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Channel 19

Reports say Senate version of a highway bill next in line

What exactly could be in it is anybody’s guess, but if it at all resembles what the Obama administration put out early this week, here’s hoping it walks back from expansive tolling provisions…

May 3, 2014

Business

Bill could require carriers to pay drivers for detention time

The Obama administration’s highway bill provisions include driver compensation reform, including a requirement that carriers pay drivers for time spent on-duty but not driving.

April 30, 2014

Hours of Service

ATRI looking for driver input on hours rule effects, detention time

The American Transportation Research Institute announced this week it’s looking for input from truck operators on the impacts of the current hours of service rule and about detention time for two separate studies it’s working on.

April 8, 2014

Business

Regs review, CSA, driver pay highlight potential highway-bill action items discussed at MCSAC Day 1

What would you tell the FMCSA to focus on in terms of priority issues for the next highway reauthorization? Find here what FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s diverse membership thinks.

February 10, 2014

Business

Data analysis: Ten years isn’t a lifetime…for Yoda

“As much as I’d like to be able to write a happy ending for the hours of service story, I can’t. The HOS are just the tip of the iceberg.”

November 24, 2013

Business

Attention to detention: Solutions to the problem of uncompensated time, part 2

Many carriers have moved in in the direction of time-based pay systems with hourly detention-pay plans, including small fleets; some strategies for detention-rate negotiations take shape.

October 28, 2013

Channel 19

Looking for fleet/owner-operator common ground

If drivers and fleet folks truly presented a united front on hours to Congress and regulators, would anything change for the better in terms of flexibility?

October 26, 2013

Voices

Readers split on government, industry solutions to detention

Though all recognize the problem, grown ever more onerous with further restrictions on drivers’ hours with the new rules. Here, find a round-up of views and some examples of detention success.

September 6, 2013

Voices

How would you fix the problem of excessive loading/unloading delays?

From changes in how drivers are paid to new government regulation of shippers and receivers, the choices are many — and none particularly easy to implement. Which do you think would do the job best?

August 20, 2013

Voices

Lumper fees: Sometimes a little push-back works

Readers respond to Wendy Parker’s “To lump or not to lump…” story about the lumper fees common at grocery distributors — if carriers aren’t being compensated for fees by shipper or receiver, then U.S. law has been violated.

August 6, 2013

Channel 19

More off/on-duty discussion

Debate continues over loading/unloading situations and what exactly consitutes “off-duty” time under the new hours rule.

August 1, 2013

Channel 19

Looking for flexibility in the hours revision’s on-duty definitions change

Observers and readers note the gray area in the change, where logging extended downtime waiting at shippers/receivers off-duty could be more easily interpreted as legal under news rules and off-duty regs guidance.

July 23, 2013