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Channel 19
Hazmat tank owner-op Bill Weaver’s ‘Number Three’ delivered as promised; batting, and battling, with giants
It’s a new day, and a new record, for liquid bulk tank-hauling owner-operator Bill Weaver with his “Number Three.” And: Update on owner-operator Howard Salmon, who’s thankful for support he’s felt from the trucking community as his son battles cancer, and bats a bit with a few local MLB pitchers.
February 11, 2020
Channel 19
Owner-op Rob Goodwin sees utility in no-broker, shipper-carrier connection platform RiteLoad
Owner-operator Rob Goodwin lauds growth in freight volumes and consistency in the shipper-carrier connection platform Riteload.
February 7, 2020
Channel 19
#TimberUnity convoys converge in Oregon capitol to protest cap and trade legislation
With the Oregon State Legislature reintroducing cap and trade legislation, the #TimberUnity group plans return to Salem while the legislature is in session.
February 5, 2020
Pride & Polish
House of BlackOut: Update from Chuck Timbrook and his 1999 veterans-support custom Freightliner
With his health up and down and funding uneven, the Christmas-parade season was truncated a bit this past year for Chuck Timbrook, owner-operator of the 1999 Freightliner Classic that is the Black Out vets-support rig. He continues, though, to make plans for the remainder of the year with hopes to be back on track.
February 4, 2020
Overdrive Radio
$50 and a little install work could save your life: Trucker Scott Carlson’s close call
Carlson has been trucking with Regal Services 17 years and keeps a carbon monoxide detector in his truck. Find out why in this Overdrive Radio podcast.
January 31, 2020
Channel 19
1099 company drivers? Don’t need an ‘ABC test’ for that
Want to cut the skirting of self-employment tax, enhance employee protections offered by workers comp and unemployment insurance required of most bona fide employers? Enforcing previous, more nuanced independent contractor tests on the books should do that job just as well as any so-called ‘ABC test.’
January 29, 2020
Channel 19
A special request in a time of need
With a terminal cancer diagnosis faced by his four-year-old son, an old friend asks for prayers, well-wishes from the driving community.
January 28, 2020
Overdrive Radio
How former heavy-haul owner-op and current fuel hauler Lonnie Laurie became the sometime ‘one-armed bandit’
Listen as Lonnie Laurie, sometimes dubbed the 'one-armed bandit,' recalls life as a heavy-haul owner-operator and more in this week's Overdrive Radio podcast.
January 24, 2020
Channel 19
Freight market reality check: ‘It’s just terrible’
What it feels like right now for a couple readers where the 22.5s (or 24.5s) meet the pavement, and underscored by long-range analysis in the newly released quarterly U.S. Bank Freight Index report, showing the decline in volume and overall freight spending in the last quarter.
January 22, 2020
Channel 19
TxDOT looking for input from truckers on amenities, staging areas as parking facilities
TxDOT is circulating a new survey looking for truckers’ input on public parking-facility amenities as well as preferences as they might relate to staging areas while waiting for an appointment nearby — both were big parts of the discussion of parking issues with TxDOT in our GATS roundtable last year.
January 21, 2020
Channel 19
Cost of truck financing has risen, even as owner-operator credit scores show improvement
Credit-score polling showed some improvement for owner-ops over five years, yet the hesitancy to extend various forms of credit at lower rates has grown most in recent years for new carriers with authority “and 1-3-truck operators, regardless of their credit score.” For all with three trucks or less, it’s gotten more expensive to borrow money.
January 17, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Truckers together in pursuit of victory over child abuse with ATTACA
The notion in the headline here is, at least, the goal of Western Flyer Express founder Rodney Timms, based in Oklahoma and also the founder of the All Truckers Together Against Child Abuse (ATTACA) org. In this week’s edition of Overdrive Radio, find Timms’ impassioned plea to the trucking community to join him.
January 15, 2020
Channel 19
New record due Jan. 20 from Jason Lee Wilson & James County: Pre-order proceeds to benefit Australian firefighting, recovery efforts
Scenes from the Friday evening packed house in Monteagle, Tenn., for former Trucker Talent Search winner (2016) Jason Lee Wilson’s performance with his James County group. Wilson and company are donating preorder proceeds from a new record to benefit Australian wildfire relief efforts through Jan. 20.
January 13, 2020
Pride & Polish
California-reared HHG hauler keeps legacy of father, Don Morgan, alive with this T600
It’s a sharp truck, this 1992 Kenworth T600, Detroit 60 Series-powered and with a 149-inch ICT sleeper owner-operator Montgomery Morgan’s father, Don Morgan, had put on when the rig was new. Since Don passed in 2001, his son’s kept the rig working hard, despite his native California’s outlawing it some years back.
January 10, 2020
Channel 19
2020 income outlook: Owner-operators trend optimistic for the year ahead
Believe it or not, as it were — there were, however, a variety of shrugs and SMHs to the annual question on business income outlook for the new year this time around social media. Polling results, however, showed much more of an “it’s got to be better than last year” dynamic than results this time in 2019.
January 9, 2020
Channel 19
One independent’s clearinghouse registration difficulties — and new Pete powering the business
Joe Bielucki on his 2020 Pete 567 and the mistaken impression he and others were under that the January 6 implementation of the drug and alcohol clearinghouse requirements represented a kind of deadline for registering an account as a carrier. Meanwhile, issues continue with the clearinghouse website, particularly for carriers querying it for hiring purposes.
January 8, 2020
Overdrive Radio
‘Autonomy’ for whom? The independent owner-operator and tech skeptic featured in new film
In this Overdrive Radio edition, count Debbie Desiderato among technology skeptics when it comes to the choice our society is likely to be presented eventually in some form — whether to fully accept high-speed vehicles on public roads without an operator capable of reason and judgment behind the wheel.
January 7, 2020
Channel 19
A little piece of inspiration for a ‘new me’ — or an old me made new, as the case may be
Got those new year’s resolutions in the hopper, drivah? Well, CoachCarolyn O’Byrne wants you to grab hold of this idea: “Every day is a new day, and an opportunity to … commit to improvement.” She offered this guest post as a bit of extra inspiration, and a poem. Here’s a Happy New Year to all of you.
December 31, 2019
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