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Victim finds way to locate unnamed trucker hero
Gerry Bisaillon had worked quite a few accident scenes in his years of service with volunteer fire departments. Little did he expect that one pre-dawn January morning he was about to trade places and become the victim. Last January, he was driving to his mother-in-lawâs house to drop off his daughters for day care. âThis [âŠ]
August 8, 2013
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Will DVIR relief give you a piece of $1.7 billion?
The new DOT chief, Anthony Fox, to his credit announced a proposed rule this week that would eliminate the requirement for filing a Driver Vehicle Inspection Report when no defects are found with truck or trailer. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says no-defect DVIRs account for 95 percent of the filings. Anything that reduces [âŠ]
August 1, 2013
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Change thinking, not oil
Using oil analysis can save you money in new oil, oil disposal and overall maintenance â and can alert you to emerging engine problems.
July 29, 2013
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Hours of service option: Earning flexibility
Gold Card status would bring freedom from hours of service regs on the assumption that this is an experienced, safe, mature driver who knows to drive when rested and rest when tired.
July 25, 2013
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Meritor races on Sunday to sell on Monday
I spent last week in the U.K. and Germany with Meritorâs Commercial Vehicle Brake Division, learning about how this American company currently competes and plans to continuing competing on the global stage. What I saw was a company totally committed to examining and refining every aspect of its operations, from the products they sell to [âŠ]
July 21, 2013
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AP: Gotcha! Traffic camsâ massive data piles create privacy issues
Truckers by now have become familiar with the increasingly detailed electronic trail they create. Certainly any driver whoâs been through the log book wringer by an ambulance chaser following a wreck knows all the time stamps out there. Pro drivers are also more aware of traffic cameras than most four-wheelers, though many motorists are doing [âŠ]
July 18, 2013
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Big Bertha works the gas fields, but still shines
Eric Lazos put a lot of love into his 1999 Peterbilt 379 and still crosses the country to serve oil and gas fields.
July 14, 2013
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NSA leaker cleared by firm that dings drivers
Maybe truck drivers should apply for Top Secret clearance first: That should look good on a resumĂ© â and then they could claim PSP records are classified. . .
July 8, 2013
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I-40 lanes back open in Arkansas
âInterstate truckers need a good federal highway system. The price we pay is regulation. Want the feds out of your business? Get used to sitting around in local traffic.â
July 4, 2013
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Are cheaper trucks on the horizon?
I was flipping through the latest issue of Car & Driver on the plane Monday on my way up to Chicago to test-drive and International 9900i tractor when I ran across an excellent article entitled Free-Trade Cars by Justin Berkowitz. The full article is HERE, if youâre interested, and very much worth a look if [âŠ]
July 3, 2013
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Deadly four-wheelers and vicarious revenge
You might think that New Yearâs Day is the yearâs deadliest for traffic fatalities, but itâs not. July 4 takes that honor.
July 3, 2013
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State-controlled messages on your truck
Will states soon have the ability to broadcast via your license plate that youâre over hours or drowsy?
July 1, 2013
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A truck by any other name
Etymology of the word âtruckâ and various other words for the explosion of new things these past 150 years.
June 29, 2013
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Trucking with environmentalists
What the Presidentâs new Climate Action Plan has to say about heavy-duty trucks yields odd alignment of environmental / trucking perspective in discussion.
June 28, 2013
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Vehicles expected to gather and share more data
âConnected vehicleâ technology means any vehicle picking up information and sharing it with vehicles around it.
June 22, 2013
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Old World, new tech
Electric-truck spotting across the pond.
June 20, 2013
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Why this safety technology doesnât work
When compared with other diversions inside the car, âinteracting with the speech-to-text system was the most cognitively distracting,â the report said.
June 15, 2013
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What good are modern trucks if you donât utilize the features?
What good are the productivity and safety enhancing systems on modern trucks if you donât use them?
June 12, 2013
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