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Business
Some pain amidst the gains — CSA’s Data Trail after the e-log shift
Carriers with one to four trucks, whose hours violations as a share of all violations has been falling for years, claimed a larger percentage for the first four months of this year: This and other trends are detailed in Overdrive’s first CSA’s Data Trail update after the turn to ELDs.
August 16, 2018
Business
DataQs service for J.J. Keller ELD, log-audit customers
This free-of-charge assistance for challenging roadside violations will help drivers combat unwarranted violations and more. Details here on Overdrive.
June 19, 2018
Channel 19
No-ELD violations in the ‘soft enforcement’ period — 395.8(a) not the only incorrect infraction being issued
There’s evidence some inspectors are incorrectly encoding no-ELD violations under CSA-score-contributing, AOBRD-related 395.15 violation codes in addition to previously reported 395.8(a) codes in the soft enforcement period.
March 19, 2018
Channel 19
Remembering the ‘good old days’: Brakes good, tires good, not a ‘peep out of anyone’
Owner-operator Robert Whittington’s most recent inspection experiences have shown those good old days have been left way back down the road. . .
February 22, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Use DataQs to contest 395.8(a) violations written for not having an ELD prior to April 1
If you incurred a 395.8(a) prior to April 1 simply for not having an ELD record and you were keeping paper logs, challenge it through the FMCSA DataQs process to remove it from carrier records.
February 21, 2018
Business
A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
Channel 19
Details on out-of-service conditions related to ELDs, come December 18
CVSA’s new ELD-related out-of-service conditions are actually footnotes regarding current OOS violations having to do with hours of service.
May 18, 2017
Business
Fighting tickets: Don’t forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record
While prospective employers/lessors aren’t strictly required to use FMCSA’s PSP reports to view prospective drivers’ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.
December 28, 2016
Channel 19
Do you carry CVSA’s out-of-service criteria book?
Former inspector/officer Andy Blair argues the book is anyone’s best resource for challenging an out-of-service violation — and an effective tool for other challenges as well. If only its electronic version was free, readers note…
December 3, 2016
Business
Cleaning your record in Illinois
If you’re armed with a court adjudication of a citation that also was marked as a violation on an Illinois inspection report, and if the charge was pled down or dismissed, you should have little trouble.
November 25, 2015
Business
Roadside heat waning in Illinois
After a focus on moving violations led to a dramatic climb up Overdrive’s state inspection-intensity rankings in 2014, the Illinois State Police show signs of backing off.
November 24, 2015
Business
Court denies FMCSA’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit against CSA’s DataQ’s system
A bid by FMCSA to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it and its CSA program’s DataQ’s appeals process has been denied. The suit centers on FMCSA’s use of violations against drivers and carriers after citations were dismissed in court.
March 12, 2015
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