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Voices on the call for a shutdown starting October 3
This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast takes a run through the mailbag following last week’s conversations with organizers of two ELD mandate protest actions set to take place in Washington, D.C., beginning Oct. 3.
September 23, 2017
Custom Rigs
Craig Krumpton’s retirement project 1971 Kenworth W900 and classic 1980s Double Eagle sleeper
Another beauty I came across at the Southern Classic Truck Show, owned by retired Craig Krumpton of West Columbia, S.C. Krumpton picked this 1971 Kenworth W900 in 2008. Its original owner-operator team hauled in it through the mid-1990s, and it still bears their original paint and features in large part.
September 21, 2017
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Working-cabover work in progress: Owner-operator James Ryan’s 1989 Peterbilt 362
The Cummins Big Cam 4-powered 1989 Peterbilt 362 double-bunk cabover you’ll see in this video has been in owner-operator James Ryan’s family for years before he convinced his father, Art Nelson, to sell him the unit. Today, he hauls containers from the Port of Savannah north to Charlotte with it.
September 19, 2017
Overdrive Radio
ELD mandate protest efforts set to stage October 3
Podcast: Two unaffiliated groups — Tony Justice and company’s ELD or Me, and the Texas-headquartered Operation Black and Blue — share details for ELD mandate protests coalescing around a beginning date of October 3.
September 16, 2017
Custom Rigs
Vid: N.C.-based Erick Engbarth’s 2009 KW — bonus ’53 Case tractor in the family a half-century
Independent Erick Engbarth showed his 2009 Kenworth W900 and 2015 Utility dry van alongside his son’s 1953 Case DC farm tractor, fully rehabilitated, at the recent Southern Classic show in N.C. Erick hauls motorcycles and other freigth coast to coast.
September 14, 2017
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Finger on the ELD mandate — good marketing or well over the line?
A reefer trailer advertising an ELD product with a quite actual giant middle finger to the regulation brought a question from a longtime operator about overall driver image. Whatever you think aboout the ELD mandate, are such ads over the line or all in good fun?
September 12, 2017
Custom Rigs
Scenes from Brad Wike’s Southern Classic Truck Show
Famous movie trucks, owner-operator rigs, small fleet flagships, restored gems and more: What it’s all about at Brad Wike’s Southern Classic Truck Show in Lincolnton, N.C.
September 11, 2017
Custom Rigs
Next-generation owner-operator Ethan Madden on the 1984 Peterbilt 359 custom rig he’s spent his teens on
Video: catch a variety of views on 17-year-old Ethan Madden’s custom 1984 Peterbilt 359, a truck that’s passed now through three generations of Texas Maddens to score a second in its Antique class at the GATS Pride & Polish a couple weeks back.
September 7, 2017
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Wisconsin intrastate ELD mandate not adopted, may implement on delayed timeline
The June-published map of states’ adoption plans for the ELD mandate for intrastate operations included Wisconsin on the list of those likely to adopt on the same enforcement timeline as the interstate rule, but reps there now say a delay for intrastate operations is likely.
September 6, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Listen: Richard Woods, Michael Lochmiller, Terrance Mathis in Trucker Talent Search 2017
Bill Weaver and host Tony Justice, too. This Labor Day edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast takes you back through the performances at this year’s Overdrive/Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas.
September 4, 2017
Overdrive Radio
On a Hurricane Harvey relief mission with owner-operator Bill Ater
Landstar-leased owner-operator Bill Ater had his “feet in the starting blocks, hands on the floor” and was “waiting on the starting shot” when we talked Tuesday, August 29, for this Overdrive Radio podcast, staged in South Texas for relief shuttles associated with Hurricane Harvey.
August 31, 2017
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Driver-facing cams an invasion of privacy? Answers at Real Women in Trucking’s GATS legal Q&A
In a word, if the driver agrees to work for the company providing the equipment, no. Attorney Paul Taylor: “Should drivers do something about it? Yeah, they should — to a certain extent, drivers have to quit working for bad companies.”
August 29, 2017
Overdrive Radio
‘Benefit of the doubt’ to the driver on the ELD mandate: Texas sergeant urges officers ‘punt’ in questionable situations
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, listen in on a conversation with Texas Sergeant Dana Moore at GATS about roadside hours reality and ELDs post-mandate. Plus: Todd Amen on the burgeoning freight economy, tunes from trucker-songwriter Michael Lochmiller…
August 26, 2017
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‘Live, Laugh, Love, and Dance’: Tony Justice live to open GATS
Video: Justice opened his first GATS 2017 set yesterday with “Live, Laugh, Love and Dance,” penned with his wife, Misty, for those who’ve been through and/or suffer from depression in their lives, with hopes that it might help someone pull through.
August 25, 2017
Channel 19
‘The Drive’ owner-operator-focused three-day conference; NPR radio and truckers
“The Drive” conference, the brainchild of Patriot Star small fleet owners and Trucking With Authority podcast hosts Kenny and Elizabeth Long, happens October 17-19 in North Kansas City.
August 22, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Rebuilding: From bulk dedicated to a base of direct flatbed customers with owner-op Tim Klaus
On Overdrive Radio: Flatbedder Tim Klaus re-entered trucking and found himself at the center of the natural gas drilling boom, hauling frac sand. It dried up earlier for him than for many, and since then he’s made several moves in freight, trailer spec and more to build a core of direct customers to keep brokered loads to a minimum.
August 18, 2017
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Answering ELD questions: Texas-enforcement panel at GATS
What questions would you put to Sergeant Dana Moore and Lieutenant Monty Kea in Dallas next week? And: An update on anti-ELD mandate grassroots efforts from the ELD or Me group and others.
August 17, 2017
Channel 19
Extra amateur day on the roads for total eclipse, particularly in these areas
Will you be in the “zone of totality,” as the scientist-types are saying, this coming Monday for the solar eclilpse? More than one trucking company shutting down for the day anticipating an influx of that most unpredictable of highway users: the four-wheeled one.
August 15, 2017
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