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Will FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez thread the needle toward hours change?
Colleagues James Jaillet and Davis Hollis joined me for this special edition Overdrive Radio podcast about their interview of FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez at MATS. Full audio of that interview is included, with further thoughts on hours-change potential in light of recent Congressional moves to grease the skids for it, so to speak, on tap for withdrawal, according to aides. ā¦
April 26, 2018
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Another Kentucky-coal trucks tribute, this one in 3rd-grade elementary school parody video
It looks to be an NJL Trucking rig in this now-viral vid by Pike County, Ky., 3rd-grade students, put together as part of a grade-wide project with teacher Erica Rowe, a parody project after Taylor Swiftās āShake It Offā called āMine the Coalā.
April 25, 2018
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Monday news-flash round-up: Inspector enjoys job, moose in Yukon loves Tennessee football
Is the reality that a truck-enforcement-dedicated trooper actually enjoys the interaction-with-truckers aspect of his job truly headline worthy? And: a couple shots along the way to Alaska with owner-op Jerry Boyd and his partner haulers on a military load.
April 23, 2018
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Making more of that Alaska plate with Bennett-leased owner-ops, take two
Turns out the opportunity to make the most of the plate registration fee did arise for owner-operator Jerry Boyd before the registration period runs out this summer. He and fellow Bennett Motor Extpress owner-op Carl Lawrence, as well as another hauler, embarked from Oak Harbor, Wash., bound for Fairbanks on Thursday.
April 21, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Donāt have to be a āone-and-doneā: Know your customer to survive/thrive in the first year with carrier authority
For most new independent owner-ops, emphasizes Kevin Rutherford in this edition of Overdrive Radio, the customer (fundamentally the entity that pays your business for its service) is one, a few or several brokers. Too many owner-ops fail to see or treat their brokers like a customer, without which failure is any businessā destiny. And: A view from the other side with small broker Al Zellmer.
April 20, 2018
Custom Rigs
āBlackGoldā scale memorial Mack, Cecil Spurlockās son and familyās tribute to the Kentucky coal hauler
The 1/25th scale model of Spurlockās 1981 Mack DM 800 coal hauler is their way of honoring his legacy. When Spurlock passed in 2012, says his son David, he was buried āwith his Mack cap on his head, and a coal miner on his grave stone with a pick and shovel on his shoulder, showing where he came from.ā
April 19, 2018
Custom Rigs
āGold trucksā shined up, back on the haul
Why had it been so long since Iād heard from TMOG, LLC (thatās for āThese Trucks Are Made of Goldā)Ā independent owner-operator Howard Salmon? Turns out, heād been off the road the last four months or so putting plenty of work into his vintage 1999 Kenworth W900.
April 17, 2018
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Trucker Eugene Leptienās custom-designed X50 flag mounts for trucks and more
Designed by a trucker in part for truckers, the X50 company has flag mounts for both trucks (on West Coast mirrors) and motorcycles (a two-piece mount, and the source for the majority of X50ās orders to date), among other vehicles.
April 16, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Amazon: The 800-pound gorilla still in need of a few good lumpers
This weekās Overdrive Radio podcast edition tells the story of an Amazon load hauled by Gary and Ondena Caraway, whose fine print said 12-48 hours would be required for unload at the Edwardsville, Ill., facility. When that 48 hours turned into a weekā¦. Well, letās just say they were not happy indeedā¦.
April 12, 2018
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Rise of the āshipper of choiceā phrase, particularly when it involves truck parking
In addition to the case of shipper Unileverās Newville, Pa., facility, which I wrote briefly about last week, there are plenty other shippers and receivers who do make parking options available to drivers when space allows. At once, theyāre hardly the norm, yet attention to parking issues is growing in the ELD mandateās wake.
April 11, 2018
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Working remotely as an owner-operator ā autonomous remote-pilot test driver profiled
Ex-owner-op Jeff Runions today is working as a ātest driverā for the San Francisco-based Starsky Robotics tech start-up, whose remote-pilot exploits in the āautonomous trucksā realm have made news in recent months.
April 9, 2018
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Truckers engage with FMCSA, work on follow-on petition for hours change to allow more sleeper splits
Remember that recently invoked saying about squeaky wheels? Some good emerged from the MATS session on hours that went off the rails, as several truckers pivoted with outreach to FMCSA, planning and taking part in meeting with officials about hours of service revision potential.
April 6, 2018
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Novel ābest practicesā parking examples data collection under way
A new effort from a working group within the National Coalition on Truck Parking needs your help to identify novel parking solutions in order that states, municipalities and private entities not always seen as truck-parking providers might implement them.
April 5, 2018
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Owner-operator and Highway Hero finalist Brian Bucenell ends a police chase
The trailer and tires got a scratch, the custom power unit was untouched, and the officers Bucenell helped obliged him with a clean white-glove Level 1 inspection just after. As he told Movinā Outās Steve Pollock, āThe DOT officer did me a favor, U.S. Bulk gives us a $200 bonus for each clean Level 1 inspection.ā
April 3, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Parking, ELDs, advocacy, self-insurance (ālevel the playing field,ā anyone?) and more with Tilden Curl
This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features a talk with owner-operator Tilden Curl, who believes removal of the self-insurance option for motor carriers might, ādare I say it, ālevel the playing fieldā,ā he says, when it comes to the price put on risk in underwriting standards put on carriers of all sizes, with numerous implicationsā¦
March 30, 2018
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How to blow the whistle on problem shippers/receivers when delays force violations
A way to hold shippers and receivers accountable for delaying you into an hours violation that will require drivers doing something that hasnāt exactly been easy for a fed-up group of late: working with the DOT and FMCSA. (And FMCSA holding to their part of the bargain.)
March 29, 2018
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Monday round-up: MATS hours session descends to chaos, truckers plan D.C. return
Chaos mars a Mid-America hours of service seminar conducted by FMCSA as anti-regulatory emotion boils over; and some of those participating, among others, plan to return to D.C. for demonstrations beginning April 9.
March 26, 2018
Custom Rigs
Introducing the Parkersā Coronado ā and rat ā retooled; and more scenes from MATS
George and Wendy Parkerās 2004 Freightliner Coronado debuts after 4 State Trucksā treatment, scenes from the active Pavilion, outtakes from seminars on trucking for profit, music and more scenes from MATS 2018.
March 23, 2018
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