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3 siblings — and their mom — go through<br />

college program to earn their CDLs<br />

From left, Kodi Sasse, Kendall Sasse, Kenneth Pope, Great Basin<br />

College CDL instructor; Katelynn Sasse and Cassandra Sasse.<br />

True grit and determination are just a few<br />

terms to describe the Sasse family. It’s not every<br />

day two members of the same family graduate<br />

from the same commercial driving license<br />

program, let alone four. But Cassandra Sasse<br />

and three of her children: Kendall, Katelynn and<br />

Kodi, turned to the trucking industry as a way to<br />

support their family.<br />

“We’re no strangers to heavy duty trucks,<br />

since my husband holds a Class A CDL, so<br />

my kids and I started looking at the trucking<br />

industry for opportunities,” Cassandra Sasse<br />

said. “I have seven kids, and four of them still<br />

need supervision. It was important for me to<br />

find a career that would give me the flexibility I<br />

need to watch over my young kids.”<br />

After relocating to Elko, Nevada, the<br />

Sasse family discovered that Elko’s thriving<br />

commercial transportation industry offered the<br />

financial stability and time flexibility the family<br />

sought.<br />

Cassandra, Kendall, Katelynn and Kodi<br />

each applied for and received full scholarships<br />

to attend Great Basin College’s six-week CDL<br />

program, making the decision to enter the<br />

trucking industry even more enticing. They<br />

became the first students to receive scholarships<br />

for the Great Basin College CDL program.<br />

In January, Cassandra, Kendall and<br />

Katelynn enrolled in the Great Basin College<br />

CDL program and graduated with their Class<br />

A CDL in March. Kodi waited to enter the<br />

same program in May, so that she would be<br />

21 years old and eligible to drive out-of-state<br />

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following her graduation in June.<br />

