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Voices

‘Don’t work more for less’ is reader Tom Hall’s message on hours, ELDs

“A specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will ‘haul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'” –Tom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.

January 16, 2018

Business

Blockchain: Better tools to fight detention abuse, with added utility for driver, carrier credentials

Using geofencing and other location data, a blockchain system might document detention time with a high degree of accuracy. If the system is part of a “smart contract,” a driver would receive detention pay quickly. Drivers/carriers, meanwhile, might use private keys to take control of their business data.

January 9, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs put spotlight on the detention quagmire

The uncertainty around detention timing in live-load/-unload situations is perhaps the biggest potential problem for drivers and carriers using ELDs. It’s also one in which ELDs may be the best tool for combatting the issue, to the benefit of drivers and fleets.

December 12, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Dealing with hours violations beyond your control in ELDs

Recording hours with ELDs: State and federal law enforcement officials urge drivers to practice blunt honesty in special cases, using annotations on duty statuses and status changes to explain the situation in detail. In many cases, officer leniency could prevail.

December 7, 2017

Business

MyRiteLoad shipper-carrier freight platform ‘reboots’

MyRiteLoad hopes to fulfill the promise of what has been called the “elusive holy grail” of load matching, providing load-board-like spot market connections for independents and small fleets to direct shippers rather than brokers.

November 29, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD maker launches petition to add 14-hour flexibility, presents data on detention and race-the-clock dynamics

KeepTruckin’s petition has a goal of garnering 10,000 signatures, and it believes their data shows hard evidence of the hurry-up effect of undue dock delays. It could provide evidence of “race-the-clock” dynamics many operators have long suspected as part-and-parcel of the 14-hour rule/ELD/dock-delay combination.

November 14, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Carriers’ ‘magic eraser’ role in compounding uncompensated-detention issue: Rico Muhammad on the e-log shift

As a trade-off for the ultimate hassle of mandated e-logs, in this Overdrive Radio podcast Muhammad’s hopeful owner-operators can both individually and collectively use the change as a cudgel to their advantage when dealing with brokers, shippers, receivers … anyone who would insist on wasting drivers’ time.

November 14, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

No more ‘catching up the logbook’ with ELDs, a paradigm shift that raises numerous issues

A panel of drivers at the August Great American Trucking Show illustrated that the seemingly simple change brings with it a raft of complications, from new administrative and operational burdens placed on drivers and carrier dispatch to the pressing need for shipper/receiver customers’ appreciation of the new dynamics.

September 20, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Making the e-log switch: The evolution of small fleet Old Time Express

“I know a lot of people, and especially a lot of drivers, would like to cut my head off when I say this …” — that’s Old Time’s Mark White in preamble to some perhaps underappreciated e-log lessons he delivers toward the end of this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast. File under: things people might not want to hear.

July 7, 2017

Channel 19

Disruptive behavior most truckers wouldn’t give a demerit

Would margin transparency in brokered freight transactions be a disruption worth lauding? Here, a run back through recent history’s arguments for — and occasionally against.

June 27, 2017

Voices

Letter to Trump: Parking, 14-hour rule, congestion ever more urgent issues with ELDs

Reader Clifford “Chappy” Petersen’s open letter to Donald Trump ranges through his views on a variety of issues — from parking and congestion to driver pay and more — that he says are set to be further exacerbated by the ELD mandate.

May 2, 2017

Overdrive Radio

When a straight 14 might not be the ideal, or safest, option: Four loads over two days in Ohio with Scott Reed

Hear part of Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills’ many conversations with Buckland, Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed over two days on the road in mid-April 2017. It tells the story of what Reed sees as a certainly less-than-ideal hours rule when it comes to his shorter-haul van operation.

April 28, 2017