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Channel 19

No Doubt behind the big-rig wheel with ‘Settle Down’

Band No Doubt’s first single release in a decade comes with a video featuring the crew rendezvousing for a reunion party behind the wheels of big rigs.

July 17, 2012

Channel 19

New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’

Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated

The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]

July 16, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler

Keith Redden’s retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. “I said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,” he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floyd’s Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to […]

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

Speaking urinal cakes: Next step in hours enforcement?

Is it fair to call the Department of Transportation’s approach to hours enforcement a bit heavy-handed of late, what with FMCSA’s (not to mention Congress’) pursuit of an EOBR mandate, flexibility-reducing hours changes and the like? Here’s hoping they don’t resort to the tactics some Michigan establishments, at the behest of the State Police, deployed […]

July 15, 2012

Channel 19

Landry questions White House integrity on EOBRs

In a hearing before the Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week whose title was a markedly direct question — “Is FMCSA’s CSA program driving small businesses off the road?” — Republican Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana took the opportunity during questioning of FMCSA Deputy Administrator Bill Bronrott to question […]

July 13, 2012

Channel 19

Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?

Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]

July 13, 2012

Overdrive Extra

CSA’s sloppy accident accounting

FMCSA needs to go further with crash accountability, providing an appeal process and ensuring that it doesn’t penalize innocent truckers.

July 12, 2012

Channel 19

Union campaign to boost inspection dollars tars truckers

Can you imagine your state’s government employees resorting to something like this? The image here is of a billboard, among other similar ads that are part of a campaign being waged by British Columbia, Canada’s weigh-station inspection force for more funding, attempting to exploit the general public’s supposed fear of Class 8 on-highway trucks. The […]

July 12, 2012

Channel 19

Does the EOBR mandate have another problem?

Some believe the electronic on-board recorder mandate written in this year’s highway bill could well be impossible to achieve, given the legislation’s language defining the electronic logging devices.

July 11, 2012

Channel 19

Jabin Bogan’s Mexico entry re-enacted

The latest news, from AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, notes that on July 5, U.S. truck driver Jabin Bogan’s defense team gathered with local officials, prosecutors (which is trying Bogan on smuggling charges) and experts to “reenact” the alleged wrong turn that saw Bogan enter Mexico with a load of surplus […]

July 10, 2012

Overdrive Extra

UPDATE: Bill Mack not back yet

The day after we published the following look-back through some of the videos we’ve done with trucking radio legend Bill Mack, SiriusXM ran this July 2 update on the status of Mack’s reported return as overnight D.J. on the Willie’s Roadhouse channel — as some of you commented on our Facebook page, quite rightly, he […]

July 10, 2012