While the Sasse family was in the middle<br />

of transitioning into a new way of life in Elko,<br />

the Great Basin College CDL program was also<br />

going through changes. During the time that<br />

members of the Sasse family were enrolled in<br />

the CDL program, Great Basin College acquired<br />

a new Kenworth T680.<br />

After first learning how to operate Great<br />

Basin College’s previous Class 8 truck,<br />

Cassandra, Katelynn and Kendall were the<br />

first students to drive the Kenworth T680. The<br />

differences between the T680 and the previous<br />

truck they were driving were night and day.<br />

Kenneth Pope, Great Basin College CDL<br />

program instructor, who has more than 22 years<br />

of driving and teaching experience, advocated<br />

for the program’s administration to add the<br />

Kenworth T680.<br />

“In my time on the road, a Kenworth truck<br />

was my favorite truck to drive,” Pope said.<br />

“Kenworth sets the bar high for the trucks they<br />

produce. When the opportunity came about to<br />

add a new truck, I told the administration to give<br />

Kenworth a hard look. The T680 is a reliable<br />

truck that will provide me many years of teaching<br />

the next generation of drivers how to operate a<br />

Class 8 truck on the best equipment available.”<br />

Great Basin’s Kenworth T680 features a<br />

76-inch high-roof sleeper and 500 hp engine.<br />

A 13-speed manual transmission was spec’d so<br />

that students would not be limited to knowing<br />

how to operate automated transmission trucks<br />

when they graduate.<br />

“We want to ensure that our students have<br />

had plenty of practice operating a manual<br />

transmission before beginning their careers,”<br />

Pope said. “In Elko, our elevation is at more<br />

than 5,000 feet and we have mountain passes all<br />

around us. I teach my students how to navigate<br />

steep slopes, acting as if they are hauling a full<br />

payload. It doesn’t matter what the weather<br />

conditions are — learning how to drive in tough<br />

conditions makes you that much more prepared<br />

for professional driving. You can imagine the<br />

beating the transmission is taking from students<br />

who are just learning.”<br />

Great Basin College, CDL program consists<br />

of no more than four students at a time. The small<br />

class size allows for students to get a sufficient<br />

amount of hands-on driving experience. For<br />

long-distance training, Pope takes students out<br />

on a 500- to 600-mile route, switching drivers<br />

every 125 miles.<br />

Since 1990, 500 students have graduated<br />

from the program, and 92 percent of the students<br />

who graduate find a job in the industry. With<br />

sufficient funding, Great Basin College’s CDL<br />

program will hold seven courses this year. Pope<br />

expects the Kenworth T680 will accumulate<br />

more than 30,000 miles in its first year as the<br />

program’s primary truck.<br />

“We feel fortunate to be able to offer our<br />

students a new truck for them to learn in and<br />

develop the skills they need once they graduate<br />

from the program,” Pope said.<br />

Since graduating from Great Basin CDL<br />

program, Cassandra, Katelynn and Kendall<br />

Sasse are driving professionally, hauling heavy<br />

equipment locally for mining companies in<br />

the Elko area. While the family describes<br />

themselves as the “Diesel Family,” Cassandra<br />

and her kids originally had no plans of becoming<br />

truck drivers, but they have quickly embraced<br />

the trucking industry.<br />

“We’re excited about the opportunities we<br />

have in the industry,” Cassandra said. “Our<br />

ultimate goal is to own and operate our own<br />

trucks and eventually drive long haul.”<br />

For more information on the Great Basin<br />

College CDL program, call (775) 753-2202 or<br />

go to campusce.net/gbcnv.<br />

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Colorado Department of<br />

Transportation, partners create<br />

The Mountain Rules for trucks<br />

<strong>Independent</strong> <strong>Contractor</strong><br />

NEWS<br />

<strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />

The Colorado Department of Transportation,<br />

in partnership with the Colorado State<br />

Patrol, Colorado Motor Carriers Association<br />

(CMCA) and in-cab driver alert providers, Pre-<br />

Pass Safety Alliance and Drivewyze, are coming<br />

together to enhance safety for truckers traveling<br />

through the state’s mountainous areas.<br />

The Mountain Rules is a comprehensive,<br />

strategic and safety-focused effort to inform<br />

and educate in-state and interstate trucking<br />

companies and drivers on the challenges of<br />

driving in Colorado’s mountains.<br />

It includes information on potential hazards,<br />

and is a consistent reminder of the need to be<br />

slow, steady and safe for the long haul.<br />

“It’s no secret that our mountains create immense<br />

challenges for semitruck drivers,” said<br />

CDOT<br />

Executive Director Shoshana Lew. “The<br />

Mountain Rules has a simple mission — get<br />

everyone home safely — and this campaign,<br />

which supports CDOT’s Whole Safety–Whole<br />

System initiative, is a major step towards<br />

achieving that goal.”<br />

In addition to an educational effort, The<br />

Mountain Rules consists of infrastructure and<br />

informational improvements, including:<br />

• Signing eastbound Interstate 70 and all<br />

eastbound chain stations, east of the Eisenhower/Johnson<br />

Tunnels, with information on<br />

the brake check locations for truckers.<br />

• Restriping the wide eastbound exit ramp<br />

at the Genesee Park Interchange into a moredefined<br />

short-term truck parking area where<br />

overheated brakes can cool down and equipment<br />

checks can take place prior to the final<br />

descent into the Golden, Colorado, area.<br />

• A new subscription-based, in-cab alert<br />

A tractor-trailer straddles a<br />

runaway truck ramp along I-70<br />

in Colorado. One of the Colorado<br />

ramps, the Lower Straight<br />

Creek runaway truck ramp on<br />

westbound I-70 at milepost<br />

211.83 is the most used truck<br />

ramp in the United States, being<br />

used once a week on average<br />

during the summer months.<br />

system, warning truck drivers about specific<br />

areas where brake failures could occur, and<br />

the location of brake check and runaway truck<br />

ramps.<br />

• Information gathering on the feasibility<br />

of a new ramp and other measures to mitigate<br />

runaway trucks, such as geometric and signage<br />

improvements to the existing Mount Vernon<br />

Canyon Truck Runaway Ramp.<br />

“I want to dispel any misconceptions, myths<br />

or rumors about truck ramps for all commercial<br />

carriers who travel our mountain corridors,”<br />

said CSP Col. Matthew Packard. “Commercial<br />

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carriers will not be cited by law enforcement<br />

