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Channel 19
Who gets your vote for best truck stop ever?
A new Truck World on I-76 in North Jackson, Ohio, Trucker Path’s top 10 truck stops by user rating (including 8 independents) and a question: What’s your favorite truck stop out there? Who’s doing it right?
May 2, 2017
Voices
Letter to Trump: Parking, 14-hour rule, congestion ever more urgent issues with ELDs
Reader Clifford “Chappy” Petersen’s open letter to Donald Trump ranges through his views on a variety of issues — from parking and congestion to driver pay and more — that he says are set to be further exacerbated by the ELD mandate.
May 2, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Will rates move in a positive or negative direction as a result of the ELD mandate?
What’s your view of the likelihood of a rates impact as a result of the ELD mandate — commentators have been on either side of the issue in recent time, some believing rates will rise, others doubting the projection.
May 1, 2017
Voices
Brad Kuhn presents ‘Another 4 minute ride with a truck driver’
Following his first-such compilation, reader Brad Kuhn offered this “compilation of videos from my dashcam focusing on aggressive driving by passenger vehicles around big trucks.”
April 18, 2017
Voices
POLL: Do you miss the ‘mom-and-pop’ independent truck stop?
What’s your view of the growing reach of the large national truck stop chains — an owner-operator offered this question up for Overdrive readers while pondering the days of full-service, family-style dining and other characteristics of the mom-and-pop truck stops of the days of yore.
April 17, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Looking into the crystal ball on ELDs/rates, and Owner-operator Reed goes to Washington
Two updates — audio of Todd Amen of ATBS’ conference call on operator income from yesterday, and one from owner-operator Scott Reed, fresh off a meeting with legislative aide to Senator Deb Fisher in Washington gone bad, only to turn out positive when Reed dropped in on other Senators from Iowa, North Dakota, Montana.
April 13, 2017
Voices
Joseph Stelzer and another hauler cut off in ‘Crazy California driver’
A little white-knuckle moment caught by Stelzer’s dashcam — yet another example of reckless behavior by those with whom truckers share the road.
April 11, 2017
Voices
Did the U.S. make the right move in Syria after reported chemical weapons use?
Following 50-plus U.S. missiles launched at a Syrian airfield Thursday — a telegraphed response to reported Syrian use of chemical weapons against internal enemies — what’s your view of the U.S. action?
April 7, 2017
Channel 19
More ELD questions answered by Wes Memphis
And: A word from reader Bob Glaves against the ELD mandate; Revisiting tax/per-diem strategies that can be short-sighted when it comes time to weighing the need for income at retirement.
April 4, 2017
Channel 19
In the per-diem weeds with company drivers
In which a reader asks a question about treatment of the standard per-diem deduction depending on how the carrier treats a standard reimbursement — after-tax or pre-tax. Mike Calahan of ATBS provides the answer.
April 3, 2017
Channel 19
Wes Memphis answers your questions on ELDs’ potential income effect
Amid the charges of ‘fake news’ under Wes Memphis last Channel 19 post on ELDs’ income effect there were a few salient questions, which Memphis returns to answer here. Also: Poll results from our income/ELD question show some reality/expectation divide.
March 31, 2017
Voices
POLL: How long on average do you stay on the road at a time?
How much time do you typically spent on the road between stints at home? Weigh via this poll.
March 30, 2017
Voices
3 in 4 readers see necessity in Trump’s travel ban, halted yesterday in federal court
If the administration’s travel ban advances beyond the injunction put in place by the courts Wed., it would restrict travel to the U.S. from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — also including measures aimed at restricting refugee resettlement in the U.S.
March 16, 2017
Voices
Guy Pippin’s run-in with a distracted four-wheeler on I-49 in La.
Accident in the side-view mirror: Bulldog Hiway Express driver Pippin was northbound, approaching the scene of another accident that had occurred on the southbound side of the road, when a “brown Toyota pickup was barreling up through there and locked up the brakes and hit the trailer.”
March 15, 2017
Voices
POLL: Your view on Trump’s revised travel ban?
President Trump signed a new executive order revising a temporary ban on entering the U.S. on travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, removing Iraq from the original list, among other changes. What’s your view of this order’s necessity for U.S. security?
March 13, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: ELDs and business income — what’s your view of the likely (or actual) impact of running electronic for hours?
Whether you’re already running an electronic log or not, how do you believe the move from paper to the engine-connected electronic environment would or did (if at all) impact your net income?
March 8, 2017
Voices
Industry unites in effort on Kenworth T680 built to benefit Truckers Against Trafficking
By the time the truck finally hit the production line, Inland Kenworth manager Don Blake says it felt like half the industry was behind it.
March 8, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Have you tested the e-log waters with a smartphone/tablet-based app?
What’s been your experience, or lack thereof, with the myriad of smartphone/tablet-based computer-assisted logs available today to use without a connection to the truck’s engine? Have you tested the water of e-logs with any?
March 2, 2017
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