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CSA two-punch: Second lawsuit brought
A suit against the FMCSA’s CSA program brought by the ASECTT group alleged unfairness to small carriers within FMCSA’s compliance and enforcement regime.
July 19, 2012
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Will CSA take its first significant hit standing up?
OOIDA’s suit against the FMCSA’s CSA enforcement regime charges the agency with significant mishandling of driver information in the MCMIS database — and lack of an adequate dispute process.
July 18, 2012
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Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law
Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. “While everyone has jumped on the proverbial […]
July 17, 2012
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No Doubt behind the big-rig wheel with ‘Settle Down’
Band No Doubt’s first single release in a decade comes with a video featuring the crew rendezvousing for a reunion party behind the wheels of big rigs.
July 17, 2012
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New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’
Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.
July 16, 2012
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ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated
The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]
July 16, 2012
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Speaking urinal cakes: Next step in hours enforcement?
Is it fair to call the Department of Transportation’s approach to hours enforcement a bit heavy-handed of late, what with FMCSA’s (not to mention Congress’) pursuit of an EOBR mandate, flexibility-reducing hours changes and the like? Here’s hoping they don’t resort to the tactics some Michigan establishments, at the behest of the State Police, deployed […]
July 15, 2012
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Landry questions White House integrity on EOBRs
In a hearing before the Small Business Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week whose title was a markedly direct question — “Is FMCSA’s CSA program driving small businesses off the road?” — Republican Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana took the opportunity during questioning of FMCSA Deputy Administrator Bill Bronrott to question […]
July 13, 2012
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Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?
Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]
July 13, 2012
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Union campaign to boost inspection dollars tars truckers
Can you imagine your state’s government employees resorting to something like this? The image here is of a billboard, among other similar ads that are part of a campaign being waged by British Columbia, Canada’s weigh-station inspection force for more funding, attempting to exploit the general public’s supposed fear of Class 8 on-highway trucks. The […]
July 12, 2012
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Does the EOBR mandate have another problem?
Some believe the electronic on-board recorder mandate written in this year’s highway bill could well be impossible to achieve, given the legislation’s language defining the electronic logging devices.
July 11, 2012
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Bill Mack still in ‘friendly negotiations’ over return to SiriusXM
The latest on Bill Mack’s plans for getting back in the saddle as the Midnight Cowboy on overnight radio.
July 10, 2012
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Jabin Bogan’s Mexico entry re-enacted
The latest news, from AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, notes that on July 5, U.S. truck driver Jabin Bogan’s defense team gathered with local officials, prosecutors (which is trying Bogan on smuggling charges) and experts to “reenact” the alleged wrong turn that saw Bogan enter Mexico with a load of surplus […]
July 10, 2012
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R.I.P. Sheriff ‘Cottonmouth’ — Ernest Borgnine dead at 95
The trucking-film classic “Convoy” costar played a sherriff who used CB subterfuge in attempts to undermine a group of protesting haulers in the 1970s Sam Peckinpah flick.
July 9, 2012
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PHOTOS: Tracked Land Rover put together by Bill Bradford
After I posted about South Pittsburg, Tenn.-based Bill Bradford’s immaculate Kenworth cabover last week, I got a note from Bradford about a vehicle he came across on YouTube after looking back over his own KW’s vid. Check out a couple pics of it below. You’ll recall I noted in this post that, though Bradford’s driven […]
July 6, 2012
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Rapper 50 cent rear-ended by … a lesser-known Kool Keith track
Over on the Juice blog at Billboard’s website, word is rapper 50 Cent (pictured) collided with a Mack truck on the Long Island Expressway after the driver’s load shifted, causing him to lose control of the rig. (The driver was OK.) Many of you may remember 50’s “In Da Club” record from 2003, whose rolling […]
July 5, 2012
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Bummer, eh? Beer load sinks…
U.S. patriots living in Canada will no doubt be bummed by the news today: Click through the thumbnail of the pic here by Mathew McCarthy of The Record newspaper of Kitchener, Ontario, in Canada, for a story about this collapsed trailer loaded with beer outside the Beer Store on King Street in the same town. […]
July 4, 2012
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Should HHG miles-based pay be illegal?
Owner-operator Jeff Clark, in the conference the Trucking Solutions Group organized Wed., June 20, with FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro (Clark is a TSG member owner-operator), presented Ferro with the discrepancy between household-goods miles and actual door-to-door miles. “The household goods miles system that we’re paid on is often fewer miles than we could legally make a […]
July 3, 2012
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