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Channel 19
Negotiating the brokerage contract: Back solicitation, detention and more
Leander Richmond of Mich.-based eight-truck Eagle Express Inc. learned the hard way of one brokerâs no-detention-pay standard policy at first-come first-served shipper/receiver facilities â likewise the âinsultingâ offer when he objected.
February 14, 2017
Voices
POLL: Your first contact with your current leasing/employing carrier?
Leased/company drivers, where did your first awareness/contact of the company youâre leased to or work for today come? Were you referred by a friend or a fellow driver with the company, catch an online advertisement that spurred further action, or something else?
February 14, 2017
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Voices
8 in 10 readers view behind-the-wheel minimum hours crucial for training rule
Recent Overdrive polling makes clear: Most owner-operators believe the 30 hours originally proposed for, though not included in, FMCSAâs final training is insufficient as a minimum, and overall 78 percent believe a minimum of 30 or more is necessary.
February 13, 2017
Voices
Kenworth auctioning off custom T680 to benefit Truckers Against Trafficking
The proceeds from the auction will go directly to TAT, which works to âeducate, mobilize and empowerâ truckers and rest stop employees to look for signs of human trafficking and teach them how to respond. The truck has a retail value of $157,000, according to Kenworth.
February 10, 2017
Voices
Ali Cetin presents âWhy I have a dash cameraâ
Toronto, Ontario-based local trucker Ali Cetin compiled this collection of evidence of just why the operator runs with a dashcam in all his companyâs trucks.
February 7, 2017
Channel 19
North Dakota contemplating 80-mph speed limit
How fast is fast enough? Revisiting the question in light of a potential boost in speed limits to 80 mph in North Dakota, and more on Trumpâs two-for-one out/in regulatory order âŚ
February 6, 2017
Voices
POLL: Does the Entry Level Driver Training rule need a behind-the-wheel minimum?
FMCSAâs removal of the behind-the-wheel minimum number of hours in their proposed pre-CDL training rule has caused a stir among drivers, training organizations and others. Whatâs your view on the rule and whether that minimum (or another) should be included?
February 2, 2017
Overdrive Radio
If it means more parking options, readers say, rest-area commercialization A-OK
In this mailbag podcast and other commentary, readers believed in large part that NATSOâs concern over recent FHWA ideas for rest-area commercialization was misplaced, particularly if services allowed at state-facilitated rest areas are limited to an extent they arenât at truck stops.
January 31, 2017
Channel 19
âWhen a truck was a truckâŚâ
Steve Hearneâs grandfatherâs old Ford AA âhad a hand throttle like a tractor, and another lever on the column to retard the timing for hand starting.â Hearne, who still lives on a portion of his familyâs old 120-acre farm in Vermont, remembers the unit wellâŚ
January 30, 2017
Channel 19
Dry bulk for the long haul: Reserves staff sergeant John Moore and his leased operation
Until the last year, John Moore had been leased to Landstar, and his decision to come back to Oakley Transportation to pull a hopper had as much to with where home was as profitability. In this case, the two went hand in hand,
January 27, 2017
Voices
POLL: Should the United States in fact follow through on Trumpâs âbuild the wallâ campaign message?
Though a reported 700 miles of barrier exists on the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border today, with Donald Trump hammering away at his campaign pledge to build a barrier and get Mexico to pay for it, whatâs your view of the idea?
January 26, 2017
Voices
POLL: Should hair testing be allowed in lieu of urine-based drug tests?
With some larger carriers pushing the federal government to allow hair-sample testing as a substitute for required urine testing of drivers, whatâs your view on the practice? Should it be allowed, or not?
January 24, 2017
Voices
Readers debate viability of pre-2000 model year approach to avoiding ELD mandate
At the center of the commentary, pushback on the notion that near-20-year-old equipment could be considered reliable enough to deliver suitable profitability. As one commenter noted, telling his story, an owner-operator might do well âto have two [or three] â one to run, and one for a spare. And one for parts if you can store it.ââ
January 18, 2017
Voices
Real American Trucker presents âA 360+â in snow on U.S. 30 in Wyo.
âFollowing a snowplow on a foggy, ice-covered roadâ near Kemmerer, Wyo., as youâll see in the vid, an SUV coming up from behind the truck was unable to stop and does a full 360, and then some, right in front of the rig.
January 17, 2017
Channel 19
The ELD mandate and the House Freedom Caucus
OOIDA urging members to engage caucus members on ELDs. And a question: Whatâs your view of the ELD mandate today?
January 14, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Whatâs your view of the ELD mandate?
In the wake of the 7th Circuit appeals courtâs decision not to re-hear OOIDAâs case against the ELD mandate final rule, whatâs your view of the mandate today?
January 14, 2017
Channel 19
Scott LeVanâs radio warning to drivers ahead of deadly EB I-80 crash went unanswered
Driver LeVan used his CB to broadcast several warnings to EB drivers to spread out, impending a traffic back-up ahead, before a later crash that killed two truckers in Pennsylvania. Yet another reason to keep the radio on.
January 12, 2017
Voices
Howard Salmon presents âOops, wrong wayâ
Trucker captures pickup driver entering an on-ramp headed, well, the wrong way.
January 10, 2017
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