Podcasts about shell rotella superrigs

The 42nd annual SuperRigs is underway in Texas. We speak with an organizer about the event and one of the judges about what's in store. Plus, new details into FMCSA's plans to streamline its online registration system and stifle fraudsters in the process. And finally, we'll take a trip to Colorado, where the governor just signed a bill into law that puts several new restrictions on truckers in place. 0:00 – Newscast  10:34 – 42nd annual SuperRigs underway 25:18 – Overhaul of online registration system 40:25 – Colorado law revises commercial vehicle rules

On Episode 698 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking to project44 CEO and founder Jett McCandless about the bridge strike in Baltimore. What happens in the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge's collapse? We'll also look at what's new with project44 and what 2024 holds for the visibility space. J.J. Keller's Mark Schedler is talking about road tests and driver screening. We'll find out how to filter out the bad apples and how to make sure you're not putting your fleet and your clients at risk. Shell Rotella SuperRigs winner Theresa DeSantis talks about how she won the SuperRigs title, what she's learned as a female trucker and what advice she has for ladies looking toward life over the road. Echo Global Logistics' Molly Mangan is talking about insurtech for LTL shipments. Plus, raised-back trucks; tiny trucking chapels; menacing turkeys; and more. Watch on YouTube Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 698 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is talking to project44 CEO and founder Jett McCandless about the bridge strike in Baltimore. What happens in the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge's collapse? We'll also look at what's new with project44 and what 2024 holds for the visibility space. J.J. Keller's Mark Schedler is talking about road tests and driver screening. We'll find out how to filter out the bad apples and how to make sure you're not putting your fleet and your clients at risk. Shell Rotella SuperRigs winner Theresa DeSantis talks about how she won the SuperRigs title, what she's learned as a female trucker and what advice she has for ladies looking toward life over the road. Echo Global Logistics' Molly Mangan is talking about insurtech for LTL shipments. Plus, raised-back trucks; tiny trucking chapels; menacing turkeys; and more. Watch on YouTube Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was 2017 when Mike Gaffin, aka "The Boston Trucker," received an email from Shell Rotella SuperRigs inviting him to join their team. Over the past several years, Gaffin, a second-generation operator with more than 30 years of experience behind the wheel, had been converting his lifetime love of trucking, and a decades long photographic curation of the business, into one of the largest followings on social media. His likes and views run into the tens of millions, driven largely by his huge Youtube collection: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBostonTrucker Still, Gaffin initially dismissed Rotella's proposal as a crank email. But after a phone call, it turned out the offer was legitimate. Gaffin, who still trucks full-time doing local work for A. Cardillo and Sons in Waltham, Massachusetts, has joined the Rotella SuperRigs team at select shows throughout the country ever since. Overdrive contributor Long Haul Paul Marhoefer caught up with Gaffin at the Mid-America Trucking Show back in March. Also on the podcast: Another local hauler whose first love was OTR hauling -- and who, like Gaffin, well understands the pressures on, and the difficulties of, life back home for those over the road. Terry Shelton's road to hauling in a dump truck in the region around Sevierville, Tennessee, flowed through his trucking family growing up farther east in Martinsville, Virginia, and a personal tragedy that befell his family back home that, though long ago, haunts his time on-highway to this day.

For this edition of Overdrive Radio, host Todd Dills is joined by Lee and Lisa Schmitt of Wisconsin. As regular readers may well be aware, Lee's requested as exemption from parts of the hours of service for himself -- it's the first such exemption request for an individual owner we've seen hit the Federal Register and go up for comment, in quite some time, a testament perhaps to the methodical nature of the Schmitts' pursuit of it. It's not like it's particularly difficult, though, to break through the dam, as it were, of the federal regulatory system, as Lisa notes in the podcast. Exemption requests and what's required of them are laid in the regs themselves, in 49 CFR 381.310. Having essentially followed the instructions laid out there, the Schmitts' request was posted to the Federal Register and put up for comment last week, and since then 600 comments have been filed. But there's been some confusion among some in the Overdrive audience about just what Lee Schmitt is asking for here. In a word, flexibility -- to use a daily 11 hours' worth of driving however he sees fit. He asks for exemption from the requirement to take a 10-hour break, from the 14-hour rule daily duty maximum, from the cumulative 60 in 7 days and/or 70 in 8 days duty limitations. But, crucially, not from the 11-hour maximum daily drive time limits, a fact lost on some readers who didn't fully engage with the hours of service exemption request's summary, as Lee notes in the podcast today. Comments on the exemption request are open through July 11: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FMCSA-2022-0099 Also in today's podcast: We pause to remember owner-operator Troy Huddleston of Illinois, who passed away unexpectedly June 7. He was just 54 years old, and at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs competition this past weekend, owner-operators there who knew him memorialized Huddleston in a few ways, including by placing a signature of Huddleston's, a black Roadworks ball cap, over their hood ornaments. On the podcast we air for listeners recollections of and tributes to owner-operator Huddleston, with several owners Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole caught up with at the event. Catch a video version of the recollections via this link, if you missed it as yet: https://www.overdriveonline.com/life/article/15293098/owneroperators-pay-tribute-to-fellow-owner-friend-troy-huddleston Our sincerest condolences to Huddleston's family.

Live from Branson, Missouri - Michael is swapping a racecar for a big rig at the 40th Annual Shell Rotella SuperRigs! Tune in to hear all the action, including conversations with Shelby from Happiness by the Mile, Natalie Ortiz from Diesel World Magazine and more.

