The freight program director of the Eastern Transportation Coalition, Marygrace Parker, joins the program to talk about how it’s tackling the truck parking crisis one city, county and state at a time. Also, the Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act is simple enough. But the waters are being muddied by groups with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. And we’ve seen a slight bump of freight in the spot market. We speak with DAT to get the latest numbers in load volume and to talk about how the holiday season is shaping up.

0:00 – Newscast 

10:07 – Tackling truck parking on the Eastern Seaboard

24:50 – Clearing up the GOT Truckers Act

39:29 – How the freight market is shaping up for the holidays