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Voices: Page 95

Electronic Logging Devices
Computer-assisted logs: To print or not to print
If you’re using a mobile-device logging app or a laptop-based program for hours of service, don’t leave those printers at home just yet.
July 11, 2014
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Voices
Four-wheelers, too: Highway safety should be a widely shared aim
“Why would lawmakers discourage (for all intents and purposes) tired drivers from taking a nap/ safety break?” reader Rick Blatter asks in this opinion in response to an opinion piece in a New Jersey newspaper.
July 9, 2014
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Voices
POLL: What strategy would most effectively deal with flood of migrant children?
With the recent flood of migrant children from countries in Central America and elsewhere, this poll probes the options for effectively dealing with the problems.
July 8, 2014
Voices
‘America respected and loved truckers a lot more back then’
Six-million-mile man Gregg Blair, now retired, remembers a long career.
July 4, 2014
Gregg Blair retired in Ft. Worth, Texas, where he enjoys his days happily tinkering around the house, camping, and spending time with his wife.
Channel 19
‘American Trucks’ from across the pond; Need-a-new-lane blues
Swiss photographer Ulysses Frechelin’s “American Trucks” fine-art photo book; and reader Eric Buckel on I-15 from Barstow to Vegas: Add a new lane!
July 1, 2014
American Trucks, by Ulysse Frechelin
Channel 19
‘Perfect storm’ for driver issues afoot?
In the words of driver Allen Smith: “with all that has just happened in just the last 3 weeks, we have the momentum and leverage needed to encourage the FMCSA to listen intently, while everything is out on the table from all sides.”
June 28, 2014
Headline Redefined: 14 Hour Clock Needs A Pause Button
Voices
POLL: Has your most recent DOT physical resulted in a sleep apnea test?
With no official regulation or guidance on testing for the sleep apnea condition in the rulebooks, practices vary around the nation — some say apnea testing is on the rise. Tell us your recent med cert experience in this poll.
June 26, 2014
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Electronic Logging Devices
E-log proposed mandate comment period nearing end
Following the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s extension of the public comment period on its proposed electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, comments close finally on June 26.
June 24, 2014
rand mcnally eobr e-log eld
Channel 19
Luck of the drive; Poetry for a husband
A promotion nets a free set of drives for one Indiana owner-operator; And from a self-proclaimed “truck driver’s wife” to her husband, a message “from the heart.”
June 23, 2014
Owner-operator Marvel with Apex reps
Voices
View: Fleets can lead way toward renewal of respect and honor for driving profession
Overdrive’s Jack Roberts answers the question: “When did we, as a society, transition from holding drivers in high regard to regarding them as people who drive trucks because ‘they can’t do anything else?'”
June 23, 2014
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in France
Voices
Truckers favor none-of-the-above option on Iraq
A small majority of Overdrive readers favor no U.S. intervention in the ongoing crisis in Iraq.
June 19, 2014
hotbuttons
Hours of Service
POLL: Would rolling back 2013 restart changes affect highway safety?
What’s your intuition on highway safety relative to the restart changes that went into effect last year? If successful, would Congressional attempts to roll back the changes for a year influence highway safety in any way? Tell us here.
June 17, 2014
hours of service evening truck stop
Parking
Some people think driving in America is just ‘fantastic’
Meet former European haulers Martin Cassidy and Veronika Lengvarska in this profile of sorts by George & Wendy Show writer Wendy Parker.
June 16, 2014
Veronika Lengvarska, Martin Cassidy
Channel 19
‘Restart’ hits the mainstream; rhyming couplets for the road
As with Anne Ferro’s now-infamous blog post about the Congressional efforts relative to the restart, NPR’s report on hours makes it sound like an attack on the entire rule is at issue.
June 14, 2014
Ferro resignation poll capture
Voices
POLL: What role should the U.S. play in Iraq crisis?
With the Obama administration considering a variety of options from air strikes to intelligence and military targeting support, weigh in here on how you think the U.S. should be involved in the current crisis…
June 13, 2014
hotbuttons
Voices
Reader: Truck drivers essential to American way of life
This letter and salute to the American driver came in from Elberta Bocock, administrator of a Facebook page that is itself something of a salute.
June 11, 2014
trucks on highway
Channel 19
Voices on the call for FMCSA head to resign
Was OOIDA’s move the right one — or is the “be careful what you ask for, you just might get it” adage an appropriate consideration? More views here on the org’s call for Anne Ferro to resign.
June 10, 2014
anne ferro at OOIDA
Voices
VA’s hard work begins with Shinseki’s departure
One in three Overdrive readers got what they wanted when Veterans Affairs head Eric Shinseki stepped down in late May. More on reaction to VA problems here.
June 9, 2014
hotbuttons
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