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Custom Rigs
Richard Baulosâ â12 Volvo expediterâs retirement sale-in-progress
Interested parties can find a list of specs and contact info in the shots from the truck lot at the Expedite Expo below.
July 23, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDsâ capacity squeeze assumption no. 2: Flight from the industry
Will owner-operators and other drivers leave the industry in large enough numbers to produce a significant capacity shortage in the spot market, driving up rates? Some believe so â long as stated intentions become reality â while skepticism is prominent as well.
August 8, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL update: Whatâs your most likely response to the ELD mandate?
With the principle legal challenge (OOIDAâs court battle) to the ELD mandate at an end, assuming the end-of-year enforcement deadline remains, whatâs your current plan for dealing with the mandate? Weigh in in this poll.
June 29, 2017
Channel 19
Tuesday round-up: Miracle on the road, and âretirementsâ accelerate at Wes Memphisâ fleet in wake of e-log transition
A truck rolls safely with âno ELD, no ABS, no ERG, no SCR no DEF?â What gives? one reader cracks wise. And Wes Memphis returns to the blog with a suggestion that, should biz consultant Jeffrey Hayzlettâs rule of thirds apply to post-ELD mandate trucking, there will be âno lack of trucking jobsââŚ
June 6, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Will ELDs or autonomous trucks make the bigger splash in the driver pool?
Progress from Google, Tesla and others with self-driving cars, including the occasional mention of Class 8 trucks, fuels speculation that driverless big rigs are about to rule the highway.
May 1, 2017
Custom Rigs
âMy toyâ: Retired owner-op Roger Hilbrennerâs 1991 Peterbilt 379
Though retired, Roger Hilbrennerâs still shows the truck annually.
November 22, 2016
Business
Should I stay or should I go?
Are you contemplating hanging up your trucking hat? âIf you want to grow cucumbers, you donât plant chicken turds. You donât heap piles of poo on top and expect a bumper crop of cucumbers, it just doesnât work that way.â âŚ
November 21, 2016
Custom Rigs
Retirement rewards: Tobby Donalsonâs 1959 Peterbilt 351
Two years after saying goodbye to the highway, independent owner-operator Tobby Donalson finished a rig he waited nearly 30 years for the time to rebuild just right
June 29, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: What will be your response to mandated ELDs?
7 in 10 readers noted theyâd consider either early retirement or another line of work before theyâd run with an electronic log in March 2014, when the recently released rule was proposed. Whatâs your outlook today?
December 16, 2015
Channel 19
Pay by performance, rate trends
Was 2013 the year that changed driver pay forever? Gordon Klemp seems to think so. Catch a vid with him here from the TCA meeting in Nashville and find out why. Some potentially good news in it for independents.
February 1, 2014
Business
Safety is all in the perception
I canât help but be a little fixated on the government shutdown. Our parents are all paid by the government right now, either in the form of retirement or a paycheck. If their money is suddenly gone, weâre probably going to have to do something stupendous to save the family, like go to Taiwan and [âŚ]
October 3, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Dollars and Sense
Over 90 percent of the U.S. population is not financially independent at retirement. Follow theses steps to put your self in the other 10 percent.
January 1, 2010
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