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Paid parking pas de deux
āEven Dr. Phil knows thereās two sides to a pancake, and looking at both of them is necessary to describe the pancake fully. You canāt have a conversation without two sides.ā
April 20, 2016
Business
All hail Brooks
When a media foul results in a salute. A Columbus journalist gets one right in the wake of his āReckless Rigsā initial report.
March 1, 2015
Channel 19
File under: U.S. trucking rules!
Think youāve got it bad from time to time? Consider this story of trucking in the Syrian uprising.
April 6, 2013
Business
CSA: DataQs reform, more debated by MCSAC
Other top issues the MCSAC will address at its first special CSA Subcommittee meeting in October were fundamental questions of its effectiveness and goals.
August 28, 2012
Channel 19
Whence the great rates?
Supplementing reporting on the No. 4 top owner-operator challenge ā freight rates ā here find an update on the state of pay and further anecdotes, information and perspective from trusted sources.
August 9, 2012
Channel 19
Should HHG miles-based pay be illegal?
Owner-operator Jeff Clark, in the conference the Trucking Solutions Group organized Wed., June 20, with FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro (Clark is a TSG member owner-operator), presented Ferro with the discrepancy between household-goods miles and actual door-to-door miles. āTheĀ household goods miles system that weāre paid on is often fewer miles than we could legally make a [ā¦]
July 3, 2012
Channel 19
Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?
EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just driversā word.
May 4, 2012
Channel 19
Oil gamble on Wall Street? Speculation back in the headlines
President Obama is hammering on oil speculators again, while Republican opponents such as House Speaker John Boehner and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney are calling the talk about speculation hooey, falling back on the same old ādrill, baby, drillā-type rhetoric weāve heard so much of in recent past. Problem with the latter is, well, we [ā¦]
May 3, 2012
Channel 19
Owner-operatorsā road trip guide from Atlas
Atlas Van Linesā King of the Road operator survey, conducted earlier this year, garnered close to a couple hundred responses to questions running the gamut of operational details and preferences for various businesses delivering services to drivers the nation over. Favorite coffee? Dunkin Donuts. Best fast food? Subway. Biggest difficulty on the road? Eating right, [ā¦]
April 10, 2012
Channel 19
What are owner-operatorsā top five problems?
Readers, Iām beginning research on a story Iām preparing for Overdriveās June issue on which I need as much owner-operator input as is possible. Itās one that will probe the five biggest problems owner-operators face in the industry today, offering practical and forward-looking ideas/examples toward solutions to those problems. My main problem, at this point, [ā¦]
March 19, 2012
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