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Stuff an emotional-support animal in the cupholder | Pallet hoarders' potential big break
The "lowly, disrespected wooden pallet finally gets its tech due" .... And: Your chance to carry a pet in the truck -- no litter box or long bathroom breaks/walks needed.
October 28, 2022
Channel 19
FMCSA/DOT getting serious about double-brokering?
FMCSA Administrator Robin Hutcheson this week urged carriers and brokers alike to report double-brokering, well on the rise the last couple of years as crooks take advantage of the FMCSA's registration system. Let's let her hear about the bad actors.
October 27, 2022
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March 24, 2025
Channel 19
Double-brokering scams that can result in theft of more than just money
Amid alerts to an active ring in Southern California targeting cargo for theft through various "strategic" means, a well-known theft investigator laid out three double-brokering and/or ID-theft scenarios that increasingly result in physical load theft.
October 4, 2022
Channel 19
FMCSA official re-emphasizes exploratory nature of pre-2000 exemption attention
Associate Administrator Larry Minor joined truckers John Grosvenor, Shawn Mitchell and others for a discussion of the current ELD-regs comment period. For now, Minor emphasized, "we're asking questions" about the pre-2000 exemption, not proposing change.
September 28, 2022
Channel 19
Pricing problems in the parts aftermarket? Owner-operators like Lee Epling are adapting
Is there parts-pricing relief in sight? According to a recent parts-aftermarket sales index, the tide may have turned in June. Meanwhile, owner-operator Lee Epling's doing all he can to prevent an expensive purchase on the road.
September 14, 2022
Channel 19
Kardashians crash a truck stop | Food industry needs diesel emissions
Kourtney Kardashian's trip to a truck stop has hundreds of commenters in disbelief. Also, a product of diesel fuel burning might just be what the food industry needs to keep the beer from going flat.
August 26, 2022
Channel 19
Will broker negligence suits ripple out to limit owner-operator opportunity?
Another case the Supreme Court didn't take up this last term seems to extend brokerage liability in negligence suits through the Western states. The unsettled nature of law in other districts could impact owner-op opportunity short- and long-term.
August 23, 2022
Channel 19
Owner-operator -- and small fleet owner's son -- for Congress in Indiana's 2nd Congressional district
Owner-operator Daniel Koors caucused with 11 other candidates to potentially be the Republican nominee to fill Indiana's 2nd House seat, vacated recently with the tragic passing of its occupant. He wasn't the only owner invested in the race.
August 19, 2022
Custom Rigs
Father-son small-fleet flagship: A&D Equipment's 2020 Peterbilt 389/Landoll 930
Andy Chavez Sr. continues to school his son on the ins and outs of combination hauling in this pristine 2020 Peterbilt 389, the A&D Equipment flagship, hauling construction equipment in and around Santa Clara, California.
August 18, 2022
Channel 19
How do you know you're working with a double broker? It's increasingly hard to tell
That is, unless you're a broker and it's your load being brokered again. New intel on a double-brokering scheme with potentially wide-reaching implications, and a little reinforcement of guidance on keeping information secure from potential ID thieves.
August 15, 2022
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Trucker-songwriter Coby Langham delivers musical catharsis
For this Overdrive Radio special edition, Long Haul Paul takes the mic for a sitdown with the songwriter and Downey & Sons driver whose gorgeously crafted songs range from "gear-jamming toe-tappers to ballads bursting with Southern Gothic poetry."
August 12, 2022
Channel 19
The wrong way to break into HHG moving, or fix your air brake lines
'Weird news' is back to the Channel 19 blog: Team haulers emerged with minor injuries after a dramatic burst into the HHG moving biz, while a couple creative brake line fixes were trolled on social media by inspectors.
August 11, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Remembering owner-ops Mark Mills, Jeff Seales on tough week for show hauler Clark Transfer
It’s been a sad week for everyone at Clark Transfer following the deaths of 30-year leased owner-op Jeff Seales and Mark Mills, leased there since 2018. In today's Overdrive Radio podcast, Clark's Charlie Deull remembers the two, and more.
August 5, 2022
Custom Rigs
Owner-operator C.G. Soza's 2016 Kenworth W900L 'Always Headed Home'
Soza's goal of stylistic mods that don't sacrifice increased function and performance, safety or otherwise, is well evident in this radically transformed 2016 Kenworth W900L, also a monument to the owner-operator's chief destination on any run: home.
August 4, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Connection engine for independents/private fleets, a haul for breast cancer, and a legend remembered
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, drop in to the details of Arrive Logistics new independent owner-op-to-private fleets freight connection engine, plus new philanthropic/production efforts from trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, and more.
July 29, 2022
Channel 19
The search for a good truck: Inflation puts community college CDL program out of reach
Longtime hauler Brad Carman's CDL training days in 1997 at Southeast Community College in Nebraska spurred his efforts to help a new community-college program in Western Iowa. He reached out with this request of readers in his search for equipment.
July 27, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Tank operator Guy Archer on a roll, trucking with new music
More than a little original music in this edition of Overdrive Radio, and a talk with the 2021 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search winner through his recent recordings, a four-song set on the Red Eye Radio stage at MATS in March, and more.
July 26, 2022
Channel 19
Has Biden's FMCSA sacrificed a measure of government goodwill on the speed-limiter altar?
The politics of outreach, of regulation, and the push and pull of trucking opinion -- for any one owner-op lauding government efforts at engagement, there's now a loud call from the other direction from many more given the speed-limiter mandate push.
July 21, 2022
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