Tag: sleeper berth

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off

In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could have been avoided, mainstream news spin, more on the proposal …

August 16, 2019

Voices

Not ‘engaged to wait’ while in the sleeper? Readers respond to federal labor opinion on driver compensation

More readers than not agreed with commenter Jason McCarter that, “if you are in your truck at any time, you should be paid,” even if off-duty in the sleeper. Find other views, including those contrary, in this round-up of voices with poll results about sleeper time and pay for employee drivers.

August 8, 2019

Voices

POLL: Should sleeper-berth time for company drivers be compensated directly?

While recent high-profile court rulings seemed to suggest that even off-duty sleeper time for employee drivers should be subject to minimum wage compensation rules, but a Department of Labor opinion has more recently contradicted that. What’s your take?

July 24, 2019

Business

Judge rules drivers should be paid minimum wage for all hours worked — including sleeper berth time

The judge’s Oct. 19 opinion says that drivers’ total compensation, once divided by the total number of hours worked, should equal at least the federal minimum wage of  $7.25 an hour. However, the ruling only affects this case and doesn’t have a direct impact on the industry’s per-mile pay model.

December 6, 2018

Channel 19

Rolling your 14: How to do an 8/2 or 2/8 sleeper-berth split

Here's a hypothetical series of logs from T. Dills Trucking leading into the current day that might help illustrate the process. Check it out on Overdrive.

July 26, 2018

Business

Hotshot carrier asks FMCSA to let him install sleeper berth in pickup truck bed

A sleeper berth in the bed of a pickup do not meet the access, location, exit, communication or occupant constraint requirements in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). Castignoli Enterprises argues that because he is a solo owner-operator, these requirements are not applicable to his operation.

April 27, 2018

Channel 19

Grassroots efforts continue around ELD mandate, hours of service flexibility

Wednesday, January 17, a group of truckers took a meeting with United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to press concerns over the Department of Transportation’s electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.

January 19, 2018

Hours of Service

Fixing the 14-hour rule: FMCSA moving closer to flexible sleeper-split pilot program

Kelly Regal, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s associate administrator for research and information technology, outlined the agency’s research work around sleep and fatigue at the Managing Fatigue international conference in San Diego, Calif., Tuesday. Of perhaps principle interest to owner-operators, Regal updated attendees on progress toward what she’s calling the FMCSA’s “Flexible sleeper berth […]

March 22, 2017

Channel 19

Why ‘automatic’ may or may not mean ‘automatic’ when it comes to ELDs

In OOIDA’s case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didn’t require devices that ‘automatically’ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?

April 15, 2016

Channel 19

Getting in bed with the railroad

Ever taken a 10-hour break on a train? The Truck Ferry project would turn freight flatcars into rolling sleeper berths for multiple tractor-trailer rigs/drivers.

November 3, 2015

Channel 19

Run an e-log as a team? Keep a regular weekly schedule? …

Here’s the criteria FMCSA used to allow McKee Foods’ private fleet’s drivers to use 5/5-, 4/6- or 3/7-hour sleeper splits to satisfy the required 10 hours of sleeper berth time.

August 13, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Kenny Capell’s obstruction of justice case at the scale house, in his own words

Capell hopes it becomes common practice in law enforcement to better respect the job trucking professionals do by refraining from waking sleeping codrivers absent reasonable suspicion.

March 23, 2015