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Channel 19
Latest ‘uber for trucking’ brokerage launches app
The Transfix brokerage’s app offers a variety of free services in exchange for the opportunity to push load offers to drivers well-situated to cover them.
June 12, 2015
Trip planning, parking information, fuel prices and more are part of the mix of functions available in the TransFix app. Android users can download it via this link, iOS users here.
Overdrive Radio
Owner-operator John Raffone — for President?
Does he have a chance? Probably not. This question, however, is more in line with his professed goals: Could he at least help bring trucking into the national picture in some way other than just as a punching bag?
June 11, 2015
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Channel 19
Produce haulers looking for another reason not to go to California…
Look no further than recent “hot market maps” showing reefer load-to-truck from DAT … And: rates were in positive territory last week — Roadcheck effect, anyone?
June 10, 2015
Hot market map -- load to truck in reefer segment from DAT June 2015
Pride & Polish
PHOTOS: ‘Black Out’ tribute rig at the head of the God Bless America Ride Sunday
An “awesome feeling,” says owner-operator Chuck Timbrook, to be rolling in his custom rig at the head of the ride — more than 3,000 motorcycles participated in the tribute event this weekend. Photos by Josh Triggs.
June 8, 2015
Black Out at lead of ride cropped
Channel 19
Chris Fiffie’s video interview with ChampTruck racer Mike Morgan
The outstanding Big Rig Videos videographer’s latest with “88 Mike” Morgan is intercut with on-track ChampTruck racing action and views of the custom rigs at Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event out in Willows, Calif.
June 6, 2015
'88 Mike' Morgan
Channel 19
Round-up: Aggregating ambulance chasers, ‘abused driver syndrome?’, latest truck flasher
A bizarro report in the Detroit Free Press, an interesting recruiting message, and the latest press release from a fraud/victims’ rights watchdog group run by a man with a fraud conviction in his past.
June 4, 2015
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Channel 19
‘Insist on the good’ to boost camaraderie
“Pick up the [CB] mic and add some good,” says a reader. “Insist on it. … Because this is how it works. Either you shun the crap or you bury it with some goodness.”
June 2, 2015
Driver counter at Nashville TA
Channel 19
How to: Influence enforcement actions at roadside
Some things are obvious — “take pride in your stuff,” says one officer — others not so, when it comes to managing encounters with officers, whether at roadside or in a weigh station inspection barn.
May 29, 2015
Owner-operator Gary Buchs is based near Bloomington-Normal, Ill.
Channel 19
Latest road work zone obstruction in GA: A litter of kittens
The road construction season and its headaches no doubt both for truckers and the folks doing the construction this week got a little bit of aspirin in the form of something of a welcome obstruction…
May 28, 2015
Click through the image for the Oconee Enterprise' full report on road worker Michael Crowe (pictured) and these particularly cute little obstructions.
Channel 19
‘Don’t run into stuff’: FMCSA chief’s should-be No. 1 message
Who’s leading the dance between the driver and technology in advocates’ safety focus in today’s world? One owner-operator emphasizes a simple safety message for the next administrator.
May 26, 2015
Truck being towed on highway
Overdrive Radio
Hours of service wish list: ‘We are people, not machines’
Results: Readers sound off in podcast, survey toward a more perfect hours rule.
May 23, 2015
rest area hours
Channel 19
Thursday ‘share the road’ trio
Local Tennessee paper instructs motorists on safety around big trucks, large Georgia newspaper likens crash victims to casualties of war, and a little good news on Virginia port investment to combat congestion.
May 21, 2015
highway uphill
Channel 19
Operator turns to music
Joe Martin, recently retired after 23 years with FedEx Freight, penned a road-rage romp in which you might be able to find more than a little to identify with, as it’s about “Those Arrogant Bastards” — the less courteous among your four-wheeled highway counterparts.
May 19, 2015
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Channel 19
Trucking Solutions Group launches fund-raiser for mobile mammography
Attendant to a variety of free health screenings for all driver-attendees and others at GATS this year, which the TSG has helped organization, the fund-raiser is to help cover costs of mammograms for those unable to afford it.
May 16, 2015
Read more about the TSG's annual health awareness walks at MATS and GATS via this dispatch from the 2014 Dallas edition.
Channel 19
‘Tired truckers’ back in the headlines — and the limits, benefits of safety technology
Whatever comes of active driver-assist safety technologies in the near future, it will remain an aware driver that is the bedrock of all trucking safety.
May 14, 2015
trucks On I-20-59
Channel 19
‘Discretion’ is a big word ……
What you do throughout your encounters with motor carrier enforcement officers may end up having a lot to do with the ending picture in the inspection report.
May 12, 2015
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Channel 19
Washington state DOT’s newest road-crew employees
Goats are being employed by the DOT in places around the state to control weeds around facilities. Got a goat herd of your own in the area? File under: Side opportunities…
May 9, 2015
WsDOT goats
Channel 19
Photos: Brush-fire shutdown of SB I-85 in GA
Headed out of S.C. to Nashville through the area, a planned 9-hour-or-so run turned into one that, in a different life, would have come pretty well close to the end of the 14-hour window.
May 7, 2015
Brush fires on GA i-85
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Airbrushed murals around the rig feature Al Capone and similar 1920s-era gangster themes, while the rig's interior depicts a barroom scene, complete with a chandelier, mounted Tommy guns and more.
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