for using truck ramps. Should your brakes fail,<br />

please save lives and use the ramps.”<br />

The I-70 Mountain Corridor will be the initial<br />

pilot for The Mountain Rules. CDOT then<br />

will expand the program to other mountainous<br />

locations.<br />

“Our mountains, and the highways winding<br />

through them, provide some of the greatest vistas<br />

in the world and make Colorado special,”<br />

said Jim Coleman, chairman of the CMCA.<br />

“These same roadways, such as I-70, pose a<br />

particular challenge for truck drivers and truck<br />

brakes, with long and steep downgrades of up<br />

to 7%. This outreach effort and program will go<br />

a long way in educating truck drivers of how<br />

to navigate through our mountains, which will<br />

enhance safety for all highway users.”<br />

Drivewyze said that its subscribers will<br />

have their drivers receive in-cab alerts that<br />

will inform them of upcoming safe locations<br />

to pull over for brake check inspections and<br />

show them prompts to gear low while showing<br />

suggested maximum speeds down steep<br />

grades. It will also alert drivers of upcoming<br />

runaway ramps. Colorado was Drivewyze’s<br />

first state in the new alert program. Seven Colorado<br />

mountain passes are part of Drivewyze<br />

Safety.<br />

According to Brian Mofford, vice president<br />

of government experience at Drivewyze, Colorado’s<br />

I-70 west, which goes from Vail Pass<br />

from the west through Eisenhower Tunnel (elevation<br />

11,158) to Mt. Vernon Canyon to the<br />

east, represents 60 miles of difficult driving.<br />

“It’s a challenge for truck drivers, with<br />

steep grades and heavy traffic, especially for<br />

those new to mountain driving,” he said. “Drivers<br />

have to be in tune with their surroundings,<br />

check their brakes and be prepared for constant<br />

downshifting and speed control.<br />

“Brakes can get hot and fail for those who<br />

are not ready. It’s why we also have notifications<br />

for runaway ramps as a last-resort safe-<br />

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PrePass said its alerts are a feature of the<br />

MOTION weigh station bypass mobile application.<br />

The alerts notify truck drivers of<br />

steep grades ahead from about 5 miles away<br />

and notify them as they approach any of five<br />

runaway truck ramps along the route. Drivers<br />

will also receive alerts for seven sites along<br />

I-70 where they can perform brake checks<br />

and, during winter, complete truck tire chainups<br />

or removals.<br />

“These dynamic alerts will improve highway<br />

safety by notifying truck drivers well in<br />

advance of steep grades and sites where they<br />

can check their brakes,” said Terry Maple,<br />

regional director for PrePass Safety Alliance.<br />

Maple, former superintendent of the Kansas<br />

Highway Patrol, said the additional alerts will<br />

minimize distractions because they require no<br />

interaction on the part of the driver.<br />

Colorado’s I-70 is known as having one of<br />

the country’s most difficult passes for truck<br />

drivers. An out-of-control runaway truck in<br />

April slammed into stopped traffic near Lakewood,<br />

killing four people. Other tragedies have<br />

been averted thanks to truck drivers using the<br />

corridor’s five runaway truck ramps along the<br />

route. The Lower Straight Creek runaway truck<br />

ramp along westbound I-70 at milepost 211.83<br />

is the most-used truck ramp in the United<br />

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Daimler Trucks delivers first 2 eCascadias<br />

