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Long-haulin’ hotel sweepstakes, brake safety in Arizona …

With “Brake Safety Week” inspections kicked off around the country, are you seeing anything out of the ordinary? And: Hotels4Truckers and Transfix launch Long Haulin’ Hotel Sweepstakes.

September 8, 2015

brake safety week

Iran nuclear deal should be DOA, readers say

Eight in 10 readers opposed President Obama’s deal intended to slow Iran’s capability of building a nuclear bomb. The deal reached an approval threshold today in the U.S. Senate.

September 2, 2015

POLL: Do you carry health insurance?

What’s been your situation relative to health insurance through this year? Covered on your spouse’s plan or a plan grandfathered by Obamacare? Purchased on the exchanges? Not covered at all?….

September 2, 2015

health-insurance changes ahead

Truck-parking shortage back in the mainstream — primary safety issue for drivers, says advocate

Speaking from Dallas in an interview with the hosts of the Here & Now National Public Radio-affiliated program, Desiree Wood of Real Women in Trucking detailed the parking issue.

August 28, 2015

Voices on NYT’s ‘Trucks are killing us’ column: Readers respond, ATA says column riddled with ‘falsehoods’

“Why waste print to tell so many lies, when you can actually help the issues that truly affect the entire line of all phases of transportation?” –Matt Whitelaw on the “Trucks Are Killing Us” op-ed

August 25, 2015

Trucks are killing us

ELDs and driver harrassment: Webinar upcoming; voices raised against the mandate

Details on a free Aug. 26 online seminar, plus more views on the ELD mandate following recent coverage. Many responses took a defiant or skeptical view of the mandate, reflecting recent polling showing 83 percent of readers opposed.

August 25, 2015

Updated: Readers react to ‘Suicide by truck’ cover feature probing the on-highway unthinkable

Several Overdrive readers responded to the magazine’s “Suicide by truck” feature with stories of their own. If you have one you want to share, feel free to use the comments under this post.

August 19, 2015

To read Carolyn Magner’s “Suicide by Truck” story, also featured in the August issue of Overdrive, follow this link to Part 1.

Navigating ‘amateur day’ with the four-wheelers

“Amateur Night,” by driver Bill Patterson: “I dread Saturday nights. You never know what will happen.” Profiling the texter, the brake-footer, the rubbernecker, the NASCAR wannabe and …

August 18, 2015

congestion on SB i85

Election 2016 ‘Trumped’ for truckers

Asked which presidential candidate they’d most like to take on a ridealong, truckers named Donald Trump far and away more than any other candidate.

August 18, 2015

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POLL: How common are so-called ‘suicide by truck’ events?

Following our recent ‘Suicide by truck’ package of stories, this poll probes the question of just how common the phenomenon might be — what’s been your knowledge of such events over the years?

August 17, 2015

Michael Kimball presents ‘Lanes blocked? Use the shoulder.’

File under “four-wheeler impatience.” Says operator Michael Kimball: “I had a bull hauler passing me in the left lane. I guess the four-wheeler couldn’t wait.”

August 17, 2015

Michael Kimball shoulder pass

POLL: Best way to tackle detention?

Should government mandate, as the Obama administration’s DOT has attempted, that carriers pay detention to drivers, or is continued industry standardization of detention pay the best tack? Something else?

August 14, 2015

Exemptions adding fuel to hours debate

Bob Hearns, among others, weighs in: “keep asking for those legitimate exemptions, and maybe the rule makers, who do not know the industry … might wake up and do not only the right thing, but the necessary thing.”

August 11, 2015

Michael Kimball presents ‘Last minute decision.’

Another accident averted by Michael Kimball: “It happens every day — someone decides they don’t want to exit so they jerk it back on the highway without looking in the mirror.”

August 7, 2015

Michael Kimball dashcam screenshot

Potential FMCSA chief Darling ‘appreciates truckers,’ says OOIDA: That and other reactions to nomination

Both the American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association have expressed their support for the nomination of Scott Darling to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as official administrator, a role he’s performed on an acting basis for nearly a year. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Darling to head the DOT’s […]

August 6, 2015

Nominated FMCSA Administrator Scott Darling speaking before a Congressional subcommittee earlier this year.

POLL: Which presidential candidate would you most like to take on a ridealong in the truck?

As 2016 candidate debates get going, which of these high-profile candidates and hoped-for contenders would you most like to show firsthand your experience of the trucking business? Bonus: why?

August 5, 2015

POLL: Best method of calculating fair detention-pay rates?

How do you determine what to ask for detention rates per hour? Assuming allowing for reasonable load/unload times to be “free,” which of the options here best describes how you do, or would, make the calculation?

August 4, 2015

Redux: The cost of emissions-system maintenance

For too many truck buyers, such costs and associated practices are unforeseen and unheeded at time of purchase, notes a longtime truck sales/service rep. And: “Let’s face it, even with proper maintenance emissions systems are still not as reliable as they should be.”

July 30, 2015

Owner-operator Dave Palmer

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Spot Rates Highway

'Great news for spot rates'? Supreme Court rules against Trump emergency tariffs

The court's ruling sets up potential for a "flood of goods out of bonded warehouses and foreign trade zones into the 'consumption channel'" with some further court action, according to one analyst. At once, the president claimed most tariffs would remain in one form or another. Details on the ruling here.

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Non-domiciled CDL drivers, advocates call for California, Pennsylvania to fight DOT

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1.8M miles and counting: Missouri owner-op's '05 W900L

Shut Down

FMCSA shuts down 500 'CDL mills' after wave of in-person audits

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Federation of Professional Truckers explains ELD exemption push with FMCSA, future plans

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