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Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Potential 34-hour restart change reinforces elemental hours problems for readers
Given the complexity of the recently proposed 34-hour-restart change, it’s no wonder (as you’ll hear in this podcast) that a desire for the simplicity of pre-14-hour-rule regs is such a topic of discussion of late.
April 29, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Trucker Bob Stanton’s proposals for the Beyond Compliance effort
Trucker Bob Stanton brought three distinct proposals to FMCSA’s Beyond Compliance listening session in Chicago attendant to the CVSA Workshop event. Hear his proposals here.
April 26, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Broker freight transaction transparency rears its head amid rate doldrums
What exactly are those with the biggest stake in any freight movement getting today separated by middlemen? Not much, at too high a rate, one caller among others to the Overdrive Radio podcast line contends.
April 13, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Big data at ‘tipping point’ for new safety applications
Fatigue management and monitoring techs will become, over the next 30 years, ubiquitous in fleet trucks — even, says safety expert Don Osterberg, in owner-operated units.
April 7, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Vigillo CEO Steve Bryan: How data will be used to predict accidents and what that means for drivers
In this 5-minute collection of excerpts from a 2015 interview with Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine, Bryan discusses the increasing use of data – “drivers’ behavior, vehicle performance, weather, routes, lanes, congestion, other drivers” – to find patterns that can lead to crashes. Also, his thoughts on whether the attention on performance data will force […]
April 6, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag from the ‘driver wage shortage’
In this mailbag podcast, an owner-operator out of Charlotte, N.C., offered an addition to the “driver shortage” phrase that he — along with many others — feels might well clear things up a bit. He’s not the first to say it, but it bears repeating.
March 24, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Change for the better or nails in the coffin: Talking the future with Gary Carlisle
Whether the future landscape of greater risk translates to a boon for the future generations of owner-operators willing to assume the risk themselves as independents, or not, is one of many areas discussed in this podcast conversation with current owner/former operator Gary Carlisle.
March 17, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
One independent’s comeback from the brink: A run with Ted Bowers
A rare opportunity to make part of a run with Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, owner of the small trucking company that bears his name, yields a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships.
March 15, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: A run through the stories behind the songs on Bill Weaver’s ‘Every Mile I Drive’
In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, run through the brand-new record from trucker Bill Weaver, who with regulator collaborators in his band has honed the Southern Rock style you’ll hear here over many years.
February 23, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Aaron Tippin and Tony Justice: ‘Brothers of the Highway’ session report from Nashville
A talk with country-music legend and former trucker Aaron Tippin and rising trucker-singer-songwriter Tony Justice — straight from their historic vocal collaboration for Justice’s new record in Nashville.
January 8, 2016
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Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Answering a few ELD mandate questions, and more trucking views
In this Channel 19 edition of Overdrive Radio podcast edition a few ELD-mandate-related questions answered, and a round-up of ongoing commentary coming in on the podcast line…
December 17, 2015
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ELD mandate represents a ‘piece of freedom’ under threat, say readers
Audio: Three views of the ELD mandate show the strong opposition felt among many — meantime, more debate on the pre-2000 model year exception and just who benefits most, by the numbers.
December 15, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
CSA scores pulled behind the curtain — what’s next?
Following FMCSA’s pull of the CSA SMS from public view, some signs that the CSA bell will continue to ring in carrier selection processes from brokers and shippers in the “private CSA world.” Some reader views, too, on FMCSA’s next move.
December 7, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Lindsay Lawler’s ‘Highway Angel’ live in Nashville
In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, hear Lawler’s performance of the “Highway Angel” song at her Nashville tour finale.
November 10, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Highway bill effort to resolve federal/state legal conflict over carrier services, driver wages
New court interpretations of the FAAAA introduce contradictions between federal and state law (particularly in CA) that challenge incentive-based compensation.
November 2, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Will Congress pass CSA-crippling highway bill?
Greg Cohen, president of the Highway Users Alliance, talks with Overdrive about the chances of Congress passing a bill to hide CSA scores and force FMCSA to fix the program. Cohen also talks tolling provisions, size and weight reform and whether highway monies will go to rail projects.
October 30, 2015
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Podcast: Tony Justice passes 50,000 records sold, at work on third album in Nashville
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, Justice details sessions ongoing for his new record, "Brothers of the Highway," to feature a vocal duet with Aaron Tippin.
October 19, 2015
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Podcast: What’s up with rates?
DAT Solutions’ Mark Montague talks with Overdrive News Editor James Jaillet about recent rate trends, where he sees rates headed next year and more.
October 17, 2015
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Increasing "Uberization" or "Amazonization" of freight outside direct contracts puts real pressure on brokerage relationships Otto's relied on. The fleet’s doing a lot to counter the trend, to adjust to it with its own focus on safety and, truly, breaking through with hands-on customer service.
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