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Business
Celadon, facing $10 million operating loss, wants to scale back reliance on owner-operators
About 1,000 owner-operators worked for the company in 2015, according to data from the CCJ Top 250. Celadon said Wednesday it plans to focus less on recruiting and using owner-operators and instead will “emphasize company drivers” in an effort to boost the company’s profitability.
May 4, 2017
Business
California Senate committee hearing will discuss lemon law change proposal to cover trucks May 9
The hearing in Sacramento takes up changes proposed in Senate Bill 713 that would expand California’s lemon law to cover vehicles heavier than 10,000 lbs. and include other modifications relative to business-size exclusions for the owners of such vehicles, mileage limitations and more.
May 4, 2017
Business
ATRI research goals for ’17 include hours flexibility, autonomous trucks, cost of regs
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) plans to examine distracted driving, hours or service flexibility, the impact of trucking regulations and more in 2017.
May 4, 2017
Channel 19
Readers offer 14-hour fixes with pay for time, hours revisions, more
Following my post Friday last week about part of the two days I spent running with Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed, readers responded in numbers with 14-hour fix suggestions. Among them was Gary Carlisle, increasingly outspoken advocate for change …
May 4, 2017
Business
‘Queen of the Road’ award winners ‘Bitzy’ Gomez, Dee Sova, Daisey Delaney and others
The Real Women in Trucking nonprofit advocacy organization named its first annual Queen of the Road award winners following a recognition ceremony, Among them was a posthumously-delivered honor to Andriesue “Bitzy” Gomez, a trailblazing female driver from the 1970s on. Gomez passed away in 2015.
May 3, 2017
Business
Knight-Swift merger cleared by FTC
The FTC has granted approval to the merger of two of the country’s largest truckload carriers, Knight Transportation and Swift Transportation. The merger, which will create a truckload giant made up of about 30,000 power units, was announced last month, with the deal expected to close sometime this summer.
May 3, 2017
Business
Van rates edge up nationally, reefer freight moving out of growing areas to the South
DAT’s Ken Harper notes the freight-volume picture was more or less the same as in March to close out the month. The final week of April, “we had expected a bigger bump with the usual end-of-month inventories being cleared, but the bump didn’t happen,” Harper says.
May 3, 2017
Business
Tesla rendering teases electric big rig
“It’s meant to alleviate the heavy-duty trucking loads,” says Tesla’s Elon Musk. “This is something which people do not today think is possible. The think the truck doesn’t have enough power or it doesn’t have enough range. With the Tesla semi, we want to show than an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi.”
May 3, 2017
Business
Livin’ on potato time
“You could put 40 clocks and 25 cameras inside of every single commercial vehicle on the road, and those items would not prevent accidents.” More on the push for so-called “safety” devices from on high …
May 3, 2017
Gear
Maven Machines’ Bluetooth-ready safety earbud
Maven Machines’ Co-Pilot SE Smart Earbud is a slim Bluetooth-ready in-ear driver safety headset designed to provide real-time fatigue and distraction monitoring. The device weighs 0.5 ounces and has a connection manager engineered to pair to a phone or ta
May 2, 2017
Channel 19
Who gets your vote for best truck stop ever?
A new Truck World on I-76 in North Jackson, Ohio, Trucker Path’s top 10 truck stops by user rating (including 8 independents) and a question: What’s your favorite truck stop out there? Who’s doing it right?
May 2, 2017
Truck Stops
Texas Chevron takes No. 1 truck stop title in Trucker Path app
Trucker Path has named its top 100 truck stops in America for 2017, based on criteria like truck parking, quality of food options, cleanliness, diesel prices and amenities like showers, laundry, repair services, ATMs, WiFi and more.
May 2, 2017
Business
Rand McNally’s new multifunction tablet combines GPS, dashcam and more in one package
Rand McNally’s new dashboard device combines truck-specific navigation, an on-board SiriusXM radio, voice assistance, a built-in dashcam and hands-free calling and texting.
May 2, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
EZ-ELD from Stoneridge launched
The Stoneridge BYOD-style EZ-ELD costs just $149 for the plug-in hardware, with a $15-a-month software subscription, although savings are available for annual subscriptions at only $150.
May 2, 2017
Voices
Letter to Trump: Parking, 14-hour rule, congestion ever more urgent issues with ELDs
Reader Clifford “Chappy” Petersen’s open letter to Donald Trump ranges through his views on a variety of issues — from parking and congestion to driver pay and more — that he says are set to be further exacerbated by the ELD mandate.
May 2, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Will rates move in a positive or negative direction as a result of the ELD mandate?
What’s your view of the likelihood of a rates impact as a result of the ELD mandate — commentators have been on either side of the issue in recent time, some believing rates will rise, others doubting the projection.
May 1, 2017
Trucker Talent Search
Last chance to enter Overdrive singing contest
Submissions accepted through midnight tonight for the 2017 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio’s Trucker Talent Search.
May 1, 2017
Business
When the table of contents belongs in the back of the book
“If you’d like to have a book you can open anywhere and read for a few minutes, and put down sans bookmark without worrying about losing your place, this is your kind of book. And if that sounds remarkably like a great bathroom book…”
May 1, 2017
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