Tag: Tom Balaz

Channel 19
Positives in trucking dog days in Truckers News — and more
Since I blogged about musician Susanne Spirit’s weekly shows at the TA East in Ontario, Calif., back in March, Spirit has continued to make great strides in combining her trucking-music act with her concern for the welfare of abandoned dogs in kill shelters. Her “Musical Truckin’ Dog Adoption Program,” conducted in concert with the Ramona […]
December 16, 2010
Charlesdog
Voices
Channel 19
Captain Kirk Enterprises, a quilter and exemption from hours of service regulations are among the topics discussed.
June 1, 2010
Rek
Home
Exit Only: Fringe benefits
Transported by bike, owner-operator finds fitness, fun and food on the road.
June 1, 2010
Channel 19
Flex time — ATA lays down support for sleeper berth/HOS flexibility in comments to feds
The latest wrinkle in the ongoing debate over potential changes to trucking hours-of-service regulations, for which so many drivers have offered various proposals for injecting flexibility into the system, is the biggest trucking-company organization in the nation’s support for codifying split rest in the sleeper berth. “Allowing shorter documented sleeper berth periods [other than the currently […]
April 22, 2010
Flex Clock
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 […]
April 5, 2010
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