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Tag: Hope Rivenburg
Channel 19
Turning the worm on parking
Advocates stress the need for greater driver communication with state/local Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the need for better truck parking — and AsktheTrucker.com offers an MPO directory online to help facilitate communication.
December 20, 2016
Parking
Parking: ‘It’s bad all over’
With a major study out and a new national coalition beginning regional meetings, the heat’s up on the increasing need for safe parking.
December 1, 2015
Parking
Parking: Creative approach meets small-minded resistance in Hutchins, Texas
Where parking needs may increasingly be met: Efforts by fleets, shippers and receivers, even your preferred service location, to accommodate overnight truck parking needs.
November 27, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Hope Rivenburg: General public ‘naive’ on truck-parking needs
Our podcast interview with truck-parking advocate Hope Rivenburg, widow of Jason’s Law’s namesake. Also: Hutchins, Texas, zoning hearing upcoming on new parking facility there after roadblocks hit by diesel shop.
October 1, 2015
Parking
National Coalition on Truck Parking formed, results of Jason’s Law parking study released
DOT reps and stakeholder groups have signed a pledge of commitment to a newly created National Coalition on Truck Parking.
August 21, 2015
Parking
Parking shortage hits the mainstream
A Wall Street Journal story last week took on the issue of the difficulties faced by truckers finding a safe parking spot in widespread congested areas around the nation.
January 27, 2015
Channel 19
Engagement on parking safety, availability in the wake of driver’s murder
Catch a replay of a discussion spearheaded by Allen and Donna Smith Wed., July 16, with Hope Rivenburg and owner-operator Michael Boeglin’s widow, Ashley Boeglin, and father-in-law, former driver David Clark.
July 17, 2014
Overdrive Radio
Jason’s Law: Five years after the passing of its namesake
In conversation with Overdrive’s Wendy Parker, Hope Rivenburg, marking the fifth anniversary of the death of her husband, for whom the Jason’s Law truck parking legislation is named, stresses the need for drivers to continue to press their legislators on areas where truck parking is sorely lacking and/or unsafe.
March 18, 2014
Channel 19
‘Killer Truckers’ TV special on re-air
On bright spot in the special about the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative is that it delved farther into on-highway crime — that against truckers, and trucking advocates’ efforts to tamp down human trafficking.
August 17, 2013
Channel 19
Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law
Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. “While everyone has jumped on the proverbial […]
July 17, 2012
Channel 19
Some good news: Jason’s Law in the highway bill
In all the hubbub over the mandate for electronic onboard recorders included in the highway-bill language, it’s perhaps been easy to overlook some of better results for truckers and advocates, chief among them other language in the bill that, if it ultimately passes (as expected), brings to fruition nearly four years’ worth of advocacy that […]
June 29, 2012
Channel 19
Jason’s Law: Time for action is now
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unanimously approved a two-year transportation authorization bill (S. 1813, or MAP-21) extending current funding levels and making other enhancements that could lead, said Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, to new jobs. Of chief interest for trucking advocates is the inclusion in this bill of Jason’s Law, intended […]
November 10, 2011
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