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Owner-operators, what’s your current fuel mileage?
What kind of mileage are you getting currently? This poll probes the variation in fuel economy around the industry among Overdrive readers.
September 29, 2014
Channel 19
Big G Express’ ‘Drive it off’ Taylor Swift parody
Tenn.-based Big G Express’ entry in the driver-appreciation-week festivities: a music-video parody of Taylor Swift’s rather goofball “Shake it Off” entry into the dance-music canon, featuring Big G driver Keda White in the starring role — with arguably better dance skills than Ms. Swift.
September 29, 2014
Voices
‘Mike’s Law’: National ‘business carry’ draft language and reader reaction
The Small Business in Transportation Coalition’s petition to Congress for a federal ‘business carry’ program for interstate drivers had garnered 1,423 signatures as of this morning, and SBTC had drafted text of potential “enabling legislation” and filed it with Congressional representatives.
September 26, 2014
Custom Rigs
Out from behind the camera: Big Rig Videos’ Chris Fiffie
Florida-based videographer and former truck driver Chris Fiffie has been turning heads over the past year with his vid series of Rolling CB Interviews with owner-operators.
September 24, 2014
Voices
Readers split over militarized police force
With mainstream media disseminating images of police employing military-style armor and weaponry during rioting in Ferguson, Mo., this summer, a debate over the militarization of local police was revived.
September 20, 2014
Voices
POLL: Where do you stand on U.S. strategy against ISIS?
The United States has telegraphed a strategy of coalition-building in the region around Iraq and Syria and elsewhere to support U.S. role, primarily in a training/air capability as most recently expressed, in the fight against ISIS, aka ISIL or Islamic State. Do you support?
September 18, 2014
Voices
‘Most Beautiful’ dustup
In the wake of Overdrive’s second annual ‘Most Beautiful’ program recognizing female drivers, readers offer criticism of — and some kudos for — the effort.
September 17, 2014
Voices
Independents: How much liability insurance do you carry?
With FMCSA preparing a rule to increase the minimum level of required liability insurance for carriers, this rule probes current levels of coverage among owner-operators with their own authority.
September 16, 2014
Voices
Driver appreciation, year-round
“Here’s to a deep and sincere appreciation for all the truckers out there doing it right, every day of the week, every month of the year. Your commitment and sacrifice keep people who don’t even think about what you do comfortable and safe. There’s a lot to be said for that, and it should be said every day.”
September 15, 2014
Voices
The best advice I ever got about trucking
Wendy Parker runs down some answers to the question, including this nugget: “Listen to the old-timers in all their trucking BS — there is always a grain of truth, and you learn something.”
September 11, 2014
Channel 19
Report: Air horns for four-wheeler safety?
More and more, drivers are taking the issue of four-wheeler distraction (chiefly by cellphones) into their own hands….
September 11, 2014
Voices
POLL: Do you use your truck’s horn to call out distracted drivers?
This poll follows reports of a growing tendency among drivers calling out unsafe behavior among motorists and other truckers on-highway, particularly cell phone use behind the wheel.
September 10, 2014
Channel 19
OOIDA’s new NCRME survey; Benefits of apnea treatment for one operator
Independent owner-operator Joe Bielucki’s sleep apnea story — results following his preemptive strike of sorts relative to the condition two years ago.
September 8, 2014
Voices
The most memorable haul of your life
While the question has been asked in various forms over the years here and elsewhere — “your most memorable haul? — this round’s responses yielded no small amount of tales and tall and/or solid in stature. Take a run through some of the best here.
September 2, 2014
Channel 19
Speed limiters not ‘worth the hassle’: More voices on potential mandate
Michael Goodman, among others: “Forcing speed limiters will make roads less safe and be another unnecessary cost to the millions of truck owners in the United States.”
August 29, 2014
Channel 19
Radio check from under the ice bucket; And a two-wheeler’s salute
In which Channel 19 writer Todd Dills accepts a couple of ice-bucket challenges, and issues a couple more — and a long-distance highway cyclist delivers a big salute to the pros he shares the road with.
August 28, 2014
Voices
Julie Matulle named Top Rookie at Great American Trucking Show
Julie Matulle, a 46-year-old driver for H.O. Wolding Inc. in Amherst, Wisc. is the winner of the fourth annual Mike O’Connell Memorial Trucking’s Top Rookie Award. She received the award, including $10,000 and a variety of prizes, today in ceremonies at the Great American Trucking Show (GATS) in Dallas. Brad Bentley, editorial director for recruiting […]
August 22, 2014
Voices
A time for thanks to those who always deliver
Greg Fulton, President of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, delivers a message to the general public in appreciation of drivers.
August 21, 2014
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