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Novel ‘best practices’ parking examples data collection under way
A new effort from a working group within the National Coalition on Truck Parking needs your help to identify novel parking solutions in order that states, municipalities and private entities not always seen as truck-parking providers might implement them.
April 5, 2018
Business
Buyers welcome: The truck purchasing landscape for owner-ops
Economic conditions, tax changes, productivity pressures and equipment improvements have spurred a big increase in truck purchasing by owner-operators and fleets of all sizes.
April 4, 2018
Overdrive Extra
OOIDA’s Todd Spencer talks driver pay, ‘driver shortage’ in live Fox Business segment
In a live segment aired last week on Fox News’ spinoff Fox Business, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Acting President Todd Spencer fielded questions from host Stuart Varney about — what else? — the country’s “serious shortage of truck drivers,” as Varney put it.
April 4, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Fleet requests ELD waiver for Department of Energy loads
According to the notice, in order to haul these loads, electronic tracking of shipments must be disabled “in order to limit identification of the physical location of the shipment.”
April 4, 2018
Business
FMCSA renews exemption to allow one-year learner’s permits in some states
Federal regulations state CLPs should be valid for no more than 180 days. Under this exemption, CLP holders are not required to retake the general or endorsement knowledge tests for the six-month extension as regulations require.
April 4, 2018
Gear
TCS’ garbage truck cab shield cleaner
TCS’ CleanShield is designed to keep garbage truck cab shields from degrading by using a multilayered sandwich of films that adheres to the surface of front-loader cab shields and provides a permanent protective barrier from corrosive agents found on dump
April 4, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ZED Connect sees data products beyond logging via its ELD
In addition to electronic logging, Cummins’ ZED Connect plans to add IFTA reporting (within the coming weeks), as well as the existing Cummins Connective Diagnostic.
April 4, 2018
Business
Melton Truck Lines boosts company driver pay
With the pay increase, student drivers will start at 43 cents-per-mile, while the company’s more experienced drivers will bring in 56 cents-per-mile.
April 4, 2018
Business
Spring has sprung on the spot market
So much for March going out like a lamb. Nationally, the final week of the month featured a 3.5 percent increase in available freight, a 3.1 percent decrease in capacity, and another record high load-to-truck ratio for flatbed freight, and rates continued to rise in the early week.
April 4, 2018
Business
Celadon reveals income likely misreported by $250 million in recent years, stock trading halted
The company is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the discrepancies within filings required of publicly traded companies, as reported by Overdrive in October. The SEC notified Celadon last May that it was at risk of being delisted on the New York Stock Exchange. The company acknowledged Tuesday it likely will not meet the May 2 deadline set by the SEC for reissuing the forms to prevent being delisted.
April 3, 2018
Business
Autonomous trucks, CDL testing, more make ATRI’s top research priorities list
The impact of autonomous technology on truckers, inconsistencies across state lines in CDL testing, assessing the accuracy and consistency of CMV crash reporting and more are top research priorities for the American Transportation Research Institute in 2018.
April 3, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Truckers note business as usual as ELD mandate’s out-of-service enforcement date arrives
The first day of so-called “hard enforcement” of the ELD mandate came and went with little fanfare, coinciding in an interesting quirk of the calendar with both April Fool’s Day and Easter Sunday, the day of the week itself one where truck-enforcement activity is characteristically light.
April 3, 2018
Business
Spring’s onset brings record-high flatbed rates
Flatbed’s strong spring freight season brought with it record-high per-mile rates in March, while van and reefer rates held strong in the month.
April 3, 2018
Overdrive Extra
What is your time worth?
“How many of us, if asked, could accurately quote what our time is worth, per hour, based on actual and complete data? No emotion, no pie in the sky guessing, just the cold hard facts.” Gary Buchs on numbers analysis toward establishing per-hour rates for healthy profit.
April 3, 2018
Channel 19
Owner-operator and Highway Hero finalist Brian Bucenell ends a police chase
The trailer and tires got a scratch, the custom power unit was untouched, and the officers Bucenell helped obliged him with a clean white-glove Level 1 inspection just after. As he told Movin’ Out’s Steve Pollock, “The DOT officer did me a favor, U.S. Bulk gives us a $200 bonus for each clean Level 1 inspection.”
April 3, 2018
Business
Penske Logistics adds driver-facing, road-facing cameras to trucks
The new cameras only record if triggered by an event while the truck is in use. The cameras add to Penske’s existing safety technologies, including backup alarms, collision avoidance and lane departure systems, stability control systems and more.
April 3, 2018
Business
New network for emissions-maintenance service
Clean Diesel Specialists, Inc., a California-based diesel emissions services company, has launched its North American Network of licensed emissions-service centers to provide branded maintenance for the cleaning of diesel particulate filters and diesel oxidation catalysts as well as related and emerging diesel emission components.
April 2, 2018
Business
Blockchain tech could put teeth in detention pay
Enforcement of detention pay through blockchain technology is “a huge way it could affect drivers,” said Dan Pickett, chief data scientist with FreightWaves, a forum for blockchain technology and other freight analytics tools.
April 2, 2018
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