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Jasonās Law: Five years after the passing of its namesake
In conversation with Overdriveās Wendy Parker, Hope Rivenburg, marking the fifth anniversary of the death of her husband, for whom the Jasonās Law truck parking legislation is named, stresses the need for drivers to continue to press their legislators on areas where truck parking is sorely lacking and/or unsafe.
March 18, 2014
Parking
Say it, donāt spray it
Confrontation in a truck stop parking lot yields this from George: āYou canāt just scream at people, babe. I donāt like it either, but you never know when youāre going to run up on crazy.ā
March 9, 2014
Parking
FLSA reform, parking, detention: MCSAC prioritizes reauthorization recommendations
Reforming employee-driver compensation by removing the FLSA overtime exemption was among top recommendations, likewise expanding truck-parking availability, sleep apnea, further New Entrant attention and more.
February 11, 2014
Channel 19
Reader: Parking enforcement in La Porte, Texas, gets tough
Clark Freight Lines Safety Director (and La Porte police officer) Jeffrey Tippit on cityās move to get tough enforcing a no-parking ordinance extending to retail parking lots.
January 28, 2014
Parking
Circle, circle, dot dot dotā¦.
In which Wendy proposes a research project, and āsomeoneās sister-in-law needed a job, so they created the āFund for Dumb Stuffāā¦ Progress, people, progress.ā
January 8, 2014
Parking
Added bonus at the W.Va. Tamarack
In 1996, Tamarack was opened by the West Virginia Parkways Authority at the Beckley Service Plaza on I-64 as an economic development project.
December 27, 2013
Channel 19
Last haul from the Texas pea harvest: Unloading with Cody Blankenship
Photos and reporting from a Bells, Tenn., unload with Cody Blankenship, who sees parking availability as the biggest issue going, despite Jasonās Law. Hours, e-logs compound the problemā¦
December 17, 2013
Parking
West Virginia to get truck parking alert system
The West Virginia Division of Highways will offer a guidance system to alert truckers to available parking via roadway signs and the 511 Traveler Information platform.
December 10, 2013
Parking
Report: Open road is gone as modern trucker grapples with hours rules, e-logs and parking shortages
A Wall Street Journal report says a āconfusing tangle of rulesā and a myriad of devices like electronic logs and speed limiters are dampening not only the industryās efficiency but the will of those who are and want to be truck drivers.
November 14, 2013
Parking
The real effect of the new hours rules
The people who make the rules of the road should have to see a grown man running around in his underwear in the middle of the night before they make everyone park at the same time.
August 4, 2013
Channel 19
āParking firestormā cools into substantive, driver-led effort
Independent owner-operator Jason Haggard is urging able drivers to join him at a June 18 council meeting in Coon Rapids, Minn., to begin the process of meeting with the city to address the parking fiasco there.
June 15, 2013
Channel 19
Local kudos: Campo, Colo.
When a tornado warning was issued May 22 in Campo, Colo., this year, Karen and Tom Moore saw firsthand the hospitality of the townās local law enforcement officials.
June 11, 2013
Parking
Catching flies with honey: A parking firestorm in Minnesota
Following a widely circulated picture posted about the truck-parking ordinance banning trucking parking and passed by Coon Rapids, Minn., last year, Wendy reaches out to the city council.
June 10, 2013
Parking
LETTER: Earn your āprofessionalā title
Reader Earnest J. Williams on the furor over a Walmart that recently banned truck parking: āI have noticed that when we are wrong about something, we really donāt want to have our errs pointed out to us, especially publicly.ā
June 2, 2013
Parking
Unwanted visitors at a Texas Walmart
Seen at the Walmart in Lancaster, Texas: NO TRUCK PARKING ā VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. And it gets hairierā¦
May 29, 2013
Channel 19
Hours recap: New regs bringing old practice to the fore?; OK tornado intel
More and more under new hours rules, drivers and owner-operators are expecting a turn away from the restart and back to the recap. You? Also: A brief update on OK tornado relief expectations.
May 21, 2013
Parking
National truck-parking driver survey launched
Here find out how to take the survey, created by Hope Rivenburg in part in concert with driver advocates Allen and Donna Smith of Truth About Trucking and aimed at educating the DOT on parking needs.
May 15, 2013
Parking
States eye ways to keep rest stops open
Louisiana and New Hampshire recently advanced legislation that would permit private sponsorship to help fund rest areas, while New Jersey has slowed down on the idea.
April 19, 2013
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