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Regulations
POLL: Brake Safety Week blitz ended August 31 -- did you get inspected?
Weigh in with your experience of last week's in-the-books brakes-inspection initiative. What jurisdictions were out in force that you saw?
August 30, 2024
Inspection Barn
Channel 19
2024's most outrageous inspection fail? Mountain Dew box as a hub cover over leaky wheel seal
When it comes to inspection fails, this one might qualify for as an all-timer. This operator's attempt to use a box of soda as a hub cover over a leaky seal has interesting historical implications, but as for the immediate future, he's out of service.
August 28, 2024
Semi-truck tire with part of a Mountain Dew box as a wheel cover allowing a wheel seal to leak oil,
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Regulations
Tips to avoid brake violations as Brake Safety Week looms
Experts share tips for Brake Safety Week, which is scheduled for Aug. 25-31.
August 21, 2024
Commercial vehicle inspection
Maintenance
Brake-inspection blitz next week -- ways to bone up on maintenance
Brake Safety Week kicks off August 25. Bendix offers tech tips for maintenance. Also: NACFE to focus on long-haul in next Run on Less event, with a variety of alternative fuel powertrains; Trucking Cares Foundation donates $25K to fight human trafficking.
August 19, 2024
Mississippi Inspection
Trucker of the Year
Know your limitations, partner accordingly: Trucker of the Month Mike Nichols
After starting his trucking career nearly 40 years ago but spending a number of those years in other industries or elsewhere in trucking than behind the wheel, Nichols well knows his biz strengths, too, and finds home leased to Wayne Transports.
July 30, 2024
Mike Nichols with his 2020 Freightliner Coronado
Equipment
‘Not gonna be a guinea pig’: Owners wary of maintenance unknowns with EPA 2027
Truck price inflation has been a big outcome of successive rounds of EPA emission regs, yet owner-operators ranked maintenance headaches just as high in an early 2024 survey. New headaches could could be on the way.
July 24, 2024
Truck on the side of the road with the hood up
Life
Where Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance stands on speed limiters, brokering fraud, parking
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance supported additional truck parking and opposed speed limiters and EPA emissions regulations. Also: Landstar owner-op wins keys to '25 Cascadia, as another earns Lifetime Achievement Award; Ryder acquiring mobile repair service.
July 16, 2024
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance
Trucker of the Year
Fuel mileage gains, business prowess power Trucker of the Month
Alec Costerus, owner of two-truck Alpha Drivers Transportation, was an owner-op for 8 years before coming off the road for a medical issue. He started the new business in 2022 with a mind toward growth, and a pay-for-all-time approach to operators.
May 29, 2024
Alpha Drivers Transportation Purple Haze Volvo
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ's team takes do-it-yourself maintenance to new levels
LNL Trucking owner Larry Limp and his brother collaborated to build this gantry crane to remove an ISX for overhaul, the first such engine his shop had done. "We'll see what we can learn," he said, in the process, sure to repeat itself in coming years.
May 16, 2024
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Business
Fuel prices, mostly flat in 2024, dip below $4/gallon, and spot rates follow them down
Diesel's average price has been floating near $4 for most of the year, and recently fell below the threshold; spot rates followed fuel down. Also: Free pre-Roadcheck inspections next week; I-15 bridge reopens; new carrier-recognition program from TCA.
May 1, 2024
trucks at fuel island
Regulations
Inspectors ask FMCSA to alter inspection report requirements
CVSA wants FMCSA to remove the requirement that carriers return inspection reports to the issuing agency within 15 days certifying that all violations have been corrected, calling the requirement “antiquated and redundant.”
April 17, 2024
Officer handing truck driver paperwork
Equipment
Where trucking stands on the REPAIR Act
A resolution introduced in the House of Representatives last year could become a federal right to repair law. But will it? And should it? Industry associations have mixed opinions.
April 4, 2024
Truck in a service shop waiting to be worked on
Equipment
Who's your absolute best truck/trailer dealer partner?
Overdrive sister publication Trucks, Parts, Service is now accepting nominations for its annual awards recognizing trucking's best truck and trailer dealers.
March 8, 2024
Shop floor from overhead
Maintenance
Lease-purchase task force zeroes in on restrictive maintenance covenants
In worst cases, lessee truck operators are set up to fail. In its third meeting, FMCSA's task force examined impacts of restrictive maintenance terms in truck lease-purchases. The panel also planned for a potential meeting/public forum at MATS in March.
January 23, 2024
Two Guys Working On Transmission
Truck Stops
Kwik Star in Iowa back on top of truck stop rankings
The Davenport, Iowa, truck stop was ranked the No. 1 overall truck stop in the nation by Trucker Path users for the second year in a row. Also: Dana Aftermarket expands how-tos, more on YouTube channel; driver named Highway Angel for second time.
January 10, 2024
Kwik Star #1071 in Davenport, Iowa
Overdrive Radio
Truckers' New Year's Resolutions: Get closer to the freight source, and back to basics on costs
Worried about the percentage "a broker might keep?" Owner-ops should ask how much is needlessly lost daily. Three Trucker of the Year finalists and an Overdrive contributor here offer ways to reassess -- and fully engage your primary freight partners.
January 8, 2024
Overdrive Radio YouTube cover
Partners in Business
Keys to long-life tires: Many are firmly in your control
While spec'ing the right tire for your operation is important in prolonging tire life, perhaps even more important are how you drive, performing routine maintenance, maintaining proper inflation and more. Extend your tires' life with these four practices.
December 19, 2023
tire on semi truck
Maintenance
Updated: Maintenance know-how to help stay ahead of inspectors
From tires and brakes to air and emissions systems, we've compiled this comprehensive collection of truck maintenance coverage in Overdrive to help keep your rig passing inspections and hauling strong.
February 14, 2020
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Used-truck market rife with uncertainty
Unknowns around tariffs, emissions regulations and other factors have created uncertainty in the used-truck market, according to analysts. The good news? Retail used-truck sales prices have returned to near pre-COVID levels.
Owner-operator Scott Smith with one of his 2017 Peterbilt 579s at home in Searcy, Arkansas. His current hopper-bottom/flatbed trucking business builds on early oilfield experience and benefits from a close attention to detail when it comes to revenue and costs.
Trucker of the Year
Betting on equipment diversity as failsafe: Trucker of the Month
Truck In Right Lane Highway Bridge
Regulations
DOT set to eliminate speed limiter proposal, keep pre-2000 ELD exemption in place
Fleetworthy's new Expedited Inspection service is now available for select ELD users in Nevada.
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