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Regs relief, autonomous trucking highlight topics for FMCSA committee meeting next month
FMCSA says it’s asking MCSAC for recommendations, related to autonomous vehicles, on CDLs, driver qualifications, ELDs, hours of service and inspection and maintenance and how the agency should navigate those issues, as they pertain to vehicle automation, through the federal regulatory framework.
May 25, 2017
Business
AAA projects most Memorial Day travelers since 2005
Of the 39.3 million expected travelers, AAA says 34.6 million of them (88.1 percent) will be on the nation’s roads, despite a two-year high in gas prices.
May 25, 2017
Custom Rigs
1977 KW’s first run in 29 years
Restoring a rig with some history — Bryan DeKock and the 1977 Kenworth W9 that inspired the mural on the old Monteagle Truck Stop, debuting this week at the ATHS national convention in Des Moines.
May 25, 2017
Business
Daseke awarding truckers with company stock
The company will award approximately 2,100 drivers and 800 other employees who are employed by Daseke companies and who were with a Daseke company in 2016 with the stock grants.
May 25, 2017
Business
GoLoad service coming in July
GoLoad, a partnership between TMS provider Cloud Logistics and ELD provider Konexial, is a load matching service connecting the power of a networked transportation solution to drivers’ smartphones and helping bring any shipper’s TMS and freight into the network.
May 25, 2017
Business
Penske opens new facility in Lafayette, La.
The new facility offers three service bays, a wash bay and a diesel fuel island.
May 25, 2017
Business
Spot market: Van rates get a penny back, reefer demand shifts slightly north, west
Reefer activity has slowed in Southern Florida, while demand for reefer trucks has picked up farther west, but in North-Central Florida, the Lakeland area is still No. 2 for reefer load posts on DAT load boards. Van load-to-truck nationally inches toward 4, where it really starts to favor carriers.
May 25, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful winner a mentor for young women, girls
Trucker Stephanie Klang says the financial stability and independence she’s enjoyed through her CFI career is a common theme when she speaks to Girl Scouts and other student groups. She wants young girls to see an example of a woman succeeding in what some still consider a man’s world.
May 24, 2017
Voices
Majority of drivers are opposed to federal approval for hair-sample testing for drugs
While such testing has long been sought by a variety of mostly large carrier interests, a slight majority of Overdrive readers oppose the move to hair testing, objecting to the privacy intrusion they believe it represents.
May 24, 2017
Business
Be wary of increased cargo theft activity during Memorial Day weekend, firm says
SensiGuard says cargo theft rings will be “extremely active” over the next few days with more shipments being left unattended for extended periods of time, adding it has recorded theft levels up to 50 percent higher during holiday weekends.
May 24, 2017
Truck Stops
Sapp Bros. opens 17th travel center
The Harrisonville, Mo., store features a Dunkin Donuts restaurant with a drive-thru, an Apple Barrel restaurant, five showers, scales, a truck repair center and more.
May 24, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Partners in Business podcast: Managing your fuel costs
This installment of Overdrive’s Partners in Business covers how to control fuel costs. That includes minimizing fuel consumption, getting a fair fuel surcharge and choosing where to buy fue
May 24, 2017
Business
Five-year overhaul, comin’ right up
“Well folks, the shark bite-Frankenstein hand is shot again. It’s time for my five-year overhaul, and I really wouldn’t mention it [but] I feel like I should probably explain why I appear to be giving the finger to the entire world, 24/7, just in case photos surface.”
May 24, 2017
Business
Trump budget: More tolls and private rest areas, less money for DOT
Trump’s budget would open up existing Interstate lanes to tolling, allow private companies to operate rest areas and slash the DOT budget over the next five years.
May 23, 2017
Business
California trucker to serve nearly 4 years in prison after being caught with 44 pounds of cocaine
During a traffic stop, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers found 10 vacuum-wrapped packages containing 44 pounds of cocaine hidden in the reefer unit on the trailer.
May 23, 2017
Channel 19
Shot in the arm for the ELD fight: Mr. Justice joins Mr. Reed, others with sights on D.C.
Trucker-songwriter Tony Justice taking active role in spurring unity around opposition to the ELD mandate — meanwhile, Scott Reed, Justice and others have set their sights on the first couple weeks of October for potential demonstration in D.C.
May 23, 2017
Business
Two weeks left to prepare for CVSA’s Roadcheck inspection blitz
Inspectors will primarily be conducting CVSA Level I inspections, the most thorough inspection, throughout the three-day event. While cargo securement is a typical part of a Level I inspection, enforcement officials will be taking a closer look during Roadcheck.
May 23, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
KeepTruckin gets $18M infusion
The infusion of venture-capital cash will allow the company, started as a smartphone-based logging platform in 2013, to take its current electronic logging device and small fleet management platform into new areas, including freight matching.
May 23, 2017
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