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Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: Retired hauler and fleet owner Theldon Thornburgh

The latest in Long Haul Paul’s series capturing voices from the road: Theldon Thornburgh reflects on his long career, beginning in a 1930s/40s gas-powered International: “I was pretty lucky. I think I traveled 5.2 million miles and never did have a chargeable accident…”

April 30, 2018

Channel 19

Rise of the ‘shipper of choice’ phrase, particularly when it involves truck parking

In addition to the case of shipper Unilever’s Newville, Pa., facility, which I wrote briefly about last week, there are plenty other shippers and receivers who do make parking options available to drivers when space allows. At once, they’re hardly the norm, yet attention to parking issues is growing in the ELD mandate’s wake.

April 11, 2018

Channel 19

Novel ‘best practices’ parking examples data collection under way

A new effort from a working group within the National Coalition on Truck Parking needs your help to identify novel parking solutions in order that states, municipalities and private entities not always seen as truck-parking providers might implement them.

April 5, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Parking, ELDs, advocacy, self-insurance (‘level the playing field,’ anyone?) and more with Tilden Curl

This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features a talk with owner-operator Tilden Curl, who believes removal of the self-insurance option for motor carriers might, “dare I say it, ‘level the playing field’,” he says, when it comes to the price put on risk in underwriting standards put on carriers of all sizes, with numerous implications…

March 30, 2018

Channel 19

How to blow the whistle on problem shippers/receivers when delays force violations

A way to hold shippers and receivers accountable for delaying you into an hours violation that will require drivers doing something that hasn’t exactly been easy for a fed-up group of late: working with the DOT and FMCSA. (And FMCSA holding to their part of the bargain.)

March 29, 2018

Business

April Fool’s Day ELD-OOS nightmare may not be tough as some have guessed

In the weekly spot market update, a little intel from a recent DAT survey suggests FMCSA’s 96 percent ELD compliance rate is probably close to correct. Meantime, spot rates hold firm, and may be on the rise this week with volume trends in dry van, flat segments.

March 28, 2018

Parking

POLL: What’s happened to the parking situation since the ELD mandate?

Have peak parking-congestion periods extended, or do spaces seem more available when you need them? Are you paying to reserve spaces, or running at night to avoid peak times? Weigh in here.

March 28, 2018

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new travel stop in Elizabethtown, Ky.

The new store, located at 601 South Ring Road (exit 133 off of Western Kentucky Parkway), adds 63 truck parking spaces to the company’s network.

March 16, 2018

Business

Updating the info on Dock411

Enhancements to the Dock411 app for crowd-sourcing/vetting shipper and receiver dock and other info are coming at MATS 2018.

February 20, 2018

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new Texas, Iowa truck stops

The Mills County, Iowa, truck stop has 60 truck parking spaces, a Subway restaurant, laundry facilities and five showers. The Alma store has 138 truck parking spaces; Chester’s Chicken, Godfather’s Pizza and Subway restaurants; laundry facilities; and eight showers.

February 7, 2018

Parking

Seven Connecticut rest areas with more than 200 truck parking spots on chopping block

Connecticut DOT spokesman Kevin Nursick said his department conducted a study several years ago that revealed a truck parking deficit of 1,200 spaces each night. The seven rest areas under threat of closure offer truckers a total of 222 parking spaces that could be lost.

January 26, 2018

Truck Stops

Pilot Flying J looks to add more stores, expand parking availability notices in 2018

Pilot Flying J intends to open 20 new locations this year and continue renovating existing stores. The company is also looking to expand its parking availability notification system, which it began testing last year on the West Coast.

January 17, 2018