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Voices
Dave, Amanda present âRunaway trainâ
Caught on dashcam: Boxcars on a slow downhill run, engine in pursuit: âThey tell drivers to expect the unexpected⌠Even off the road, it seems âŚâ
June 14, 2016
Voices
Mailbag: ELD choice â âwait and seeâ mode a hope for common sense?
Among other voices responding to recent ELD market, privacy reports: âMost experienced, knowledgeable professionals still hold out hope that some common sense will prevail in the government to recognize any positive impact on safety will not be due to the implementation of ELDs.ââŚ
June 13, 2016
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Hours of Service
POLL: Have hours of service violations been an issue for your business?
With more states showing evidence of ramping up hours of service enforcement in recent years, have violations been an issue for your business?
June 8, 2016
Channel 19
How ELDs could be the new radar guns
If the SFD process as proposed becomes regulation, and the ELD mandate isnât struck down by the federal courts or otherwise derailed, on-site auditors may garner an extra-effective tool in their arsenal for declaring a carrier Unfit on the basis of hours, moving violations.
May 26, 2016
Voices
âBe the change you want to seeâ
From the cab of Clifford âDream Walkerâ Petersen on the state of the industry. Drivers have strength in numbers, and individual actions will go a long way toward improving conditions for owner-operators.
May 24, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Mandating speed limiters is âunsafe, periodâ, readers say
Requiring speed limiters for nearly all on-highway trucks would be a detriment to highway safety, readers say in this mailbag podcast near universally. And, as one reader noted, regulators âwill never find outâ unless âthey get out on the road with usâ to see for themselves.
May 23, 2016
Voices
Caught on camera: Attempted insurance fraud?
The extreme-brake-check entries are growing in Overdriveâs Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted and other videos of on-highway events, this one in a center lane on the George Washington Bridge into New York City.
May 13, 2016
Voices
POLL: Ever been tested/treated for sleep apnea?
With two years gone now since drivers were required to utilize a medical examiner of the national registry for med certification, this poll looks at the extent to which apnea testing has grown more common â or not. Have you ever been tested or treated?
May 5, 2016
Voices
ELD Mandate, with equipment headaches, presents âtough callâ for one owner-operator
Weighing the costs of maintenance, truck purchase and operation in the face of the ELD mandate with one owner-operator.
May 3, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Potential 34-hour restart change reinforces elemental hours problems for readers
Given the complexity of the recently proposed 34-hour-restart change, itâs no wonder (as youâll hear in this podcast) that a desire for the simplicity of pre-14-hour-rule regs is such a topic of discussion of late.
April 29, 2016
Voices
POLL: Post-crash litigation â has it reached into your business?
Trends show awards/activity in the courts have been on the rise: Have you been involved as a defendant in post-crash civil litigation, whether you were at fault in the accident or not?
April 28, 2016
Voices
Favor for minimum wage hike growing among truckers
Since Overdrive queried readers in 2014 about prospects for the $7.25/hour minimum wage, more truckers today believe itâs time to raise the wage, following a series of states and localities that have raised their own minimums.
April 19, 2016
Voices
Staring down a head-on collision with Carroll Fulmer driver
Latest from Dashcam Central: When you see somebody coming at you out of the distance, it can take a moment to realize just what youâre seeing. In this case a pair of headlights emerging and, it becomes increasingly clear, attached to a four-wheeler who is in your very lane.
April 18, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Broker freight transaction transparency rears its head amid rate doldrums
What exactly are those with the biggest stake in any freight movement getting today separated by middlemen? Not much, at too high a rate, one caller among others to the Overdrive Radio podcast line contends.
April 13, 2016
Voices
Ken Wettlaufer presents âSouth Fork road trainâ
âJust letting you Aussies know we can move grain in Ontario, Canada,â noted Ken Wettlaufer with this video â in response to a series of GoPro vids from Australian road trains posted in Dashcam Central by Chris Dinsdale.
April 12, 2016
Channel 19
Pennsylvania county goes proactive on highway-ramp parking
Penn. state patrol in Lackawanna County reportedly has stepped up ticketing of drivers parked on ramps, but quick press response shows some hope on shifting prevailing attitudes/awareness of the parking issue.
April 7, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Whatâs your most likely response to the ELD mandate?
As of now, whatâs your most likely response to mandated ELDs, assuming the regulation makes it intact: Will nothing change for you? Will you wait for rule challenges to play out before moving electronic for hours? Or something else entirely ⌠?
April 6, 2016
Voices
POLL: Should the federal minimum wage be raised?
With California moving toward a phased-in $15/hr minimum wage over the next several years, and other states eyeing similar proposals, should the $7.25/hr minimum wage be hiked?
April 5, 2016
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