for commercial use in Southern California<br />

Nine days after Daimler Trucks North America<br />

said it getting ready to deliver to customers<br />

the first Freightliner eCascadias, they arrived as<br />

scheduled on Wednesday, August 21, at Penske<br />

Truck Leasing, based in Reading, Pennsylvania;<br />

and NFI, of Camden, New Jersey.<br />

The trucks are part of Freightliner’s Electric<br />

Innovation Fleet, and both customers will use<br />

their vehicles to test the integration of battery<br />

electric trucks into large-scale fleet operations in<br />

Southern California.<br />

“Co-creation is the cornerstone of DTNA’s<br />

strategy to rapidly develop and deploy battery<br />

electric trucks,” said Roger Nielsen, president<br />

and CEO of DTNA. “DTNA’s partnerships with<br />

customers like Penske and NFI provide valuable<br />

feedback for the final design of our trucks, as<br />

well as the design of the surrounding e-mobility<br />

ecosystem. DTNA’s holistic approach is vital to<br />

advancing viable transportation solutions from<br />

which society, as a whole, will benefit.”<br />

Nielsen said the Freightliner Innovation Fleet<br />

is supported by a partnership between DTNA<br />

and the South Coast Air Quality Management<br />

District (South Coast AQMD), which focuses on<br />

improving air quality in the South Coast Basin<br />

and which partially funded the Innovation Fleet<br />

with a nearly $16 million grant. Freightliner<br />

eCascadias and medium-duty electric Freightliner<br />

eM2s from the Innovation Fleet are operated<br />

within the South Coast AQMD jurisdiction.<br />

“We are excited to be a part of this groundbreaking<br />

project that will directly impact local<br />

Southern California communities, especially<br />

NFI and Penske Truck Leasing were the recipients of the first two<br />

Freightliner eCascadia models built by Daimler Trucks North America.<br />

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those disproportionately impacted by air pollution,”<br />

said Wayne Nastri, South Coast AQMD’s<br />

executive officer. “We hope to see large-scale<br />

deployments of similar zero-emission trucks that<br />

will have significant environmental and health<br />

benefits across the entire state.”<br />

Penske and NFI are the first to deploy battery-electric<br />

commercial vehicles from Freightliner<br />

to their operations. Penske Truck Leasing<br />

will run eCascadias in daily delivery operations<br />

within California’s Inland Empire, while NFI<br />

will employ eCascadias in drayage operations at<br />

both the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.<br />

“We’re pleased to continue our collaboration<br />

with Freightliner and be among the first companies<br />

putting the eCascadia to work,” said Brian<br />

Hard, president and CEO of Penske Truck Leasing.<br />

“Our first eCascadia will be used by our subsidiary<br />

Penske Logistics to make multiple, daily<br />

store deliveries on a dedicated route. Our in-house<br />

maintenance technicians are trained and well prepared,<br />

and our recent investments in charging infrastructure<br />

in the South Coast Air Basin will play<br />

an important role as we operate these cutting-edge<br />

vehicles on their delivery routes.”<br />

“NFI’s partnership with Daimler is a testament<br />

to our commitment to social responsibility,<br />

supporting the California ports, and driving<br />

innovation within our industry,” said Sid<br />

Brown, CEO of NFI. “As the premier drayage<br />

provider in Southern California, we are excited<br />

to be one of the first to deploy the eCascadia into<br />

our operations, accompanied by the installation<br />

of electric charging stations. We look forward<br />

to continuing to invest in new technology and<br />

equipment to operate more efficiently, and to do<br />

our part in creating cleaner communities.”<br />

Nielsen said the Freightliner eCascadia is<br />

built on the proven foundation of the Cascadia,<br />

the best-selling Class 8 on the market and<br />

was first revealed in June 2018 along with the<br />

medium-duty eM2. The planned start of series<br />

production for both models is late 2021. In<br />

preparation for their introduction, Freightliner<br />

has established multiple avenues for co-creating<br />

with customers. Freightliner’s Electric Vehicle<br />

Council, a collective of 38 customer companies,<br />

works to address the total e-mobility ecosystem.<br />

Freightliner’s Innovation Fleet provides customers<br />

with the opportunity to fully test the eM2 and<br />

the eCascadia in real-world use. In total, Penske<br />

and NFI will receive 30 battery electric trucks.<br />

The Freightliner eCascadia and eM2 are part<br />

of Daimler Trucks’ global electrified truck initiative,<br />

joining the company’s Thomas Built Buses<br />

all-electric Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley school bus,<br />

