Digging in to the top trucking trends of 2018: ELDs' first year spurs rate hikes and operational adjustments; the swirling saga of glide...
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How To Decide Which Engine To Pair With Your Big Rig Transmission
Fleet managers have a hard-enough time juggling the daily needs of a transportation company. That’s why they occasionally need a how-to on t...
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Insurer Says Impaired-driving Remains Primary Cause of Highway Fatalities
Impaired-driving is a serious issue that has not gone away — and with phones, watches and a growing number of other digital devices vying fo...
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2018 ‘coulda planned better’: Counting down the top 10 Overdrive Radio podcasts of the year
Take a review run back through some of those most memorable moments from the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of the year, from details of o...
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POLL: Your business outlook for 2019?
Surveying where you are today and potential for the year ahead, how do you see your business trending in 2019? Better than the past year? Wo...
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Live training opportunities to jump-start your career
Participation in live training offers opportunities to network with experts, as well as fellow drivers with common interests. from Overdriv...
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Why Electric Vehicles Are Gathering Speed in Latin America
The New York Times In November, 100 brand-new electric buses rolled off a cargo ship from China at the port of San Antonio on the Chilean ...
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Spot Rates, Volumes Hold Firm Prior to Holiday Season
The number of load posts on the spot truckload freight market fell 5% while truck posts declined 6% during the week ending Dec. 22, said DAT...
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City of Bogota Sets Green Trends with Gas Buses from Scania
The City of Bogota in Columbia is paving a green pathway with its transit buses with the purchase of Scania Euro 6 gas buses — considered to...
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Evaluating Truck Driver Pay, Fuel Prices, And The Recruiting Effort
Fleets have been reporting big changes in both the truck driver pay and fuel prices front. Truck driver wages and benefits are rebounding in...
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2018 in review: A month-by-month look at the year’s top stories
The implementation of the ELD mandate again loomed large as one of the most read topics on Overdrive in 2018. Adjustments to personal convey...
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Global Mining Truck Market Expected to Grow 5% as Electric Vehicles Take Hold
A new report from Technavio forecast the global mining truck market to grow at a CAGR of close to 5%. Here’s what’s at play: The rising use ...
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Trucking companies to again haul mobile Vietnam memorial in 2019
In 2015, TCA carrier members began hauling the exhibit, which includes a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to co...
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Canada’s New Impaired Driving Laws go into Effect
EMKAY The new laws went into effect on December 18th and make Canada’s laws some of the strictest in the world in regards to impaired driv...
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Downward mobility: Owner-operator income aer the ELD mandate
The share of owner-operators expecting to tally more than $70,000 in net income for year 2018 was 27 percent smaller than the share that rep...
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Freight’s drift toward greater regionalization: Average length of haul on the spot market
Spot market data show how dramatically average haul lengths have changed since 2012. The numbers here are based on averages calculated from ...
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