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Van rates, flatbed demand close 2017 strong on spot market
“Something of a perfect storm” closed out the last full week of 2017 for van rates. Winter weather, extended vacations over the holidays, end-of-year freight urgency all boosted van rates/demand. Flatbed demand indicators — load-to-truck ratio, primarily — were strong, but rates hadn’t moved.
January 3, 2018
Business
This year’s mammoth Christmas-tree haul to St. Peter’s Square, across the pond
Wonder how the mammoth 82-foot spruce that served as a Christmas tree this year on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican got to its destination? This pictorial, from reps of the Belgian Faymonville trailer manufacturer, tells the story.
January 2, 2018
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January 2, 2018
Channel 19
Lighting Bug system provides back-up for an inoperative headlight
Lighting Bug offers a way to avoid ever running with a headlight out by turning the “high-beam side on at the brightness of the low beam” when the low beam goes dark. It’s a fairly inexpensive piece of electronics, too, that’s simple to install.
January 2, 2018
Business
Motorist engulfed by plastic sheet that flies from dump truck
Minnesota State Police caught the footage on their dashcam — a poor motorist in an SUV whose ride was engulfed by a large plastic sheet while cruising down Highway 53 near the Twin Cities.
January 2, 2018
Business
Unmentioned but not unappreciated
Here’s to those who didn’t make the printed stories of 2017. The people too weird or fleeting to create an entire post around, the folks I probably would have never seen or experienced without travel and trucking, but the very people who make this whole thing interesting …
January 1, 2018
Channel 19
Business outlook trending pessimistic in the new year for owner-operators
And … a few late Christmas wishes from a variety of owner-operators on Overdrive’s Facebook page, with their rigs dressed up for the holiday last week. . .
December 31, 2017
Overdrive Extra
The Year of the ELD: Top trucking trends from 2017 as ELD mandate descended
Coverage of the mandate and its myriad of twists and turns throughout dominated the news cycle in 2017. It also dominated Overdrive’s usual in-depth coverage of the industry. However, a few other key trends emerged too, including regulatory repeals by the Trump Administration, booming rates and the rise of the electric truck. More here…
December 31, 2017
Business
Is it business as usual in the grocery world?
Mixed bag of reports coming from groceries around the country in the middle of this holiday week — are empty shelves a result of the ELD mandate or the “perfect storm” of holiday freight pressures? … A little analysis here, and: What are you seeing?
December 29, 2017
Business
More clean inspections: Enforcement change or improved compliance?
Both enforcement-practice changes and, veteran officers suggest, improved operations on the part of truckers are responsible for clean inspections’ recent rise.
December 29, 2017
Business
Spot market extremely tight, favoring truckers, ahead of Christmas week
A lot of truckers took time off last week ahead of Christmas, which meant there were already fewer trucks on the road. It was also the first week under the electronic logging device mandate, and the combination of the upcoming holiday and new regulations pushed the national load-to-truck ratio for vans up higher than it’s ever been – 10.1 loads per truck.
December 29, 2017
Channel 19
A view on the rise in clean inspections, from a state where they’re fairly uncommon
In our annual CSA’s Data Trail analysis, Indiana state ranks 10th this year in clean inspections, with less than a third of their total inspections having come out entirely violation-free over the course of calendar year 2016. But look at improvement in truckers’ favor in that metric, and you’ll see that Indiana is one of just a few states that improved in that particular metric by more than 50 percent over the preceding year.
December 28, 2017
Business
Many readers feel little change in clean inspections
While more clean inspections overall may well be the reality for inspections recorded in the federal Motor Carrier Management and Information System database, Overdrive’s audience of mostly owner-operators is more skeptical.
December 28, 2017
Business
Things to leave behind in 2017
The phrases “driver shortage,” “level playing field” and a variety of other trucking bugaboos. “Be happy we don’t all ‘get on the same level,’ and quit saying that. …”
December 27, 2017
Business
2017 year in review: A month-by-month look at trucking’s top stories
In addition to ELDs, President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze in January, the permanent removal of the 34-hour restart regulations, the withdrawal of a potential sleep apnea rulemaking and more were some of the most-read stories of the year on Overdrive.
December 27, 2017
Business
A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
Business
CVSA asks for updates to inspection-report processes for the digital age
Many state jurisdictions, CVSA says, ” do not have the manpower to follow up on unreturned inspection reports. For these jurisdictions, the practice of receiving returned inspection reports creates a paperwork burden with no clear value or purpose. Meanwhile, motor carriers spend time and resources certifying, returning and storing inspection reports that are not being used by many of the recipients.”
December 26, 2017
Business
Merry Christmas, feel free to sing along
A merry Christmas from Wendy and the rest of the Parker family.
December 24, 2017
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