Bill Quade explains FMCSA's Beyond Compliance program proposal
Bill Quade explains FMCSA's Beyond Compliance program proposal by Overdrive
Apr 25, 2016•7 min
Overdrive Radio
The Overdrive Radio podcast is produced by Overdrive magazine, the Voice of the American Trucker for 60-plus years. Host Todd Dills -- with a supporting cast among Overdrive editors, contributors and others -- presents owner-operator business leading lights, interviews with extraordinary independent truckers and small fleet owners, and plenty in the way of trucking business and regulatory news and views. Access an archive of all episodes of Overdrive Radio going back more than a decade via this link: http://overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio
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Panther Expedited's Irwin Shires speaks at Beyond Compliance listening session
Panther Expedited's Irwin Shires speaks at Beyond Compliance listening session by Overdrive
Apr 25, 2016•5 min
Joe Rajkovacz, FMCSA's Jack Van Steenburg back and forth on Beyond Compliance
Joe Rajkovacz, FMCSA's Jack Van Steenburg back and forth on Beyond Compliance by Overdrive
Apr 25, 2016•5 min
Mailbag: More voices on pay, ELDs and proposed safety rating tied to roadside inspections
Following Overdrive Radio's prior podcast in this series -- "Mailbag from the 'driver wage shortage'" -- more voices here on a growing sense that regulated transparency in freight transactions with brokers could go a long way to improving the income situation for owner-operators. Two more views, too, on prospects for new programs, from mandated ELDs to FMCSA's proposed new safety rating system, to have a beneficial effect on highway safety, imposing only unnecessary constraints or more complexit...
Apr 13, 2016•7 min
The 'daily fitness for duty'? Talking fatigue measurement, monitoring and the pace of technology
Former Schneider VP and current SmartDrive advisory board member Don Osterberg believes a stepped-up fitness-for-duty assessment is in drivers' future -- to be conducted via biometric fatigue measurement/monitoring technology. This talk, part of Overdrive's reporting in the "Tomorrow's Trucker" series, ranges over that notion as well as the profusion of other technologies -- such as inward-facing video cameras -- with potential to assess fatigue in real-time. Read more via http://overdriveonline...
Apr 07, 2016•21 min
Vigillo CEO Steve Bryan: How data will be used to predict accidents and what that means for drivers
In this 5-minute collection of excerpts from a 2015 interview with Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine, Bryan discusses the increasing use of data – “drivers’ behavior, vehicle performance, weather, routes, lanes, congestion, other drivers” – to find patterns that can lead to crashes. Also, his thoughts on whether the attention on performance data will force more drivers out of the industry.
Apr 06, 2016•5 min
Mailbag from the driver wage shortage: More views on the long fall in pay, rates, income and more
This podcast rounds up several views following the report on what is a fall in the purchasing power of truckers' wages over 35 years. Adjusted for inflation, had driver pay kept up with the Consumer Price Index's inflation since 1980, the average trucker today would make more than $100,000 annually. As one caller put it, there's absolutely not a "driver shortage" but rather it's the "wage shortage" that is the problem. In addition, toward the end of the podcast, find a few views on the Safety Fi...
Mar 17, 2016•5 min
Back from the brink: On the road with Ted Bowers Trucking
Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, in business as an owner-operator for decades, took Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills along for part of a run of 3,300 lbs. of stainless tubing from Knoxville, Tenn., bound for Iowa. Along the way, as Dills explains, Bowers told a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships in any successful owner-operator or small fleet business. Recorded along the way in Bowers' own custom stretch...
Mar 15, 2016•19 min
Nails in the coffin or change for the better? Talking trucking's future with Gary Carlisle
Attendant to the March 2016 issue of Overdrive and its Part 1 coverage of the future of the owner-operator business model, this talk between Agri-Empresa oil field service fleet manager and one-truck owner Gary Carlisle ranges over a myriad of issues on which Carlisle bucks many a forward-looking trend in his focus on bedrock issues of generational shifts, economic cycles and regulation. Tip of the hat to trucker/singer-songwriter Bill Weaver for a bit of his "I'm Rollin'" single from the "Every...
