Tag: pilot programs

Overdrive Extra

18-20-year-old interstate drivers? Answering FMCSA’s questions

Owner-op Clifford Petersen on the federal under-21 interstate CDL pilot program idea, with answers to the questions FMCSA asked in the recent request for comment: “If you want your opinion heard or recorded, the comment period is open through mid-July.” …

June 5, 2019

Channel 19

Grassroots advocacy, redux — more on last week’s meetings in Congressional offices

Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruz, attended by truckers from different groups and locales — he urges drivers to do similar: “Go talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.”

January 27, 2018

Channel 19

Revisiting the cross-border program — in Mexico

U.S.-based cross-border carriers continue to operate into Mexico — a lookback on past reporting on the program shows little progress in the U.S.-Mexican economic/political relationship.

September 11, 2012

Channel 19

Tonight: CSA 2010 round robin, webinar on gaining authority

A message yesterday from the folks with AsktheTrucker.com about their online radio show, Truth About Trucking, scheduled for 5 p.m. EST this afternoon, detailed the 40 questions the program hopes to answer about CSA 2010 (see below for a full list), delayed from July implementation for carriers to November but no less fraught with complexities […]

April 28, 2010