Not ‘engaged to wait’ while in the sleeper? Readers respond to federal labor...
More readers than not agreed with commenter Jason McCarter that, "if you are in your truck at any time, you should be paid," even if off-duty in the sleeper. Find other views, including those contrary,...
View ArticleHopes and hazards in using ELD data: Detention reduction
With wells of data at their fingertips, ELD providers are beefing up offerings to their customers, with potential to reduce wasted time and improve load choices. However, the privacy tradeoffs can cut...
View ArticleTime and cost, redux: Where the owner-op is the smartest guy — in a roomful...
So, what is your time worth? Turns out, it's likely a lot more owner-operators have a clear sense of that than fleet execs when it comes to the trucking business.
View ArticleNo time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention
With urban traffic rapidly worsening, it indirectly puts pressure to address wasted time at the docks.
View ArticleNearly half of independents using ELDs give no thanks for device providers
Almost half of independent owner-operator respondents who've put on an e-log reported a "no-satisfaction" level with their ELD provider -- add those who were only "somewhat or a little satisfied," and...
View ArticlePOLL: Your average length of haul since the ELD mandate: Shorter, longer,...
Anecdotal reports and some carrier surveys have shown length-of-haul desirability trending shorter for small fleets post-ELD mandate. Lots of factors are at play otherwise, but what's the reality for...
View ArticleWhat is your time worth?
"How many of us, if asked, could accurately quote what our time is worth, per hour, based on actual and complete data? No emotion, no pie in the sky guessing, just the cold hard facts." Gary Buchs on...
View ArticleTechnology and maximizing your most precious resource
How technology is "changing some of what I want to believe about my business," in the words of owner-operator Gary Buchs, in this his debut on the Overdrive Extra blog. Among tech's benefits: freeing...
View Article‘Don’t work more for less’ is reader Tom Hall’s message on hours, ELDs
"A specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will 'haul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a...
View ArticleE-log antipathy ‘not all about the money’: Readers respond ‘around the dunk...
The pseudonymous Memphis noted his Friday positing of the possibility of a "new golden age of trucking" -- if imposed ELDs actually limit available hours in a fashion they aren't already limited...
View Article‘Not adding up’: Following Supreme Court’s hit to ELD challenge,...
In the wake of the Supreme Court's official denial of OOIDA's appeal for it to throw out the ELD rule, attention turned to the Trump administration and, more closely, Congress. A bevy of readers faced...
View ArticleThe weak arguments for skimping on behind-the-wheel training
It’s sadly ironic that the agency charged with improving trucking safety would rely on lame excuses to shrug its shoulders at a simple, common-sense way to shore up safety.
View ArticleELD mandate: Is drivers’ time saved by e-logs worth near $2 billion annually?
Just as it's pretty hard to estimate time saved in a reliable way, it's pretty hard for paper and pencil to malfunction in the same way a computer can -- delving into FMCSA's ELD mandate cost-benefit...
View ArticleAn hourly future for driver pay?
There's evidence that legal and other pressures could lead to more prevalence for a time-based pay model, particularly for company drivers. Should a state-to-state patchwork of enforceable labor laws...
View ArticleKevin Rutherford reveals owner-operators’ most oft-overlooked and untapped...
Audio of Rutherford's talk at the GATS Saturday: "There is nothing more powerful than education. ... If you are not listening to something and learning something actively every day, you are missing out...
View ArticlePOLL: 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.
View ArticleTime is a frame of mind
Complexities abound in the lure of Washington state: "If we moved to the West Coast, I'd never know what time it is again." Seriously, mom?
View ArticlePhotos: Brush-fire shutdown of SB I-85 in GA
Headed out of S.C. to Nashville through the area, a planned 9-hour-or-so run turned into one that, in a different life, would have come pretty well close to the end of the 14-hour window.
View ArticleDeep thinking, and many miles to go
“You can't get two truckers to agree on anything.” This is an often used and completely untrue statement. You can get two truckers to agree on something. It's getting a third one that's a unicorn.
View ArticleThe scrum over mandatory detention pay
Following the Obama administration's nod to the notion of mandatory detention pay in its draft highway bill, debate has intensified over whether the federal government ought to be involved in detention...
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