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In love with trucking: Talent search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro from Nashville studio
Latest Overdrive Radio podcast: A sitdown with (and series of music sketches from) 2018 Trucker Talent Search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro, also her father, Urban Roger Brown, on hand in Nashville for the recording session that was part of the TTS grand prize.
March 22, 2019
CARB dismantled my truck, now itās hauling around Mexico
That was the case after a truck owner participated in Californiaās Prop 1B grant program for truck replacement. After his truck was dismantled, a GPS unit that had been inadvertently left hardwired behind the dash reported yearsā worth of positions at work south of the border in Jalisco.
March 21, 2019
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Got room on the trailer? Driver-led group looking to coordinate available space for disaster relief
The Trucks With Room to Spare group was started at the instigation of Greenup, Kentucky-based trucker Shelli Conawayās desire to assist areas hit by Hurricane Michael in Florida, an area she hauled to at the time. Toady, theyāre attempting to coordinate donated hauling with relief organizations in the flooded Midwestā¦
March 20, 2019
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Dealing with DEF quality: Certification program turns 10, amid continued assurance work
Issues that can arise with out-of-spec diesel exhaust fluid include the perhaps most obvious one ā improper urea concentration, which at a drastic-enough level can trigger derating of the engine. Other issues can include expensive repairs.
March 19, 2019
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90-plus-inch double-bunk sleeper in a cargo van? You bet
Cargo-van owner-operators Darren and Trish Ayres, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, haul in the CDL-required hazmat military-freight niche, and worked with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Fastlane Products to build a unique sleeper set-up in their Mercedes Sprinter van. Also: More onerous inspection practices that could use discouragement.
March 15, 2019
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New onboard scale interfaces with driver smartphones
Blue Ink Techās new āAir Scaleā is of a piece with the companyās mission to help combat, by elimination of, the variety of āinterruptions that drivers face on a daily basisā that suck time and money from their businesses.
March 13, 2019
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Credit where itās deserved: Motorist says sheās alive today on account of a few good pros
Herewith one motorist who knows what it means to share the road. Two professional driversā training and composure āmay be the reason I am alive,ā wrote a reader of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, lauding the swift thinking and reaction of the pros.
March 12, 2019
Overdrive Radio
1970s, 2010s trucking parallels, and: Hauling away (or into) the headaches with a cargo van
In this edition of Overdrive Radio find audio from part of Max Heineās talk with John Strong about his memories of the 1970s and beyond, and more from my own sit-down with Load Oneās John Elliott, about headache boxes checked by the cargo van hauling niche in expediting ā not without its significant challengesā¦
March 8, 2019
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Owner-operators report mostly negative, if any, change in detention times since ELDs were mandated for most
Early detention-poll results show most readers feel that the load/unload locations they visit had either seen no change (44 percent) or actually gotten a little (18 percent) or a lot (20 percent) worse on detention since late December 2017 when the electronic logging device mandate first came into play.
March 6, 2019
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Owner-operator George Berryās new intermodal group pushing for $60/hour detention at Va. port
Owner-operator George Berry and the relatively newly formed Virginia Port Truckers Association is extending what he calls an āopen invitationĀ to company drivers and owner-operatorsā for this Saturday, March 9, and a meeting at which the association will begin to establish governance, amid detention-pay push at port.
March 4, 2019
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More slow-rollinā supporting shutdown call: A talk with owner-op Brian Bucenell
Owner-operator Brian Bucenellās 2002 Peterbilt 379 was among the 100 or so trucks that participated in the āslow rollā event in Indianapolis last week. Bucenellās also helping put on a Virginia āslow rollā event tomorrow, March 2, both of which he speaks to in this Overdrive Radio podcast.
March 1, 2019
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Remembering Eddie Karwaski of former Penn. small fleet Apple House Trucking
Karwaski passed a year ago this past Tuesday, Feb. 26, says his daughter. Apple House Trucking closed in 2007 as the recession took hold, after having grown to a height of around 50 trucks in the early 1990s. Earlier than that, its distinctive blue/gold/white paint scheme was featured twice in Overdrive.
February 28, 2019
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Tuesday round-up: The boomerang of brokersā claims offsets; LGBTQ trucking; large carrier channels inner owner-op on āshortageā
Check out Overdrive Online's lastest trucking industry roundup news which focuses on freight brokers, LGBTQ truck drivers and the truck driver shortage.
February 26, 2019
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Raise scam awareness ā How to combat expensive online fakery; More from āLong Haul Paulā
An online security expert addresses an audience to increase their digital awareness in order to combat online scams. Read more right here on Overdrive Online.
February 22, 2019
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Beating back too many brokersā wrongheaded mentality: āKeep the shipper happy no matter what it costs the carrierā
Addressing a freight broker's wrongheaded mentality with Overdrive Online. Get more details and other trucking industry news right here on Overdrive Online.
February 20, 2019
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New tool for placing hard-to-reach edge protectors and more when securing flatbed loads
The new steel Gavase Tool, designed at the instigation of owner-operator Ricardo Flores, mounts to an extension pole and is suitable for a variety of flatbed load-securement uses, including the basic installation of straps and plastic or metal strap/chain corner protectors and V boards or other wood, and more.
February 19, 2019
Overdrive Radio
A closer look at the freight-demand and planning app for owner-ops with Load One
In the sort of emergency-freight service that is the expedited trucking business, having information about where best to be for the next load is, to say the least, a difficult proposition. Load Oneās āUltimate Advantageā smartphone app, though, delivers relevant demand information to leased owner-ops, as Load One head John Elliott explains in this weekās Overdrive Radio podcast,
February 15, 2019
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āBe pro out thereā: More share-the-road resources
ATEF received a grant from the Office of Highway Safety. The grant allows ATEF to continue educating the public about safe highway behaviors around trucks.
February 14, 2019
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