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Carriers’ ‘magic eraser’ role in compounding uncompensated-detention issue: Rico Muhammad on the e-log shift
As a trade-off for the ultimate hassle of mandated e-logs, in this Overdrive Radio podcast Muhammad’s hopeful owner-operators can both individually and collectively use the change as a cudgel to their advantage when dealing with brokers, shippers, receivers … anyone who would insist on wasting drivers’ time.
November 14, 2017
Voices
Colin Young presents ‘Basalt drive’ hall of shame
This collection of video clips from the dashcam of trucker Colin Young was assembled from several during “a load from Denver to Basalt, Colo., on the Friday before Father’s Day” this year, Young says, via Loveland Pass. “After 20-plus years of driving it still surprises me how many people continue to take the risks they take around big trucks.”
November 8, 2017
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Channel 19
E-log antipathy ‘not all about the money’: Readers respond ‘around the dunk tank’ to Wes Memphis’ latest
The pseudonymous Memphis noted his Friday positing of the possibility of a “new golden age of trucking” — if imposed ELDs actually limit available hours in a fashion they aren’t already limited post-December 18 toward substantially better rates, income (hardly a certainty) — was “getting some good comments around the dunk tank.” …
November 7, 2017
Channel 19
‘Maybe OOIDA was on to something’ with ‘Run Compliant’ campaign: Wes Memphis stares down another good income year on e-logs
Wes Memphis returns with cautiously optimistic thinking about ELDs: “Maybe, if we constrict the amount of miles that are collectively available, rates will soar and we will see a new golden age of trucking.” Or not.
November 3, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Have you begun running with an ELD/AOBRD for e-logs?
With the ELD mandate’s Dec. 18 enforcement deadline quickly approaching, some surveys have estimated as few as 25 percent of small fleets and owner-operators are ready for the deadline. What’s the status of your operation relative to e-logs, whether exempt from the mandate or not?
November 3, 2017
Channel 19
‘It just keeps happening in the Notch’: Truckers, beware Vermont route 108
The notorious Smuggler’s Notch route continues to snare tractor-trailers blindly following GPS despite recent 20x fine increases — says a reader familiar withthe area: “Any large vehicle” attempting the route, “especially any tractor trailer, is doomed.”
October 30, 2017
Voices
POLL: Are clean (violation-free) inspections more common today than they used to be?
What’s been your experience over the last five years? Do you feel inspectors are more likely today to actually finish and record a clean, violation-free inspection than before?
October 30, 2017
Voices
A four-wheeler is a four-wheeler? Glen Brannon presents ‘Indiana State Police driving skills’
Watch out! There’s a trooper coming out of the breakdown lane and he’s not too worried that your truck’s one lane over … Today’s Dashcam Central entry shows it pays to move over for police at the roadside, in more ways than one.
October 25, 2017
Channel 19
‘Amateur hour’: ATA prez takes a seeming swipe at anti-ELD mandate protests
And reader Glenn Gilbert offers an “Isaiah and the ELD” biblical take on it all, of a fashion … Meanwhile, Lucas Oil’s founder joins the Sikhs PAC leader in expressing official concern over the mandate, amid a slow drip of ELD delay cosponsors.
October 24, 2017
Voices
Business base: Mechanical experience before buying the truck
While knowledge of the working systems of the truck is required of an CDL driver, there’s no replacement for maintenance experience when it comes to hands-on know-how to save on repairs by doing them yourself, or knowing when not to.
October 19, 2017
Overdrive Radio
‘It’s time somebody starts looking out for the little guy’ — more voices from the ELD protests
On Overdrive Radio: As ripples continue to emanate from a renewed sense of camaraderie among many of the ELD-mandate-protest participants in D.C. and around the country, a run through a variety of conversations during protest days 1 and 2 a week and more back, and more from the mailbag.
October 16, 2017
Channel 19
After ATA-organized event, Trump is getting an #ELDorMe tweetstorm
The ELD or Me Facebook group is tweetstorming at the President following another appearance at an event organized in part by the ATA, with nary a mention of ELDs, hours of service and other top operator concerns. Also: A reminder from an operator to take special care with cigarette butts.
October 12, 2017
Voices
POLL: The hours of service rule’s future — tied to fatigue monitoring tech?
With some watchers predicting a technology-heavy future for hours of service limits, what’s your thoughts today on the possibility of fatigue-monitoring technology brought to bear in the regs?
October 10, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Group of D.C. demonstrators parks up near the White House
Twenty-nine bobtail trucks staged in the wee hours on Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the White House today in an attempt to garner the attention of the President on the electronic logging device mandate.
October 6, 2017
Overdrive Radio
From the scene in D.C. and around the country as grassroots groups press against the ELD mandate
This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast: Anti-ELD demonstrators in D.C. met with officials at FMCSA offices Thursday after spending Wednesday spread across the city in small groups. Tony Justice on tactics. A sampling of calls from around the country about events this week.
October 5, 2017
Channel 19
It’s the little things: ELD conversations where it matters short- and long-term, on Capitol Hill
Poll results: Nearly half of respondents are reporting being shut down this week, and more from D.C. with a slow start to ELD protest events scheduled to run through this coming weekend. Drivers meet reps, Congressional staffers, more …
October 3, 2017
Channel 19
Truckers converge on Washington, D.C., for events this week
Scenes from Doswell, Va.: Among other efforts, the “ELD or Me” anti-ELD mandate group’s planned D.C. activities have gotten under way today, after things got started in earnest as the group members set up shop at the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.
October 3, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Are you participating in ELD-mandate protest efforts kicking off this week?
Having been promoted for a start date of Tuesday, Oct. 3, various protest actions against the mandate for truckers to use electronic logging devices are happening this week. Are you participating or not? Weigh in here.
October 2, 2017
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