Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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2 | Overdrive | April 2018 April 2018 | Vol. 58 | No. 4 Contents EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Equipment Editor: Jason Cannon Senior Editor: Todd Dills Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood News Editor: James Jaillet Video Editor: Andrew Guinn Associate Editor: Matt Cole Contributing Editors: Jill Dunn, Paul Hartley Contact: truckingeditorial@gmail.com DESIGN & PRODUCTION Art Director: Kenneth Stubbs Production Designer: David Watson Quality Assurance: Timothy Smith Advertising Production Manager: Leah Boyd Contact: production@overdriveonline.com TRUCKING MEDIA Director of Content Marketing Services: Carolyn Mason Special Projects Manager: Kathleen Craft Web Developer/Analyst: Marlin Caddell Contact: sales@truckingmedia.com 3200 Rice Mine Rd NE | Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 800-633-5953 | randallreilly.com CORPORATE Chairman Emeritus: Mike Reilly President/CEO: Brent Reilly Chief Operating Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Financial Officer: Kim Fieldbinder Senior Vice President, Sales: Scott Miller Senior Vice President, Editorial and Research: Linda Longton Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Business Development: Robert Lake Senior Vice President, Data: Prescott Shibles Vice President of Events: Stacy McCants Vice President, Digital Services: Nick Reid Vice President, Marketing: Julie Arsenault EDITORIAL HONORS Subscription inquiries: For subscripton info call 800-517-4979 in the U.S., or 847-763-9610 outside the U.S. Rates for non- qualified subscriptions: US & possessions $34.97; Canada/ Mexico & foreign $65.00, payable in U.S. dollars. 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Neal Awards, including 2014 Grand Neal Award VoICes 4 Inspectors "putting people out of work." 5 Pulse: Make sure the grass really is greener. 6 Conversations still evolving over 14-hour reg. 8 Shut down by CARB, teach- er keeps learning alive. 10 Discovering a double- brokered load. LoGBooK 14 ELD violations now merit out-of-service. 14 Bill would allow younger truckers. 15 ELD waiver extended for livestockers. 16 Alleged fraud may impact 2,000 truckers. 18 OOIDA wants rehearing of apnea case. CUstoM RIGs 57 Son earns back dad's '95 Pete 379. 60 "Rubber Duck" Mack still quacking. 61 Reader Rigs: '16 389 on the "Edge"; a '13 Coronado named "Betty"; '15 389 yanks tanks; '17 Coronado a heavy hauler; father-son duo's '04 W900. FLIPPING THROUGH HISTORY | A small fleet owner's collection of Overdrives provides a fitting finale for Wendy Parker's last blog post. Page 8. DEPARTMENTS Cover design by Kenneth Stubbs 63 GEAR GUIDE Hino to debut Class 7, 8 models in 2019. 67 FLEET NEWS Fleets continue to hike driver pay. 76 BETTER HEALTH Preventing and dealing with nausea. 26 Business: Arbitration case to go before high court The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit brought by an owner-operator that chal- lenges his fleet's requirement that disputes be handled via third-party arbitration. 28 COVER STORY: Power plays Electric truck makers promise cleaner, more cost-effective tractors. Two years before the first vehicles hit the road, inadequate infrastructure and fueling capacity threaten to dampen the transition. 36 Buyers welcome Economic conditions, tax changes, productivity pressures and equip- ment improvements have spurred a big increase in truck buying by owner-operators and fleets. 45 ELD headaches Much has been made about the oper- ational challenges of running under more rigid hours accounting with an electronic log. Meanwhile, truckers are experiencing a wide range of technical malfunctions. 52 Severe service Heavy-haul and severe-service news from Volvo, International, Mack, Freightliner and Peterbilt, plus new products from Marmon-Herrington, Kyocera, Firestone and Toyo.