Tag: Craig Vecellio

Channel 19
Oil-patch captioning ā€˜from sun-up til down-holeā€™
One readerā€™s fitting caption for a photo depicting a sunrise early-early in the oil patch in Texas by John Reinhardt. The hauler and his Freightliner were ā€œwaiting to be escorted six miles up a poorly graded well road to deliver poly pipe at a water storage facility used for drilling operations.ā€ ā€¦
May 8, 2017
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Voices
Lumper fees: Sometimes a little push-back works
Readers respond to Wendy Parkerā€™s ā€œTo lump or not to lumpā€¦ā€ story about the lumper fees common at grocery distributors ā€” if carriers arenā€™t being compensated for fees by shipper or receiver, then U.S. law has been violated.
August 6, 2013
Lumpers
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
Scan the code or click through the image to download a copy of the split-sleep-period study conducted at FMCSA’s behest by researchers at Washington State University’s Sleep and Performance Research Center.
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