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Paul Marhoefer’s ‘Elloree’, with a new music video, tells Jason’s Law story
Asked to write a song for Jason’s Law by a friend, Marhoefer asked himself what bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley would do and wrote it as a murder ballad — the final result, a powerful invocation of the story behind the parking-funding/security legislation.
May 16, 2017
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Podcast: Cold water on the ELD mandate’s potential rates impacts
While recent polling shows most owner-operators view the ELD mandate’s chances of positively impacting rates either short- or long-term as good, don’t count OOIDA board member and B.L. Reever Transport small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold among the true believers.
May 12, 2017
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A nine-year-old’s view of the so-called ‘autonomous future’
“When I asked if she could imagine a big truck going down the road maneuvering with its own controls, with no person behind the wheel, the look of horror that passed across her face was fairly priceless.”
May 11, 2017
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As with most superlatives, ‘best’ is a relative term when it comes to truck stops
Readers responded in numbers to the “Best truck stop ever?” question in last week’s Channel 19 post. Find here a bevy of recommendations for quality stops, great restaurants and more.
May 9, 2017
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Oil-patch captioning ‘from sun-up til down-hole’
One reader’s fitting caption for a photo depicting a sunrise early-early in the oil patch in Texas by John Reinhardt. The hauler and his Freightliner were “waiting to be escorted six miles up a poorly graded well road to deliver poly pipe at a water storage facility used for drilling operations.” …
May 8, 2017
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ELDs and safety: Wes Memphis weighs in
“One thing you come to learn around here is when there is the same highlighted handwritten memo on every table of the drivers’ room, in the company newsletter, on the shop bulletin board, even on the inner door of the bathroom stall, somebody done messed up good. …”
May 5, 2017
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Readers offer 14-hour fixes with pay for time, hours revisions, more
Following my post Friday last week about part of the two days I spent running with Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed, readers responded in numbers with 14-hour fix suggestions. Among them was Gary Carlisle, increasingly outspoken advocate for change …
May 4, 2017
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Who gets your vote for best truck stop ever?
A new Truck World on I-76 in North Jackson, Ohio, Trucker Path’s top 10 truck stops by user rating (including 8 independents) and a question: What’s your favorite truck stop out there? Who’s doing it right?
May 2, 2017
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When a straight 14 might not be the ideal, or safest, option: Four loads over two days in Ohio with Scott Reed
Hear part of Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills’ many conversations with Buckland, Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed over two days on the road in mid-April 2017. It tells the story of what Reed sees as a certainly less-than-ideal hours rule when it comes to his shorter-haul van operation.
April 28, 2017
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Senators ask GAO to assess autonomous trucks’ potential to displace workers
In the wake of the FMCSA’s Monday listening session on regulating the highly automated driving environment expected in the future, Senators Susan Collins and Jack Reed request GAO study the issue of job displacement — more commentary from the session explored here.
April 27, 2017
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Chuck Timbrook’s new memorial addition to the Black Out veterans-support rig
The last several months have been eventful for Chuck Timbrook. Since my last update after his heart surgery last fall, his doctor told him that “my commercial driving days are done,” he says. But it hasn’t stopped his work on the Black Out military tribute Freightliner, with several new additions.
April 25, 2017
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Trucker Bob Stanton on sleep apnea, fatigue research and bringing researchers, regulators into the truck
“Oh my God, I’m one of them, I’ve got it! I have the scarlet A on my forehead!” –Trucker Bob Stanton somewhat facetiously opening his presentation on apnea to the regulators, researchers and transport folks attending a conference last month.
April 21, 2017
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Driver shortage alarm, redux part 2: Bills in Ohio would subsidize ‘cheap labor’
Ohio bills would funnel taxpayer money to driver-training efforts and “put the Ohio taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing cheap labor,” notes small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold. Also, video, audio: Crank it up with Scott Reed’s tuned 750-hp Cat in the Wheeling tunnel on I-70.
April 20, 2017
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Look ma, no hands!
Unwelcome distraction on the road with owner-operator Scott Reed of Buckland, Ohio — knee-drive and text up ahead, look out!
April 17, 2017
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Right place at the right time: Value of dashcam, take 257 …
Scott LeVan was in the right place at the right time on Wednesday when, he says, parked at a rest area on I-77 in Ohio, his dashcam happened to capture views of criminals involved in a carjacking at the area.
April 14, 2017
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Looking into the crystal ball on ELDs/rates, and Owner-operator Reed goes to Washington
Two updates — audio of Todd Amen of ATBS’ conference call on operator income from yesterday, and one from owner-operator Scott Reed, fresh off a meeting with legislative aide to Senator Deb Fisher in Washington gone bad, only to turn out positive when Reed dropped in on other Senators from Iowa, North Dakota, Montana.
April 13, 2017
Custom Rigs
The custom upgrade inside Jay Holsomback’s 1996 KW W900L
A look inside Georgia-based owner-operator Jay Holsomback’s 1996 Kenworth W900L after a full upgrade custom designed by Holsomback and Aniceto Ocampo. Holsomback brought home second in Working Interior, OEM Sleeper, at MATS.
April 11, 2017
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Cutting through the ‘autonomous’ hype with Bendix’s Fred Andersky
Listen in on Andersky’s “Drivers and the Automated Future” tech talk at the Bendix booth at the Mid-American Trucking Show two weeks back — likewise a talk on PM procedures for slack adjusters.
April 7, 2017
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