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Mailbag: Split sleeper-berth option high on haulersâ hours wish list
The large majority of reader respondents youâll hear in this mailbag edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast took the notion of a pause button for the 14-hour rule farther. Itâs split rest, or split sleeper berth period flexibility, that most want,
February 17, 2018
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Let the 14-hour conversations ⌠begin?
âContinueâ rather than âbeginâ is probably the best word to describe whatâs been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDAâs lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.
February 15, 2018
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â100 percent OKâ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
âDonât leave money on the table,â redux â that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your businessâ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
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BigRigTravels.com turns 10: A talk with Stephen Michaels, long-haul proprietor
In this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, Stephen Michaels talks about his informal ambassadorship from the trucking world to the motoring public via his BigRigTravels.com live-feed webcam, which has yielded plenty individual dividends in motorist education and a turn in the perception of trucking.
February 9, 2018
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Mintu Pandherâs small fleet success in fuel hauling, truck-stop ownership
Small fleet owner Mintu Pandher, who came to the U.S. with his parents in 1999, followed the growth in oil drilling into independence as an owner-operator. His Akal Energy small fleet grew fairly quickly over several years with contracts with some fuel providers, running out of Laramie, Wyo.
February 8, 2018
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Independence basics: Binda Atwalâs attractions to trucking
Itâs the income possibilities owner-operator Binda Atwal names as his principal attraction to trucking, for his young family â Atwal and his wife are the proud parents of two children, a four- and one-year-old.
February 7, 2018
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Round-up: Best safety device â you; Answering an ELD-exemption question
No safety tech can be an effective substitute for the ship captain: âNo matter how fancy [your truck], no matter how new, the best safety device in your truck is you.â âReader Paul Maine ALSO: Isolated farm-equipment haul prompts ELD mandate question.
February 5, 2018
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A corrective to âbubble-wrappedâ driving syndrome
A tip from Mustangâs Trucking â donât try to read a book while going down the road â applicable whether your truck is âbubble-wrappedâ with auto-braking and lane-departure-warning tech or not âŚ
February 2, 2018
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Cooking in-cab: A few slow-cooker recipes to get you running
Herein a few âwinter warmersâ from the folks at the RoadPro family of brands, whose products include a slow cooker that will operate on 12-volt power in-cab â running with an inverter, other slow cookers are possible. Any in-cab cookers here? Share your tips with those new to the art.
January 30, 2018
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Grassroots advocacy, redux â more on last weekâs meetings in Congressional offices
Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruz, attended by truckers from different groups and locales â he urges drivers to do similar: âGo talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.â
January 27, 2018
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Profit â what this trucking thing is all about: A new, simple freight-bid calculator app
In the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet owner Scott Jordan intros the ICG ProfitCalc app for Android/iOS, a freight bidding app that allows users to input their own annual cost projections as a benchmark for load-by-load rate calculations, per-mile and per-hour, to ensure a chosen profit margin.
January 25, 2018
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Leaked Trump infrastructure plan heralds tolls to come; Tesla âAutopilotâ â itâs happened again
More tales of tolls told in infrastructure priorities from a U.S. administration, and opposition quick to howl. Plus: More mishaps emerging from not-so-aptly-named Tesla âAutopilotâ feature in carsâŚ
January 23, 2018
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Grassroots efforts continue around ELD mandate, hours of service flexibility
Wednesday, January 17, a group of truckers took a meeting with United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to press concerns over the Department of Transportationâs electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.
January 19, 2018
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How do you prevent cracks in your convex mirrors?
Cold-weather issues, take one. Enquiring minds among readers want to know:Â âI have had my convex mirrors crack in the wintertime more than once and was wondering if I am the only one and what people have found to stop it.â
January 18, 2018
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âShould have planned betterâ only goes so far when road realities are at play
As so many owner-operators have noted in past, âplanning betterâ will only get you so far when it comes to ELDs, a 14-hour rule with rigid ends and little opportunity to extend it or stop it for mid-period rest. Owner-operator Mark Kirbyson, in this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, concurs wholeheartedly.
January 16, 2018
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âHereâs to causing a crisisâ: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, whoâs closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour ruleâs inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
January 12, 2018
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Blockchain âimmutable distributed public ledgerâ technology: Makes sense, right?
A late-night-comedy send-up of Bitcoin investment (made possible by âblockchainâ network architecture) exaggerates divergent reactions similar to those that follow the notion of automated trucking-business-info sharing in other envisioned blockchains â from affirmative head nods to âare you insane?â incredulity ⌠.
January 10, 2018
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New vid from âLong haul Paulâ Marhoefer
Marhoeferâs âOdious Death of the Cracker Kingâ tells the story of a fictional character in the title, which the trucker-songwriter describes as something of a composite of two men heâd known long ago, the âsons of outlaw bull haulersâ both, plus a little of that mythic dirge treatment Marhoeferâs a master of.
January 6, 2018
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