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POLL: Detention time since the ELD mandate -- has it improved?
While a minority of owner-operators report increased ability to collect detention pay from brokers/shippers as a result of widespread ELD use, has the ubiquity of the logging devices translated to reduced detention time at the docks? Weigh in here.
July 25, 2023
Business
Teamsters call off strike at YRC Freight, Holland
The Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee will meet in-person with Yellow representatives Sunday evening.
July 23, 2023
Business
Pennsylvania hiking turnpike tolls | Spot market summer doldrums have arrived?
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission voted on a 5% toll increase, which will take effect in January. Also: FMCSA denies inmate's request for relief from driver training regs; Rand McNally releases new mileage tracking app.
July 21, 2023
Business
Yellow: Union shares blame for financial woes
Yellow claims Teamsters leadership’s obstruction of its business makeover caused Yellow’s liquidity crisis.
July 19, 2023
Regulations
Trucking fights back against predatory towing: State laws that level the playing field
The Maryland Motor Truck Association helped craft a bill that hit towing companies where it hurt after some "egregious" tow bills topping $140,000 had the trucking industry crying foul.
July 19, 2023
Business
Yellow Teamsters members could strike Monday
Teamsters say they are preparing for a possible strike as early as July 24.
July 19, 2023
Business
DAT, Convoy reach 'amicable settlement' of lawsuits
DAT last year sued Convoy for allegedly using DAT trade secrets to create a competing load board. Also: Truckstop acquires AI-based freight matching firm; Trucker Path to host weekly giveaways; Love's offering free hot dogs.
July 18, 2023
Overdrive Radio
FMCSA offering 'kinder, gentler' approach to safety scoring? Not if automated inspections go live
In this Overdrive Radio edition, transportation attorney Hank Seaton draws links between several regulatory initiatives around safety scoring/rating and the prospects of Level 8 inspections, promising more inspection/violation data.
July 18, 2023
Regulations
'Nothing to hide, nothing to fear,' right? Get ready for Level 8, automated inspections
If automated inspections become a compulsory part of truckers' travels past scale houses and/or other mobile checkpoints nationwide, voluminous inspection/violation data collected could hold huge import for safety rating/scoring.
July 10, 2023
Regulations
Another operator's HOS exemption request denied | Teamsters' deal with TForce
FMCSA denied the request because the agency said he didn't demonstrate how he would be safer than without the exemption. Also: Freightliner eCascadias recalled for powertrain issue; Teamsters reach agreement with TForce, while UPS strike looms.
July 17, 2023
Business
Counterpoint to some truckers' tech reticence: 'If you use a smartphone, you embrace it'
Owner-operator Andy Freeman contends the smartphone itself is an emblem of technology embrace for those who use one -- the vast majority of truck owners and drivers. Yet when it comes to GPS functionality, he's still pretty old-school.
July 10, 2023
Business
The third parties following you around the freight networks
Aggregating/analyzing carriers' public data, several old and new third-party vendors are supplying brokers with evaluative metrics on carriers they might utilize to haul loads, a kind of background surveillance, necessitating carriers' attention.
July 10, 2023
Business
DAT steps up fight against freight fraud, but is it enough?
The nation's biggest load board says it's upping its fight against double brokers and freight fraud, but one carrier called it "word salad" and questioned DAT's real commitment.
July 12, 2023
Regulations
OOIDA cautions Senate against PRO Act legislation
The PRO Act would enact the ABC independent contractor test for labor organizing, but OOIDA cautions its use could be more widespread. Also: FMCSA cracks down further on HHG moving schemes; latest Highway Angel.
July 12, 2023
Business
Broker intrusions on the rise with ubiquitous location tracking capability
With load tracking required more often than not by shippers and brokers, many owner-operators and small fleets are wary of the insights location data accessed through apps or ELDs may be giving away.
July 10, 2023
Business
Diesel prices level off after steady declines
Diesel prices have remained relatively flat over the last month, according to the Energy Information Administration. Also: OOIDA to host its annual Truck to Success course in October; ATA charity donates to fentanyl awareness group.
July 11, 2023
Channel 19
Reefer madness: Tricks of the trade to make sure you get paid
Reefer haulers share the playbook to fight back against sometimes "sneaky" shippers and receivers, who more often than not would want to stick the driver with the bill over bad produce.
July 11, 2023
Equipment
In-cab and out, camera options expand amid push-pull of privacy concern, regulatory attention
The distaste for driver-facing cameras doesn’t only come from what they are, but what they might become. NTSB's past calls for mandates for video-event recorders set the stage years ago. Meanwhile, new options with multicamera systems expand views.
July 10, 2023
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'One thing led to another' for Lacoh Transport's custom 2024 Peterbilt 389 build
What started out as a modest build for a nice working truck turned into an all-out custom transformation by Geis Peterbilt's Cody McCandless. Along the way, "a lot of days that you don’t succeed," McCandless said, "but the challenge has been accepted, and we’re having fun with it.”
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