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Longtime TA Nashville employees recount historic 2010 flood, support and recovery
Listen: Getting close to the 10th anniversary of the historic flooding of Nashville in 2010, employees at the downtown TA who were there when it happened recount the rising waters, their relationships with longtime driver customers, and the recovery process in this podcast. Also: Why are some TA Petro stops moving away from traditional diners? HOS has something to do with it …
July 30, 2019
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Appreciation of a truck-parking joke — what’s it worth?
$5 — and a whole lot of wonder at the state of camaraderie among the nation’s truckers on the road today. A follow-up on the time Mike “Mustang” Crawford got $5 for a parking spot he was about to leave.
July 29, 2019
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POLL: Should sleeper-berth time for company drivers be compensated directly?
While recent high-profile court rulings seemed to suggest that even off-duty sleeper time for employee drivers should be subject to minimum wage compensation rules, but a Department of Labor opinion has more recently contradicted that. What’s your take?
July 24, 2019
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More flexible sleeper splits: Didn’t take long for this newbie team to see potential value
Introducing Hartsville, Tenn.-based Tommy and Linda Bryant of Hartsville, Tenn., mid-careers but brand-new to trucking and operating a team. Would they use a 5/5 split if it were an option? You bet.
July 19, 2019
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POLL: Should truck stops impose time limits on shower use?
Following the lead of a question one operator asked recently in the Overdrive’s Trucking Pro Facebook group, this question explores current practices around shower use time limits and whether imposing them is a necessary supplement to basic etiquette. ….
July 19, 2019
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Sliding trailer tandems sticking? Pack wheel chocks in the side box (or elsewhere)
Do you carry a set of chocks? Though they haven’t been required equipment for most truckers for years, plenty pullers still carry a set — or a four-by-four or other alternative — for this and other purposes.
July 15, 2019
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A Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business
Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of the perhaps No. 1 reason owner-ops go out business — that’s a major mechanical failure, of course.
July 11, 2019
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POLL: Do you protect your exposed skin with sunscreen routinely on your hauls?
What’s your strategy for skin protection — if any at all — while you’re trucking? Weigh in via this poll and/or the comments section.
July 10, 2019
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Speed limiters: Senate bill to mandate a 65 mph setting a ‘terrible idea’
Voices on the Senate bill from a Georgia Republican that would mandate a 65 mph speed setting for trucks capable of it. And more on the ‘careful what you wish for’ dynamics in regulatory change.
July 10, 2019
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Company drivers: Has your fleet in recent years increased its speed-limiter setting?
This poll looks at the landscape for speed-limiter usage today in trucking — if you’re a company driver, has your fleet increased its top speed setting in the last three years?
July 10, 2019
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Round-up: Words of trucking-newbie and back-on-the-right-path encouragment
Near-50-year trucking veteran Bob Miller offers Independence Day encouragement for the rookies out there — “America depends on you” — and a prison CDL schoolteacher and inmate narrates his turn back to the right path by helping others.
July 8, 2019
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Martinez heard the message — +flexibility — now will his agency deliver?
To cap the week, here’s a celebration of the spirit of a system in which we can all at least participate by speaking freely. Views on and hopes for the impending hours revision hammer home the central message of a majority of haulers. In the words of one reader: “Quit stalling. Get some relief for us.”
July 5, 2019
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40 years of trucking — and surviving — with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)
Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and she’s been on the road since. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear her reflections on her 40-year career, many of those spent as a single-truck owner-operator, as well as her recent involvement in FMCSA’s Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.
June 28, 2019
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POLL: What do you most want out of an hours rule change?
As an expected release date for FMCSA’s pursed hours remap has come and gone once already, it bears asking again — what’s your main hope of the rewrite? Weigh in here.
June 17, 2019
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‘The sun will hunt you down’ in the truck: Joe Jolly on skin cancer risk
58-year-old Joe Jolly, following removal of a small spot of an aggressive type of skin cancer from his upper lip, offers a word of caution for younger drivers. Anything you can do to protect yourself from damaging ultraviolet radiation while trucking over the road today will pay dividends in later years.
June 14, 2019
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AOBRD to ELD deadline near yearend: Switch not always easy as it might seem
Contrary to what some legacy e-log providers told us ahead of the mandate about updating then-current equipment to comply with the ELD spec, this small fleet safety director found that simple over-the-air software updates haven’t been able to do the trick, for several reasons.
June 13, 2019
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Inexpensive fix for a more-secure trailer-pigtail connection
The VSA PlugSaver is two custom-designed, patented straps built by driver Vincent Archuleta for long-term life that, installed on the trailer housing for the pigtail connection, can reduce motion in the plug and effectively prevent wear.
June 12, 2019
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Readers split over abortion restrictions, legality
Though evenly divided on the broad question of legality, most readers were generally nuanced in their views around the issue of states’ abortion restrictions, some favoring restrictions after the first trimester or other time period. More than a third favored the Roe v. Wade status quo.
June 12, 2019
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