Truck parking ‘still a major problem in every state’ and worsening, says inventory update
It’s long been clear that parking shortages are a high-priority item for Overdrive readers and other truckers. The National Coalition on Truck Parking’s reveal of initial findings in the updated Jason’s Law survey / parking inventory effort underscored…
What can owner-operators expect from a Biden administration?
What trucking issues in flux are likely to catch that administration’s — or the new Congress’ — attention? For this week’s edition of Overdrive Radio, OOIDA President Todd Spencer and Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh forecast some answers. And: Wh…
Listen back: Truckers, brokers sound off in freight transaction transparency session
Three petitions, two to beef up the reg requiring broker disclosure of all freight charges, among other records, on both sides of a transaction, another to remove the reg entirely. In today’s Overdrive Radio podcast, track back through the myriad of vi…
DOT says it’s full speed ahead on hours changes implementation
“Right now,” said current FMCSA chief Jim Mullen, “there’s no effort to abate or hold off on Sept. 29,” the day on which the new provisions can be utilized by drivers. Views on safety technology, hours petitions and more aired in first session of agenc…
New tools toward broker transaction transparency, truck stop amenities status
1) Trimble’s new interactive ‘COVID-19 Safe Havens’ status map for truck-stop locations, partially relying on crowd-sourced status details. 2) OOIDA’s call to action to members offered a new basic template to put in writing a transaction details review…
News roundup, May 7: OOIDA presses Congress for brokered transaction transparency
The association presses Congress for required disclosure of brokered transaction records, including what the shipper paid, and more in COVID relief bill. A new truck routing program is available from the Department of Homeland Security. A Georgia-based…
With rates ‘nowhere near sustainable’ for independent truckers, debate stirs over ‘re-regulating’
Voices from D.C. demonstrations as well as around the trucking business as everybody seems to be looking for the elusive, profitable ‘new normal’ that might help businesses sustain through the COVID-19 crisis.
OOIDA presses Trump to improve access for OTR drivers to get tested
OOIDA President Todd Spencer emphasized in a letter to the Trump administration the need for COVID-19 testing available specifically for drivers serving problematic areas and available along haul routes. “Testing must show results in hours, not days,” …
News roundup, Jan. 28: Supreme Court won’t hear OOIDA’s challenge to increasing PA Turnpike tolls; little reader support for ABC tests; longtime Talladega trucker passes away
The U.S. Supreme Court denied OOIDA’s request to hear its case against the increasing Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls. A sizable majority of Overdrive readers against the ABC test for the independent contractor classification as too simplistic//broad for t…
Parking perils: The increasing cost, and risk, of booting and towing
Booting and towing incidents have become more numerous and more costly, owner-operators and others report. Some advocates call for national regulation of the practice, particularly when drivers are asleep in their trucks.