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Overdrive Radio
The truck parking problem: Tools in the toolbox, modest capacity proposals, and more
Listen to the 2018 Great American Trucking Show parking panel discuss truck parking problems and advocacy on this week's Overdrive Radio podcast.
October 19, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Embrace the contrary: More regulation, less parking, might be the answer
Take a peek at how the FMCSA's hours of service regulations and loss of parking are impacting one driver and where his future is headed in trucking.
September 19, 2018
Business
Wash hands, prevent crashes
I have it on good authority the FMCSA will be unveiling their âWe are the Borgâ campaign sometime next year. It will require drivers to look directly into an inward-facing dashcam every 30 seconds and moo.
July 22, 2013
Channel 19
Modest proposal: Ban all motorized transport already!
Buddy Wennersâ December 2011 modest proposal for the Department of Transportation to dispense with all the rigmarole and âban truck drivingâ â penned in response to news of the handheld cell ban and otherwise the blizzard of new regs coming down the pike â yesterday got some kudos from commenter Zach Bell. Itâd be exciting, [âŚ]
June 21, 2012
Channel 19
Make accident victims pay for traffic tie-ups?
A letter writer to the Chattanoogan newspaper last week proposed to fine drivers of large trucks involved in accidents per hour of required cleanup or per mile of backed up traffic. Specifically:  $5,000 per hour of cleanup or per mile of backed up traffic, whichever is greater, to be paid by the trucking [âŚ]
January 19, 2012
Channel 19
Modest proposal: âLet regulators have what they wantâ
Today, a dispatch from driver and radio host Big Al Weekley (pictured), the man behind the streaming Dispatch Me Home Radio Network site. It comes in response to Nabisco hauler Buddy Wennersâ modest proposal to regulators to skip all the preamble and really just do what they really seem to want to do, âban truck [âŚ]
December 12, 2011
Channel 19
Trucking through hours-of-service flexibility and EOBRs
With a new rule mandating electronic on-board recorders for a boosted number of hours-of-service (HOS) noncompliant carriers, the ongoing HOS listening sessions and FMCSA review of the current hours rule and the expectation among industry parties that an across-the-board EOBR mandate may be in the offing several years down the road, the issue of work time [âŚ]
April 5, 2010
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