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Voices
From Biden DOT, owner-operators look for parking, highways, FLSA reforms
This trio of items adds to those familiar yet newly prominent in Overdrive's reader polling on priorities for a new DOT Secretary under Biden.
January 6, 2021
Voices
New priorities for a new DOT secretary?: Take two
A bevy of reader voices raised in response to the question: “What would be your message to Trump’s incoming DOT leader?” Issues of regulation (the ELD mandate chief among them), parking/infrastructure and driver pay loomed largest.
December 7, 2016
Parking
FLSA reform, parking, detention: MCSAC prioritizes reauthorization recommendations
Reforming employee-driver compensation by removing the FLSA overtime exemption was among top recommendations, likewise expanding truck-parking availability, sleep apnea, further New Entrant attention and more.
February 11, 2014
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
Views: Fair-labor exemption petition, truck driver as DOT secretary
Owner-operator Joe Ammons launches his petition to the DOT secretary to disallow the trucking exemption from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
May 1, 2013
Channel 19
Year of interrupted sleep: 2012 in review, Part 2
Counting down the memories — May-August 2012 on the Channel 19 blog, when things heated up in more ways than three.
December 29, 2012
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