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Overdrive Radio
‘Apps 4 Truckers’ podcast from longtime driver
Trucker Tim Spence’s Apps4Truckers podcast combines interviews with drivers and reviews of smartphone apps with a focus on being “the transition place,” Spence says, between technical software instruction and information about such software that is actually useful.
April 24, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Camaraderie on the road: Where did it go?
Voices on driver-to-driver camaraderie — “pay it forward, you never go wrong.” And: A mailbag podcast rounding up reader reactions to the dismissal of one owner-operator’s obstruction of justice case.
April 21, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Kenny Capell’s obstruction of justice case at the scale house, in his own words
Capell hopes it becomes common practice in law enforcement to better respect the job trucking professionals do by refraining from waking sleeping codrivers absent reasonable suspicion.
March 23, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: A look back at Watermelon Slim’s trucking blues live in Nashville, Tuscaloosa
Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans in 2010, upon release of his “Escape from the Chicken Coop” record of trucking blues, playing his solo slide at Carol Ann’s in Nashville and at Overdrive HQ in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
March 21, 2015
Watermelon Slim, live in Nashville
Overdrive Radio
Congress’ latest alert over CSA scores
New House bill 1371 would pull carrier CSA scores from public view, require FMCSA to revamp program.
March 20, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Driver training: Introducing Bryan Spoon, owner-operator on the rulemaking committee
A podcast conversation with owner-operator and ELDTAC member Bryan Spoon; and DOT’s Foxx asks “What if it all stops?”, says the Onion.
March 19, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: ‘Don’t help the lawyers. Help us.’ –Readers on insurance
In this podcast, readers weigh in on rising insurance costs, urging regulators and congress not to hike minimums, which might well serve only to line the pockets of attorneys and deleteriously affect the trucking business.
March 17, 2015
More costs piled on by regulators in the form of an insurance hike, readers argue in the podcast below, would only serve to idle more independent trucks.
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Music, new advocacy project from independent Howard Salmon
The owner-operator/songwriter hear tells the story of his “Who Would They Look Up To?” track, newly being offered as a free download to encourage parents and truckers around the nation to hew to its message, and more.
March 13, 2015
Howard Salmon with guitar in-cab
Overdrive Radio
Keith Sampson’s Trucker Talent Search ditty
The 2014 Trucker Talent Search winner, songwriter and Landstar owner-operator encourages truckers to take part in this year’s TTS with a new song and video.
March 12, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Entry level driver training conversations following rulemaking committee meeting
Will traditional training approaches survive the Entry Level Driver Training rulemaking? If statutory language is any indication, it’s likely. Voices on training standards/practices in this podcast.
March 9, 2015
Delaware-based Richard Wilson, among others, shares his experience with informal pre-CDL training in the Entry Level Driver Training podcast below. Find him via the website of his independent TCRG Consulting business.
Overdrive Radio
Jeff Clark for FMCSA Administrator? And: Lookback Tony Justice podcast
Operator Jeff Clark fires up the campaign machine, and a lookback podcast performance from Tony Justice — Dave Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” and Justice’s own “Who Needs Heaven.”
March 7, 2015
Tony Justice drives for Greenville, Tenn.-based Everhart Transportation.
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Minimum interstate age should be 18, insurance barriers to new owner-operators
Podcast round-up of some reader voices on minimum interstate driving age, insurance challenges for young owner-operators, hours, parking and more.
March 3, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
Entry level driver training podcast: The data problem
What’s dogged any training rule for the last 20 years? There’s no particular evidence of a relationship between adequacy of training and drivers’ safety on the road.
February 27, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
The bar goes up on fuel surcharges
In a podcast, Gordon Klemp, head of the National Transportation Institute, discusses fuel surcharges, sign-on bonuses, demand for owner-operators, and compensation trends for flatbedders and independents.
February 12, 2015
It’s not as easy to profit from a fuel surcharge as it used to be.
Overdrive Radio
‘Hold the line’ — former ‘black hawk down’ Army ranger’s message of endurance, persistence
Podcast: Thomas spoke, telling the story of his Somalia experience, and performed the song this past Thursday to open the Conversion Interactive / TCA recruiting, retention conference.
February 7, 2015
Click through the image to read more about Thomas' book chronicling his experience in Somalia.
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Obamacare, round two — progress report as second enrollment period nears end
What’s to consider if you’re uninsured come tax time? Will the Supreme Court derail the bedrock of the ACA? Marc Ballard answers these and other questions here.
January 29, 2015
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Overdrive Radio
More voices on restart rollback; And a moving encounter off I-395 in Connecticut
Audio mailbag No. 2 on the restart as Congress mulls big spending bill; And: driver Scott LeVan’s encounter with Ben, a wounded German Shepherd, brings tears to a grown man’s eyes.
December 11, 2014
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Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: FMCSA ‘barked up the wrong tree’ with 2013-implemented restart changes
Podcast: In the wake of Congressional efforts to force a stay on the 2013 restart provisions of truckers’ hours of service this week, readers weighed in on their view of the so-called ‘Collins amendment.’
December 10, 2014
Parking and hours of service
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