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Electronic Logging Devices
ELD-Day: On the ground with enforcement in Kentucky as truckers, officers adjust to new logs reality
Reporting live from the scales on the ELD mandateâs enforcement deadline, Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills notes Kentucky personnel are checking e-logs, albeit loosely for some. Overdrive readers on Facebook mostly reported the day was business as usualâŚ
December 18, 2017
Voices
Watch: Vlogger Trucker Josh takes on highway snow in late December
Popular YouTuber and video blogger (vlogger) Trucker Josh details a run in the snow in late December. Will he make it home for Christmas? Check the video hereâŚ
December 15, 2017
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Tax cuts favored for middle class, small business
Readers name broad priorities for tax reform as House and Senate near agreement on reconciliation of two competing legislative tax packages.
December 14, 2017
Channel 19
The âELD money grabâ we wonât print
And: Texas House rep uses the #ELDorME hastag in House-floor plea for a 90-day ELD extension.
December 14, 2017
Voices
Whatâs your businessâ outlook for 2018?
Itâs that time of year again â when we all take stock of the past 12 months and look ahead to the next, still with, however, the ELD mandate looming this time around. Considering all of it, amid an improving rate environment, whatâs your sense of how 2018 will shape up. Better? Worse? The same? âŚ
December 12, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Truckersâ voices raised against the ELD mandate with less than a week left
When it comes to rules and regulations, the ELD mandate may well go down in history as the most protested in FMCSAâs history. As the enforcement deadline bears down, truckers around the nation sound off. Also: What does the ELD mandate have to do with the moon and Mars? âŚ
December 12, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Have you begun running with an ELD/AOBRD for e-logs?
With the ELD mandateâs Dec. 18 enforcement deadline less than a week out, some surveys have estimated as only half of truckers are ready for the deadline. Whatâs the status of your operation relative to e-logs, whether exempt from the mandate or not?
December 11, 2017
Channel 19
A reader on the ELD mandate: Enough is enough
âHaving an ELD in our trucks is not going to make anyone safer. This mandate is only going to cause more problems than this industry and the general public need.â âPhylisia P. Compton, G and L Expedited Transport Services
December 8, 2017
Voices
POLL: Whatâs the most important aspect of tax reform?
What would you most like to see Congress achieve with tax reform? With House and Senate attempting to get a tax bill done before the end of the year, choose your most-preferred priority here to weigh in.
November 28, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Bill Frerichsâ ELD implementation notes, hopes, worries as mandate bears down
In which a nine-truck fleet owner begins implementing ELDs. And: A few key differences between AOBRDs, grandfathered in with the ELD rule through 2019, and the much more detailed ELD specification/required capability.
November 27, 2017
Voices
POLL: How familiar are you with âblockchainâ network transaction technology?
The latest hype machine in tech circles has been built around so-called âblockchainâ technology, the networked structure that underlies Bitcoin. With some trucking interests organizing to develop blockchain standards for better security in virtual trasactions, whatâs your level of familiarity with the technology?
November 16, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Carriersâ âmagic eraserâ 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 Muhammadâs 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 driversâ time.
November 14, 2017
Voices
Colin Young presents âBasalt driveâ hall of shame
This collection of video clips from the dashcam of trucker Colin Young was assembled from several during âa load from Denver to Basalt, Colo., on the Friday before Fatherâs Dayâ this year, Young says, via Loveland Pass. âAfter 20-plus years of driving it still surprises me how many people continue to take the risks they take around big trucks.â
November 8, 2017
Channel 19
E-log antipathy ânot all about the moneyâ: Readers respond âaround the dunk tankâ to Wes Memphisâ latest
The pseudonymous Memphis noted his Friday positing of the possibility of a ânew golden age of truckingâ â if imposed ELDs actually limit available hours in a fashion they arenât already limited post-December 18 toward substantially better rates, income (hardly a certainty) â was âgetting some good comments around the dunk tank.â âŚ
November 7, 2017
Channel 19
âMaybe OOIDA was on to somethingâ with âRun Compliantâ campaign: Wes Memphis stares down another good income year on e-logs
Wes Memphis returns with cautiously optimistic thinking about ELDs: âMaybe, if we constrict the amount of miles that are collectively available, rates will soar and we will see a new golden age of trucking.â Or not.
November 3, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Have you begun running with an ELD/AOBRD for e-logs?
With the ELD mandateâs 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. Whatâs the status of your operation relative to e-logs, whether exempt from the mandate or not?
November 3, 2017
Channel 19
âIt just keeps happening in the Notchâ: Truckers, beware Vermont route 108
The notorious Smugglerâs Notch route continues to snare tractor-trailers blindly following GPS despite recent 20x fine increases â says a reader familiar withthe area: âAny large vehicleâ attempting the route, âespecially any tractor trailer, is doomed.â
October 30, 2017
Voices
POLL: Are clean (violation-free) inspections more common today than they used to be?
Whatâs 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
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