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Voices

Trucking ‘in trouble’ if it doesn’t solve the payroll problem for drivers

Peter Harrigan says that if all trucking companies started paying that rate, the millennial would be flocking to this industry. Details on Overdrive.

September 5, 2018

Channel 19

Hopeful and careful-what-you-wish-for dynamics in reader commentary in wake of FMCSA’s hours moves

Everybody's favorite subject of debate -- the hours of service rule -- has engendered plenty among Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readers.

September 4, 2018

Channel 19

Tesla Semi and its clean inspection violate the eye test of more than one reader

The Tesla Semi, inspected at Donner Pass Inspection Station, received a clean inspection report; however, many Overdrive readers are not impressed by its looks.

August 17, 2018

Channel 19

How many people are affected by the One20 F-ELD’s shuttering?

Owner-op Jerry Allen expresses his thoughts on how the One F-ELD shuttering was handled. He wonders how many others went through something similar. Have you?

June 18, 2018

Voices

NATSO: Overdrive asked wrong question in rest area commercialization report

Could rest area commercialization lead to a reduction in truck parking? NATSO's Lisa Mullings offers her opinion about rest area commercialization on Overdrive.

June 18, 2018

Voices

ATA v. OOIDA dust-up: Truckers respond

Truck drivers weigh in on the ATA and OOIDA following ATA President Chris Spear's claims that individuals associated with the OOIDA threatened the ATA.

May 7, 2018

Voices

Report: Truckers take to D.C. streets (one Tased and arrested) and engage FMCSA, Congress on hours change, more

Grassroots groups of owner-operators and drivers returned 30-40 power units to Constitution Ave. between the White House and Washington monument yesterday, April 9, to press concerns to the public, lawmakers and regulators over the ELD mandate and hours of service flexibility. In an otherwise productive day, according to participants, one owner-op tells a story of use of force gone wrong.

April 10, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Double-brokered loads, ELD issues, pausing that 14-hour clock already: Friday podcast round-up

This edition of Overdrive Radio further digs in around the expectation mismatch between brokers and carriers in load negotiations — plus more views on the potential for hours of service change from readers.

March 16, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Split sleeper-berth option high on haulers’ hours wish list

The large majority of reader respondents you’ll hear in this mailbag edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast took the notion of a pause button for the 14-hour rule farther. It’s split rest, or split sleeper berth period flexibility, that most want,

February 17, 2018

Channel 19

Let the 14-hour conversations … begin?

‘Continue’ rather than ‘begin’ is probably the best word to describe what’s been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDA’s lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.

February 15, 2018

Voices

More tolls or no tolls? Two-thirds of readers say no

Just a third of readers favored any liberalization whatsoever in the ability of government to toll interstate routes, whether current or new routes or expansion lanes.

February 12, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Profit — what this trucking thing is all about: A new, simple freight-bid calculator app

In the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet owner Scott Jordan intros the ICG ProfitCalc app for Android/iOS, a freight bidding app that allows users to input their own annual cost projections as a benchmark for load-by-load rate calculations, per-mile and per-hour, to ensure a chosen profit margin.

January 25, 2018