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Channel 19
DataQs: A âsmall victoryâ amid ongoing difficulty in fighting errant roadside violations
It's the most common sort of DataQs challenge. It's also the least likely to be successfully changed, yet here's an example where persistence paid off.
December 7, 2020
Voices
POLL: Have you used the FMCSAâs DataQs violation/crash info system for any of these reasons?
The DataQs system is where drivers and fleets go to challenge/request official review of information associated with inspections and DOT-recordable crashes. Have you utilized it for any of the common reasons shown in this poll?
November 2, 2020
Business
Surviving a Level 3 driver inspection: Are you ready for Roadcheck?
Drivers can expect Level 3 inspections to play a bigger part in CVSA's International Roadcheck inspection spree this year. Details here on Overdrive.
July 8, 2020
Business
Toughest 15 (plus 2) states for moving violations ahead of enforcement blitz kicking off July 12
This year's Operation Safe Driver Week blitz begins July 12. Here are the states with the highest moving violation percentages, a safe bet for boosted activity.
July 1, 2020
Business
Cracks in the system: Blowing the whistle on coercion
In the more than four years since FMCSAâs driver protection rule took effect, results have been indirect at best, minimal at worst, when drivers report theyâve been pressured to violate regs.
December 9, 2019
Channel 19
Critical med-cert step to avoid one âacute violationâ in audits
Breakdowns in the process for electronically marrying a driverâs updated medical certification with his/her CDL has been a âfertile field for auditorsâ in back-office compliance reviews, yielding acute violations that contribute adversely to safety ratings.
November 1, 2019
Channel 19
False log! or: Another name for â7.2 miles South of Chaparral, N.M.â
Small fleet owner Leander Richmondâs ongoing battle over a false-log violation that seems to stem from a dispute over just where â7.2 miles S of Chaparral, N.M.â happens to be. While officers are human like the rest of us, he appreciates, âby the same token, once youâre handed proof that you screwed up, fix it and the world just keeps on spinning.â If only âŚ
October 7, 2019
Voices
POLL: Have you filed a coercion complaint under the rule protecting drivers?
Proposed in tandem with the ELD mandate, the prohibition against entities coercing or attempting to coerce drivers to violate a regulation with threats of punitive action (withholding work/payment, disciplinary measures, and the like) has been active since early 2016. Have you ever filed a complaint with FMCSA under the rule?
September 26, 2019
Channel 19
Where Brake Safety Week, starting Sunday, is something of a year-round affair
Keeping up with your braking systems might be the most important thing you can do when it comes to avoiding the principal violations inspectors are looking for year-round, nationally, and particularly in the states shown here. Window also, here, on brake-related resources available via Overdrive and elsewhere.
September 12, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Letâs end the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections
âIn the wake of several state troopers and truck drivers being hit on the side of the road in recent months, I feel the time has come to change the regulations and require more than one inspection be conducted every 12 months in an approved location.â Forcing more routine around equipment inspections, owner-op Gary Buchs believes, will pay multiple dividends.
May 15, 2019
Channel 19
From within or without? â pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate
Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations â hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those âequal and opposite reactions.â Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: âThe pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.â
March 28, 2019
Hours of Service
POLL: Since the ELD mandate, have you felt pressure from carriers/customers to violate hours regs more or less often?
In 2017, almost half of Overdrive readers reported daily pressure to drive tired as a result of hours regs and/or coercion from carriers/customers. This poll looks at the issue viz a viz the definition of coercion from such parties as pressure to violate the hours rules. Has such pressure lessened or ramped up in the wake of the ELD mandate, if it existed at all?
March 26, 2019
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