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Business
Prominent dashcam provider petitions FMCSA to allow lower windshield mounting
Regulations require vehicle safety technologies to be mounted not more than four inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers. SmartDrive says its ADAS should be mounted approximately eight inches below the upper edge of the area swept by windshield wipers.
November 28, 2018
Business
Analyst: Driver pay gains to continue into 2019 as carriers struggle to attract drivers
“The thing we’re going to have to confront as an industry is we have a driver supply that’s inelastic,” says Gordon Klemp. Raising pay is necessary, but it will take years, not months, “until we get to a wage number that starts to draw people in who wouldn’t have considered driving in the past,” he says.
November 28, 2018
Business
Case to protect owner-operator status in California heads to court
Earlier this month, a federal court in California heard oral arguments in the Western State Trucking Association’s lawsuit against a California Supreme Court ruling that WSTA says could effectively block owner-operators from operating in the state.
November 28, 2018
Business
I-84 exit numbers set to change in New York
The New York State Department of Transportation has said it will change the exit numbers to be mileage-based rather than the current consecutive numbering system.
November 28, 2018
Business
Schneider named Top 10 employer of military vets
Schneider National, one of the country’s largest carriers, has been named a Top 10 employer for military veterans by Monster and Military.com. This is the third straight year that Schneider made the Top 10 list.
November 28, 2018
Parking
DOT launches second Jason’s Law truck parking survey
The new version of the survey is meant to update the inventory of truck parking and identify improvements to truck parking availability since the first survey; evaluate truck travel by state to evaluate increases in truck parking demand; evaluate technologies being used to monitor availability and demand; and more.
November 27, 2018
Business
Photos: KW W990 makes delivery of U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree
The Kenworth W990 tractor that hauled the 2018 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree cross-country from Oregon made its final stop this weekend in Washington, D.C., to deliver the tree to the U.S. Capitol building. Here are a few photos of the delivery.
November 27, 2018
Overdrive Extra
A litigious argument for collision mitigation
So goes the frustrated mind: collision-mitigation technology is “determining when I should increase my following distance, when I should change lanes, and when I should apply the brakes – oftentimes doing it for me.” Clifford Petersen has learned to work with his system, though it’s not all roses and can present dangerous situations. He’s hopeful about one aspect of it, though. …
November 27, 2018
Business
Truckers deliver holiday spirit in local parades
Truck-themed Christmas parades bolster charities in some communities, where they became annual events as early as 1960 and as late as 2015. Here’s a run-down of some of the parades taking place around the country in the coming weeks.
November 27, 2018
Business
Trucker promptly cited after dangerous pass caught on camera
On Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 27, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper David Hamilton was driving about a mile south of the junction of State Highway 59A and State Highway 3W north of Ada, Oklahoma when he had a close encounter with a tractor-trailer making an illegal pass.
November 27, 2018
Business
DOT raises fines for violating trucking regs
A final rule that published in the Federal Register today, Nov. 27, makes the new fine amounts effective immediately. The 2015 Act required FMCSA and other DOT agencies to issue an initial “catch-up” adjustment, followed by annual adjustments for inflation.
November 27, 2018
Voices
Political gerrymandering: Should it be legal for parties to redraw districts to favor their candidates?
It’s a truism in electoral politics in the U.S. — whichever party controls state government when electoral districts are redrawn (generally every 10 years) holds the advantage for the next 10. Should outright political gerrymandering of districts be legal? Or is it all more complicated than that?…. Weigh in here.
November 27, 2018
Business
Section of I-15 North in Las Vegas closed for construction Tuesday night
The section of interstate that will be closed is between Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard, a 1-mile stretch of highway. Additionally, the Sahara Avenue onramp to I-15 will be closed between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. Wednesday.
November 27, 2018
Business
TBS Factoring on target for record year
While TBS is mostly closely focused on transportation factoring, its growth has also been spurred by an increased focus on construction-vendor financing.
November 27, 2018
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
Business
10 toughest states for hours of service violations
Arkansas has been atop this list now for four years since overtaking the previous perennial toughest hours-violation state, Oregon, in 2014.
November 26, 2018
Voices
Pride and professionalism: ‘The difference between a career and a job’
Reader Scott Hainline writes in response to Clifford Petersen’s discourse on the pride and professionalism inherent in, among other things, on-highway courtesies once common among truckers. Hainline argues truckers should do better to pass down traditional professionalism to the incoming generations.
November 26, 2018
Business
An hours of service ‘secret weapon’ in Kansas
For those running paper logs or ELDs, but particularly the former, Kansas has something of a secret weapon for its Level 3 driver inspections, notes highway patrol Captain Chris Turner. Many of those inspections, taking place primarily at rest stops, are performed by a “small group of retired troopers.” …
November 23, 2018
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