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Mailbag: ‘Major trucking issue’ — detention at shippers/receivers and its income, safety impact
How big is the problem of detention at shippers and receivers for American truckers? For readers of Overdrive, it’s a “major issue,” in the words of more than one you’ll hear in this “mailbag” edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast.
July 22, 2016
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Learn business tips, regulatory updates at GATS educational seminars
Seminars include updates to the electronic logging device mandate, information about owner-operator taxes and more.
July 22, 2016
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You might be a trucker if …
… you reach for the Jake brake in your Ford Focus when you see the downgrade you’re about to make a run down …
July 22, 2016
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Life
Paul Marhoefer’s ‘Old Black Epiphone’ available in preorder
The CD is currently under a pre-order in effort to assist in raising the funds necessary to bring the project to full fruition — 10 percent of every pre-order, Marhoefer says, will go to the Truckers Final Mile charity org.
July 21, 2016
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Business
You don’t even need a magic lamp
Pilot Flying J app update — the fairy truckermother is here: “Wouldn’t it be nice if you pulled into a busy fuel island and had x-ray vision, so you could see which trucker just started the fueling process and which one was close to done before choosing a lane and committing to it?”
July 20, 2016
Judging from my notes, I was obviously impressed by how the lane status feature works.
Life
More than 44,000 attend Walcott Truckers Jamboree
Visitors came from 23 states and three Canadian provinces for the event, according to Iowa 80.
July 19, 2016
1916 Mack AC at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Life
The 10 U.S. cities with the most truck driving jobs
The top 10 metro areas with the most truck driving jobs were ranked based on job availability, average annual salary for truckers, median home price and median annual rent.
July 19, 2016
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Don’t poke the bear
“Sometimes, it’s OK to take the skinny roads, but for the love of God, don’t slam on brakes for no reason.”
July 18, 2016
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Business
It’s not the truck
Though the headlines say, “84 killed by truck,” it wasn’t the truck that killed the people, it was a deranged, evil, sadistic, inhumane terrorist who killed the people.
July 15, 2016
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Business
Trucking’s Top Rookie contest finalists announced
The winner of the award will be announced during ceremonies at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas next month, and will receive $10,000 and a package of prizes.
July 15, 2016
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Life
Trucks roll into Walcott for annual Jamboree
See photos from the first day of the 37th annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree.
July 15, 2016
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New Montague folding Paratrooper bike line
Bit of a detour today from the long road, as it were. Behold the Paratrooper Pro, the Montague company’s new line of full-size folding bikes the company believes are ideal for on-highway haulers.
July 14, 2016
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Life
Walcott Truckers Jamboree kicks off Thursday
Held annually at the Iowa 80 Truckstop, the event and parking are free. There will be concerts each of the three days of the event.
July 13, 2016
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Business
Tom trucker and the two-dollar shoes
“Professional don’t wear sandals” — or flip flops — as the saying goes. What do you think? Does it really matter? Wendy weighs in.
July 13, 2016
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Business
DOT physicals among health offerings at GATS
A new feature for the Landstar Health and Wellness Pavilion this year will be U.S. Department of Transportation physicals conducted by AccuScreen. The physicals will be available for $59.
July 13, 2016
Health
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: Providing a forum for ‘The Voice’
Though the section has changed names and formats in the 55 years since its founding, Overdrive continues to build its reputation on championing reader representation and the principles they care about. The magazine cover still proudly uses the tagline “The Voice of the American Trucker.”
July 12, 2016
Of note from the Our Readers Write section in the February 1983 issue: Calls for ‘someone who understands the trucking industry’ to run the DOT; a letter from one trucker to his peers asking them to move their trucks from the fuel island when not fueling (‘time is money, and nothing is more aggravating than being held up, especially by a trucker’); and a note titled ‘Starve them,’ in which Steve Davis of Florida urged independents to initiate state-by-state trucker strikes to ‘starve these greedy people so they’ll realize the need for the trucking industry.’ Déjà vu all over again?
Business
When ‘keep your chin up’ isn’t enough
After losing a friend and fellow driver to suicide, 22-year trucking veteran Michael Suson founded “Truckers for Truckers,” a trucking-specific mental health support group.
July 11, 2016
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Life of a Trucker No. 17: ‘It’s a weird sense of pride’
Owner-operator and livestock hauler Ace DeReu profiled in Tex Crowley’s “Life of a Trucker” series.
July 10, 2016
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Toughest 10 states for brake violations as inspection blitz kicks off
Analysis of nationwide violation data shows the states where truckers might expect next week's brakes inspection event, CVSA's Brake Safety Week, to feature the most intense scrutiny on the truck and trailer's stopping power.
The heavy-haul/oversize trucking niche can be lucrative for owner-operators who know the ins and outs of the business. That doesn't come immediately, nor without significant challenges. Shown here is owner-operator Jason Chamberlain's 1985 Kenworth W900B, powered by a Big Cam Cummins with a 13-speed. He owns two trailers -- a 55-ton, three-axle XL Specialized RGN and a 2017 Benson three-axle, low-pro step deck.
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High-dollar freight means high cost consideration: Heavy and oversize hauling
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