Tag: Mark Kirbyson

Channel 19

Faulty speed sensors, ground wires, empathy on customer service issues: Readers respond to one owner-op’s ELD issue

Several readers offered a variety of fixes in comments that had helped them with problems with their ELD acting with a mind of its own, similar to what Mark Kirbyson reported a couple weeks back here on Channel 19. Others, shared here, wrote in directly.

May 7, 2019

Overdrive Radio

2018 ‘coulda planned better’: Counting down the top 10 Overdrive Radio podcasts of the year

Take a review run back through some of those most memorable moments from the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of the year, from details of owner-op Mark Kirbyson’s skepticism of any wisdom present in the oft-repeated “shoulda planned better” to more than two podcasts dedicated to recognizing the many best-avoided games brokers play in contracts … and much more besides.

December 31, 2018

Channel 19

How do you prevent cracks in your convex mirrors?

Cold-weather issues, take one. Enquiring minds among readers want to know: “I have had my convex mirrors crack in the wintertime more than once and was wondering if I am the only one and what people have found to stop it.”

January 18, 2018

Overdrive Radio

‘Should have planned better’ only goes so far when road realities are at play

As so many owner-operators have noted in past, “planning better” will only get you so far when it comes to ELDs, a 14-hour rule with rigid ends and little opportunity to extend it or stop it for mid-period rest. Owner-operator Mark Kirbyson, in this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, concurs wholeheartedly.

January 16, 2018

Business

Spot market records broken again for first week of the year

With on-highway anecdotes of $5-plus/mile rates not hard to come by, the weekly spot market demand report gets a little closer to revealing ELDs’ rates impact in van, reefer. The first week of the new year “has broken all the records we set when we ended the old year,” says DAT’s Matt Sullivan.

January 10, 2018