Tag: Clifford Petersen

Channel 19

Medical resources hiding in plain sight

This trucking association's app offers owner-operators a '24/7 Doctor' function to its members but isn't getting as traction as it could. Read more here.

October 27, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Truckers together in pursuit of victory over child abuse with ATTACA

The notion in the headline here is, at least, the goal of Western Flyer Express founder Rodney Timms, based in Oklahoma and also the founder of the All Truckers Together Against Child Abuse (ATTACA) org. In this week’s edition of Overdrive Radio, find Timms’ impassioned plea to the trucking community to join him.

January 15, 2020

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

‘Common sense, you’ve got it for a reason’ -- Use your CB already, owner-ops say

And if you don’t run with a CB, get one. Too many seem to think that the CB is little more than a “movie prop from a silly movie from the 1970s,” as Kenneth Williams put it, echoing the sentiment of a bevy of truckers after a deadly highway pileup.

January 24, 2017

Channel 19

Better rates: Employee drivers need fair-labor protection, reader argues

A prescription for improved rates long-term — a reader argues for federal wage protection for company drivers.

June 23, 2016

Voices

‘Be the change you want to see’

From the cab of Clifford “Dream Walker” Petersen on the state of the industry. Drivers have strength in numbers, and individual actions will go a long way toward improving conditions for owner-operators.

May 24, 2016