Tag: TruckerNation

Business

News roundup, Dec. 13: Group protests apparent training rule delay; FDA warns product marketers, public on CBD safety, legality

The TruckerNation organization has told FMCSA it no longer wants to be involved with the “Our Roads, Our Safety” campaign. The move is intended to express disapproval of the agency’s reported intent to delay the Entry Level Driver Training rule by as much as two years’ time. FDA issues warning letters to CBD product marketers on safety of products.

December 13, 2019

Channel 19

TruckerNation hours comment drive ongoing via social sites

The TruckerNation organization has consulted with FMCSA toward making commenting on the FMCSA’s hours proposal possible via dedicated posts on TruckerNation’s Facebook pages, where interested drivers can grant the org. permission to file their commentary as a third party.

September 3, 2019

Channel 19

More on sun exposure and cancer risk, ways to prevent and a personal story of cure

Malignant melanoma can be very aggressive, traveling fast to other places in the body, but when the notion arose that the condition was a totally incurable one recently, Andrea Marks of TruckerNation took some exception — she’s been cancer-free for quite some time, following a 2007 initial diagnosis….

July 17, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Post-ELD mandate crash data a knock on hours regs, too

Post-ELD mandate crash data is offering even more insight into hours-of-service regulations and their impact on trucking. Get details here on Overdrive Online.

February 7, 2019

Business

Driver shutdown afoot? Facebook groups stir controversy over calls to turn off the keys

With some groups of truckers coalesced around a “Truckers Stand as One” moniker and calling for an April 12 “industry-wide shutdown” — and an attendant media blitz in the run-up to that date Feb. 21 — views vary on whether any such action is necessary or even could be effective.

January 22, 2019

Channel 19

Truckers are classified as ‘unskilled labor’? Nope

A new video from TruckerNation effectively debunks this oft-repeated myth. What it doesn’t do is highlight what’s typically happened in my own experience when those invoking the myth are asked for some clarification — what follows, often, is an invocation of the reality of the exemption from overtime-pay protections for DOT-regulated motor carrier employee drivers.

December 19, 2018

Channel 19

Mixed reactions to brief highway blockade after 10-4 D.C. event, more

See convoy stop traffic on I-95 ahead of the "That's a Big 10-4 on D.C." event, and learn more about truckers supporting H.R. 5948 here on Overdrive.

October 8, 2018

Hours of Service

Truckers push flexibility case at latest hours of service listening session

The FMCSA's Ray Martinez listened to truckers voice their opinions about hours of service regulations at the Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, MO.

October 2, 2018