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Hot buttons poll: Same-sex marriage
January 11, 2013
Parking
More parking now, please; alternatives to ā€˜sailboat fuel’
A reader follows up on our parking-push coverage from September 2012, and several offer preferred slang options for that lightest of loads — nothing.
January 11, 2013
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Poll: Have you ever filed a claim on a broker’s surety bond?
January 8, 2013
Voices
Coffee, costs, photos, repairing CSA: Reader roundup
Rounding up reader views both serious and whimsical as 2013 heats up — or cools down, as the case may be.
January 4, 2013
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Voices
Hot buttons poll: Gun control
Where do you stand on the issue of gun control in the United States? Vote in this poll and tell us more in the comments.
December 27, 2012
Voices
Breaking: Regulators apologize for delaying Santa
Regulators have determined the Claus operation is an imminent hazard to the motoring public and have ordered Santa to cease operation effective immediately.
December 24, 2012
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Voices
Readers: Bring influence peddlers out of the shadows
A sizable majority of Overdrive readers favor reforms to campaign-finance rules that would bring 501(c)(4) political spenders into the light.
December 21, 2012
Campaign Finance
Voices
Reasons for the rise in truck-occupant crash deaths
Readers weigh in on root causes after NHTSA’s examination of crash statistics showed a sharp rise in truck occupant crash fatalities (20 percent) between 2010 and 2011.
December 18, 2012
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Voices
Poll: How many inspections do you receive in a year?
December 13, 2012
Voices
More than an office: Other novel uses for shipping containers
Readers offer different ideas for ways to repurpose intermodal shipping containers in building projects.
December 12, 2012
Sandwiched between two buildings in Antwerp, Belgium, is this four-story headquarters of the Sculp(IT) architecture firm, built from four stacked containers. You can read more about the location in a past issue of Truckers News.
Channel 19
Light up the night!; Come on, Ghostwriter
Reader: ā€œI am 12-year-old boy with a big passion for lit-up bull haulers!ā€ — and a bit of radio check, come on.
December 8, 2012
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Voices
Poll: Do you use weigh-station bypassing technology?
December 7, 2012
Voices
Reader: ā€˜I’d drive naked!’ — More on in-cab facial video monitoring
Readers respond to the question ā€œWould you drive if your carrier had a camera pointed at your face or the road?ā€ Sound off yourself here.
December 6, 2012
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Voices
Reader: FMCSA attacks safety ā€˜from the wrong end of the beast’
ā€œIf rates were up where they should be, drivers wouldn’t have to complain about receiving and loading fees one bit.ā€
December 3, 2012
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Voices
Birds of a feather: Trucking tweeps @OverdriveUpdate
More selected new and/or noteworthy followers of Overdrive’s Twitter feed, @overdriveupdate.
December 2, 2012
Channel 19
Modest proposal: $65/hour, fair detention rate to protect small biz
A reader sees a need for mandatory detention pay to protect the small business trucking life from the continuing encroachment of big-business competition and government regulation in the form of tightening hours and EOBRs.
November 27, 2012
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Voices
Poll: Have you seen your Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) crash/violation report?
November 27, 2012
Voices
Hot buttons poll: Campaign finance
November 27, 2012
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FMCSA's non-domiciled CDL rule in limbo after court grants emergency stay motion
The D.C. appeals court weighed in on DOT's move to cancel CDLs for almost 200,000 non-domiciled drivers on Thursday, dealing FMCSA another blow. The court found no evidence of foreign drivers lacking safety.
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