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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has won no trucker fans by planning to buy electronic onboard recorders for Mexican trucks.
May 1, 2011
Channel 19
Tornado caught on owner-operatorsâ webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick [âŚ]
April 29, 2011
Trucking History
Electronically controlled unit injector anticipates the future
The 1985 electronically controlled unit injector was ahead of its time in anticipating the reduction of diesel emissions.
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
Braving the storm â two haulersâ Birmingham tornado stories
âI just spent all day yesterday cleaning up tornado damage,â Overdrive Trucker of the Year Dan Heister told me this morning. Heister (pictured) was loaded heading south on I-65 bound for Saginaw, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, when he could see the big tornado that made its way into Cullman, Ala., around 3 p.m. that afternoon. âI [âŚ]
April 29, 2011
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. Iâm based off-site in [âŚ]
April 28, 2011
Channel 19
Freight on your smartphone: TransCore app on the way
Coming in just a couple weeks is the My DAT Truck Stop app (pictured) from freight matching service provider TransCore, operator of the oldest load-board service out there in the DAT boards. My DAT will be initially released for Android phones, providing drivers and owner-operators up to 25 nearby loads per search from Transcoreâs DAT network, [âŚ]
April 26, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Analyst says trucking âinefficientâ
Investment analysts, with their outsidersâ viewpoint, often have some good insight into our industry. Other insights arenât quite so astute. The Business Insider website, with its recent âTrucking running on fumesâ analysis, offers this stark summary as an introduction to its commentary on rising fuel prices: Trucking is one of the most expedient, but also [âŚ]
April 25, 2011
Channel 19
The great tomato heist â Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight
I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasnât consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. âThe high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,â reporter [âŚ]
April 25, 2011
Channel 19
EOBRs controversy over the national airwaves missing extant/emerging solutions
Wednesday, National Public Radioâs âMorning Editionâ program ran this piece on the issue of the proposed federal mandate for electronic on-board recorder use for hours-of-service monitoring. If it goes into effect, virtually all interstate haulers will be required to use an EOBR for logs. You can still comment on the proposed EOBR rule, through May [âŚ]
April 22, 2011
Trucking History
Collectorâs dream yields a âgold beautyâ
The Holy Grail of Dodge Bighorns, Chryslerâs 1973 prototype show truck, eventually made its way to a collector long known as Mr. Bighorn.
April 21, 2011
Channel 19
Truckster app âby and for driversâ
From the Maine Morning Sentinel newspaper comes news of the former hauler, 42-year-old Leigh Gagnon, who created and launched in 2009 the Truckster app for the iPhone and Android phones. Available for $3.99 in the Android market and iTune App Store, the multifunction app provides a searchable platform to the majority of truckstops the nation [âŚ]
April 19, 2011
Channel 19
TA Petro: âFor drivers by designâ
Last week when I wrote about my brief meet-up with expediters Phil and Diane Madsen, I mentioned the pairâs assessment of updated showers at TravelCenters of American locations systemwide, with particularly high marks for the La Vergne, Tenn., location where we met. As I noted in that post, the improvements were begun last year, as [âŚ]
April 18, 2011
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