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Business

‘Clean trucks’ program at Washington ports gets extension to 2019 with registration

Announced last week, the Northwest Seaport Alliance offered owners as yet noncompliant with the requirement to utilize 2007 and later emissions-spec engines by April 1 an extension through to January 1 of next year, with a caveat.

February 13, 2018

Channel 19

‘Here’s to causing a crisis’: Is there a shutdown going on?

Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, who’s closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour rule’s inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.

January 12, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Are you running with an ELD/AOBRD for logs or holding off?

With reports varying considerably from operators following the initial enforcement date of the ELD mandate in December, what’s your status for e-log implementation, whether already set up with one, protesting the mandate by shutting down/leaving the business, remaining on paper logs with an exemption, or another scenario?

January 8, 2018

Channel 19

Round-up: The parking issue’s grassroots problems; And the California convoy that capped the ELD protest week

Too often, the roots grow against new-parking development — Love’s Travel Stops pulls out of Otsego, Minn., truck stop plans after local opposition. And: Video and more from the sizable anti-ELD demonstrations two weeks back out west.

October 19, 2017

Business

Rates and volumes way up in the spot market

Any owner-operators shutting down this week in protest of the electronic logging device mandate might have missed some of the best freight and rate conditions on the spot market that have been seen in the past several years. Updates for dry van, flatbed, based on last week’s data.

October 6, 2017

Channel 19

Truckers converge on Washington, D.C., for events this week

Scenes from Doswell, Va.: Among other efforts, the “ELD or Me” anti-ELD mandate group’s planned D.C. activities have gotten under way today, after things got started in earnest as the group members set up shop at the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.

October 3, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Are you participating in ELD-mandate protest efforts kicking off this week?

Having been promoted for a start date of Tuesday, Oct. 3, various protest actions against the mandate for truckers to use electronic logging devices are happening this week. Are you participating or not? Weigh in here.

October 2, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Voices on the call for a shutdown starting October 3

This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast takes a run through the mailbag following last week’s conversations with organizers of two ELD mandate protest actions set to take place in Washington, D.C., beginning Oct. 3.

September 23, 2017

Overdrive Radio

ELD mandate protest efforts set to stage October 3

Podcast: Two unaffiliated groups — Tony Justice and company’s ELD or Me, and the Texas-headquartered Operation Black and Blue — share details for ELD mandate protests coalescing around a beginning date of October 3.

September 16, 2017

Business

Just his $2 worth

Bill Weaver’s got a unique plan to draw attention to truckers’ concerns: “Let’s all get with our banks and have them order us in $2 bills to spend on the road for expenses … as a form of protest to let the public know our plight.”

June 9, 2017

Business

First time for everything

In which Wendy takes heat for being “reasonable” relative to ELDs … “I know, right? The words ‘reasonable’ and ‘Wendy Parker’ have probably never been used together in a sentence one single time…”

May 26, 2017

Channel 19

Shot in the arm for the ELD fight: Mr. Justice joins Mr. Reed, others with sights on D.C.

Trucker-songwriter Tony Justice taking active role in spurring unity around opposition to the ELD mandate — meanwhile, Scott Reed, Justice and others have set their sights on the first couple weeks of October for potential demonstration in D.C.

May 23, 2017