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The ELD mandate and the House Freedom Caucus
OOIDA urging members to engage caucus members on ELDs. And a question: What’s your view of the ELD mandate today?
January 14, 2017
Channel 19
Scott LeVan’s radio warning to drivers ahead of deadly EB I-80 crash went unanswered
Driver LeVan used his CB to broadcast several warnings to EB drivers to spread out, impending a traffic back-up ahead, before a later crash that killed two truckers in Pennsylvania. Yet another reason to keep the radio on.
January 12, 2017
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Channel 19
No, a truck did not kill a bunch of anti-Trump protestors trying to block a highway in Seattle
A dead giveaway that this little item of fake news is what it is: Though it was purported to have happened in Seattle, the location was I-15. Last time I checked …
January 10, 2017
Channel 19
Go Vols? Clemson’s not the only team hopeful of rematch chances
With the college football national championship tonight featuring a rematch from last year’s championship game, team pride has found its way into the day-to-day of highway hauling — van haulers, keep the trailer clean as you can, and if not, keep your eyes on your mirrors stuck in traffic.
January 9, 2017
Channel 19
Owner-operators trend optimistic about business in 2017
We can take the optimism expressed in these results with a crunchy-good grain of road salt or sand, but for the first time in the few years, a majority of owner-operators think this coming year will be better than the last. Recent indicators agree…
January 7, 2017
Channel 19
If Trump really wants to save U.S. jobs …
“If he (Trump) cares about the working man, he’ll stop this talk about driverless trucks.” –Trucker Jerry Jackson in Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial about autonomous vehicle tech threats.
January 5, 2017
Channel 19
Website maps 2016 ‘year in truck spills’
Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to highway accidents? For those among you who might answer in the affirmative, the folks behind the AtlasObscura.com argue otherwise with this map of notable spilled loads of 2016.
January 4, 2017
Channel 19
It’s complicated: Channel 19 year in review, part 3
Part 3 in this year in review, in which the “real Leroy Mercer” reared his head (sort of — yeah, it’s complicated), and Elves Trucking’s time-card hours compliance strategy didn’t look well in light of compliance-review waterboardings, and …
December 30, 2016
Channel 19
A little learnin’ and its opposite: Channel 19 year in review, part 2
Part 2 in this year in review picks up with Wes Memphis’ transition to e-logs and plenty “unlearning” to be done …
December 29, 2016
Channel 19
When the time bombs started going off: Channel 19 year in review, part 1
Indulge us as we run back through the rules, the regs, the rigs and the past, present and future of driver pay — all the rage with the “driver shortage” notion analyzed and discussed and thrown under the falling-fuel-surcharge bus. … And so much more Counting down the hours to 2017: 14, 13 …
December 27, 2016
Channel 19
How Elves Trucking LLC got back in service — just in the nick of time
A guest Channel 19 post from the desk of Richard Wilson and TCRG Consulting: “The DOT elves were on the prowl only to find a jolly old sleigh driver elf with a time card instead of a logbook on hand. …”
December 23, 2016
Channel 19
Turning the worm on parking
Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking — and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory online to help facilitate communication.
December 20, 2016
Channel 19
Trucking ‘uberization’ and the ‘new 800-pound gorilla that everyone will have to be aware of’
According to Business Insider writer Eugene Kim’s sources, that gorilla is Amazon, who plans to develop an app to help match freight to truckers. Big difference between Amazon and numerous tech start-ups in this space: freight volume, of course.
December 19, 2016
Channel 19
FMCSA and some states sharpen audit teeth with ‘enhanced investigative techniques’
‘EIT’ in the parlance of acronym-happy bureaucratese, Jeff Davis of Fleet Safety Services likened new investigative approaches of auditors to another EIT, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques — or ‘compliance-review waterboarding,’ so to speak …
December 16, 2016
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: Supply chain mandating ELDs?, Wal-Mart moving toward cab cameras, nolo contendere for operator
Reporting out of Arkansas: Wal-Mart’s private fleet begins to test in-cab camera systems. Howard Salmon pleas out from under a following-too-close citation. And: one regular reader calls foul on the notion that brokers/shippers will require ELDs in contracts for exempt truckers post-mandate.
December 15, 2016
Channel 19
What happens when suspension bolts fall out at speed?
Suspension repair gone wrong: For owner-operator Howard Salmon, with winter conditions settling in over parts of the country, he’s thankful the bolts fell out where they did, to a certain extent …
December 13, 2016
Custom Rigs
New hub covers, more for Michael and Tammy Groom and their ‘Mothership’ 2012 KW T660
There’s certainly more than just aesthetics driving the choice of the Vyper covers by American Truck Technology, Michael says. (They do look good, though.) An encounter with the head of the company led a little brand loyalty, of a sort…
December 10, 2016
Channel 19
What ELDs might mean for owner-operator gross revenue in flatbed
With recent speculation that the “mother of all capacity shortages” may not materialize with ELDs, necessarily, one owner-operator’s experience making the transition a couple years back.
December 9, 2016
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