment of new tech isn’t impeded and to streamline the process for obtaining safety authorizations, permits and funding.

March 14, 2019

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Semi-truck driving on highway beneath concrete overpass with mountains and blue sky in background

Diesel marks third week of price cuts, spot freight rates stable

Spot rates were mostly unchanged during the last week, while fuel prices' national average dropped slightly.

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FMCSA seeks emergency action to block 'chameleon' CDL schools

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FMCSA's Motus mess improving, little by little? Weigh in

Make a bill, pay the bill: Owner-ops 'only as good as their word' trucking OTR

Overdrive Small Fleet 2022 Championship badge with logos from KST Logistics, Otto Transfer, McKenney Truckwise, and NASTC sponsor

Four small fleets square off for the championship Oct. 29

Make a bill, pay the bill: Owner-ops 'only as good as their word' trucking OTR

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