News
FMCSA to accept comments on towing fees through Aug. 1
FMCSA is giving industry stakeholders another month to provide comments regarding the transparency of towing fees.
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Podcast: CDL training with Chester the chicken
A truck driving school has a unique instructor on staff – a chicken. Plus, we’ll share what goes into planning for a series of superloads.
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Features, OOIDA Member
‘Granny Glitter’ and her heart of gold
TA Petro Citizen Driver Honoree “Grandma” Candy Bass has been trucking for more than 40 years. Along the way, her big heart has made her a fixture in charitable and service organizations, including Trucker Buddy and Special Olympics, as well as with veterans.
Features, OOIDA Member
Citizen Driver honoree Jon Osburn all about helping others
From his years as a Navy medic and EMT to now a truck driver, OOIDA Senior Member and “Skipper of the Spirit” tour truck, Jon Osburn is all about being of service to others.
News, Truck Parking
Weed, Calif., is high on trucks
The small, California town of Weed has gone above and beyond in providing truckers with parking spaces, staff writer Tyson Fisher reports.
News, Truck Parking
City of Elmira, N.Y., solves truck parking problem
While some cities are putting up a fight against truck parking, other cities like Elmira, N.Y., are quite accommodating.
Opinion
Cheating on logs, not just for paper anymore
What does an eggshell “baby” have to do with cheating on electronic logs? Managing Editor Jami Jones takes on the notion that more and more technology will eliminate cheating on electronic logs.
Features, OOIDA Member, Truck Shows
ATHS Golden Achievement Award goes to OOIDA Life Member John Taylor
One of OOIDA’s first members received ATHS’s Golden Achievement Award for over 66 years and 7 million safe miles in trucking.
Features, OOIDA Member
Hat’s off to you, Mouse
Robert “Mouse” Fernald, an OOIDA Life Member, is one of the 2015 TA Petro Citizen Driver honorees for his distinguished trucking career.
News, Opinion
From the cab: Freightliner’s autonomous truck
The Freightliner Inspiration truck drove itself down the winding road and across the historic concrete arch-gravity Hoover Dam on the evening of May 5. At that moment, the term “AV” was probably jumped 10 places on the industry’s list of buzzwords. Just remember, autonomous vehicle doesn’t mean driverless. The driver is responsible for the safe […]
Opinion
‘Semi terrified’? How about ‘Hell on Four Wheels’ instead…
An Ashville, N.C. columnist and aspiring novelist wrote a story about a “terrifying” late-night encounter with a trucker on a lonely stretch of highway, which sounds awfully familiar to a certain Steven Spielberg movie…
Features
Reporter’s notebook: The story behind the story of OOIDA’s beginnings
There’s an old saw in the journalism business that every story you write is really three stories: The story you think you’re going to write, the story you end up writing, and the story that you wish you’d written but couldn’t quite get. It’s that last story we want to share with you.