Mar 07, 2016•33 min
"I'm rollin'": Behind 'Every Mile I Drive' with trucker/singer-songwriter Bill Weaver
In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, run through the brand-new record from trucker Bill Weaver, who with regulator collaborators in his band has honed the Southern Rock style you'll hear here over many years. The Flippin, Ark., native is a hazmat hauler by trade, and no slouch of a songwriter, the new "Every Mile I Drive" record makes abundantly clear. Read more about him via http://overdriveonline.com/podcast-take-a-run-through-the-stories-behind-bill-weavers-every-mile-i-drive
Feb 23, 2016•21 min
"I Likes Me a Big Girl," by Paul Marhoefer
Trucker/singer-songwriter Paul Marhoefer continues his recent spate of recording activity with this romp of a track, a sneak peek of sorts at results from a recent session with the studio pros at the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. Read more about him and his music via http://www.overdriveonline.com/god-and-god-alone-driver-songwriter-paul-marhoefers-latest/
Feb 19, 2016•3 min
I'm Rollin', by Bill Weaver
This advance track from trucker/singer-songwriter Bill Weaver is part of his long-in-the-making "Every Mile I Drive" album of original trucking songs. The latest on the record is it's due sometime during or shortly following February of 2016. Visit http://billweavermusic.com for more.
Jan 14, 2016•3 min
'Brothers of the highway': Aaron Tippin, Tony Justice in the studio in Nashville
Trucker-singer-songwriter Tony Justice's upcoming "Brothers of the Highway" record reached an important stop on its route toward the destination of its 2016 release. This week in Nashville, country legend and former trucker Aaron Tippin joined Justice and his producer, Nashville-based Jeff Silvey, at a modest-looking house on 18th Street in the Music Row section of town to lay down vocals for their collaboration on the record's title track, a song penned in part by Justice cowriter for many trac...
Jan 08, 2016•9 min
'God and God Alone,' by Paul Marhoefer
A new track from Indiana-based trucker and singer-songwriter Paul Marhoefer, written following his two daughters graduation from college early in 2015 and also inspired by memories of a catastrophic crash Marhoefer was involved in years ago. Given it crippled him in the short term and ruined his career as an owner-operator, Marhoefer believes it held the potential to have outsize negative effects on the young lives around him but that "God, and God Alone, took us here from there...." against the...
Dec 18, 2015•4 min
Mailbag: Answering ELD Mandate questions, and more trucking views
In this Overdrive Radio podcast edition, Senior Editor Todd Dills answers a few ELD-mandate-related question and rounds up commentary coming in on the podcast line: 530-408-6423. Commentary has reflected fairly strong opposition to the mandate by and large, with as much as 85 percent of readers -- in a poll still ongoing at OverdriveOnline.com -- noting they’d do what they could to avoid running with an electronic log of any kind. Half said they’d rather retire or look for another line of work i...
Dec 17, 2015•10 min
A 'piece of freedom' under threat: Owner-operators sound off on ELDs after final rule's release
In this edition of the audio mailbag, owner-operators respond to news of the electronic-logs mandate's final rule release by FMCSA -- if the timetable for implementation in the rule stands, truckers running under the hours of service and with a model year 2000 or newer truck will be required to record hours with an approved device in December 2017. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association petitioned in court for a review of the rule on December 15. More detail here: http://www.overdriv...
Dec 15, 2015•3 min
Mailbag: Mixed reactions from owner-operators on CSA's public scores' removal
In this mailbag podcast, drivers offer a decidedly mixed response to Dec. 4 news that the CSA Safety Measurement System, pursuant to requirements in the highway bill signed into law the same day by President Obama, had been pulled from public view. Some called it a win for trucking, while others wondered whether pulling the scores would simply make it easier for less qualified carriers to compete for freight. For more on the news, join the discussion at this link: http://www.overdriveonline.com/...
Dec 07, 2015•4 min
Lindsay Lawler's "Highway Angel" live in Nashville
This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast excerpts Lindsay Lawler's final performance on her Truck Stop Tour in support of the Truckload Carriers Association's Highway Angel program recognizing acts of heroism large and small by truckers on the road. The song here, also titled "Highway Angel," was penned for the program by Lawler and writing partner Chris Roberts. Find more at this link: http://overdriveonline.com/podcast-lindsay-lawlers-highway-angel-live-in-nashville
Nov 10, 2015•6 min
Will Congress pass CSA-reforming highway bill?
Greg Cohen, president of the Highway Users Alliance, talks with Overdrive News Editor James Jaillet about the chances that Congress will pass a bill to hide CSA cores and force FMCSA to fix the program. Cohen also talks tolling provisions, size and weight and whether highway monies will go to rail projects.
Oct 29, 2015•10 min
Trucking troubadour Tony Justice hard at work on third album in Nashville
Justice recently passed the 50,000-CD unit just a few years into establishing a distribution network with most major truck stop chains. He talks here about what the accomplishment means to him amid work on his third record, due in January.
Oct 19, 2015•7 min
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