Tag: conversation

Overdrive Extra

The curse of the to-go cup: Coffee-counter conversation one missing bridge across the divide

Overdrive's Long Haul Paul on the value of face-to-face conversation in trucking industry today in bridging the many divides that plague us. More on Overdrive.

June 29, 2020

Overdrive Extra

Can you hear me now? Anybody out there?

Gary Buchs on the “lost” art of communication: “When I think about the way brokered freight seems to be going — tap a button on a screen, get a load – the phrase ‘trust but verify’ comes high to the mind. Don’t give up on due diligence with the shippers and receivers in such transactions. … In small business ownership, everything is personal.”

October 4, 2019

Overdrive Extra

All the subjects The Algorithm permits

Don’t-call-me-Short Haul Paul keys up the old one-nine with this part-reminiscence, part-dirge on the bluetooth cocoons so many of us fall into around the truck stop counters, at the loading docks, on the long road, where it seems only the “subjects The Algorithm permits” ever get talked about, c’mon…

March 25, 2019

Business

Notes on vernacular

“Keep yer panties on, son, I got a full-grown with a capture in the breakdown, I’ll mosey out of your way momentarily… stand by.” Feel me?

February 8, 2017

Business

The perils of eavesdropping

I hate it when people eavesdrop. And now you should step far away from me, because I’m going to be struck by lightning for being a total hypocrite. I don’t like it when people eavesdrop on my conversations, but I feel an intense desire to eavesdrop on others. It’s an affliction. I could blame it […]

October 20, 2013

Channel 19

On-highway reads: Revisiting ‘In the Driver’s Seat’

Writer and former owner-operator Marc Mayfield will be interviewed Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m. EST on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program.

March 6, 2013

Channel 19

Short haul v. long haul — Where do you stand?

Informal poll results from Overdrive‘s Facebook fans on the growing trend among owner-operators toward operation in short-haul applications.

July 2, 2012

Channel 19

Drivers’ safety conversation continues

If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]

December 20, 2011