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Iowa starts carrier rule

Iowa has begun requiring intrastate carriers display their company or farm operation name and USDOT registration number, but won’t enforce this rule until 2011. The state’s transportation department’s Office of Motor Vehicle Enforcement will issue verbal warnings only until 2011. After that, a citation could be issued, which carries a $25 fine and court costs. […]

February 17, 2010

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Free webinar on CSA 2010 set for March 17

As carriers begin to cope with the realities of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, they’ll look at retention and recruitment in new ways. In a webinar produced by Overdrive and Truckers News, Schneider National’s Don Osterberg will examine how fleets need to evaluate drivers’ safety performance and whether the new federal safety initiative will create a […]

February 17, 2010

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Decker Truck Line, Inc., increases mileage pay rates

Decker Truck Line, Inc., started a new pay plan Feb. 15 for reefer and van company drivers.

February 17, 2010

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Baltimore columnist: ‘Can’t avoid jackknifing? Don’t be a truck driver’

Michael Dresser, writing in the Baltimore Sun after the deluge of snow that blanketed the East Coast over the Super Bowl weekend, singled out several jackknifed rigs and their drivers in the Baltimore area as “Public Enemy No. 1.” One such jackknifing incident, he writes, turned I-95 into a parking lot for the entirety of […]

February 17, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking industry self-policing, Montana-style

How’s this for taking matters into your own hands? After a few truck accidents on Montana highways 93 and 35 around Flathead Lake in the western section of the state, one of which spilled several thousand gallons of gasoline into soil precariously near the body of water, the public called for a ban of all […]

February 16, 2010

Channel 19

Olympic downhill skiing, brought to you by dump trailer

Ice road trucking it isn’t, but I couldn’t help but notice in opening television coverage of the Winter Olympics, ongoing around Vancouver, B.C., an exceptional shot of a tractor pulling a dump trailer loaded with nothing but pure white snow. That’s right, while the U.S. has had no short supply of the white stuff this year, getting the […]

February 15, 2010

Channel 19

Continental HSR rides well on uneven terrain in Super Bowl ad

If you saw Budweiser’s “Human Bridge” ad during the New Orleans Saints decisive defeat of the Indianapolis Colts to claim victory in last Sunday’s Super Bowl contest, you may have missed one key piece of the spot, a split second shot of a Bud truck’s tires rolling over the human bridge (pictured). Says Continental Tire‘s Jackie Pobiega. […]

February 12, 2010

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Owner-operator’s record hits Roots Music charts

I’ll bet Overdrive October 2009 Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon, an independent you may likewise remember from a couple posts (here and here) late last year about his part in the Convoy for a Cure festivities in Texas, is having a good old time watching news of all the snow folks all over the country are suffering […]

February 11, 2010

Reader Rigs

Truck Gallery

Jerry Beaudoin owns SRS National, a trucking company that hauls environmental waste to landfills in the Northeast, and Triple One is the star of his fleet. The 2007 Peterbilt 379 is powered by a 565-hp Cummins ISX and an 18-speed Eaton Fuller.

February 10, 2010

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Paccar to open engine plant

Paccar announced the official introduction of its MX series diesel engines and the opening this summer of its new engine plant in Columbus, Miss., during a press event at the Paccar Technical Center in Mount Vernon, Wash., on Feb. 5. Not many companies are taking such steps during “the worst economy in decades,” said Paccar […]

February 10, 2010

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Sleep apnea webinar set for tonight

Dr. Mark Berger, president and chief medical officer of Precision Pulmonary Diagnostics, will talk on sleep apnea in a free webinar tonight.

February 10, 2010

Channel 19

FMCSA finally listening to drivers?

On the subject of the hours of service, my entire time covering the trucking industry has been to the ever-more-visible backdrop curtain of calls (to really mix metaphors) to introduce some sort of flexibility into the current, rigid 14-hour window for drivers to take short sleeper berth periods and not risk losing valuable driving hours. The […]

February 9, 2010