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Channel 19
Pre-employment screening in the CSA 2010 era
Itās not all about DAC anymore. With CSA 2010 carrier scores in six of the seven violation categories in CSA 2010 set to go public beginning in December, carrier attention to inspection reports has ramped up to a high level ā for drivers, a primary piece of the regulatory puzzle in all of this is [ā¦]
October 5, 2010
Channel 19
A coffee for St. Christopher
What says trucking more than a good cup of coffee? Though I havenāt done much coffee-related reporting since the March 2008 Truckers News story probing haulersā coffee preferences, I suspect that with the turmoil weāve all seen in the economy since that time, the 16 percent of drivers reporting they made their own brew on [ā¦]
October 4, 2010
Channel 19
A driver so good the shipper gave him his own desk
Talk about burying the lead: The Osakis Review, a paper published from Osakis, Minn., ran a great profile of resident Larry Herzog (pictured, by Greta Petrich), who runs beef destined for McDonaldās customersā stomachs for carrier Hensley Trucking, also of Osakis. In the profile, Herzog spends due time stressing the difficulties he faces daily in [ā¦]
October 1, 2010
Business
Birth of an Icon
For hard-working owner-operators trying to survive in a highly regulated industry, Overdrive became the Voice of the American Trucker.
October 1, 2010
Channel 19
Say ____ to electronic logs
Outside of leased owner-operators reacting to strong encouragement, for lack of a better phrase, from their lessor fleets, Iāve yet to actually speak to an owner-operator whoās voluntarily adopted an electronic logging platform that conforms to the federal definition of an EOBR, i.e. essentially an electronic logging system that is tethered to the engineās electronic [ā¦]
September 30, 2010
Channel 19
Still ādressed for successā ā Henry Albertās opening salvo at GATS PIB
Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year, independent owner-operator Henry Albert (pictured, right, with our current Trucker of the Year, Mike Crawford), delivered an opening salvo at Overdriveās Partners in Business seminar Friday, Aug. 27, at the Great American Trucking Show in an address that elucidated the effects of a very-small adjustment in his Ā business that, [ā¦]
September 29, 2010
Channel 19
Dangerous roads ā for animals ā cataloged in California, Maine
The last time Truckers News addressed the subject of dangerous roads, you might forgive us for having focused on the obvious, the treacherous mountain passes, cold and snowy winter roads and congested urban centers that make the job of the nationās truck drivers a sometimes harrowing adventure. Researchers and other users of Ā the California and [ā¦]
September 29, 2010
Channel 19
Having the cake and rolling it too
You may remember our reporting on the āBiggest tractor-trailer cake in the worldā on the occasion of Iowa 80 Truckstopās Walcott Truckers Jamboreeās big anniversary more than a year ago now ā the confection, an 8-foot-long creation, still probably holds the title, but weāve gotten word via the Birmingham News of another (pictured, by the [ā¦]
September 27, 2010
Business
Sept. 29 webinar: Load selection for profit
Trucking radio host and Overdrive columnist Kevin Rutherford will discuss how to make wise choices in planning your loads in Overdriveās next webinar
September 24, 2010
Channel 19
One week left in Sept. Truckers News photo contest
The contest asks for pictures of āTruckstop scenes,ā such as this night shot I took in the early a.m. Wednesday, at a Georgia Pilot on the way back from Atlanta with Western Express driver Derek Dorsey. The prize, in addition to publication in Truckers News, will be something of a āfield guideā to the basics [ā¦]
September 23, 2010
Channel 19
Former Arrow Trucking driver advocate Donna Creekmore needs your help
At the collapse of her employer, Arrow Trucking, just days prior to Christmas in 2009, she was there when stranded drivers the nation over needed her help getting home ā Arrow driver advocate āMommaā Donna Creekmore was up for much of four days straight in those heady times, though her own troubles were beginning as [ā¦]
September 21, 2010
Channel 19
The case against locking the trailer; Sioux City salute
Cargo theft is on the rise, we report this month in Truckers News, and truckers using rear adjustable bar locks on their vans may be an ever-more-frequent reality. But for every argument thereās an at least somewhat valid counterargument, and one haulerās unfortunate truck fire on I-70 in Indiana near Terre Haute points to the, [ā¦]
September 20, 2010
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