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POLL: Plans for the Fourth, driver?
Will you be celebrating with family/friends at home/elsewhere, celebrating, but on the road mid-trip/between hauls, hauling, or other. Let us know on Overdrive.
July 3, 2018
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July 3, 2018
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Electronic Logging Devices
Comments due Thursday on application to exempt small carriers from ELD mandate
The Small Business in Transportation Coalition filed a petition with the FMCSA, asking to exempt trucking companies with
July 2, 2018
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Overdrive Extra
‘Reverend Haney,’ shapeshifting sin-master with a trucking conscience, hangs it up
Long Haul Paul on the conversions and ingenuity and numerous work-arounds of a hauler who’s put up his traveling shoes for good: “An Unseen Smith was forging His divine stamp on the old forger. No one knew more about sin than Haney, and everyone knew it. No one knew how to get around stuff like him either.” …
July 2, 2018
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Business
Guaranteed pay making waves in driver compensation
With more company-driver minimums in place, owner-operators might not have far to look for a parachute of employee-based stability when the next downturn comes.
July 2, 2018
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Business
Rates unabated: Per-mile rates march upwards again, with reefer topping $3
Surging rates pushed owner-operator income higher in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, according to data from ATBS. More here.
July 2, 2018
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Business
Small Kentucky town’s 22-year-old ‘Unloading License’ ordinance draws confusion from truckers
Local businesses in West Buechel, Ky., can pay $125 a year for stickers to give to truckers delivering in the town, allowing truckers to park in the city limits. Without a sticker from a local business, truckers would be subject to a $25 fine.
July 2, 2018
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Business
Three fleets announce driver pay bumps
Milan Express, Risinger and Central Oregon Truck Company all recently announced large pay raise for truck drivers in their fleet. More information here.
July 2, 2018
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Electronic Logging Devices
ZED Connect offering ELD to former One20 members for $20
Former One20 users get lifetime access to the ZED-ELD hardware and ELD, including IFTA reporting, for a one-time shipping and handling charge of $20 per device.
July 2, 2018
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Business
Tools to help truckers get their jobs done
It’s the lucky trucker who has sufficient space in their truck to have all the tools needed to tackle every on-road repair. Often, most folks have to make do with what’s at hand. These new tools help maximize use of available space to be sure you’re prepared.
July 2, 2018
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Business
Watch: Trucker swerves to miss deer, but catches guardrail — preventable or not?
From Overdrive sister site CCJ’s Preventable or Not video series: Truck operator John Doe veered to miss a deer standing in the highway, but instead collided with a guardrail. Was this a preventable crash?
July 1, 2018
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Business
Rough wake-up call: Truck clipped in the middle of the night by fellow driver
Watch this YouTube clip of a driver’s rig being dinged by another trucker’s trailer at an unidentified truck stop.
July 1, 2018
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Business
Broader search functionality returns to FMCSA’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners
The return of the more extensive search options comes amid the agency’s work to restore the NRCME website after it was taken offline by FMCSA in December after an unidentified source tried to plant malicious software (malware) in the system. Drivers can search via an examiner’s registry number, by name of examiner and business and via zip code.
June 29, 2018
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Business
How to request more time to replace a malfunctioning ELD
A centralized email put in place in the ELD mandate's early days is no longer functional, officials say. Extension requests beyond the allowed eight days to use paper logs should be routed to the appropriate state field offices.
June 29, 2018
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Business
Watch for increased cargo theft activity during Independence Day holiday period
Drivers hauling food and beverage commodities should consider taking extra precautions as those have been the most-stolen commodities for the last eight years, according to Scott Cornell, transportation business lead and crime and theft specialist for Travelers Insurance.
June 29, 2018
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Business
Owner-operator services fraud case part of sweep by FTC, BBB
A lawsuit filed in 2016 against an owner-operator business services group was part of an initiative by the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau to target companies allegedly defrauding small businesses, the FTC and the Better Business Bureau announced this month.
June 29, 2018
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Overdrive Radio
A new way to do reefer washouts: Produce broker’s ‘Healthy Trailer’ machine
Produce broker Pam Young’s response to the Food Safety Modernization Act’s new FDA rules for sanitary transportation of fresh food was to conceive of and build a new automated reefer washout machine that incorporates a variety of sanitary techs, including the use of UV light, among others.
June 29, 2018
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Business
FMCSA safety committee to offer recommendations on autonomous trucks, more at July meeting
Regarding autonomous vehicles, MCSAC was tasked in June 2017 with providing recommendations on the framework for considering temporary exemptions that companies may seek to operate automated driving system-equipped trucks on public highways.
June 29, 2018
Daimler’s autonomous tractor-trailer, a Mercedes Actros
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