Tag: pre-2000 exemption

Custom Rigs

Ruben Carrion’s recently custom-restored 2000 Peterbilt 379

No, it’s not an e-log exempt unit. “I checked with three different dealers,” owner-operator Ruben Carrion says, determining nonetheless to do a custom-restore of the unit he took about three months off for early in 2018. Catch a video walk-around and more of Carrion’s long trucking history since immigrating from Panama as a youngster.

October 17, 2019

Channel 19

Revisiting the soft-market banana peel — freight relationships paying off for some

Randy Carlson “will have had my operating authority for 25 years” come next May. Right now, “trucking is the best it’s been in that entire 25 years” in general terms, he says, despite the slowdown for so many in the spot market, illustrating the value of steady freight partners.

July 25, 2019

Custom Rigs

Iowa-based independent’s restoration of an e-log-exempt 2000 Pete 379

The FMCSA’s change to its guidance on the pre-2000 model year exemption to the ELD mandate — when the agency specified the engine year instead of the chassis year as the determining factor — sealed the deal for owner-operator Scott Hampton in his plans to do a $75K custom-restoration of his 2000 Peterbilt 379.

November 26, 2018

Overdrive Radio

ELD-exempt (or not) trucking with W. Joel Baker: Inspections, adjustments, bedrock profitability

In the latest Channel 19 article, W. Joel Baker discusses inspections, adjustments, bedrock profitability. Also, check out some of his most recent hauls.

May 18, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Trucking needs the ‘brotherhood virus’ to come alive, spread

Listen to Overdrive Radio's podcast to hear what owner-operator Jim Bardsley has to say about his 30+ year trucking career, the trucking industry, and more.

May 11, 2018

Channel 19

With the rise in fuel over the last half-year, have rates really risen by much?

Separating out fuel surcharges from average rates over the July 2017 (when fuel prices hit a 2017 trough) to January 2018 period, spot market dry van and reefer rates are still up well more than 10 percent each, flatbed less so.

February 27, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD mandate: Engine ruling creates winners, losers

From Overdrive’s in-depth guide to ELD compliance: How FMCSA’s mid-game ruling on the pre-2000 exemption created winners and losers among the owner-operator segment.

November 27, 2017

Overdrive Radio

The mechanical prowess — and ELD trials and tribulations — of Randy Carlson

Owner-operator Carlson’s approach to the business follows an early career as a mechanic, learning from his father, who also trucked, then in trade school and on the job at an International dealer — a solid basis on which to build an owner-operator business. Is it less common than it used to be?

August 10, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA: Pre-2000 ELD exemption applies to engine model year, not chassis

Owner-operators with trucks equipped with model year 1999 engines and older will not be not subject to the electronic logging device mandate, regardless of the model year of the truck, according to fresh guidance from FMCSA.

July 28, 2017

Channel 19

The ELD mandate’s double bind for owners of post-1999 trucks with earlier model mechanical engines

Owner-operator Randy Carlson runs a 2001 Freightliner chassis powered by an early-90s Cat 3406B. It’s increasingly looking like the truck as configured (and others similarly situated) is between a compliance rock and a hard place with the ELD mandate.

December 1, 2016

Voices

ELD mandate pre-2000 exemption: Manufacture date or model year?

The short answer is that FMCSA intends to draw the line according to model year, not date of manufacture. The long answer is that mixing language on model year and date of manufacture only complicates things for operators, eventual enforcement…

December 21, 2015

Overdrive Radio

ELD mandate represents a ‘piece of freedom’ under threat, say readers

Audio: Three views of the ELD mandate show the strong opposition felt among many — meantime, more debate on the pre-2000 model year exception and just who benefits most, by the numbers.

December 15, 2015