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‘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
Overdrive Radio
14-hour, ELD reform should be top priority for new FMCSA administrator, readers say
Readers delivered on our call for viewpoint on just where the next FMCSA administrator’s priorities should sit — the electronic logging device mandate stood out, with views toward hours of service reform with an emphasis on greater split-sleeper flexibility a primary theme.
September 29, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Voices on the call for a shutdown starting October 3
This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast takes a run through the mailbag following last week’s conversations with organizers of two ELD mandate protest actions set to take place in Washington, D.C., beginning Oct. 3.
September 23, 2017
Voices
ELD mandate: Sounding the death knell for the American driver
An op-ed from Overdrive reader owner-operator Devin Combs of Bloomington, Ind.: “This electronic logging device situation is just one more cost that I can’t endure and a headache that I don’t have time for.”
September 22, 2017
Voices
DACA program should be preserved in some form, slight majority says
A 51 percent majority of Overdrive readers are in favor of preserving some form of relief from threats of deportation for participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
September 22, 2017
Hours of Service
POLL: Do hours rules/company pressures ever lead you to feel forced to drive tired?
Given the peculiarities of the hours rule, the incoming ELD mandate and difficulty balancing the business necessities of safety and on-time deliveries, how often do you feel forced to run when you otherwise might be resting?
September 21, 2017
Overdrive Radio
ELD mandate protest efforts set to stage October 3
Podcast: Two unaffiliated groups — Tony Justice and company’s ELD or Me, and the Texas-headquartered Operation Black and Blue — share details for ELD mandate protests coalescing around a beginning date of October 3.
September 16, 2017
Voices
Open letter from Larry Klimek Trucking urging reps to delay ELD mandate
The Grand Island, Neb.-based small fleet urges Congress and the President to stand with Rep. Brian Babin’s H.R. 3283 ELD delay bill, after a similar measure was defeated when it was attempted as an amendment to an appropriations bill.
September 13, 2017
Voices
POLL: What should ultimately happen with DACA?
With former President Obama’s executive order establishing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought here as children were shielded from deportation. Trump is phasing out the program — what should happen next, whether Congressional action, an administrative reversal or nothing at all?
September 5, 2017
Overdrive Radio
On a Hurricane Harvey relief mission with owner-operator Bill Ater
Landstar-leased owner-operator Bill Ater had his “feet in the starting blocks, hands on the floor” and was “waiting on the starting shot” when we talked Tuesday, August 29, for this Overdrive Radio podcast, staged in South Texas for relief shuttles associated with Hurricane Harvey.
August 31, 2017
Voices
Don Cuddeback shows how to avoid a head-on collision
Watch: Headed toward the last stop before his ultimate destination, Fraley & Schilling driver Cuddeback was on an “access road to the plant,” a pretty narrow road, and “coming around a curve here come some lights lined up square with my truck.” …
August 30, 2017
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