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Engineering realities v. hyperactive marketing: The ‘driverless’ trucking future explored
The Overdrive Radio podcast transports you like so many teleporting time machines back to the Aug. 22 panel at GATS about the $64,000 question: What’s the role of the driver look like at it changes over time with increasingly advanced layers of auto-assist technology?
September 6, 2019
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Voices
Trucking Solutions Group’s accident-awareness outreach with open call September 4
Organizers hope the September 4 call, during which three speakers, including professional truckers, will detail some of their own on-highway experiences, will provide insight on “how to react at an accident if you are involved or if you come upon one.”
September 3, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search: Hear the performances; And: More on hours amid comment period
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, run through talent-search music, with a warm-up by Long Haul Paul Marhoefer and plenty emcee’ing by trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, who’s played a major role through the event’s six years in making it an ongoing anchor among the community of musicians who also happen to haul freight on the open road…
August 30, 2019
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18 years old and hauling in 1917; Leon Everettte, Long Haul Paul from GATS
In this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast from GATS, classic country star and gospel singer Leon Everette, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer, and a talk about history, training and more with Jay Thompson, whose grandfather Walter had a chauffer’s license at age 18, in 1917.
August 24, 2019
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Voices
St. Christopher Fund receives large donation from TA-Petro
TravelCenters of America, operators of TA-Petro truck stops, and High Noon Sales presented the St. Christopher Fund with a check for $84,400 derived from the sale of St. Christopher Fund merchandise.
August 24, 2019
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Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off
In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could have been avoided, mainstream news spin, more on the proposal …
August 16, 2019
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As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions
The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with some welcoming the proposed changes and others dismissing them.
August 14, 2019
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Not ‘engaged to wait’ while in the sleeper? Readers respond to federal labor opinion on driver compensation
More readers than not agreed with commenter Jason McCarter that, “if you are in your truck at any time, you should be paid,” even if off-duty in the sleeper. Find other views, including those contrary, in this round-up of voices with poll results about sleeper time and pay for employee drivers.
August 8, 2019
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Parking
POLL: How often, if at all, do you pay for the ability to reserve a parking space?
Is paying for a parking-space reservation a normal part of your routine trucking business or more of a last resort? You can weigh in via this poll or via our podcast voicemail message line at 530-408-6423. Be sure to state your name and home location with any message.
August 6, 2019
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Overdrive Radio
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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Channel 19
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
Overdrive Radio
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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Overdrive Radio
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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Channel 19
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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