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Business
Trucking reps testify before Congress on driver pay, hours, safety
The testimony from each of the stakeholders, along with their answers to questions from 17 representatives who are part of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will be used to help shape the next highway funding bill after 2015âs FAST Act expires in 2020.
June 12, 2019
Business
The California independent contractor crisis: Undermining the owner-operator
The next battle in what some view as a West Coast war on owner-operators has nothing to do with truck emissions. Instead, Californiaâs labor law developments, predatory lease-purchase practices and aggressive union organizing are stirring a legal stew for the independent contractor model in trucking.
February 4, 2019
Overdrive Extra
OOIDAâs Todd Spencer talks driver pay, âdriver shortageâ in live Fox Business segment
In a live segment aired last week on Fox Newsâ spinoff Fox Business, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Acting President Todd Spencer fielded questions from host Stuart Varney about â what else? â the countryâs âserious shortage of truck drivers,â as Varney put it.
April 4, 2018
Business
Todd Spencer to head OOIDA until April vote for president
OOIDAâs board will hold a vote in April to choose the associationâs next president and CEO, OOIDA has said in a statement. Association Executive Vice President Todd Spencer has assumed the role of acting president and CEO in the meantime.
January 11, 2018
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to withhold federal funding from 20 states for enforcement, including ELDs
The petition singles out 26 states that havenât as yet adopted the ELD mandate, while 20 of those are out of compliance with fed regs adoption rules in general, OOIDA says. The MCSAP program granted more than $65 million in funding to those 20 states last year.
August 30, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Update on ELD fight and more with OOIDAâs Todd Spencer, small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, hear just where OOIDAâs ELD fight stands today, likewise take a run through a bevy of other issues, from hours possibilities inherent in the FMCSAâs upcoming split-sleeper pilot test, the state of safety measurement, training and more.
March 29, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Navigating the trucking âtech bubbleâ: FMCSA reps outline ELD requirements, operation, edits for drivers at MATS
Standing-room-only in the ELD seminar room at MATS â hear the FMCSAâs presentation on implementation of a rule that has spawned something of a âtransportation tech bubble,â clearly in evidence at the show.
March 25, 2017
Business
MCSAC policy panelâs long shift toward safety advocates
How it happened: When the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee began meeting in 2007, it had four members with direct involvement in trucking. Today, there are three direct trucking members. Over the same period, representatives of safety-advocacy groups more than doubled from two to five.
September 7, 2016
Business
The biggest little voice in trucking
How self-styled safety-advocacy groups won over the federal government, and some trucking interests themselves, to influence trucking regulation.
September 6, 2016
Overdrive Radio
CSA scores pulled behind the curtain â whatâs next?
Following FMCSAâs pull of the CSA SMS from public view, some signs that the CSA bell will continue to ring in carrier selection processes from brokers and shippers in the âprivate CSA world.â Some reader views, too, on FMCSAâs next move.
December 7, 2015
Voices
Readers debate New Entrant test
While a majority were positive about FMCSAâs plan to introduce regs testing into the process for obtaining operating authority, questions as to the scope of test questions remained as the second federal listening session on the subject approached.
March 13, 2014
Overdrive Radio
Audio: Rich Wilson at MCSAC â âWe need to hear more from driversâ
Though any FLSA reform wouldnât apply directly to owner-operators, some have made the argument that improved pay conditions for company drivers and corresponding rate-dynamics changes would filter positively throughout the industry.
February 15, 2014
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