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Channel 19
A case for manual shifting, for less (not more) automation, for engagement on the long road
The incremental additions of automated features at highway speeds is ultimately an experiment with how much distraction the human brain can resist before it falls asleep at the wheel. Vehicle makers new and old, and end users, would do well to recognize and take very seriously the implications.
April 18, 2019
Channel 19
How to outfit a cargo van for expediting driver comfort on the road
West Michigan Expedite small fleet owner Steve McNeal outlines a set of cargo-van-hauling basics he prefaces by noting there are many ways to upfit a cargo van. Here, he’s focused on ways to combat what is an essential issue for drivers of vans in expediting — comfort on any layover away from home.
April 16, 2019
Pride & Polish
Halvor Lines’ 50th-anniversary 1974 Peterbilt 352, rescued and restored
The story behind the 1974 Peterbilt 352 of Halvor Lines of Superior, Wis., a special restoration project cabover that hauled for Halvor in its first decade, finished just in time for Christmas last year and the final month of Halvor’s 50th-anniversary year,
April 15, 2019
Channel 19
Introducing former trucker Sean Whiting and his new ‘High Expectations’ album
The first single for the record, too, is available to hear — “Melody” presents an apt extended metaphor for where its songwriter is today in music after a decade and a half behind the wheel. Listen here.
April 11, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Lights-out at MATS, and: You’re the parking expert ‘where you live and where you truck to’
Former owner-op Scott Grenerth introduces parking-info/reservation site RigRest.com, talks ongoing work with National Coalition on Truck Parking, in this episode of Overdrive Radio; Also: The moment the lights went at MATS just ahead of Secretary Chao’s speech on hours reform, captured for eternity …
April 5, 2019
Channel 19
‘The Stoop’ family moves at MATS in feeding-the-homeless initiative
If things proceed according to plans being laid currently, the Stoop’s “Truckers Feeding the Homeless” initiative hopes to go even bigger at the Great American Trucking Show in August. At MATS, says Fredrick “Choice M.A.S.” Claxton, the group distributed 300-plus meals.
April 4, 2019
Pride & Polish
Ohio-based bulk asphalt hauler J.D. Howard’s custom 1995 KW W900L, with an older A-model feel
VIDEO: In addition to a down-to-the-frame refurbishment of many of the mechanical components of the truck, Howard invested in Jones Performance’s older A-model-style hood for the W900L and an 66-inch ICT flattop sleeper built to resemble a classic Double Eagle-style model, giving the rig an overall retro feel.
April 2, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Why pick a fight with the air? And: Downtime for the spot market 3 o’clock hustle
This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast comes as MATS continues in Louisville, with conversations with two owner-ops showing commonality between them in a willingness to be the contrarian in this loud age, on a variety of things — Chad Boblett and Henry Albert, on rates, ELDs, aerodynamics and more.
March 29, 2019
Channel 19
From within or without? — pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate
Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations — hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those “equal and opposite reactions.” Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: “The pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.”
March 28, 2019
Channel 19
‘Why I wanna drive’ — rookie CDL holder braces for new journey pulling tank
See you at MATS, drivah! Herein, a guest post on Channel 19 from second-career trucker Robin Toepp of South Bend, Ind., about her motivations to move beyond straight-truck hauling to get her CDL and go tanking over-the-road.
March 26, 2019
Overdrive Radio
In love with trucking: Talent search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro from Nashville studio
Latest Overdrive Radio podcast: A sitdown with (and series of music sketches from) 2018 Trucker Talent Search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro, also her father, Urban Roger Brown, on hand in Nashville for the recording session that was part of the TTS grand prize.
March 22, 2019
Channel 19
CARB dismantled my truck, now it’s hauling around Mexico
That was the case after a truck owner participated in California’s Prop 1B grant program for truck replacement. After his truck was dismantled, a GPS unit that had been inadvertently left hardwired behind the dash reported years’ worth of positions at work south of the border in Jalisco.
March 21, 2019
Channel 19
Got room on the trailer? Driver-led group looking to coordinate available space for disaster relief
The Trucks With Room to Spare group was started at the instigation of Greenup, Kentucky-based trucker Shelli Conaway’s desire to assist areas hit by Hurricane Michael in Florida, an area she hauled to at the time. Toady, they’re attempting to coordinate donated hauling with relief organizations in the flooded Midwest…
March 20, 2019
Channel 19
Dealing with DEF quality: Certification program turns 10, amid continued assurance work
Issues that can arise with out-of-spec diesel exhaust fluid include the perhaps most obvious one — improper urea concentration, which at a drastic-enough level can trigger derating of the engine. Other issues can include expensive repairs.
March 19, 2019
Overdrive Radio
90-plus-inch double-bunk sleeper in a cargo van? You bet
Cargo-van owner-operators Darren and Trish Ayres, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, haul in the CDL-required hazmat military-freight niche, and worked with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Fastlane Products to build a unique sleeper set-up in their Mercedes Sprinter van. Also: More onerous inspection practices that could use discouragement.
March 15, 2019
Channel 19
New onboard scale interfaces with driver smartphones
Blue Ink Tech’s new “Air Scale” is of a piece with the company’s mission to help combat, by elimination of, the variety of “interruptions that drivers face on a daily basis” that suck time and money from their businesses.
March 13, 2019
Channel 19
Credit where it’s deserved: Motorist says she’s alive today on account of a few good pros
Herewith one motorist who knows what it means to share the road. Two professional drivers’ training and composure “may be the reason I am alive,” wrote a reader of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, lauding the swift thinking and reaction of the pros.
March 12, 2019
Overdrive Radio
1970s, 2010s trucking parallels, and: Hauling away (or into) the headaches with a cargo van
In this edition of Overdrive Radio find audio from part of Max Heine’s talk with John Strong about his memories of the 1970s and beyond, and more from my own sit-down with Load One’s John Elliott, about headache boxes checked by the cargo van hauling niche in expediting — not without its significant challenges…
March 8, 2019
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