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Channel 19
Credit where itâs deserved: Motorist says sheâs alive today on account of a few good pros
Herewith one motorist who knows what it means to share the road. Two professional driversâ training and composure âmay be the reason I am alive,â wrote a reader of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, lauding the swift thinking and reaction of the pros.
March 12, 2019
Channel 19
Dashcam documents four-wheeler bad behavior
Libby Clayton sent along a harrowing dashcam vid showing one of the more egregious instances of aggressive driving by one of our four-wheeled friends that sheâs seen recently.
December 14, 2013
Voices
Use the CB to cope with âfreight-trainingâ traffic phenomenon
âWe canât change how everyone drives,â says independent Rey Moreno in this story, âbut we do have the direct ability to change how we as professional drivers move through the crowd.â
September 8, 2013
Business
Does Anne Ferro have a driverâs license?
At MATS 2013, Wendy âgot to meet her and ask her the solitary question I had for the only high-ranking government official Iâve ever met.â
March 25, 2013
Channel 19
Kick the habit with hypnosis?
Tried to quit smoking 20 times only to start again? If so, youâve got a friend here. A hypnotist based in Florida has developed both in-person hypnosis and at-home self-hypnosis tools that may help.
October 18, 2012
Channel 19
Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption
The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries â [âŚ]
July 24, 2012
Channel 19
Truckers to DOT: âSmartphones are winningâ
Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on Overdriveâs Facebook page, in response to last weekâs news of the DOTâs strategy for dealing with the epidemic of four-wheeler distracted driving. If you missed said news, check it [âŚ]
June 12, 2012
Overdrive Extra
One Girl Trucking: âMore courtesy nowâ
An encounter with a pair of joy-riding, inconsiderate motorcyclists over Memorial Day turned dramatic when truck driver Bethany, blogging at One Girl Trucking, decided enough was enough and confronted the bikers at a red light. Read her account, a sort of pitch and plea to bikers, motorists and truckers alike for more courtesy and common [âŚ]
June 1, 2012
Channel 19
Let the (fuel-mileage) games begin!
When owner-operator Henry Albert proposed that he test speedâs effect on fuel mileage on his blog Feb. 22 by dropping his top speed from 65 to 60, he sparked a wellspring of commentary from his readers. At first, he marveled at all the reaction. In the end, however, itâs easily explained: simple, quantifiable results are [âŚ]
February 27, 2012
Channel 19
Kicking the habit: Why a blanket cell-phone ban wonât work
As if hearing the plethora of truck driversâ objections to the prohibitions on handheld cell use in-cab while driving, minus any similar prohibition for the motoring public and given the wide problem of motorist distraction on the highways, the National Transportation Safety Board formally recommended that all personal electronic devices be banned from use while [âŚ]
December 15, 2011
Business
Back cradle for drivers
The Orthotic Cradling System is a portable sitting device designed to âfloatâ the userâs spinal system over the sitting surface like a natural shock absorber for comfort and injury prevention. It automatically corrects sitting posture and relieves pain for those who have back discomfort from sitting upright while driving. BACKJOY, backjoy.com
March 11, 2011
Channel 19
Fair or foul? Self-examination via the four-wheeler perspective
Weâve brought it up from time to time here, no doubt â no secret that the large majority of on-highway accidents involving large trucks follow an initial mistake made by the driver of a four-wheeled vehicle of one sort or another. By and large, truck drivers are justified in holding a desultory opinion of the [âŚ]
December 8, 2010
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