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Dan Lagoon presents four-wheeler’s full 360 in ‘Black ice in Missouri’
“A car did a 360 on the freeway next to me” in January, noted Dan Lagoon in this upload to Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted vids. Follow the link below to add your own.
April 1, 2016
Voices
Bad roads hasten one owner-operator’s retirement — and more infrastructure voices
What stretch of North American highway in your experience would warrant the nomination for the No. 1 ‘Worst Road’ all around?
March 30, 2016
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Voices
POLL: Do you carry health insurance?
What’s been your situation relative to health insurance through the past year? Covered on your spouse’s plan or a plan grandfathered by Obamacare? Purchased on the exchanges? Not covered at all?….
March 29, 2016
Voices
Cabover road-train run in Australia with Chris Dinsdale
Multiple views in Dashcam Central of a road-train run with KW cabovers in Australia — Cameras mounted “on the front, the back, even over the 18-liter Caterpillar 3408.”
March 29, 2016
Voices
POLL: Biggest issue you’ve seen lately with road conditions/maintenance?
Given falling federal infrastructure investment and lack of funding in some states for adequate highway expansion and repair, this poll looks at the issue where the rubber meets the road — what have you experienced?
March 18, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Change for the better or nails in the coffin: Talking the future with Gary Carlisle
Whether the future landscape of greater risk translates to a boon for the future generations of owner-operators willing to assume the risk themselves as independents, or not, is one of many areas discussed in this podcast conversation with current owner/former operator Gary Carlisle.
March 17, 2016
Overdrive Radio
One independent’s comeback from the brink: A run with Ted Bowers
A rare opportunity to make part of a run with Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, owner of the small trucking company that bears his name, yields a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships.
March 15, 2016
Channel 19
Kudos to one driver for two lives saved
The case of trucker Gary Hurd of Paul Transportation, whose company only became aware of his heroic actions on the road at the scene of two accidents well after the fact. Here’s to all among you who go unrecognized for similar actions day-in, day-out.
March 11, 2016
Voices
POLL: Small fleets, which comes first — the driver or the truck?
For those among readers who’ve owned more than one truck, this poll asks a question relative to views on expansion strategy: Best to buy a truck to fit a dependable driver or the converse, focus on hiring only as needed to utilize equipment?
March 10, 2016
Voices
‘No surprise’: Voices following report on driver pay’s historic fall
Reader Thomas Lawson had this to say about news of a new analysis of driver wage growth — lack thereof, in fact — over the 35 years since 1980: “And this is a surprise to whom?”
March 9, 2016
Voices
POLL: Future for ‘fatigued driving’ enforcement?
Could DWF (driving while fatigued) be treated like DUI? Will technologies emerge enabling real-time monitoring in-cab to eventually give way to an entirely new approach to the hours of service? Which of these (or other) scenarios do you think might be most likely in the future ….
March 4, 2016
Channel 19
34-hour restart: Readers weigh in on options for its future
With the 34-hour restart remaining in complicated limbo, the results of the polling show that the largest share of Overdrive readers prefer the restart to, simply, remain as it is in the hours of service rules.
March 3, 2016
Voices
Tarping safety: ‘Don’t become a statistic this year’
“Be careful,” notes owner-operator Pete Zimmer in this dispatch on tarping safety and the need for better safety practices at some load locations: “It’s no secret that drivers are forced to tarp loads that are in unsafe conditions.”
February 25, 2016
Voices
Most truckers favor delay in Supreme Court appointment
Only 4 in 10 respondents to Overdrive’s recent polling on how the nomination process should proceed for departed Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement favored President Obama going ahead with a nomination before the election.
February 23, 2016
Hours of Service
POLL: Ideal future for the 34-hour restart?
With Congressional attention back on the 34-hour restart in the hours of service after language of the FY 2016 appropriations bill put its very existence in a kind of limbo, what’s your preferred version of its future?
February 22, 2016
Voices
The 34-hour restart’s complicated limbo
Here’s the latest. Nothing about the 34-hour restart will change until FMCSA issues its certified report on its mandated comparative restart study. If the report says what many truckers have hoped, however, the restart could disappear entirely.
February 17, 2016
Voices
Should Supreme Court nomination proceed before or after 2016 elections?
What’s your take on whether or not President Obama and Congress should go ahead with the nomination/confirmation process to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?
February 16, 2016
Channel 19
‘How’s my driving’? Call-in complaints, scams and another argument for dashcams
When a motorist’s call-in complaint rises to another level entirely — to an extortion scam: “This is why I strongly believe in cameras on your tractor and trailer to prevent fake lawsuits!” says a reader.
February 16, 2016
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