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‘The Homeless Ain’t Just Hobos Anymore’: More from trucker-songwriter Will Beeley via NPR
Trucker-songwriter Will Beeley’s new “Highways and Heart Attacks” record featured with an interview on NPR, and: The beginnings of a new “Music to Truck By” playlist via Spotify.
July 16, 2019
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Sliding trailer tandems sticking? Pack wheel chocks in the side box (or elsewhere)
Do you carry a set of chocks? Though they haven’t been required equipment for most truckers for years, plenty pullers still carry a set — or a four-by-four or other alternative — for this and other purposes.
July 15, 2019
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A Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business
Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of the perhaps No. 1 reason owner-ops go out business — that’s a major mechanical failure, of course.
July 11, 2019
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Speed limiters: Senate bill to mandate a 65 mph setting a ‘terrible idea’
Voices on the Senate bill from a Georgia Republican that would mandate a 65 mph speed setting for trucks capable of it. And more on the ‘careful what you wish for’ dynamics in regulatory change.
July 10, 2019
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Round-up: Words of trucking-newbie and back-on-the-right-path encouragment
Near-50-year trucking veteran Bob Miller offers Independence Day encouragement for the rookies out there — “America depends on you” — and a prison CDL schoolteacher and inmate narrates his turn back to the right path by helping others.
July 8, 2019
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Martinez heard the message — +flexibility — now will his agency deliver?
To cap the week, here’s a celebration of the spirit of a system in which we can all at least participate by speaking freely. Views on and hopes for the impending hours revision hammer home the central message of a majority of haulers. In the words of one reader: “Quit stalling. Get some relief for us.”
July 5, 2019
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Crash data before and after the Ontario province’s speed limiter mandate
Detail on a 2017-completed Ontario Ministry of Transport analysis of some crash metrics pre- and post- its 2009 speed limiter mandate. Bottom line: some food for thought as you consider whether to take concerns to your reps with the recent U.S. Senate bill that would mandate a 65-mph speed setting.
July 2, 2019
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Shout to a stop: Crater Lake Junction in Chiloquin, Ore.
“Back at it for a Monday and thankful for the kindness of strangers at the Crater Lake Junction Travel Center in rural Chiloquin, Oregon. If you run U.S. 97 north-south through Oregon and need a stop in the vicinity, make it here. And tell ’em thanks again for me.” Here’s why.
July 1, 2019
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Resurgent rebellion against the prospect of CSA scores returning to public view
A loose coalition of groups such as the Motor Carriers for Regulatory Reform, the ASECTT group, NASTC and many others have been the most vocal speaking out against the draft language in a DOT funding bill in the House to return CSA SMS scores to public view.
June 19, 2019
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2018 talent-search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro’s new CD/digital EP
Owner-operator Mandi Jo Pinheiro, in a team with her husband, William, distinguishes herself yet again with a four-song CD EP and three-song digital version that’s out and available as of this past weekend.
June 17, 2019
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‘The sun will hunt you down’ in the truck: Joe Jolly on skin cancer risk
58-year-old Joe Jolly, following removal of a small spot of an aggressive type of skin cancer from his upper lip, offers a word of caution for younger drivers. Anything you can do to protect yourself from damaging ultraviolet radiation while trucking over the road today will pay dividends in later years.
June 14, 2019
Channel 19
AOBRD to ELD deadline near yearend: Switch not always easy as it might seem
Contrary to what some legacy e-log providers told us ahead of the mandate about updating then-current equipment to comply with the ELD spec, this small fleet safety director found that simple over-the-air software updates haven’t been able to do the trick, for several reasons.
June 13, 2019
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If your ELD goes down, go to paper, or … ELS, anyone?
What are your options in the event of ELD malfunction? Amid an outage of Rand McNally devices, here's what regs require and FMCSA allows -- not just paper.
June 11, 2019
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‘Over the Road’ — Paul Marhoefer back with new track in Muscle Shoals
Video: Scenes from another recording session with our own Overdrive Extra contributing writer and Moeller Trucking driver Paul Marhoefer. This particular session took place back at the Music Shoals Music studio of Donnie and Jan Gullett in Tuscumbia, Ala.
June 7, 2019
Channel 19
Over-reliance on GPS leads to ….
We’ve all heard the stories of trucks stuck on pedestrian bridges, old covered bridges, cowpaths, logging roads to nowhere … but a British author recently threw down a new marker for where humanity’s over-reliance on turn-by-turn navigation might be leading. There’s good news for most truckers, too …
June 6, 2019
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Time and cost, redux: Where the owner-op is the smartest guy — in a roomful of carrier execs
So, what is your time worth? Turns out, it’s likely a lot more owner-operators have a clear sense of that than fleet execs when it comes to the trucking business.
June 4, 2019
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‘Tennessee Alabama Fireworks’: The new record from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Boo Ray
Latest on Overdrive Radio: Ride along with Ray on a tour through his latest, named after a familiar site on I-24 anyone who’s run west from Chattanooga will recognize. The record starts with a trio of road songs in which there’s no shortage of mirth, pathos and more.
May 31, 2019
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Market-making: ‘Mustang’ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking
Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: “For this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and I’ll leave right now for you.”
May 29, 2019
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