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Channel 19

Will CSA take its first significant hit standing up?

OOIDA’s suit against the FMCSA’s CSA enforcement regime charges the agency with significant mishandling of driver information in the MCMIS database — and lack of an adequate dispute process.

July 18, 2012

Channel 19

Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law

Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. “While everyone has jumped on the proverbial […]

July 17, 2012

Channel 19

No Doubt behind the big-rig wheel with ‘Settle Down’

Band No Doubt’s first single release in a decade comes with a video featuring the crew rendezvousing for a reunion party behind the wheels of big rigs.

July 17, 2012

Channel 19

New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’

Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.

July 16, 2012

Business

Truckers Helper now available for fleets

Truckers Helper Online has released the Online Fleet Edition, which offers the basic functionality found in the stand-alone program, with an added payroll module. The application helps manage a fleet with everything from booking the load to paying drivers. The program also offers automatic mileage entry using the trucking specific ProMiles routing engine, fuel optimization, […]

July 16, 2012

Business

Driver appreciation campaign to award cash, rinds, duct tape

Rudolph Foods, manufacturer of pork rinds, and ShurTech Brands, makers of Duck brand duct tape, will celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, Sept. 16-22, with an eight-week campaign and a video contest. Truckers are invited to record videos filling in the phrase “Three things I always keep in my truck: a bag of pork rinds, […]

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated

The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]

July 16, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler

Keith Redden’s retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. “I said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,” he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floyd’s Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to […]

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

Speaking urinal cakes: Next step in hours enforcement?

Is it fair to call the Department of Transportation’s approach to hours enforcement a bit heavy-handed of late, what with FMCSA’s (not to mention Congress’) pursuit of an EOBR mandate, flexibility-reducing hours changes and the like? Here’s hoping they don’t resort to the tactics some Michigan establishments, at the behest of the State Police, deployed […]

July 15, 2012

Channel 19

Landry questions White House integrity on EOBRs

In a hearing before the Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week whose title was a markedly direct question — “Is FMCSA’s CSA program driving small businesses off the road?” — Republican Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana took the opportunity during questioning of FMCSA Deputy Administrator Bill Bronrott to question […]

July 13, 2012

Business

Peterbilt 579 gets SmartWay designation

Peterbilt announced its new 579 model has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay designation. The model meets the program’s established set of fuel-saving, low-emission equipment specifications for new Class 8 long-haul tractors and trailers. The model features an aerodynamic styling, a new interior, vehicle system enhancements like optimal an chassis system to reduce noise […]

July 13, 2012

Channel 19

Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?

Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]

July 13, 2012