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Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Overdrive Radio
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Overdrive Radio
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
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
Channel 19
Donât leave money on the table
We are in a freight market owner-operator Gary Buchs believes to be âtotally unpredictableâ at this point, he says. âWeather, plus demandâ generally, âis drivingâ such unpredictability, much of it on the plus side for rate pressure for owner-operators, âthrough the roof.â
January 4, 2018
Channel 19
Lighting Bug system provides back-up for an inoperative headlight
Lighting Bug offers a way to avoid ever running with a headlight out by turning the âhigh-beam side on at the brightness of the low beamâ when the low beam goes dark. Itâs a fairly inexpensive piece of electronics, too, thatâs simple to install.
January 2, 2018
Channel 19
Business outlook trending pessimistic in the new year for owner-operators
And ⌠a few late Christmas wishes from a variety of owner-operators on Overdriveâs Facebook page, with their rigs dressed up for the holiday last week. . .
December 31, 2017
Channel 19
A view on the rise in clean inspections, from a state where theyâre fairly uncommon
In our annual CSAâs Data Trail analysis, Indiana state ranks 10th this year in clean inspections, with less than a third of their total inspections having come out entirely violation-free over the course of calendar year 2016. But look at improvement in truckersâ favor in that metric, and youâll see that Indiana is one of just a few states that improved in that particular metric by more than 50 percent over the preceding year.
December 28, 2017
Channel 19
âE-logs will cure everything, right?â
What they wonât cure, from hours violations incurred while passing full truck stop after full truck stop to overheated communication with inspectors to the sense of pride most longtime truckers take in their professional record. Also: ELD-specific enforcement update, OOIDA portal for any tickets received.
December 22, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Brave new trucking world: Talking ELD angst, adjustment with Gary Buchs; plus Wes Memphisâ latest
Owner-operator Gary Buchs: Trucking âdidnât dieâ on December 18. âIt just changed, and with every change thereâs opportunity.â This Overdrive Radio edition runs through what the Landstar-leased owner-operator feels could be effective owner-operator strategy in the weeks and months ahead.
December 19, 2017
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