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Reader: ELDs set to exacerbate existing parking, detention issues
“I don’t think anyone has really considered what making all trucks go ELD will do and all the problems it will cause. There isn’t enough parking now.” –reader Josiah Gonzalez, via email. And: A little personal conveyance wiggle room.
February 21, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
E-log sticker merits easy time at weigh station
Gastonia, N.C.-based hotshot/tow owner-operator Buster Lewis took up the Continental VDO RoadLog to eliminate the hassle of pushing paper logs, he says — big bonus: No weigh-station hassles for him and his 2006 Freightliner Business Class straight flatbed.
February 9, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs and the detention quagmire
Rico Muhammad’s reefer freight operation, based in Atlanta, is comprised of two trucks operating primarily in the Southeast and sometimes outside the region. He names detention’s operational quagmire as perhaps the principal issue for owner-operators moving to ELDs.
February 8, 2017
Business
Combating the theft problem with information
CargoNet offers members a reporting service which ensures theft info is distributed to a network of more than 125,000 officers in more than 9,000 jurisdictions around the country, including the several regional cargo theft task forces that exist.
January 13, 2017
Business
Heists involving identity theft and other types of fraud are growing part of cargo theft mix
Since the so-called “fictitious pickup” cargo theft mode drew enough attention in supply-chain-security circles to warrant specific attention, it’s only continue to grow as a share of all load thefts nationwide. Combat it with information security.
January 12, 2017
Business
Fighting tickets: Don’t forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record
While prospective employers/lessors aren’t strictly required to use FMCSA’s PSP reports to view prospective drivers’ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.
December 28, 2016
Business
How to fight traffic tickets, whether with or without legal help
There is more than one way to skin the cat when it comes to fighting tickets. While more than four in 10 Overdrive readers say they have seen success contesting a ticket without employing a lawyer to help, interviews reveal a different pattern.
December 27, 2016
Channel 19
How Elves Trucking LLC got back in service — just in the nick of time
A guest Channel 19 post from the desk of Richard Wilson and TCRG Consulting: “The DOT elves were on the prowl only to find a jolly old sleigh driver elf with a time card instead of a logbook on hand. …”
December 23, 2016
Business
The Haven
Wendy’s parody of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” poem details an encounter with a local LEO tap tap tapping on the driver’s door: “I’m here for sleep, and nothing more.”
December 12, 2016
Business
Midwest Muscle: Iowa bolsters targeted approach to driver violations
Iowa DOT’s high violations-per-inspection ranking, among other data, underscores an increasing focus on driver violations, particularly related to hours of service.
November 29, 2016
Voices
POLL: Have you successfully fought a traffic (or other) citation?
Whether issued at roadside for a moving violation or an equipment infraction noted in a scale-house, citations can put big stains on your record. Have you ever been successful fighting one or more in court or via administrative procedures?
November 28, 2016
Channel 19
If you’re carrying baking soda on the truck …
You might do well to keep it in the original container … This cautionary tale of team military haulers Gale Griffin and Wendell Harvey’s two months in an Arkansas jail, their truck in impound, shows the unreliability of cheap roadside narcotics-ID kits.
November 28, 2016
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