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No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention
Due to the recent findings in the ATRI study on the worst freight bottlenecks, it should be no surprise that infrastructure is a hot topic once again.
February 27, 2019
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The time is now: Build truck parking capacity
Bottom line for lawmakers sent by us to the nation’s capitol: We need an infrastructure bill that will open the flow of traffic, make safer merge lanes and truly spur on badly needed truck parking. Please don’t wait for another bridge to collapse, for another trucker trying to provide for his family to be killed for the few dollars in his pocket.
February 18, 2019
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61 years trucking — and counting
Truck driver James Tharp shares some of history based on his 61 (and still going strong) year career as a truck driver. Read what he has to share here.
February 11, 2019
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Post-ELD mandate crash data a knock on hours regs, too
Post-ELD mandate crash data is offering even more insight into hours-of-service regulations and their impact on trucking. Get details here on Overdrive Online.
February 7, 2019
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Mentoring is a two-way street when it comes to benefits
“Trucking broadly speaking has seemed to support the idea of apprenticeship and mentoring as a way to improve safety and retention, but I believe the only truly effective way to do that is through experienced owner-operators dedicating themselves to one-on-one mentorship.” Benefits “run both ways.” –Owner-op Gary Buchs on his ow experience with it
February 5, 2019
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Five trucking trends shaping 2019
The pace of change in trucking seems to have picked up in recent years, and there’s no reason to think it will slow up during 2019.
January 31, 2019
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Losing a long-time phone pal
Many professional drivers have a spouse or go-to friend they can call while on the road for encouragement, advice or just to shoot the bull and stay alert. For Frank Albinson, that support was his long-time friend David Stump of Newburg, Pennsylvania, who died Jan. 21.
January 29, 2019
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Call me ‘Long Haul’ no more
“I’m not sure when length-of-haul shaming with phallic undertones became a thing. … Still, since we’re on the topic, let me go on record here to say: To the nethers with the long haul. There are just too many good regional opportunities available now to make it hard to justify the fight with the ELD/parking shortage/erosion of road manners vortex.”
January 21, 2019
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Time to require good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase agreements?
Owner-op Clifford Petersen asks whether it’s time for an update to the Truth in Leasing regulations to cover good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase contracts: “Maybe it’s time to make a stand and start eliminating predatory practices within our industry.”
January 15, 2019
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I imagine it, so it must be so!
“If only our businesses would unfurl in reality like they do in our minds,” notes owner-op Gary Buchs in this story about how easy it is to sabotage your own business by avoiding the mundane tasks necessary to success. He details how he came to a measure of self-discipline around those tasks, particularly the ones he actively dislikes.
January 7, 2019
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Chrome and Steel Radio’s relaunch as an entertainment platform with trucking at its heart
23-year-old web designer David Coleman and a 51-year-old singing trucker Bill Weaver have pooled their resources to acquire and relaunch Chrome and Steel Radio (ChromeandSteelRadio.com), a web-based entertainment venue dedicated to the transportation industry.
January 2, 2019
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Trucking in 2018: Rates boom and settle, the ball rolls on hours reforms, ELD mandate takes hold
Digging in to the top trucking trends of 2018: ELDs’ first year spurs rate hikes and operational adjustments; the swirling saga of glider kit emissions; the beginning of potential HOS reforms, booming — and then settling — rates and more.
December 31, 2018
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Live training opportunities to jump-start your career
Participation in live training offers opportunities to network with experts, as well as fellow drivers with common interests.
December 31, 2018
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Delivering Christmas with nonprofit drivers’ group
Turns out, just when you begin to believe all the good hands are mostly gone, you again run across the salt of the earth, who, from the cabs of their trucks, write another chapter in the Christmas story.
December 21, 2018
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‘…. the day they put an e-log in my truck’: A multimillion-miler father still trucking, the son who got out
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the ELD mandate, a conversation with a father who stayed in the industry, and a son who left it behind. Introducing Ohio-based Bill and Lee Wilker.
December 17, 2018
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Choose professionalism to define, and create, your value
Choose to be a professional and you will create value, and you will know what your personal value is worth when it is time to ask for a raise, search for a company to call home, or negotiate that contract with the broker or shipper business partner.
December 11, 2018
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Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better
Long Haul Paul’s latest in the “Faces of the Road” series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans, out with a new record, “Church of the Blues.” As Slim puts it: “I’ve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.”
December 4, 2018
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A litigious argument for collision mitigation
So goes the frustrated mind: collision-mitigation technology is “determining when I should increase my following distance, when I should change lanes, and when I should apply the brakes – oftentimes doing it for me.” Clifford Petersen has learned to work with his system, though it’s not all roses and can present dangerous situations. He’s hopeful about one aspect of it, though. …
November 27, 2018
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