Tag: mainstream media

Business

A big 10-4 on hours flexibility, improved training standards and a good time — more from D.C.

Several bobtail trucks convoyed into our nation's capital to meet with the trucking group representatives as well as United States Senators. More on Overdrive.

October 4, 2018

Channel 19

From the outside in: ‘Keep on Truckin’

If you’ve got time, give the Pacific Standard’s “Keep on Truckin'” package of features published this week a look for a point of view on trucking from the outside in.

February 6, 2016

Business

Driver shortage: Where are the empty shelves?

How the “driver shortage” topic became a mainstream media staple, marked by stories that often stress the job opportunity angle, occasionally conjuring images of empty trucks and bare store shelves.

February 4, 2016

Business

The driver shortage alarm

The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.

February 1, 2016

Voices

Voices on NYT’s ‘Trucks are killing us’ column: Readers respond, ATA says column riddled with ‘falsehoods’

“Why waste print to tell so many lies, when you can actually help the issues that truly affect the entire line of all phases of transportation?” –Matt Whitelaw on the “Trucks Are Killing Us” op-ed

August 25, 2015

Business

Get it right, Howard

Wendy on former Transport Topics editor Howard Abramson’s recent “Trucks are killing us” editorial: “Highway safety can’t be delegated to one group only, and lack of it can’t be faulted to just one.”

August 23, 2015

Channel 19

Strong voices on parking

Conversations on the situation continue in the wake of mainstream media attention to truckers’ parking needs.

February 3, 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

Voices

Change starts with one step, and all that jazz

“‘Operation Positive Press’ has begun. … I believe positive changes can be achieved. Go make good stories for us, get the word out. 2015 is the Year of the Trucker.”

January 9, 2015

Channel 19

The regs: Threading the needle through 2014

Part 2 in this Channel 19 year in review highlights the most-read stories from the blog this year having to do with regulations — and their enforcement. CARB, insurance, CSA, hours…

December 29, 2014

Business

It’s AMAZING! You WON’T BELIEVE IT!!

“Keep on truckin’ – and know there are people out there who will advocate for you, even if it means being banned from every mainstream news Facebook page there is. God bless the truckers.”

November 24, 2014

Voices

Trucking far from ‘under-regulated’: Reactions to CNBC’s ‘Collision course’ series

The CNBC series itself wondered why there is not a “national outcry” for more trucking regulations. As reader Dianne Vranesic put it quite simply, “‘Under-regulated’? Are you kidding?”

August 1, 2014