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Business
Scale bypass options growing for owner-ops: A look at the maps
Scale bypass option networks have grown tremendously since their beginnings just more than 20 years ago. Here’s a look at the maps of two of the biggest.
April 21, 2015
PrePass currently has operational sites in 31 states with a number of committed sites, shown in yellow.
Custom Rigs
How does a weigh station work?
Working in part with truckers following Overdrive’s 2014 Florida Pride & Polish, Chris Fiffie of Big Rig Videos turned his camera on the technology, procedures behind the Wildwood, Fla., weigh station
March 10, 2015
Florida DOT Senior Inspector Dennis Hegman was Fiffie’s ultimate source for the film that resulted.
Business
CSA’s Fallout: The shifting enforcement target as states move on driver violations
Among all 48 continental states, 2013 saw 29 states increase their attention to moving violations, figured as a percentage of each state’s total violations. Among the top such states, 3 in 4 saw their moving violations’ share grow in 2013 against other violations.
August 7, 2014
Overdrive’s ongoing summer “CSA’s Fallout” series of reports examining news and data related to the CSA program and various enforcement issues now includes updated state data on inspection intensity, violation priorities and more via the maps and downloads available via OverdriveOnline.com/csa. You can access prior coverage in the series via these links to Part 1 and to Part 2.
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Due diligence on the drug testing consortium
Any problem with drug or alcohol use by drivers among carriers large and small can ensure that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be “watching you for a long time,” says regulatory consultant.
May 29, 2014
Richard Wilson
Channel 19
Light violations aren’t the only ones being stacked
Readers offer further examples of multiple violations written that stem from one root cause, known as “stacking” and discouraged at the federal level.
October 24, 2013
Find a variety of ways to manage the CSA program, as well as discussions of the regime’s inequities and what’s being done to challenge them, via our CSA’s Data Trail main page.
Channel 19
‘Wireless Roadside Inspection’ inches closer to reality
Mobile communications technology stands to transform the way truck inspections take place, with big implications for the CSA program and owner-operator businesses.
June 27, 2013
On-site in 2011 for the final day of a Wireless Roadside Inspection test project, also the day FMCSA proposed to mandate electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance.
Channel 19
Profilin’ — not so stylin’ — at the scale house
Has FMCSA’s CSA program had an unintended (or, perhaps, intended) consequence of giving inspectors license to hassle small operators simply for the fact that they are small companies?
June 9, 2013
engine compartment inspection
Business
New Mexico recognized for its Smart Roadside Inspection tech
The recognition from the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School was awarded as part of the center’s “Top 25 Innovations in Government” program.
May 3, 2013
new mexico Smart roadside camera
Voices
Poll: How many inspections do you receive in a year?
December 13, 2012
Voices
Poll: Do you use weigh-station bypassing technology?
December 7, 2012
Channel 19
Redux: Have you seen your ‘CSA scorecard’?
With third party vendors providing tools to carriers to compute their drivers CSA scores, only one continues to take that functionality directly to the “drivers” of CSA — professional operators. Have you seen a tabulation of your CSA performance? We want to hear from you.
November 15, 2012
Vigillo Driver Priority
Channel 19
Option for crowd-sourcing weigh-station status
New Scalechek app provides a directory and alerts for open/closed status of weigh stations across the U.S. and Canada.
August 31, 2012
Scalechek Alert Screenshot
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