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Channel 19: Page 97
Channel 19
Speaking urinal cakes: Next step in hours enforcement?
Is it fair to call the Department of Transportation’s approach to hours enforcement a bit heavy-handed of late, what with FMCSA’s (not to mention Congress’) pursuit of an EOBR mandate, flexibility-reducing hours changes and the like? Here’s hoping they don’t resort to the tactics some Michigan establishments, at the behest of the State Police, deployed […]
July 15, 2012
Channel 19
Landry questions White House integrity on EOBRs
In a hearing before the Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week whose title was a markedly direct question — “Is FMCSA’s CSA program driving small businesses off the road?” — Republican Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana took the opportunity during questioning of FMCSA Deputy Administrator Bill Bronrott to question […]
July 13, 2012
Channel 19
Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?
Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]
July 13, 2012
Channel 19
Union campaign to boost inspection dollars tars truckers
Can you imagine your state’s government employees resorting to something like this? The image here is of a billboard, among other similar ads that are part of a campaign being waged by British Columbia, Canada’s weigh-station inspection force for more funding, attempting to exploit the general public’s supposed fear of Class 8 on-highway trucks. The […]
July 12, 2012
Channel 19
Does the EOBR mandate have another problem?
Some believe the electronic on-board recorder mandate written in this year’s highway bill could well be impossible to achieve, given the legislation’s language defining the electronic logging devices.
July 11, 2012
Channel 19
Bill Mack still in ‘friendly negotiations’ over return to SiriusXM
The latest on Bill Mack’s plans for getting back in the saddle as the Midnight Cowboy on overnight radio.
July 10, 2012
Channel 19
Jabin Bogan’s Mexico entry re-enacted
The latest news, from AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, notes that on July 5, U.S. truck driver Jabin Bogan’s defense team gathered with local officials, prosecutors (which is trying Bogan on smuggling charges) and experts to “reenact” the alleged wrong turn that saw Bogan enter Mexico with a load of surplus […]
July 10, 2012
Channel 19
R.I.P. Sheriff ‘Cottonmouth’ — Ernest Borgnine dead at 95
The trucking-film classic “Convoy” costar played a sherriff who used CB subterfuge in attempts to undermine a group of protesting haulers in the 1970s Sam Peckinpah flick.
July 9, 2012
Channel 19
PHOTOS: Tracked Land Rover put together by Bill Bradford
After I posted about South Pittsburg, Tenn.-based Bill Bradford’s immaculate Kenworth cabover last week, I got a note from Bradford about a vehicle he came across on YouTube after looking back over his own KW’s vid. Check out a couple pics of it below. You’ll recall I noted in this post that, though Bradford’s driven […]
July 6, 2012
Channel 19
Rapper 50 cent rear-ended by … a lesser-known Kool Keith track
Over on the Juice blog at Billboard’s website, word is rapper 50 Cent (pictured) collided with a Mack truck on the Long Island Expressway after the driver’s load shifted, causing him to lose control of the rig. (The driver was OK.) Many of you may remember 50’s “In Da Club” record from 2003, whose rolling […]
July 5, 2012
Channel 19
Bummer, eh? Beer load sinks…
U.S. patriots living in Canada will no doubt be bummed by the news today: Click through the thumbnail of the pic here by Mathew McCarthy of The Record newspaper of Kitchener, Ontario, in Canada, for a story about this collapsed trailer loaded with beer outside the Beer Store on King Street in the same town. […]
July 4, 2012
Channel 19
Should HHG miles-based pay be illegal?
Owner-operator Jeff Clark, in the conference the Trucking Solutions Group organized Wed., June 20, with FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro (Clark is a TSG member owner-operator), presented Ferro with the discrepancy between household-goods miles and actual door-to-door miles. “The household goods miles system that we’re paid on is often fewer miles than we could legally make a […]
July 3, 2012
Channel 19
Short haul v. long haul — Where do you stand?
Informal poll results from Overdrive‘s Facebook fans on the growing trend among owner-operators toward operation in short-haul applications.
July 2, 2012
Channel 19
10 benefits of EOBRs
In the wake of the EOBR mandate’s inclusion in the 2012 MAP-21 highway bill, this round-up comes by way of the people at Xata Turnpike, makers of the RouteTracker EOBR.
June 30, 2012
Channel 19
Some good news: Jason’s Law in the highway bill
In all the hubbub over the mandate for electronic onboard recorders included in the highway-bill language, it’s perhaps been easy to overlook some of better results for truckers and advocates, chief among them other language in the bill that, if it ultimately passes (as expected), brings to fruition nearly four years’ worth of advocacy that […]
June 29, 2012
Channel 19
10 problems with EOBRs
These problems are among many noted by frequent Overdrive commenter E.F. McHenry as Congress considered an EOBR mandate ultimately included in the MAP-21 highway bill.
June 29, 2012
Channel 19
Ferro introduced to CSA ‘8th BASIC’: Driver turnover
Some watchers contend carriers’ driver turnover rates should be considered in computing ultimate safety scores in CSA.
June 28, 2012
Channel 19
EOBRs reportedly dropped, then back in highway bill
According to this report from Fox News, citing confidential sources knowledgeable of ongoing Senate/House conference committee work on final highway bill language, a deal has been reached that includes removal of the mandate for interstate carriers to use EOBRs for hours-of-service compliance. Here’s the language in the Fox report: “At the insistence of House Republicans, […]
June 27, 2012
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