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As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions
The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with some welcoming the proposed changes and others dismissing them.
August 14, 2019
Hours of Service
Stop the clock: Proposed hours of service overhaul would allow drivers to pause 14-hour countdown
FMCSA announced its proposal to reform hours of service regulations. Chief among the changes is the proposal to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour on-duty time for up to three hours, and expanding the split-sleeper option to 7/3, beyond the current 8/2. Full details here…
August 14, 2019
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Electronic Logging Devices
The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift
The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.
August 13, 2019
Channel 19
California court battles over independent contractor ‘ABC test’: One case stayed while another proceeds
The California Trucking Association’s case against use of the problematic “ABC test” in determining appropriate independent contractor classification, has been stayed as of last week, pending the outcome of a similar case already at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
August 12, 2019
Business
Comment period for FMCSA pilot program for under-21 interstate truckers ends next week
Drivers and interested parties can now comment on the proposal through Aug. 14. The proposal would expand the current under-21 program for military-trained drivers to drivers under the age of 21 that were not trained to drive trucks in the military.
August 9, 2019
Business
Missouri-based trucker shut down following fatal crash
According to FMCSA, trucker Bruce Andrew Pollard was driving a tractor-trailer in a work zone along I-465 eastbound in Indianapolis on July 14 when his truck, traveling faster than the posted speed limit, collided into a line of vehicles. Two young children and their mother were killed, and seven others were hospitalized.
August 8, 2019
Business
More than 1,600 trucks sidelined during unannounced brake inspection blitz
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced commercial vehicle inspectors conducted 10,358 inspections across the U.S. and Canada and sidelined 1,667 (16.1%) of those trucks.
August 7, 2019
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Trucking with the next generation
The heartening example of the Tri-County Technical Center in Dexter, Maine, an eye-opening look at how a successful decades-old educational program at a public vocational school takes two years to graduate on average 20 students annually with their immersive CDL program.
August 6, 2019
Business
EPA watchdog backs study used to justify limiting glider kits
The Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog has concluded that a 2017 EPA study used to promote limiting production of glider kit trucks was “consistent” with the agency’s research standards and, therefore, the study’s conclusions shouldn’t be dismissed.
August 2, 2019
Business
Trucking Law: Adapting to sleep apnea’s most common treatment
No one wants to adopt the CPAP regimen. It looks uncomfortable, and it can be at first. However, with many types of machines and masks to choose from, you should be able to find one that works for you.
August 2, 2019
Business
New York police cracking down on speeding through Aug. 7
Police throughout New York are conducting a crackdown on speeding through Wednesday, Aug. 7, as part of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee’s (GTSC) Speed Awareness Week.
August 2, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Roundup: Hours of service revamp MIA, highway bill framework arrives
A proposal to alter federal hours of service regulations for truck operators remains snared in the bureaucratic rulemaking process. And: the Senate has floated the skeleton of a post-FAST Act highway bill.
August 1, 2019
Business
Autonomous regulations comment period extended through late August
FMCSA is seeking comments on a number of topics, including cybersecurity, hours of service for automated driving system operators, CDL endorsements for ADS operators, medical qualifications for ADS operators and more.
July 31, 2019
Business
FMCSA renews hours exemption for paper company drivers
WestRock to allow its Chattanooga, Tennessee, paper mill drivers to occasionally work up to 16 consecutive hours and return to work with less than 10 consecutive hours off duty. The drivers travel on approximately 275 feet of public road between the shipping and receiving departments shuttling trailers.
July 30, 2019
Business
Fines for trucking regs violations increased
The DOT, in order to find the 2019 adjustment amount, had to multiply the penalty amount by the percentage change between the October 2018 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the October 2017 CPI-U, which this year was 1.02522.
July 30, 2019
Hours of Service
FMCSA begins process of clarifying HOS exceptions for ag haulers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is now accepting feedback on what freight is considered agricultural commodities and to what extent haulers of those commodities should receive exemptions from federal hours of service regulations.
July 30, 2019
Business
Comment period opens for proposed CDL knowledge test change
The rule, if made final, would not require states to offer CDL knowledge tests to out-of-state drivers, but it would give states the option to offer the tests, then transmit the results to the driver’s home state, which would then be required to accept the results.
July 29, 2019
Business
FMCSA begins to explore harassment of female, minority truckers
FMCSA has submitted a request to conduct a study into the prevalence, seriousness and nature of the problem of harassment against female and minority truck drivers.
July 23, 2019
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