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POLL: Ever been tested/treated for sleep apnea?
With two years gone now since drivers were required to utilize a medical examiner of the national registry for med certification, this poll looks at the extent to which apnea testing has grown more common — or not. Have you ever been tested or treated?
May 5, 2016
Channel 19
Sleep apnea back front and center of health/safety conversation
Following release of FMCSA apnea “pre-rule” requesting information, and release of study on apnea and crash risk, conversation among advocates heats up over study’s validity, more.
May 5, 2016
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Business
Former ‘American trucker’ host Robb Mariani hit with a ‘sick’ meme, hits back
Robb Mariani is challenging Facebook to institute better piracy/defamation controls in the wake of his image being used in a meme equating being a “real trucker” with hitting hitchhikers with urine bottles thrown out the window at highway speeds.
May 4, 2016
Business
Getting to FMCSA’s sleep apnea listening sessions May 12, 17 and 25
The sessions, in downtown Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Ill.; and Los Angeles are not in locales that are particularly truck-friendly. Here find tips on attending and an information source for parking and transport to the sessions.
May 4, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: Tool of the trade
Befitting the CB’s repute of the era, Overdrive each month in the late 1970s published an entire section devoted to CBs, associated equipment, articles about truckers using CBs to chase on-the-run criminals and more.
May 4, 2016
Business
I wish to remain upright and unbroken
“No matter how tired you are, you have to get your butt up and clean up the messes, so the path to the porch is clear. Because you can’t dance for a living.”
May 4, 2016
Business
Truckers Against Trafficking: Local, state partnerships extend growing effort
Truckers Against Trafficking has launched new partnerships with state and local governments, detailed in recent story that also highlights trucker and 2015 Harriet Tubman award winner Kevin Kimmel.
May 2, 2016
Business
Confessions of aging eyes
“Life in general is a learning experience, but being on the road is a mega-dose of real life in the outer fringes of society, where you learn to improvise and make do with the tools and resources you have.”
May 1, 2016
Business
A brief timeline of 83,000 years
“Let’s take a chance on disrupting the space-time continuum, and just cruise through what’s happened in the past 83,000 years, while we were sitting in traffic last year.”
April 29, 2016
Custom Rigs
ChampTruck heads to Virginia for second race of season
ChampTruck will open the day Saturday, April 30 with a practice session at 8 a.m. and qualifying at 11:15 a.m.
April 27, 2016
Business
Don’t let the dirty dictate the digs
“We can either sit around and feed into the stereotype by allowing the unguided children to run the show, or we can train them to be truckers, and find out which ones can handle it and integrate with pride and a positive image.”
April 27, 2016
Business
Don’t ban me, bro
“The communities that choose the knee-jerk reaction of banning trucks aren’t looking to solve problems, they’re looking for a band-aid to slap on the gaping wound of parking and big truck issues.”
April 25, 2016
Business
Cabovers, chrome and cool people
Introducing recently-retired owner-operator Sherman Kerns and his 1980 Peterbilt cabover, Jamaican trucker Owen Aird and more from the Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event in Wildwood, Fla., at 75 Chrome Shop.
April 22, 2016
Business
Potential for fatigue detection points to intensive enforcement
Fatigue-related monitoring could be next in line. Its advance in the regulatory arena will depend on two things: the effectiveness of technology in predicting fatigue in relation to crash risk, and to what extent, if any, privacy law restricts or prevents a mandate.
April 22, 2016
Business
Overdrive names top 10 in 2016 Most Beautiful contest
The first-place winner will receive a trip to The Great American Trucking Show.
April 21, 2016
Business
Your health — ripe for biomonitoring and telematics
In the not-so-distant future, your truck and its associated systems will be able to read your vital signs and alert you and others to an impending health breakdown. This data could be synced to your truck’s communications system, which could automatically send select health data to your fleet, your insurance provider or FMCSA.
April 20, 2016
Business
Paid parking pas de deux
“Even Dr. Phil knows there’s two sides to a pancake, and looking at both of them is necessary to describe the pancake fully. You can’t have a conversation without two sides.”
April 20, 2016
Channel 19
Tony Justice live in Nashville at the downtown TA
Trucker/singer-songwriter Tony Justice live at the TA location in downtown Nashville — this video captures an acoustic version of the “We Drive Trucks” anthem on his new “Brothers of the Highway” record.
April 20, 2016
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