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Overdrive Extra
‘Highway Hellion’ Meredith Ochs’ new history of women in rock music
Most in trucking might best know Ochs as cohost of the former Freewheelin’ program on Sirius XM’s Road Dog Trucking Radio channel, but her exhaustive knowledge of music stems from decades as both a broadcaster and writer in multiple genres.
November 12, 2018
Overdrive Radio
How a ’96 Classic came to be ‘The Goose,’ and: Hope for small-biz primacy with FMCSA?
So just how did Daniel and Phyllis Snow’s 1996 Freightliner Classic XL come to be called ‘The Goose’? In this Overdrive Radio podcast, the independent owner-operators tell that story. Also: A bit of stumping for the importance of small business in trucking from none other than the top motor carrier safety regulator in the nation,
November 9, 2018
Hours of Service
New personal-conveyance FAQs illustrate FMCSA’s round-trip view of ‘under dispatch’
In the agency’s new FAQ series, Question No. 1 solidifies an interpretation of any dispatch as encompassing a round trip, and also attempts to clarify seeming contradictions between that interpretation and the new personal conveyance guidance. More on PC enforcement during audits, too, muddying waters.
November 9, 2018
Business
Truckers Final Mile accepting donations for ‘Sleigh Bells and Santa’ campaign
Truckers Final Mile is once again hosting its Sleigh Bells and Santa Christmas campaign to help raise money for children who are enduring their first Christmas after losing a trucker parent that lost their life on the road. This year is the fourth year for the campaign, which is solely based off of donations.
November 9, 2018
Business
Two large fleets fined by EPA for California emissions violations
According to EPA, Schneider and Old Dominion “failed to install particulate filters on some of their heavy-duty diesel trucks and failed to verify that trucks they hired for use in California complied with the state rule.” The companies will pay a combined $225,000 in penalties and $575,000 for air filtration upgrades at schools.
November 9, 2018
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new location west of Oklahoma City
The new store, located off of exit 127 of I-40, adds 95 truck parking spaces to the region. It also features a Carl’s Jr. restaurant, nine diesel lanes, seven showers, laundry facilities and more.
November 9, 2018
Business
UPS Freight prepping for potential strike by Teamsters-backed drivers
UPS Freight says it is working “to empty [its] network of freight by Friday,” due to the potential for a work stoppage by its drivers. UPS Freight is the company’s less-than-truckload division, for which about 12,000 drivers work.
November 9, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Reservation resident confesses to beating trucker
Bludgeoned trucker Amos Phillips was told by FBI that Stormy Adakai, 23, a Native American, was arrested Nov. 8. Fort Hall is home to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, who operate the TP Truck Stop on I-15 just north of Pocatello.
November 9, 2018
Business
Minnesota aims at moving targets
Some rehabilitation of Minnesota’s reputation — in the wake of the state’s notorious “fatigue checklist,” judged a violation of truckers’ Fourth Amendment rights in 2011 — is on offer via truckers’ anecdotes and data on its enforcement program, with a shift toward mobile traffic enforcement and, perhaps, a willingness of officers to credit professionalism where it’s due.
November 8, 2018
Channel 19
Parking issues to be aired in Southern Nevada next week
Heads-up all of you out west — specifically, anyone with expertise on lanes in the Southern half of Nevada, where a truck parking roundtable in Las Vegas with state and Federal Highway Administration officials and reps from the Nevada DOT is slated for a week from today.
November 8, 2018
Business
I-30 closed this weekend through Arlington, Texas
The east and westbound lanes between FM 157/Collins Street to SH 161/President George Bush Turnpike will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, through 5 a.m. Monday, Nov. 12.
November 8, 2018
Business
Watch: Trucker’s oversized load crashes into tunnel in Massachusetts
This 12-second clip shows a major mishap by a truck operator who took to Boston’s O’Neill Tunnel without realizing his oversized load wouldn’t clear.
November 8, 2018
Business
Dem lawmakers ask DOT to reject ATA’s petition for reprieve from Calif. break laws
ATA in early October petitioned the DOT to intervene into the ongoing conflict over the state’s stringent laws, which a federal court in 2014 ruled apply to trucking companies and their drivers. A group of 19 Democrats in the House and Senate, however, asked the DOT to reject the petition, saying it requires a Congressional statute.
November 8, 2018
Channel 19
Cabotage across the pond: How deregulatory moves in the EU sparked backlash
And: More intel following last week’s report on cabotage-related violations and what some watchers see as U.S. employers gaming the international-hauls and visa system for profit from less expensive drivers, particularly in big intrastate markets along the Southern border.
November 7, 2018
Business
Spot market in the last week: Load/truck ratios jump as rates fall back slightly
An influx of imports into West Coast ports helped push load-to-truck ratios higher on DAT load boards during the week ending Nov. 3. National average spot rates, however, continued to slide, if only slightly. Also: Close look at data from a market to watch: Atlanta.
November 7, 2018
Business
Michelin set to increase tire prices in December
The 8 percent increase will apply to all commercial brands, products and services offered by Michelin.
November 7, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Owner-operators drive less, earn more through summer
Owner-operators’ net income in 2018 will surpass $65,000, predicts ATBS.
November 7, 2018
Business
Two of five top recipients of trucking campaign dollars drop re-election bids
The industry in sum contributed $5.79 million to election campaigns in the 2018 cycle, according to CRP data, with $4.22 million (83 percent) going to Republican candidates and political action committees and $835,851 going to Democrats (16 percent).
November 7, 2018
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