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If Trump really wants to save U.S. jobs …
“If he (Trump) cares about the working man, he’ll stop this talk about driverless trucks.” –Trucker Jerry Jackson in Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial about autonomous vehicle tech threats.
January 5, 2017
Business
President signs three-month highway patch into law
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday, July 31, a bill to extend funding for the Highway Trust Fund for three months.
July 31, 2015
Business
Ride spokesperson says main goal: Impeach Obama
Trucking grievances taking second stage in the Ride for the Constitution’s effort, according to organizers, who have distanced themselves from a driver involved in planning. Find other updates here.
October 9, 2013
Overdrive Extra
Trucking with environmentalists
What the President’s new Climate Action Plan has to say about heavy-duty trucks yields odd alignment of environmental / trucking perspective in discussion.
June 28, 2013
Voices
More hours flexibility would improve safety
Drivers, responding to an FMCSA study that some interpreted as backing up what they have been saying for years, showed unity around the call for more berth-use flexibility to improve safety,
February 14, 2013
Voices
Readers: Bring influence peddlers out of the shadows
A sizable majority of Overdrive readers favor reforms to campaign-finance rules that would bring 501(c)(4) political spenders into the light.
December 21, 2012
Voices
Hot button: Take the plunge to deal with U.S. debt?
A majority of Overdrive readers favor a moderate course in dealing with the “fiscal cliff’ coming at yearend if Congress does not act.
November 9, 2012
Channel 19
Obama, Romney show no substance on fuel prices
Take two of the Obama-Romney 2012 debate season offered no substance on the role of government in fuel prices, despite current efforts to rein in speculation: ultimately, there’s a reason for that.
October 20, 2012
Channel 19
Expediter pays witness to slim Obama victory
Checking in with Landstar-leased expediter Phil Madsen and his “Learning something new every day” blog.
September 20, 2012
Voices
Hot Button: Truckers’ choice for President
Sixty-six percent of Overdrive readers participating in our 2012 presidential election poll favored Mitt Romney as their candidate of choice.
September 12, 2012
Channel 19
Did Joe Biden drive a truck or didn't he?
Whatever the case, he did take a ride with an independent trucker in 1973, evidenced in this lookback. Trucking could use a little more of what Biden seems to have had back at that time, an empathy for the realities of the independent trucking business.
September 10, 2012
Voices
Hot buttons: Your choice for U.S. president
August 13, 2012
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