Small fleet car-haul owner-operator C.G. Soza of California's Central Valley has quite a lot on his plate these days, not the least of which is the $7-plus diesel sign he saw early this week in Madera, California, a first for the owner. He's also keeping a close eye on the Supreme Court, which is set to conference June 23 and possibly make its decision as to whether it will take up federal pre-emption questions in the California Trucking Association's appeal of its case again the AB 5 state contractor law's application to trucking. If the Supreme Court doesn't take up the case, that day could be quite eventuful for Soza and scads of other small fleet owners who, like Soza, contract with leased owner-operators -- and plenty California-based leased owner-operators themselves, of course. As if they didn't already have enough to contend with when it comes to business difficulties in the now extremely-high-fuel state. June 23 also happens to be a set-up day for Soza's A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show, kicking off the following day at the Merced County Fairgrounds and featuring an old-school truck rodeo, likely well upward of 100 rigs showing out, and much more, as you'll hear in this edition of Overdrive Radio. Also in the podcast: Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole sets the scene at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs event ongoing at a unique location in Branson, Missouri, and lays out recent AB 5 developments he's reported on this week. Read more about the A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show, benefiting a foundation C.G. Soza has established for dyslexic youth in his area: https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15279541/aj-soza-memorial-truck-show-2022-dates-set

LLN (6/6/22) – Two top trucking issues – speed limiters and truck parking – will be front and center in our nation's capital this week. We'll explain what we're likely to see and why it matters. Also, it's been called the Cadillac of show truck competitions: Shell Rotella SuperRigs will take place this year in Branson, Mo., to choose the best of the best and the trucks for the next SuperRigs calendar. And we pull in the heavy hitters from Land Line Magazine to go over the talk surrounding speed limiters, plus takeaways from a recent commercial vehicle safety summit in Kansas City, Mo., and a preview of the upcoming Shell Rotella SuperRigs event. 0:00 – Newscast. 09:55 – Speed limiters and truck parking. 24:48 – SuperRigs. 39:21 – News Roundtable.

At the 2021 Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck show in the Chicago area last month, Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole asked these five owners variations on a couple of central questions: 1. The first asked owners to look out into the future and forecast prospects and plans five years ahead, given the current market and business plans in place. 2. The other had all to do with technology –- alternative powertrains like the electric-drive trucks we're seeing trickle into the short-haul market, natural-gas power elsewhere, and those increasingly automated driver-assist features that continue to proliferate. The responses vary and overlap in significant ways -- illuminating in terms of where small trucking is today – and where it might well one day end up, hopefully with bedrock profitability intact. The owners who participated, clockwise from the top left in the thumbnail image associated with the podcast: Gary Jones: Owner, SPB Trucking Clayton Driskill: Owner, C&C Logistics J.R. Schleuger: Owner, Lifetime Nut Covers Dave Marti: Owner, Dave Marti Trucking Mike Wilkinson: Owner-operator, leased to Floyd Gibbons Trucking More coverage of the winning rigs from the Rotella SuperRigs event: https://www.overdriveonline.com/custom-rigs/article/15066783/rollin-transport-hauls-in-the-hardware-at-superrigs More editions of Overdrive Radio: http://overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio

LLN (7/29/21) – Two top federal officials recently made it clear that they understand the retention and turnover problems in the trucking industry. Now, what will they do about it? Also, FMCSA will require states to exchange CDL information electronically by 2024, and the agency has clarified some emergency declarations. Three states act to stop “ticket quotas” – and more states may; meanwhile, Pennsylvania continues trying to let local police use speed enforcement radar. Illinois is playing host to Shell Rotella SuperRigs, and like everything else the past year it's a little different than usual. And NOAA predicts a rough hurricane season. 0:00 – Newscast. 10:15 – Trucking retention; electronic CDL information; emergency declarations. 25:07 – Ticket quotas; speed radar. 39:57 – SuperRigs; hurricane season.

Host Eric Harley talks with Jami Jones, Managing Editor of Landline Magazine and fellow, long-time Shell Rotella SuperRigs judge about the top issues for owner-operators today.  Get your Shell SuperRigs update as it is live July 29-31 at the Love's Travel Stop in Hampshire Illinois. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LLN (7/31/19) – Freight and rates remain in a bit of a late summer slump, though some bright spots remain. Also, we’ll have a rundown on the competition and winners at Shell Rotella SuperRigs – plus some behind-the-scenes stories. Diesel prices continue to dip, but the oil market gets a boost on dropping inventories and international tensions. And a trucker and member of the OOIDA Board of Directors was on Capitol Hill today covering some of the industry’s top issues with members of Congress and their staffs. 0:00-9:56 – Newscast 9:56 -24:39 – SuperRigs 24:39-39:35 – Freight, rates; diesel prices dip 39:35-49:34 – Trucker’s visit to D.C.

LLN (7/24/19) – The Cadillac of show truck events – Shell Rotella SuperRigs– displays the best and brightest working trucks this week. Freight and rates get a bit sluggish as a summer slowdown hits. Diesel prices are down again across the country. And the U.S. Senate has taken the first steps toward creating the next highway bill – and so far, the news is good. 0:00-9:57 – Newscast 9:57-24:39 – SuperRigs 24:39-39:35 – Freight and rates sluggish, diesel price down 39:35-49:34 – Early Senate highway bill

Eric Harley and Guest Host, Dave Waterman, N.A. Marketing Manager for Shell Rotella, discuss the Shell Rotella SuperRigs event; the truck drivers behind these incredible rigs;  the appreciation for the people who work day in and day out to provide everything in our lives; and how “What Matters is Inside” is more than just a saying from Rotella.

Shell Rotella SuperRigs is widely regarded as the most prestigious of all show truck events. And it’s not too long before the trucks will head to this year’s show. Mark Reddig talks with Dave Waterman of Shell Rotella.