the FUSO eCanter, and the Mercedes-Benz eActros<br />

and eCitaro. To date, there are more than<br />

100 electrified trucks and buses from Daimler<br />

Trucks & Buses on the road globally.<br />

SkyBitz introduces upgrade to its InSight<br />

commercial asset management platform<br />

SkyBitz, a provider of IoT telematics<br />

solutions, has issued a software upgrade to<br />

its commercial asset management platform<br />

InSight, offering a unified view of all assets.<br />

InSight is a configurable platform that<br />

offers a simple yet intuitive experience for<br />

tracking complex asset management environments,<br />

according to Henry Popplewell,<br />

SkyBitz president.<br />

“We are always seeking ways to demonstrate<br />

our leadership and improving our<br />

platform’s UI is certainly high on our list<br />

every time,” Popplewell said. “Our account<br />

teams are in constant communication with<br />

our customers to ensure we evolve along<br />

with the market. These improvements ad-<br />

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PROFILE<br />

dress certain complexities<br />

that just naturally come<br />

with enterprise-level asset<br />

management environments,<br />

and we’re excited to solve<br />

these challenges through<br />

our technology.”<br />

The new features were<br />

part of a customer analysis<br />

initiative in which SkyBitz<br />

pooled customer data, direct<br />

feedback and user recommendations<br />

relating to navigation<br />

and style enhancements,<br />

notifications, icons<br />

and alerts, ease of use, and<br />

reporting. The secure, webbased<br />

solution is used by<br />

more than a thousand enterprises<br />

and requires no software<br />

downloads, providing<br />

SkyBitz users with immediate<br />

access to new features,<br />

a secure environment and<br />

enhanced customer service.<br />

Popplewell said with an<br />

improved top-line navigation<br />

and hierarchy that offers instant access<br />

to a variety of data, customers can now<br />

toggle through several redesigned pages<br />

including location, analyzation and maintenance<br />

and even fully customize a home<br />

page dashboard to skim assets or create<br />

new settings by landmark groups, asset<br />

type, health status and dormancy filters.<br />

The longer a trailer is used and the more<br />

productive it is while in use means fewer<br />

reasons to purchase new ones. SkyBitz In-<br />

Sight users now have a much simpler interface<br />

when identifying profitable and nonprofitable<br />

areas of the operation to pinpoint<br />

and correct underutilized assets, customer<br />

With an improved top-line navigation and<br />

hierarchy that offers instant access to a<br />

variety of data, SkyBitz InSight customers<br />

can now toggle through several redesigned<br />

pages including location, analyzation and<br />

maintenance.<br />

trips, drivers and processes with the click<br />

of a button. This allows managers to easily<br />

set up and monitor KPIs across the organization.<br />

“We ask a lot of questions and we know<br />

how to listen to our customers,” said Siamak<br />

Azmoudeh, vice president product line<br />

management and business development at<br />

SkyBitz. “By walking through parts of the<br />

system with our customers, we are constantly<br />

identifying ways in which we can<br />

improve the technology and provide solid<br />

customer support at the same time. Our<br />

software team can then be better equipped<br />

to develop technology that continues to<br />

help our clients improve their business.”<br />

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COMPANY PAGE COMPANY PAGE<br />

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....................16<br />

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Elite Carriers .................30<br />

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Containerport.........................28<br />

Celadon .......................... 21, 32<br />

Dart Coal .................................3<br />

City Cob.........................17<br />

EM Containerport.........................10<br />

Way .............................19<br />

Fed Dart EX ................................19<br />

Custom Critical............... 16, 17<br />

PI&I Fed EX ................................10<br />

Custom Critical 11, 31<br />

Sherwin Payne ..............................15<br />

Williams ......................11<br />

Star PI&I Freight ...............................23<br />

4, 27<br />

TBS Progressive ...............................25<br />

...........................8<br />

Trans Sherwin Stewart Williams ........................13<br />

......................29<br />

UPS Star ............................... Freight 9, 6-7 27<br />

Summit ..............................4<br />

Trans Stewart ........................13<br />

UPS ................................6-7<br />

Progressive Janco ............................ Insurance ..................20 2, 22<br />

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