Hours of Service

Overdrive Radio
Maximum daily driving/duty flexibility in HOS, and the owner-op in pursuit of it
For this edition of Overdrive Radio, we're joined by Lee and Lisa Schmitt. Lee's exemption request from parts of the hours of service turned plenty heads when it hit the Federal Register recently. Also: We pause to recall an owner lost far too soon ...
June 17, 2022
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Hours of Service
2020 hours of service changes: Did they result in more productive use of your time?
Weigh in on this poll question as to whether or not you've seen improvement in your hours of service utilization as a result of 2020 changes to split-sleeper regs, the 30-minute break, the short-haul logbook exception or other changes.
June 15, 2022
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Regulations
Owner-operator asks FMCSA for exemption from HOS
The owner, Leland Schmitt, says his decades of safe driving demonstrate an equivalent level of safety as the regulations; around half of recent poll respondents continue to rely on the COVID hours waiver. Also: Bill would streamline TSA credentials.
June 8, 2022
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Hours of Service
POLL: Are you still using the COVID-emergency HOS limits waiver?
Continuing the hours waiver for a bevy of commodities June 1, FMCSA cited evidence of truckers' continued reliance on the now more-two-year-old HOS exemption. How often, if at all, have you used the waiver since significant changes last year?
June 3, 2022
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Regulations
COVID-emergency hours waiver extends again, through end of August
FMCSA cited evidence from truckers around the nation of continued reliance on the hours of service waivers as part of the reason the waiver will remain in place for a bevy of commodities, from vaccines to food needed for emergency restocking.
May 31, 2022
FMCSA has yet again extended its national maximum-drive-time-limits waiver for a bevy of commodities after another extension of the COVID pandemic emergency declaration.
Overdrive Extra
If we're going to limit vehicles' ability to speed, start with the real problem: Cars
Clifford Petersen's take on the FMCSA's recent moves toward mandating speed-limiting technology in heavy trucks: "If regulation is required, then perhaps you should look at regulating those more likely to be at fault" in a crash.
May 27, 2022
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Gear
Rand McNally launches new ELD
Together with Rand McNally's Fleet platform and the Rand VL (Vehicle Link) app for drivers, the Vehicle Link ELD simplifies compliance by providing hours of service and driver vehicle inspection (DVIR) reporting.
May 19, 2022
Rand McNally's Vehicle Link ELD and Android app
Business
FTR: Trucking Conditions at worst level since May 2020 | Canadian ELD mandate -- approved devices double in two months
FTR's Trucking Conditions Index for March turned negative for the first time since the early stages of the pandemic. Also: Canada's ELD registry now features 48 devices; Labor Dept. talks sexual harassment of female truckers; new truck stop in Tennessee.
May 18, 2022
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Regulations
Roadcheck: What inspectors are seeing at White River Junction on I-91
In Vermont on Roadcheck's first day, owner-operator J.R. Quirion confidently volunteers himself for inspection to avoid hassle later; another driver wasn't so lucky with some dangerously bald trailer tires.
May 18, 2022
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Channel 19
'Personal conveyance' in the hours of service: Owner-ops say no to time/distance limits
The majority of respondents to Overdrive's recent poll querying readers about CVSA's idea to officially limit drivers' personal conveyance use of their equipment rejected the notion. Plenty, however, agreed enforcement variability runs rampant.
April 28, 2022
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Trucking Law
Trucking Law: What's appropriate as 'personal conveyance' in the logbook or ELD?
This video, part of Overdrive's Trucking Law series, explains regulatory guidance around "personal conveyance," making clear what is/isn't acceptable off-duty movement of the truck. If the enforcement community has its way, new limits could be coming.
April 13, 2022
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Hours of Service
CVSA asks again for 'personal conveyance' limits in HOS | Diesel remains near record highs
The group penned a letter to the FMCSA asking for daily distance and/or time limits to be added to personal conveyance regs. Also: Fuel prices dipped last week; Closer look at Rand McNally's TND 10-inch tablet; ATRI wants carriers' cost data.
April 5, 2022
Hours Night Parking Ramp
Overdrive Radio
Will the national emergency declaration's COVID hours of service waiver extend again?
With a protest convoy on its way to the D.C. area calling for withdrawal of the emergency declaration that underpins it, and the government signaling a return to a non-emergency footing, this Overdrive Radio details prospects for the COVID hours waiver.
March 3, 2022
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Regulations
COVID hours of service waiver extended through May
FMCSA extended the COVID-19 emergency declaration waiving certain hours regs through May 31 but will end CDL/med cert waivers April 15. Also: DOT working toward oral fluid drug testing; spot market's latest; International trucks recalled.
February 28, 2022
Hours Night Parking Ramp
Life
California to D.C. convoy aims to end COVID emergency declaration
The "People's Convoy" began staging Monday for planned departure today from Adelanto, in Southern California, with more than 20 trucks. A statement from the group notes common cause with anti-vaccine, other political groups and individuals.
February 23, 2022
trucks staging for people's convoy
Overdrive Radio
'Advanced ELD auditing': Preventing hours viols during an audit
ELDs have emphatically not delivered carriers from hours-related enforcement, particularly at the investigatory level when federal and state auditors come calling. Here's how to navigate the new system of ELD audits.
February 18, 2022
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Business
More indictments announced in New Orleans staged-accident scheme
Seven more individuals have been charged for their roles in the widespread fraud scheme, bringing the total to 47. Also: Drivewyze e-inspections pilot; Third-party CDL examiner pleads guilty to wire fraud for falsifying test results; latest Highway Angel.
February 17, 2022
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Regulations
FMCSA's safety ratings trend negative: A majority issued in 2021 were Conditional
In 2021, in stark contrast to most recent years, a majority of all audits that concluded with a safety rating ended with the carrier getting a Conditional rating. Ratings and audits continued to decline, with Satisfactory ratings in ever-shorter supply.
February 10, 2022
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