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Challenge to 2020 hours of service changes resumes in court | Elon Musk cheers on Canadian convoy
The lawsuit, brought by the Teamsters union and safety groups, was put on hold last year for the change in administration. Also: Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandate receive celebrity support.
January 28, 2022
Electronic Logging Devices
Study: Trucking accidents increased after ELD mandate
Newly published Univ. of Arkansas study found that the ELD mandate correlated with an increase in both accidents and in recorded unsafe driving incidents, specifically speeding.
January 6, 2022
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March 24, 2025
Business
Operators grade shippers, and the results get surprising
While top researchers attribute the so-called "driver shortage" to widespread driver underutilization, a new report from Convoy shows that drivers and carriers actually show favor for most shipping facilities, despite well-known detention issues.
January 4, 2022
Channel 19
The No. 1 barrier to truckers' efficient hours utilization
Shippers/receivers' dock inefficiencies were named No. 1 by both owner-operators and MIT when it comes to hours utilization barriers, yet researchers might be missing a significant limiting factor in how new hours of service flexibilities are applied.
December 2, 2021
Regulations
FMCSA extends COVID-19 emergency declaration's hours waiver through February
The FMCSA waiver will now be effective through Feb. 28, 2022. The extension continues to retain new features instituted with the last extension that began in September. Also: Spot market update shows expected Thanksgiving-week sag.
November 29, 2021
Channel 19
The COVID-19 HOS waiver: Has 'self-regulation' equated to better safety?
Trucker Nation teams up with D&K Truck Compliance on a new effort to gather data from carriers and individual drivers who have operated under the COVID waiver. The goal is to study safety outcomes, potentially spurring hours of service change.
November 23, 2021
Regulations
Livestock haulers get additional HOS exemption in infrastructure law
The infrastructure bill signed into law earlier this month adds to livestock and insect haulers' 150 air-mile radius hours of service exemption. Also: 15 Republican governors call on Biden to ease trucking regs to help supply chain; more.
November 23, 2021
Voices
Opinion: Another case for more flexible hours of service, small trucking's voice
Thomas "T-Ray" Hogan of Ward, Arkansas, penned this letter to urge regulators and others around trucking to ease up on solutions in search of a problem that he feels are driving independents and small fleets out of trucking -- a safety negative.
November 16, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Truckers 'scarce and under-utilized at the same time' -- how can that possibly be?
So asks MIT's Dr. David Correll, part of a podcast talk with working haulers. Correll was speaking to the constant drumbeat around a "driver shortage," even as truckers average just 6-7 hours of driving a day. What's your average daily hours utilization?
November 10, 2021
Regulations
Hours waivers extended in two states
Ongoing drought conditions in N.D., Minn. prompt extensions of HOS waivers for certain haulers in both states. Also: Love's donates $2.8 million to Children's Miracle Network; medium is message in bottle design for diesel-additive maker; TMS turns 1.
November 9, 2021
Electronic Logging Devices
Is your ELD ready for the 3G network shutdown?
Cell providers will start sunsetting their legacy 3G networks in February to make room for more advanced networks. As a result, any devices still relying on the 3G networks will become “bricks of silicon and plastic.” Make sure your device is ready.
November 9, 2021
Regulations
A new call for more split-sleeper flexibility, among other trucking asks to improve supply chains
A number of trucking groups submitted comments to DOT with recommendations on easing supply chain disruptions. Investing in infrastructure to ease congestion and expand truck parking, and more split-sleeper options for drivers, were among ideas.
November 3, 2021
Overdrive Radio
The big reveal: Prize interior renovation | More on COVID hours waiver
Owner-operator Debbie Desiderato on bottom-line business impacts likely from her TransFix My Rig sweepstakes win, after custom work by Jason Cameron. Also: FMCSA's input on COVID hours of service waiver's reporting requirement, more.
September 24, 2021
Overdrive Radio
How the COVID hours waiver could disentangle HOS rigidity
Strong views from Andrea Marks of the Trucker Nation advocacy group on the opportunities embedded within the long extensions of FMCSA's COVID-emergency-related waivers – and the dangers lurking in the latest changes as of September 1.
September 17, 2021
Regulations
FMCSA hoping to study COVID HOS waiver use | More I-10 closures in Ariz. this weekend
EB lanes will be closed near the Phoenix airport, and both directions will be closed west of Willcox. Also: FMCSA seeks to collect information on numbers of carriers/drivers using the COVID HOS waiver. Spot rates: Vans, reefers up.
August 26, 2021
Hours of Service
FMCSA narrows, extends fuel shortage emergency declaration in South Dakota
The waiver covers carriers and drivers providing direct assistance to the emergency in South Dakota related to the ongoing drought and shortage of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and ethyl alcohol for use in fueling aircraft and emergency vehicles.
August 23, 2021
Regulations
Relief in sight: I-70 partially reopening this weekend | Hours exemptions granted in parts of Colorado
The interstate has been closed since July 31 when mudslides washed over the highway in Glenwood Canyon. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has also issued an emergency declaration suspending HOS regs for relief, fuel haulers in parts. Also: New KW dealer up north.
August 12, 2021
Regulations
North Dakota livestock haulers get HOS relief due to drought
Extreme drought conditions ongoing since April in North Dakota prompted Gov. Doug Burgum to declare a state of emergency, suspending HOS regs and weight restrictions for drivers hauling livestock and hay and water supplies for livestock.
August 11, 2021
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FMCSA offers details on proposed HOS-flexibility pilot programs
Following DOT Secretary Sean Duffy's announcement of the launch of the pilot programs Monday, FMCSA released proposals showing one pilot would add more split-sleeper berth options, while the other would allow drivers to pause their 14-hour clock for up to 3 hours per duty cycle.
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