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EPA asked to investigate alleged improper contact between EPA staffers, Volvo on glider kit regs

This is the latest development in the ongoing debate over whether the EPA should strip Obama-era emissions regulations placed on glider kit trucks. More here.

June 27, 2018

Trucker arrested after allegedly shooting at another vehicle while driving

Virginia State Police report that 26-year-old Terrelle M. Jackson of Atlanta, Ga., shot at a 2001 Nissan pickup early Saturday morning near the 67-mile marker. The 51-year-old driver of that truck, who police did not identify, was not injured.

June 27, 2018

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Spot market: Where it’s hot and not for dry vans, reefers, flatbeds

The latest in the last week: Capacity is slowly returning to the spot market judging by a generally growing number of truck posts on DAT load boards, the company says, but trucks are still showing as in short supply in many parts of the country. That’s kept rates high.

June 27, 2018

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Love’s adds new breakfast, lunch items at select stores

Customers can choose from six breakfast wraps and sandwiches and five lunch wraps. Store employees begin baking breakfast daily at 5 a.m. and lunch at 11 a.m.

June 27, 2018

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Landstar app helps optimize multi-leg runs

The Landstar Maximizer app, available for Android and iOS devices, is designed to help its leased owner-operators optimize revenue on multi-leg runs.

June 26, 2018

Iowa DOT considering plan to close nearly one-third of rest areas

Iowa DOT’s Statewide Rest Area System draft plan would close 11 of the full-service locations and all 16 parking-only sites over a period of 5-30 years. This would eliminate approximately 279 truck parking spaces across Iowa.

June 26, 2018

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Trucker named Highway Angel for helping prevent suicide

Carl Cormier attempted to avoid a person running on foot toward his truck, but the person continued running back and forth with Cormier’s oncoming truck as he veered to avoid them. He then quickly braked to a complete stop before hitting the person, who he then determined to be a distressed woman.

June 26, 2018

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Nominations open through Friday for Trucking’s Top Rookie contest

Partnering with Truckers News in the search are the three national organizations overseeing truck driver training: the CVTA, NAPFTDS, and the PTDI. Details here

June 26, 2018

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Wilson Electronics releases new cell signal booster for truckers

The booster comes with an antenna, which can be used with standard CB antenna mounts, that transmits a signal from cell towers to the booster. The booster receives the signal and amplifies the frequencies by up to 32 times.

June 26, 2018

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The feast or famine of owner-operator income, in good times and bad

With greater risk comes greater reward — and potential for loss. Some results from Overdrive’s recent compensation survey bear out the truism, with the largest shares of owner-ops at top and bottom rungs of the income ladder. Respondents’ thoughts on market performance and income through 2018, too, show a similar dynamic.

June 26, 2018

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Flatbedders’ income again outpaced van, reefer haulers in 2018’s first quarter

No surprise for many owner-operators who have felt these numbers first hand: Net income for leased owner-operators and independents in the first three months of 2018 continued to march upward, with operators across all segments taking home more in 2018’s first quarter than the same time a year ago.

June 25, 2018

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Four western states seek funding for truck parking information system

The I-10 Corridor Coalition, made up of departments of transportation from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, is seeking a $13.7 million grant through the FHWA to develop a system that would inform truckers about available parking at rest areas through signs along the corridor.

June 25, 2018

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Overdrive Extra

A health case for hours of service change

Leased owner-operator Clifford Peterson: “Those who make the case for the hours of service status quo ignore the health and well-being of an American icon, the over-the-road truck driver, in favor of maintenance of the bottom line.”

June 25, 2018

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4 a.m. at the Little America Truck Stop

Strange things are afoot, driver, if you’re Keith Sampson and it’s 4 a.m. at Little America and you’re passing by the CD rack to look down and see … your own name and face.

June 25, 2018

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‘Big Rig Buddies’ contest highlights on-highway pets

The Omnitracs company has opened submissions for its second annual Big Rig Buddies Contest. To be eligible to win, entrants must submit a photo along with a brief description explaining why their on-highway pet is the best companion on the road.

June 25, 2018

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Electronic Logging Devices

Hours of service violation rate cut in half under ELD mandate, FMCSA says

In the months leading up to the December 18, 2017, deadline for adoption, the percentage of inspections including an hours violation fell slightly to 1.2 percent. In the most recent two full months, since so-called hard enforcement of the ELD mandate began, that percentage has dropped to 0.69 percent (April) and 0.64 percent (May), according to FMCSA’s figures.

June 25, 2018

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Rand McNally releases 2019 Motor Carriers’ Road Atlas

The new edition of the atlas is available in paperback; paperback with spiral binding and laminated pages; and spiral-bound, laminated paperback with larger print.

June 25, 2018

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Overdrive Radio

Mailbag round on the One20 F-ELD’s demise; freight-partnership talk with a West Coast produce broker

Overdrive Radio's podcast covers One20 F-ELD's demise, Pam Young & Company's produce brokerage business in California, business relationships, and more

June 22, 2018

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DOT blasts Overdrive's reporting on 'sham' CDL school reinstatements

Class A ELDT theory course promotion offering 3-hour CDLs training for $23, reduced from $65, with enroll button

White House's AI-powered CDL-mill purge is going down in flames

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The ultimate Christmas present: A.J. Field's 1969 Peterbilt 358

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Truck driver petitions FMCSA for mandatory CO detectors after deaths

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

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