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Business

Jeff Clark is a good egg

Dust-up over an eating contest at MATS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ prototypical driver yields insights: “I’m not a troublemaker, I’m a concerned citizen. Most of the time.”

March 15, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Jeff Clark for FMCSA Administrator? And: Lookback Tony Justice podcast

Operator Jeff Clark fires up the campaign machine, and a lookback podcast performance from Tony Justice — Dave Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” and Justice’s own “Who Needs Heaven.”

March 7, 2015

Channel 19

Retention is the issue, not recruiting: An ‘alert’ from trucker Jeff Clark

Clark’s personal story relative to pay, recruiting and retention on the new North American Trucking Alerts community, advocacy website.

December 9, 2014

Life

Starting off the day right: TSG’s GATS Health Walk

The Trucking Solutions Group conducted its annual GATS Health Awareness Walk this morning, Aug. 23, with a sizable group of participants and a cool finish with Baylor Trucking’s ALS ice-bucket challenge.

August 23, 2014

Business

Don’t lick me, bro

Apocryphal — maybe — tale of face-licking as a form of gratitude yields an obsession: “I think I might have a mild complex regarding [fear of] stranger licking now.”

August 22, 2014

Voices

The scrum over mandatory detention pay

Following the Obama administration’s nod to the notion of mandatory detention pay in its draft highway bill, debate has intensified over whether the federal government ought to be involved in detention at all.

May 30, 2014

Channel 19

‘Car mentality’ pervading too many pretrips?

“Open the hood,” driver, owner-operator Jeff Clark urges those who take to trucking with the “car mentality.”

April 26, 2014

Channel 19

Round-up: MATS haps, and a cattle hauler on his long career

Recently-retired bull wagon hauler Laurin Dreher reflects on a long career, while owner-operator Jeff Clark talks while he walks and more plans for MATS solidify…

March 20, 2014

Channel 19

‘Haul it for free?’: Readers sound off on recent hours study

Wisecracks and ideas on rates following the recent UT Global Supply Chain Institute’s study on the new hours of service’s economic impact, which noted companies along the supply chain should focus on efficiency rather than raise rates/pass along costs…

January 23, 2014

Channel 19

More on the HHG miles problem (and kettlebell workouts)

Says owner-operator Jeff Clark: If market forces do not force a sunset on carrier use of the HHG miles system for pay, “we should start demanding it from FMCSA and Congress.”

September 23, 2013

Overdrive Extra

Hours of service option: Earning flexibility

Gold Card status would bring freedom from hours of service regs on the assumption that this is an experienced, safe, mature driver who knows to drive when rested and rest when tired.

July 25, 2013

Channel 19

Driver dispatches to DOT: New priorities for a new secretary

What should the new DOT Secretary focus make a priority as he takes office? We asked, and drivers responded.

July 2, 2013