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Electronic Logging Devices
When cellular service adds monthly fees to ELDs
Most any BYOD-type ELD with dedicated tablets will come with monthly costs for a data plan. If you’re pairing a BYOD ELD with a smartphone or tablet you already have with a service plan, such cost wouldn’t necessarily figure into your back-of-the-envelope investment calculation.
October 23, 2017
Business
Small number of 2017-2018 Freightliner Cascadias recalled
The company says some model year 2017-2018 Cascadias may have an upper steering pinch bolt that isn’t properly tightened, which could result in the mechanical disconnection of the steering wheel and the front wheels.
October 23, 2017
Business
DOD weapons haulers’ 30-minute break exemption extended
The DOD’s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command has held the exemption since 2013 and requires continuous attendance and surveillance of its loads until they reach their final destination.
October 23, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
PrePass expands bypass capabilities, introduces ELD
The bring-your-own device ELD is available for both Android and iOS platforms on any tablet or smartphone tethered with an OBDII device plugged into the truck’s diagnostic port. The system also offers driver vehicle inspection reporting, central web-based reporting and Bluetooth wireless OBDII connection.
October 23, 2017
Business
Following along with the FMCSA
“Hi kids, and welcome to the first and only episode of ‘Following along with the FMCSA.’ Today our host, Dilly McDoodle, will talk about a few new rules and regulations the gubmint makes the general public believe increase productivity and safety on the highways of North America!”
October 23, 2017
Business
Spot market: Rates cool a smidge for vans, reefers, but conditions remain good for truckers
After surging for several weeks van spot market rates moderated a bit the week of Oct. 8-14. Looser truckload capacity led to a lower national average, interrupting what had been seven straight weeks of increases.
October 23, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs at the ‘right price’: No-monthly-fee e-logs explored
In the crowded ELD market, a few companies set themselves apart with systems requiring no monthly fee. Who they are, and considerations of support, availability and utility.
October 20, 2017
Business
Court rules DOT carrier registration board violated sunshine laws, upholds board’s decisions
A federal court on Wednesday ruled that the Unified Carrier Registration planning board, who’s tasked with establishing annual carrier registration fee structures, violated federal open meetings laws by holding a deliberative meeting Sept. 14 without notifying the public.
October 20, 2017
Truck Stops
Love’s opens new truck stop in Oklahoma
The new store is located off of I-44 at exit 107 and offers drivers 48 truck parking spaces, five showers, laundry facilities, a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Subway restaurant. A casino operated by the Chickasaw Nation is set to open at the travel stop later this year.
October 20, 2017
Business
Psst … Brad James is famous, pass it on …
Trucker Brad James — out with a CD featuring some of his music, “My Lonesome Road — will be appearing on the Oct. 25 episode of “Pickler and Ben,” airing on CMT in various local markets.
October 20, 2017
Business
Rhode Island plans lane reduction on I-195 this weekend
Rhode Island DOT says work will begin Friday night, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. The number of lanes on the ramp from I-195 West to I-95 South will be reduced from two lanes to one.
October 20, 2017
Business
DOT allows another major fleet to let pre-CDL operators drive team
FMCSA says opposition stated the CLP holders who had passed the CDL skills test were too inexperienced and are safer with CDL holders in the front seat. The agency argues that had the drivers been in their home state when they passed the skills test, they would have already obtained a CDL, and could drive on their own with no one in the truck with them.
October 20, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Truckers using phone-based ELDs can change duty status away from truck, FMCSA says
FMCSA will, at least for five years, allow drivers using mobile device-based ELDs (those run on a phone or tablet) to change duty status outside of and away from their vehicle. Such changes in duty status will need to be annotated, the agency says.
October 20, 2017
Business
‘Truckers for Humanity’ hosting live-streamed concert, benefit event Saturday
On the Truckers for Humanity Facebook page the evening of October 21, six trucker/singer-songwriters will perform live to benefit TruckersFinalMile.org.
October 19, 2017
Voices
Business base: Mechanical experience before buying the truck
While knowledge of the working systems of the truck is required of an CDL driver, there’s no replacement for maintenance experience when it comes to hands-on know-how to save on repairs by doing them yourself, or knowing when not to.
October 19, 2017
Channel 19
Round-up: The parking issue’s grassroots problems; And the California convoy that capped the ELD protest week
Too often, the roots grow against new-parking development — Love’s Travel Stops pulls out of Otsego, Minn., truck stop plans after local opposition. And: Video and more from the sizable anti-ELD demonstrations two weeks back out west.
October 19, 2017
Business
Five Apps for That: Don’t get delayed by bad directions
All of these routing apps allow the user to establish a profile that includes a truck’s height, weight, length and hazmat class. The apps provide optimal routes that avoid roads and bridges with truck limitations for weight or clearance.
October 19, 2017
Business
Higher driver pay drove carriers’ costs higher in 2016
Carrier costs on the whole climbed 1.5 cents a mile last year, according to a report from the American Transportation Research Institute, with increases in spending on driver wages and benefits outpacing savings from lower fuel expenditures.
October 18, 2017
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