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How to file a coercion or harassment complaint
Filing a coercion complaint can be done via the FMCSA’s National Consumer Complaint Database in the “Driver” section. Also here, a look at the concentration of coercion complaints, by state, over the four years the Coercion Rule has been in place.
December 19, 2019
Overdrive Extra
One trucker’s somewhat mixed feelings on the hours of service proposal
Clifford Petersen on the hours proposal: “I will say definitively … that yes, we need greater flexibility. After all, we are professionals, and no one knows our needs better than we do. Still, there are areas that need clarification …”
August 28, 2019
Business
Loadtap’s chatbot dispatch system
The Loadtap platform officially went live on Tuesday, Feb. 27, and one of its central features is an automated chatbot dispatch system those party to the platform can use to communicate with drivers in their private networks.
March 15, 2018
Business
Shipwell.com freight platform launched
For small fleets and independent owner-operators, the new Shipwell.com platform is anchored by a mobile app and web-based dashboard with a variety of tools that offer carriers opportunity to negotiate loads within the universe of freight shippers and brokers utilizing the platform. Readers would be correct in placing the company among the growing crop of […]
February 27, 2018
Business
Load One’s new app brings measure of self-dispatch to its expedited haulers
To combat the problem of extended layovers, very common in expediting, Load One has put tools in the hands of its drivers that allow them to be more proactive in positioning themselves for optimum dispatch.
February 14, 2018
Business
AscendTMS software free to DAT carrier users
Dispatch tools, rate indices, access to factoring, full load board functionality and more are available to current DAT TruckersEdge, Express and Power users via the AscendTMS operations-management software and its integration with DAT.
June 23, 2017
Life
Dispatcher on board: Heidi Oestreich
Heidi rides full-time on the road with her owner-operator husband, Chris, but she also realizes the special challenges being a trucker’s spouse can present back home. She’s proprietor of an online community built for truckers’ wives.
January 13, 2015
Business
The Christmas miracle
From the pen of Wendy Parker: Driver’s night before Christmas, take three. Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2014
Channel 19
Analysis of what’s happening with ELDs / bankruptcies
Analyst Donald Broughton on what’s happening behind a trend that is running against the usual for trucking bankruptcies: FMCSA’s pressure on company over hours of service noncompliance.
August 21, 2014
Channel 19
7 EOBR “myths” discussed
Fleet reps Allen Lowry of Central Refrigerated and Vincent Dinino Jr. provided a window on fleets’ real-world perspectives relatives to areas of contention around electronic onboard recorders for hours compliance.
November 20, 2012
Business
Bad directions to places that don’t exist
We circled the block for another ten minutes. The vein in my husband’s head started to throb.
August 30, 2012
Channel 19
VID: Humor in everything — even trucking software
Online video advertising group Epipheo’s vid for Accellos/Prophesy’s trucking business management software.
August 9, 2012
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