Tag: Pennsylvania

Business

Pennsylvania testing new traffic restriction plan this winter

The draft plan is a five-tiered process that restricts travel by vehicles based on the severity of the weather and highway conditions. The first tier limits travel by certain kinds of vehicles, including some trucks, while the fifth is a complete travel ban for all vehicles except emergency response vehicles.

November 18, 2019

Parking

Penn., Colorado truck parking workshops with FHWA

A series of parking-focused workshops hosted by the Federal Highway Administration in collaboration with local/regional metropolitan planning organizations and state DOTs around the country continues tomorrow, May 30, in Colorado, then in Pennsylvania next month.

May 29, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Remembering the inaugural Pennsylvania Make-a-Wish Mother's Day convoy

A special edition of Overdrive Radio looks way back into history to the first Make-A-Wish convoy to set off from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with former trucker George Ruelens, hauling for Ned Bard & Son at the time. This year's convoy sets off May 9.

May 24, 2019

Business

Winter weather prompts Pennsylvania, New Jersey to issue truck bans

Dangerous winter weather have prompted the Penn. and N.J. DOTs to issue commercial vehicle bans on several major highways. Get more details on Overdrive Online.

February 20, 2019

Business

Holiday week major-lane van volume boost well illustrates e-commerce extension of retail freight season

The “Black Friday” after Thanksgiving once marked the end of the retail-freight season, but last week showed how e-commerce is extending the holiday push. Rates on the 100 highest-volume van lanes rose an average of 2.3 percent, or 5 cents per mile, during the week ending Nov. 24, with 78 of those lanes moving higher,

November 30, 2018

Business

Winter storm prompts speed restrictions on Pennsylvania Turnpike

Speeds on the Turnpike are now reduced to 45 mph from the Donegal Interchange (exit 91) to the Valley Forge Interchange (exit 326). The 45 mph restriction is also in place for all of I-276, I-95 to the Delaware River Bridge, and all of I-476.

November 15, 2018

Voices

‘About time’: Readers respond to new CVSA directive not to wake off-duty drivers to inspect

Responses to CVSA’s new policy directive to inspectors not to wake off-duty truckers for the purposes of conducting a random inspection ranged from exasperated positivity — “About time” ran the two-word response of multiple readers at Overdrive’s Facebook page — to I-hope-they-get-the-memo identifications of specific problem jurisdictions.

November 14, 2018

Business

Trucking rap sheet: PA inspector allegedly solicited sex from trucker for inspection leniency

Action in three trucking-related crimes has recently been reported, including a hotshot carrier busted for hauling marijuana, moving companies fined for not holding licenses, and a commercial vehicle enforcement officer charged after allegedly offering sex acts to a trucker in exchanged for leniency on violations.

August 31, 2018

Business

Heck of a time to be a flatbedder: High demand indicators on offer in this week’s spot update

All that dark green in the map? That means flatbedders utilizing DAT load boards have been busy, with a serious imbalance between the number of posted flatbed loads and the number of posted available trucks. What’s more: It’s been that way since winter and the ELD mandate’s inception.

May 3, 2018

Channel 19

Novel ‘best practices’ parking examples data collection under way

A new effort from a working group within the National Coalition on Truck Parking needs your help to identify novel parking solutions in order that states, municipalities and private entities not always seen as truck-parking providers might implement them.

April 5, 2018

Business

Nor’easter prompts truck bans on interstates in PA, NJ, NY

The nor’easter is expected to bring heavy snow from Philadelphia to New York City and into eastern Connecticut on Wednesday before continuing all the way up into Maine on Thursday.

March 7, 2018

Business

Spotted salamander for a thousand, Alex

“Rest easy, Pennsylvania. Your concerns as a constituency are 100 percent being met in the salamander department by the gubmint, because they’re here to help. Salamanders. Truckers, not so much.”

November 17, 2017