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Blaise Verdino’s family heirloom is an 18-wheeler
How did you get into trucking? My dad is a trucker and has been trucking for almost 50 years — so I grew up with a love of trucks. He told me a lot of stories about the road — a lot of them I can’t repeat. What does it take to be successful in […]
June 5, 2013
Voices
What’s your best advice for choosing loads?
“Part of watching our expenses is watching what we are hauling. We can pull an empty shipping container, and it’s like pulling a parachute, but we can put a heavy object on the trailer, like building supplies, and we get better mileage because it works better with the flatbed.”
June 5, 2013
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Operator targeted in ‘trucker spy’ shooting speaks out
Owner-operator Bruce Johnston, targeted by Joseph Volpe in an on-highway shooting incident, speaks out with his version of events following Volpe’s conviction in May 2013.
June 3, 2013
Voices
Poll: Has your average haul gotten longer or shorter in recent memory?
Have you seen the re-regionalization of van and reefer segments — shorter length of haul, fewer miles — or found a long-haul niche in flatbed or other segment that pays? This poll probes declining/rising haul length over the last five years.
June 3, 2013
Parking
LETTER: Earn your ‘professional’ title
Reader Earnest J. Williams on the furor over a Walmart that recently banned truck parking: “I have noticed that when we are wrong about something, we really don’t want to have our errs pointed out to us, especially publicly.”
June 2, 2013
Channel 19
Roundup: I-5 bridge collapse weighing heavy, operators flying the flag
Many of the same issues are in the political foreground today around highway regulation and funding as were being debated in 2007 when the Minneapolis I-35W bridge fell, with sometimes overheated rhetoric.
May 28, 2013
Voices
Poll: How long is your average haul?
Do you run short or run long? What are the advantages of one over the other, or vice versa? Tell us in the comments under this poll probing owner-operators’ operational differences.
May 28, 2013
Voices
Trials for terrorism
A majority of readers continue to favor military tribunals as the most appropriate venues for trying terrorism suspects.
May 24, 2013
Voices
POLL: What are your views on climate change?
Given abortive but multiple legislative efforts to tax carbon emissions in recent years, the subject of climate change remains ever relevant to the future of the trucking biz — what’s your view?
May 24, 2013
Voices
LETTER: Go niche to avoid being the last independent standing
Recently retired owner-operator Mike McRae responds to Overdrive’s May issue with further evidence of where the profits are for independent single-truck businesses.
May 22, 2013
Voices
Hours restart looming July 1
Could the July 1 hours changes be much ado about nothing? Many Overdrive readers say so — but for some drivers with little control over weekly scheduling routinely maximizing driving hours, the change may bust the bottom line.
May 19, 2013
Voices
LETTER: Do unto drivers as you would have done unto you
A sort of mild-nightmare scenario at a receiver for Prime driver Bob Sauter leads to larger thoughts on the terrible treatment many drivers see from shipping/receiving facility personnel.
May 17, 2013
Voices
Poll: What is the best venue for trying terrorism suspects?
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, where do you stand on whether to try the suspects, and others accused of terrorism, in U.S. courts or military commissions?
May 17, 2013
Channel 19
Looks like we got ourselves a parade!
Overdrive reader Kyle Cantor remembers the convoys of old, and proposes a new one: “Hey drivers, let’s get a Memorial Day convoy going for the Thursday before….”
May 16, 2013
Hours of Service
What have you done to prepare for the new hours rule?
This poll looks at the ways carriers and drivers have been preparing for the July 1 enforcement/compliance date for FMCSA’s latest hours of service changes.
May 16, 2013
Parking
National truck-parking driver survey launched
Here find out how to take the survey, created by Hope Rivenburg in part in concert with driver advocates Allen and Donna Smith of Truth About Trucking and aimed at educating the DOT on parking needs.
May 15, 2013
Voices
Carriers, drivers aligned on need for shift in enforcement priorities
Following a speech at the 2013 CVSA spring workshop which decried states’ outsize inspection focus, Overdrive readers responded largely positively to a message of new traffic-enforcement priorities.
May 14, 2013
Hours of Service
What part of the new hours rule will most affect you?
The enforcement date for the new hours of service rules is July 1, 2013. Will the new mandated breaks, restart restrictions, and on-duty definitions have a significant impact on your business?
May 14, 2013
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