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Channel 19
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 â âAmerica depends on youâ â and a prison CDL schoolteacher and inmate narrates his turn back to the right path by helping others.
July 8, 2019
Channel 19
Martinez heard the message â +flexibility â now will his agency deliver?
To cap the week, hereâs 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: âQuit stalling. Get some relief for us.â
July 5, 2019
Overdrive Radio
40 years of trucking â and surviving â with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)
Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and sheâs 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 FMCSAâs Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.
June 28, 2019
Hours of Service
POLL: What do you most want out of an hours rule change?
As an expected release date for FMCSAâs pursed hours remap has come and gone once already, it bears asking again â whatâs your main hope of the rewrite? Weigh in here.
June 17, 2019
Overdrive Radio
âThe sun will hunt you downâ 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
Channel 19
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 havenât been able to do the trick, for several reasons.
June 13, 2019
Voices
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
Voices
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 statesâ 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
Voices
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 âŚ
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
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? âŚ
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
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