Tag: personal conveyance

Hours of Service

Hours changes and personal conveyance, coercion, rates

Reps from CVSA, FMCSA discuss combating coercion as the hours of service rule's new flexibility is set for Sept. 29. Read more and watch here on Overdrive.

September 3, 2020

Channel 19

ELDs: What can be done about your ‘jacked-up’ log when you forget to go PC

Wondering what can be done if you forget to change your electronic logging device to personal conveyance before moving? Details here.

March 11, 2020

Business

Parties other than carriers now subject to enforcement under the coercion rule

One standout aspect of the coercion rule is that it marked the first time the FMCSA gained some authority to investigate and fine shippers and receivers not already under its regulatory purview. The rule also broadened agency authorities over brokers. Results, however, are a decidedly mixed bag four years in.

December 12, 2019

Hours of Service

Trucking Law: What works as ‘personal conveyance’?

You can use a truck to drive your family to church, run to the grocery store or take a fishing trip so long as you are not doing so at the direction of the employer. Determining compliance can be a little more fuzzy, though, when driving to or from shippers or receivers, or the carrier’s terminal.

November 12, 2019

Overdrive Extra

The underappreciated asset of off-duty hours

Gary Buchs on strategies toward effective task/goal definition and prioritization to be wise when it comes to hours: “For too many years, we’ve viewed time off as a liability. … No matter how a person calculates their hours of service, logically there is no way to drive or work more hours than the time off-duty we need to recover to care for ourselves.”

October 22, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift

The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.

August 13, 2019

Hours of Service

New personal-conveyance FAQs illustrate FMCSA’s round-trip view of ‘under dispatch’

In the agency’s new FAQ series, Question No. 1 solidifies an interpretation of any dispatch as encompassing a round trip, and also attempts to clarify seeming contradictions between that interpretation and the new personal conveyance guidance. More on PC enforcement during audits, too, muddying waters.

November 9, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA on ELDs and enforcement: Know what you’re dealing with at roadside

Listen along as FMCSA Director Joe DeLorenzo talks about ELDs, roadside inspections, and enforcement. Live coverage from GATS on Overdrive.

August 23, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Notes on proper — and improper — use of personal conveyance under ELDs

Joe DeLorenzo, head of enforcement for the FMCSA, gives proper and improper use tips on Using hours of service's personal conveyance under ELDs. Read more here.

July 25, 2018

Overdrive Radio

A ‘malfunction junction’ where ELDs meet hours enforcement: Owner-operator Jon Hose’s OOS story

The independent shares his story of being put out of service with a false-log violation in Missouri early in June. The violation was a result of en-route malfunctions of his One20 F-ELD, and offers insights on how inspectors are handling en-route malfunctions, and how you can be prepared for one should it happen to you.

July 12, 2018

Channel 19

More on personal conveyance in the hours of service with Roadcheck a day away

With Roadchecks starting June 5th, be in the know about the new personal conveyance guidelines and check out the decline in violations since 2014.

June 4, 2018

Channel 19

‘Shipper of choice’ phrase on the rise, but what about its negative?

Be a "shipper of choice," not a "shipper of last resort." Overdrive sheds light on a growing problem of shippers taking advantage of truckers in the industry.

May 31, 2018