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Business
Truckers for a Cause Chapter of A.W.A.K.E meeting
The Truckers for a Cause Chapter of A. W. A. K. E. is a patient support group for truck drivers with sleep apnea. It is part of the nationwide network of support groups organized by the American Sleep Apnea Association. The meeting will be held via conference call. The number is (712) 432 –5015, access code […]
March 18, 2011
Channel 19
Greatwide owner-operator pens one rad read in ‘Collinstown’
Greatwide-leased owner-operator Bob Grantham, based in San Antonio, Texas, calls the evocative writing in his literary Western Collinstown an “unintended consequence of being a truck driver.” At least in part, anyway. Out now from Treble Heart Books, the novel follows the intertwining lives of a current and former Texas Ranger just at the outbreak of the […]
March 18, 2011
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Business
Tuesday webinar: CSA – What it means to you
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is finally under way. Major Mark Savage will explain how it affects your day-to-day operations in a March 22 webinar.
March 17, 2011
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Channel 19
FMCSA listens: PSP update clarifies co-driver inspection violations
While I’m on the subject of CSA, I thought I’d share a bit of an update to this month’s Truckers News CSA cover story. In it, during dicussion of the DataQs system and Ed Webb’s case (which I wrote about yesterday), OOIDA’s Joe Rajkovacz raises a very particular problem with Pre-Employment Screening Program driver inspection/crash […]
March 4, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
Transport equipment a big part of factory growth
In ISM indices that measure growth in manufacturing and manufacturing employment, “transportation equipment” was the third fastest growing segment in February.
March 2, 2011
Channel 19
Truckstops = Coffeehouses with copious rig parking?
A new index tracking sales of goods and services at highway truckstops, the McLane-NATSO quarterly index, recently tracked an interesting rise in the sale of hot beverages like coffees, cappucinos and teas at truckstops. That category of sales jumped 34 percent in 2010 compared to the previous year, suggesting to me at least a little […]
March 2, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
Hot trucking sectors draw attention
Two big parts of the trucking industry are bouncing back very strong and getting the attention of financial media outside of trucking.
February 24, 2011
Channel 19
Have you seen your CSA scorecard?
Back just before the new CSA Safety Measurement System went live in December, I reported on a driver-focused CSA scoring service upcoming from the folks at CSA data mining firm Vigillo, which has been working with carriers for a long time now to develop in-house systems for tracking the progress of their efforts at improving […]
February 18, 2011
Channel 19
Owner-operator John Crozman emerges from Dakota blizzard hailed a hero
“I’ve been doing this a long time, 30 years,” says owner-operator John Crozman (pictured) of his long trucking career, for the past two years leased to Albertville, Minn.-based Long Haul Trucking. Over those three decades, like so many haulers, he’s seen his fair share of on-highway rescue action. “It’s not a problem. You come upon […]
February 17, 2011
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Channel 19
Interviewing Dan Heister, Overdrive’s Trucker of the Year
In this month’s issue of Overdrive, I wrote about the recession-surviving prowess of Boyd Bros.-leased owner-operator Dan Heister (pictured), whose mastery of his short-medium haul niche in Boyd’s self-dispatch/percentage-pay Independent Express program brought him through the really bad times in 2008 to ever-greater success this year. In addition to recently purchasing what amounts to a […]
February 16, 2011
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Business
Keeping up with hours of service
Regulators have proposed an hours of service revision that many in the industry consider too complex. Read what’s going on and how to comment.
February 10, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
Banks find way to win card game
“Interest rates are now hovering near record highs, at an average rate of 14.72%,” reports CNNMoney.com, which explores this topic in more detail. “And if your credit is bad enough, you could even end up with a rate as high as 59.9% APR.”
February 9, 2011
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