Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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VOICES 8 | Overdrive | January 2017 Overdrive Radio's podcast library off ers dozens of programs on news, trucking topics and trucking person- alities, including trucker-musicians and their record- ings. Among the listings, you can fi nd these recent entries via OverdriveOn- line.com/Overdriv- eRadio, or search "Overdrive Radio" via iTunes, TuneIn and other podcast- ing apps. • Partners in Busi- ness series: Three installments covered distilled versions of early chapters in the Overdrive Partners in Business manual, coproduced with fi nancial services provider ATBS. The pod- casts cover 1) Getting started as an owner-operator, 2) Managing money and time, and 3) The intricacies of fuel costs, taxes and surcharges. • The proposed speed limiter rule is unlikely to survive, particularly in light of the incoming Trump administration and broad-based opposition, said Joe Rajkovacz of the Western States Trucking Association. His remarks were before attendees of the November annual meeting of the National Association of Small Truck- ing Companies in Nashville, Tennes- see. Rajkovacz likewise off ered insights into where California may be headed with an ultra-low NOx standard for in-use diesels, how the so-called "Beyond Compli- ance" program might be engaged for electronic logs relief, and more. • Truckers to Trump on regs: This "Mailbag" edition of the podcast features readers' voices on issues they hope the new administration will prioritize. Business, speed limiters, Trump: Listen on Overdrive Radio From the Share the Road program of the American Trucking Associations comes a new video aimed at improving motorists' knowledge of driving safely around trucks. It covers issues from the importance of not "cutting off " tractor-trailers up front to the necessity of following distance at the back, and more. The video is emcee'd by members of ATA's America's Road Team of million-mile safe drivers. When the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shared it via its own Facebook page in October, one com- menter under the agency's post put its value best: "This video needs to be a part of every high school's drivers ed class." Hear, hear! Access the video via the ATASharetheRoad Youtube Channel: Youtube.com/ATASharetheRoad. Watch. Learn. Share the road. Colin Young says he was westbound on Interstate 70, creeping in traffi c "coming down Floyd Hill in Colorado." A pickup driver, as you can see in Young's dashcam video, decides "he doesn't need to sit in traffi c," Young says. "Drove down the entire hill using the shoulder as his personal expressway." We've seen that before, haven't we? Catch Young's video of the incident and more views through readers' windshields, or upload your own, via OverdriveOnline. com/dashcamcentral. Excuse me, while I misuse the shoulder A BUSINESS MANUAL FOR OWNER-OPERATORS PRODUCED BY OVERDRIVE AND ATBS PIB17_FC_COMBO.indd 1 7/18/16 8:58 PM You can order the Partners in Business manual in print via eTruckerStore.com. "I think this is one of those rulemakings that is going to die an ignominious death." -Joe Rajkovacz on the speed limiter proposed rule