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Channel 19

Trucking’s biggest fan turns 16, revisited

A young man from Wisconsin is America's biggest trucking industry fan. Several haulers showed up to show their support for his 16th birthday. Read more here.

September 19, 2018

Channel 19

New bill would require study of driver loss as a result of mandated ELDs

The bill, should it succeed, would require the DOT Secretary to study the extent to which the ELD mandate has driven professional drivers from the industry.

July 3, 2018

Channel 19

Monday news-flash round-up: Inspector enjoys job, moose in Yukon loves Tennessee football

Is the reality that a truck-enforcement-dedicated trooper actually enjoys the interaction-with-truckers aspect of his job truly headline worthy? And: a couple shots along the way to Alaska with owner-op Jerry Boyd and his partner haulers on a military load.

April 23, 2018

Channel 19

Dec. 4 anti-ELD mandate rallies taking place across the country

This coming Monday, Dec. 4, rallies have been planned in a variety of locations in more than 40 states around the nation in an effort to roll the anti-mandate message east to west across the country and put some sunlight for the general public and local media on security, economic and safety issues.

November 28, 2017

Channel 19

Extra amateur day on the roads for total eclipse, particularly in these areas

Will you be in the “zone of totality,” as the scientist-types are saying, this coming Monday for the solar eclilpse? More than one trucking company shutting down for the day anticipating an influx of that most unpredictable of highway users: the four-wheeled one.

August 15, 2017

Channel 19

Back to the future: ‘Trucks of America’ in 1973; The drones are coming! (take four)

Did you know Overdrive once published truck jigsaw puzzles? We didn’t either … And: The drones are coming! Congressional moves reportedly would prevent erection of state barriers to autonomous vehicles and centralize rules at federal level…

June 20, 2017

Business

Abracadabra autonomous!

“They’re not opponents of tech, but it might be a failure of imagination” –Venture capitalist on disconnect between truckers’ expectations of self-driving tech and those of the folks in Silicon Valley. Wendy: “Let’s slow the row on the imagination-bashing a little and get real.”

December 16, 2016

Channel 19

‘Irresponsible’ use of data — it happens day in, day out

Jumping to a conclusion that speed limiters are the driving force behind reductions in crashes without considering other factors is, well, irresponsible indeed.

September 8, 2016

Business

She’s taking all the torque she can, Jim. We’re at critical mass.

Have you ever read something “so terrible you just can’t imagine a real human being pieced it together and hope that someone has an imminently evil computer program to stitch together an AP article about trucking?” Plenty examples this week …

September 7, 2016

Business

Driver shortage? That don’t make no sense

In my pursuit of daily trucking news, I read probably 15 – 20 trucking specific articles. Among these, I would say roughly half cite or have cited the ever elusive and unicorn-like “driver shortage.” These articles usually tick me off, and about 99% of them quote Beelza Bubba and his buddies over at [insert whatever […]

June 25, 2016

Business

Lawyers are more dangerous on any day ending in ‘Y’

In which Wendy responds to a Texas lawyer who, with the help of the Dallas Morning News, “asserts that most everyone who took the past three days off is now back on the road, driving illegally to make up for lost time.” …

June 10, 2016

Business

Former ‘American trucker’ host Robb Mariani hit with a ‘sick’ meme, hits back

Robb Mariani is challenging Facebook to institute better piracy/defamation controls in the wake of his image being used in a meme equating being a “real trucker” with hitting hitchhikers with urine bottles thrown out the window at highway speeds.

May 4, 2016