Love’s Travel Stops Expands Contactless Payment Options
New payment options at Love’s Travel Stops help professional drivers limit COVID-19 infection risks.
Convoy Expands Drop-and-Hook Services
Digital freight network provider Convoy has improved its drop-and-hook service, Convoy Go. The new version will offer fleets predictive trailer routing, automated reloads with batched routes, and improved telematics in its smart trailers
Music, tales for the big road: Trucker-songwriters John Malayter and Long Haul Paul, and bluegrass pro Tina Adair
This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast offers music and storytelling to take you through the weekend and into next — interviews with/music from trucker-songwriter John Malayter and bluegrass pro Tina Adair. A pandemic tale, finally, from our own Long Hau…
Unadjusted, US truck freight volume is rising: ATA
[caption caption="Unadjusted truck tonnage data shows freight demand increased in October, though not at the pace of previous years. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]The actual volume of truck tonnage hauled in October rose 2.7 percen…
Broadening the spectrum
[caption caption="Shippers have a range of options when it comes to freight invoice auditing, as the market broadens to mirror the diverse nature of the cargo owner market and its individual needs. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]The…
Hazmat was banned from I-75/51 bridge that burned
It appears one of the trucks involved in the collision and fire earlier this month that forced the closure of a key bridge and interstate highway connection between Ohio and Kentucky should not have been on the bridge. A Louisville TV station reports K…
Happy Thanksgiving! (And a recipe fit for a range or bungee’d-secure slow cooker)
If poll results are any indication, more owner-ops have been able to take the day off than in past years — here’s hoping that’s indicative of good business results the last half of this year, and here’s a message of thanksgiving (and a side-item recip…
Best wishes for a safe holiday no matter where you are
Truckers make holiday meals happen
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FMCSA accepting comments on brokers’ request to remove transparency regs
FMCSA is accepting comments on a petition from the Transportation Intermediaries Association to rescind 49 CFR 371.3(c), which pertains to brokered rates transparency. And other news: A trucker was busted with $25 million of alleged liquid meth in the …
If your ELD goes down, go to paper, or … ELS, anyone?
What are your options in the event of an ELD malfunction? Given an ongoing widespread outage of Rand McNally devices, here’s what the regs require and what FMCSA notes are your options — not just paper, in this case.
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