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Parking: Notes on circling sharks
āAt about 2 oāclock every afternoon my husband starts fretting about being able to park for our break, which is usually at least six hours away. If he doesnāt say something, I usually do.ā
December 10, 2012
TA announces Reserve-It parking
TravelCenters of America has announced a new program that allows drivers to reserve a parking space at select TA and Petro locations in advance of arriving.
October 24, 2012
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More O/O challenges: Image, health, parkingā¦
After primary reporting on owner-operatorsā top five challenges, sources offer their personal sixth ā from parking, training standards and health to driver image and industry unity to influence public opinion and regulatory direction.
August 16, 2012
Channel 19
Truck parking push not over with Jasonās Law
Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the āJasonās Lawā truck parking legislationās inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. āWhile everyone has jumped on the proverbial [ā¦]
July 17, 2012
Channel 19
Some good news: Jasonās Law in the highway bill
In all the hubbub over the mandate for electronic onboard recorders included in the highway-bill language, itās perhaps been easy to overlook some of better results for truckers and advocates, chief among them other language in the bill that, if it ultimately passes (as expected), brings to fruition nearly four yearsā worth of advocacy that [ā¦]
June 29, 2012
Channel 19
New hotel-search iPhone app from Booking.com
Need a hotel last-minute on the road? The new freeĀ Booking.com Tonight app for the iPhone taps into the Booking.com websiteās global listings for more than 200,000 hotels and other accommodations and offers some built-in price discounts for many, the company says. The appās geared towardĀ last-minute bookings and thus may be particularly useful for drivers. Simple, [ā¦]
April 15, 2012
Channel 19
What are owner-operatorsā top five problems?
Readers, Iām beginning research on a story Iām preparing for Overdriveās June issue on which I need as much owner-operator input as is possible. Itās one that will probe the five biggest problems owner-operators face in the industry today, offering practical and forward-looking ideas/examples toward solutions to those problems. My main problem, at this point, [ā¦]
March 19, 2012
Channel 19
Connect with Loveās on your phone
Since its debut in mid-2011, the Loveās Connect smartphone app for iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices has seen multiple upgrades aimed at streamlining and cementing usersā connections to Loveās Travel Stopsā services. Today, the app not only provides an efficient stop locator tool, but drivers can utilize one-touch contact of Loveās nationwide dispatch service for [ā¦]
January 8, 2012
Channel 19
Electrification of truck stop spaces revives
As fuel prices spiked in 2007-08, a large majority of truckersā anti-idling interest was focused on dedicated auxiliary power units, which market expanded dramatically with a profusion of new manufacturers. This time around, with the economy still somewhat shaky, owner-operator and fleet interest in up-front investment in full-function APU technology may be taking a back [ā¦]
August 30, 2011
Channel 19
Truck parking casualties of the Minnesota government shutdown
As if drivers and owner-operators didnāt have enough parking problems, the government shutdown in Minnesota will make it at least a wee bit ā if not more than that, of course ā more difficult to find a decent spot if taking off-duty rest in the stateās borders. Monday, a state judge denied the Minnesota Trucking [ā¦]
July 13, 2011
Channel 19
Unity diaries: Jasonās Law lives
Itās been more than two years since New York trucker Jason Rivenburg was slain in South Carolina after being held up while parked at an abandoned commercial property. Itās also been two years since House member Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) introduced the bill named for Rivenburg, āJasonās Law,ā to provide boosted funding for states to expand [ā¦]
May 12, 2011
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Hotel locator for drivers
Hotels4Truckers.com has details on hotels and other lodging that accommodate truckers.
February 25, 2011
Channel 19
Stand-up treadmill desk begs questionā¦; cargo theft connection to Jasonās Law?
In the P.R. copy blasted out with announcements about the new TrekDesk Treadmill Desk, the company talks about the dangers of the āsedentary lifestyle,ā noting studies of various characters that have probed ārising obesity rates and ill health caused by āSitting Diseaseā (a term given to the multitude of syndromes and diseases caused by sedentary [ā¦]
September 2, 2010
Channel 19
āNo Parkingā ā another day in the trucking headlines
As the folks with AsktheTrucker.com report a soon-to-be-released musical paean to the truck parking legislation known as Jasonās Law, there are at least two new blows to truck parking availability worldwide: The first comes from Arnold, Mo., where state rep and former truck driver Tim Meadows was on record supportingĀ an aggressive local ban on truck [ā¦]
July 12, 2010
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