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Voices

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

Hours of Service

POLL: On average, how long do you drive per day?

Given the late attention to those in the supply chain who would waste drivers’ time unnecessarily, this poll probes just how much Overdrive readers really use of their daily maximum 11 hours drive time.

July 28, 2015

Channel 19

Shout to a shipper

Holly Knoll Services owner-operator Dave Palmer gives credit where it’s due — to B&T Sand of Columbia, S.C., for efficient load/unload practices.

July 11, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Hours of service wish list: ‘We are people, not machines’

Results: Readers sound off in podcast, survey toward a more perfect hours rule.

May 23, 2015

Voices

POLL: What is your detention time worth?

How much is your time spent waiting at docks worth per hour? This poll looks at the range of what owner-operators and drivers expect from detention rates, such as they may be.

March 9, 2015

Business

2014’s top stories, Part 1: Truckers’ right to carry, engine lawsuits, detention pay and more

Overdrive delved through a web of analytics and a year’s worth of news and features posted on OverdriveOnline.com to put together a list of the top 20 stories from 2014. Here are numbers 11-20.

December 29, 2014

Custom Rigs

Former drivers, raise hands high!

Former owner-operator Bryan Lundberg’s latest step on the path through the trucking world is as a broker. His last Kenworth, though, is no less special to him. Photos from back when here.

November 20, 2014

Hours of Service

Detention time’s impact on safety, productivity: ATRI wants carrier input

The American Transportation Research Institute is looking for input from the trucking industry on the impact of detention time on safety and productivity.

November 3, 2014

Business

Red Rover, Red Rover, send George right over

Load negotiation as playground game — and an extra push that misses the mark…

September 19, 2014

Business

Coercion rule comments: Hours still the problem, ‘coercion’ needs definition

Common themes of regulatory criticism popped up often in the public comments offered on DOT’s proposed driver coercion prohibition rule, like the new pressures and restrictions caused by the agency’s 2013 hours-of-service rule and holding shippers, receivers and brokers accountable.

August 26, 2014

Voices

POLL: Would you support a detention-pay mandate?

Following the Obama administration’s inclusion of a mandate for detention pay equal to or greater than the minimum wage in its draft highway bill, this poll probes the debate over the measure.

May 29, 2014

Channel 19

Reports say Senate version of a highway bill next in line

What exactly could be in it is anybody’s guess, but if it at all resembles what the Obama administration put out early this week, here’s hoping it walks back from expansive tolling provisions…

May 3, 2014