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POLL: Which of these 2020 presidential challengers would you most like to take on a ridealong in the truck?
Ahead of the first Presidential primary debates later this month, this question looks at the challengers hoping to take office after the 2020 election. Scales have flipped for the number of candidates competing among the two major parties since the last race, with just on Republican challenger to Trump (large favorite of readers last time around), and some 23 Democrats. If you could present trucking issues to one challenger âŠ
June 11, 2019
Voices
Roadcheck preps: âBusiness as usualâ for many owner-ops, though questions about roadside approach remain
Preps for Roadcheck by Overdrive readers include a variety of equipment inspections and third-party checks, plus just âbusiness as usualâ for the largest share â the nearly as large number of recent poll respondents who noted they scheduled vacation highlights how many view the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections, as little more than a nuisance.
May 31, 2019
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Voices
POLL: How much do you rely on GPS navigation in routing?
Do you utilize programs/units with truck-specific or non-truck-specific routing as a principal source for on-highway navigation? Or is it just a supplemental tool to maps and your own route knowledge?
May 29, 2019
Voices
Reader: There is in fact a regs constraint on the driver market
Reader Alfred Brock found a particular constraint on the driver market in his home state of Michigan â namely, a program for CDL training funding assistance that wasnât being funded.
May 28, 2019
Voices
POLL: As state legislatures take up various new abortion restrictions, whatâs your view?
Several states where Republicans control legislative and executive branches of government have taken up new abortion restrictions in recent times, most notably Alabama with what amounts to an outright abortion ban. Weigh in via this latest âhot buttonsâ series poll.
May 21, 2019
Voices
Roadcheck preps: How are you preparing for the June 4-6 inspection blitz this year?
Whatâs your plan for June 4-6, whether business as usual, investment in preventive additional equipment inspections or a planned vacation? âŠ
May 16, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs
Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederholdâs quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.
May 13, 2019
Voices
Half of readers object to a miles-traveled tax as fuel-tax replacement
Part of the picture complicating the very notion of replacing the fuel tax is the slow but steady overlay of toll roads on top of the current system, which so many view as tantamount to double taxation. About a third of readers, however, voiced some support for an equitable miles-traveled system.
May 9, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: E-log users, are you running with an ELD or a grandfathered AOBRD?
With the deadline for grandfathered Automatic Onboard Recording Device (AOBRD) users coming up this December, this poll asks e-log users in the audience whether youâve made that transition to the actual ELD spec already or not? Weigh in here.
May 8, 2019
Channel 19
Faulty speed sensors, ground wires, empathy on customer service issues: Readers respond to one owner-opâs ELD issue
Several readers offered a variety of fixes in comments that had helped them with problems with their ELD acting with a mind of its own, similar to what Mark Kirbyson reported a couple weeks back here on Channel 19. Others, shared here, wrote in directly.
May 7, 2019
Voices
Rates hack: The spot market 3 oâclock hustle
Though itâs certainly lost some of its luster now that mandated electronic logging devices are putting more value on planning loads for maximizing time efficiency, this scheduling hack from independent Chad Boblett is simple enough. It hinges on an old clichĂ©: The best things come to those who wait.
May 2, 2019
Voices
POLL: Would a standardized miles-traveled tax for highway funds be a good fuels-tax replacement?
With some state jurisdictions currently testing the idea of a miles-traveled tax in place of a fuel tax for road repair and expansion funds, how do you feel about the potential fuel-tax replacement being eyed as electric and hybrid vehicles become more prominent?
April 29, 2019
Overdrive Radio
How-to: Custom walk-in storage at the front of a dry van; bulk tank niche explored
Daniel and Phyllis Snow detail their four-foot walk-in storage compartment they built into the front of their dry-van trailer, accessible from the tractorâs deck catwalk via a door assembly, to house tools and other supplies. Also in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast: liquid-bulk-tank insights from owner-ops Mike Landis, J.D. Howard.
April 26, 2019
Voices
Colin Young presents âBecause some of us are too good to waitâ
Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedriveâs âDashcam Centralâ repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the âroad was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently itâs OK to pass on the shoulder if youâre behind an ambulance.â
April 23, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Learning from the mistakes of others, with owner-op Bill Ater from last weekâs early-Spring blizzard
In this weekâs edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast we drop into the scene at The Junction truck stop in Blunt, S.D., round about mid-week last week just ahead of the blizzard. Owner-operator Ater and a fellow hauler on a run from Midland, Texas, up to the Williston, N.D., oil fields, ended up spending three nights there, leaving with a new appreciation for the place and its generous manager.
April 19, 2019
Voices
POLL: How many different trailer types have you pulled through your career?
Have you been dedicated to a particular trailer type through your career or hauled in different niches throughout? Share you story via this poll.
April 19, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Even in a roaring market, think twice before joining the stampede
This weekâs Overdrive Radio podcast features this talk, delivered by former small fleet owner and longtime radio host Kevin Rutherford at MATS, on prioritizing all the new risk and responsibility of trucking with authority, toward better income. Significant wild-card today: Inexplicably high cost of insurance for some carriers.
April 12, 2019
Voices
Shutdown report: Participation estimated, issues raised, tactics debated as April 12 arrives
Participating truckers view any effectiveness of this shutdown as having the potential to demonstrate some unity among drivers, whose voices in regulatory and industry discussions donât always rise to the top. At once, thereâs reason to doubt that numbers are sufficient to make a statement, and others object to anarchic tactics theyâve seen.
April 12, 2019
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