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The scrum over mandatory detention pay
Though the provision for reforming driver compensation practices by requiring carriers to pay a minimum hourly wage for driver detention was not included in the first Congressional draft of a highway...
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CSA’s Fallout: Scoring reliability woes dominate independents’ concerns
Three and a half years after Compliance, Safety, Accountability began its radical scrambling of how trucking safety is monitored and scored, owner-operators and carriers continue to suffer from its...
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CSA’s Fallout: SMS/safety rating system disconnect compounds problems
Part 1 of this multipart feature revealed some results of Overdrive‘s 2014 CSA survey — owner-operators ranked score reliability as the biggest problem going, 70 percent calling for the scores to be...
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Lawsuit over FMCSA guidance on CSA scores dismissed
In a brief to media and members, the board of the Alliance for Safe, Efficient and Competitive Truck Transportation reported that the suit it brought against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
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VIDEO: Part 2 of Mark White’s story
Monday, July 7, I posted the first in two videos in which Old Time Express’ Mark White tells the story of how his small fleet got out from under a Conditional safety rating over the course of two...
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You can’t get there from here
There are people in this world who travel to the same places every single day of their lives and never know exactly where they’re at. I know this because I’m one of them. I have a horrible sense of...
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What will be outgoing FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro’s lasting legacy?
Outgoing FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro, among drivers at the 2013 Mid-America Trucking Show. Improving driver compensation certainly ranks at or near the top of outgoing Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
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Will FMCSA ‘un-ring’ the CSA alarm?
RelatedCoalition of trucking groups calls for removal of public CSA scoresTen trucking groups sent a letter to the DOT pleading for the public scores in the CSA program to be removed from public view,...
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Crowdfunding the DUDAD for a wake-up call at the docks
An invention from the minds of tinkerer and North Carolina-based driver Chris Barbeau (pictured) and Judy Chute got its crowdfunding campaign under way recently at Kickstarter.com for the DUDAD (yes,...
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Big data blowback: Trucking goes to Congress over CSA
Access all of our past special coverage of CSA via this link. The reason why carriers of all shapes and sizes have a problem with CSA, as I’ve written before, has not to do with its stated purpose, by...
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The rest: Tying the knot on 2014
Access Part 1 and Part 2 of this year in review, stitching together the most-read stories on the Channel 19 blog in 2014, via those links. No. 3: The story of young trucker Mike Boeglin, aside from...
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Strike! For .. lower freight rates?
A recent headline about a bevy of strikes ongoing in the nation of Colombia, from the English-language Colombia Reports, caught my eye this morning: “Colombia truckers on strike to demand lower freight...
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How much is your time worth?
Detention pay. It’s a magical, mystical occurrence, having to do with truckers being paid for time they sit at the dock, waiting to be loaded or unloaded. More often than not, it’s a punchline for a...
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Analyst: CSA ‘sea change’ coming
The trucking industry wants change to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability safety-scoring/ranking program, and Overdrive readers are no exception to...
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Hours of service wish list: ‘We are people, not machines’
Take Our Poll Such was the sentiment of one of the callers you’ll hear in the podcast below, commenting on the current hours of service and offering a few ideas on how to improve them to, in turn,...
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J.B. Hunt to shippers and receivers: Don’t waste drivers’ time
J.B. Hunt outlined several “best practices” for shippers that could significantly increase driver efficiency. J.B. Hunt (No. 6 on the CCJ Top 250) recently released a report directed at shippers and...
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Shout to a shipper
The picture in some respects says it all. That’s not Holly Knoll Services independent dump owner-operator Dave Palmer’s company hat, after all. Rather, it’s from a shipper based in Columbia, S.C., he...
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Detention détente: Tables turn in carriers’, drivers’ favor in pay/rate...
Since Overdrive’s last look at detention problems and detention-pay practices two years ago, a lot has happened in truckers’ favor, thanks to improved communication and tight capacity industrywide....
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‘Demand detention’ pay: Strong voices on compensation for waits
Best way for the industry and/or govt. to tackle detention? As indicated in summer-conducted polling above, most readers favor industry-based solutions to the problem of uncompensated waits at...
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