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Company drivers: Has your fleet in recent years increased its speed-limiter setting?
This poll looks at the landscape for speed-limiter usage today in trucking — if you’re a company driver, has your fleet increased its top speed setting in the last three years?
July 10, 2019
Business
FMCSA opens comment period for proposed CDL testing changes
FMCSA proposed to allow third-party CDL trainers to administer the CDL skills test to applicants trained by the third-party tester. Comments will be accepted through Sept. 9.
July 9, 2019
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Martinez heard the message — +flexibility — now will his agency deliver?
To cap the week, here’s a celebration of the spirit of a system in which we can all at least participate by speaking freely. Views on and hopes for the impending hours revision hammer home the central message of a majority of haulers. In the words of one reader: “Quit stalling. Get some relief for us.”
July 5, 2019
Business
CARB hits Anheuser-Busch with $500k fine after 86 trucks found non-compliant
The private fleet of beer conglomerate Anheuser-Busch has agreed to pay $500,000 to California for violating the state’s emissions regulations. According to a notice from the California Air Resources Board, the beer hauling fleet ran 86 trucks in the state that didn’t meet CARB standards and that the company “failed to properly self-inspect their diesel trucks” to ensure they were compliant.
July 3, 2019
Channel 19
Crash data before and after the Ontario province’s speed limiter mandate
Detail on a 2017-completed Ontario Ministry of Transport analysis of some crash metrics pre- and post- its 2009 speed limiter mandate. Bottom line: some food for thought as you consider whether to take concerns to your reps with the recent U.S. Senate bill that would mandate a 65-mph speed setting.
July 2, 2019
Business
Senate bill would force DOT to institute speed limiter mandate, set 65 mph limit
Due to Executive Orders signed by President Trump in his first days in office, DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration tabled a rulemaking that sought to institute a speed limiter mandate. The agency was scheduled to publish a proposed rule in September 2017, but has since moved the rulemaking to a long-term agenda item.
July 1, 2019
Hours of Service
FMCSA now projecting hours of service proposal will be published in late July
In its latest rulemakings update, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration lists July 31 as its projected publication date for its proposal to reform federal hours of service regulations. The date is not binding and could change.
June 28, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Canadian ELD mandate looming, registration process could pressure U.S. registry
Though Canada’s ELD mandate — slated for enforcement in June 2021 — is similar to the U.S. mandate, there’s a key difference that likely will impact the U.S. market: Canada’s requirement that devices be certified by a third-party body, rather than the self-certification process in the U.S.
June 27, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
More hopes and hazards: ELD data aggregation for advocacy, predictive maintenance, other uses
Some research organizations and even ELD providers are using aggregate ELD data to advocate for regulatory change or other industry purposes. Other providers are building potentially powerful predictive tools around maintenance, both of users’ trucks and the roads they operate on.
June 26, 2019
Business
Efforts to strike CSA, hours language from House bill come up short
A few key trucking policy riders prevailed in a government funding bill that cleared the House on Tuesday, including ones related to hours of service, ELDs, CSA and more.
June 25, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
More ELD data hopes and hazards: Load matching efficiency improvements
A variety of players, including some ELD providers, are executing plans to use ELD hours data as a way to help put load offers in front of carriers that have drivers who not only are close to the load but also have sufficient on-duty hours.
June 25, 2019
Business
Drivewyze adds four weigh station bypass sites in Pennsylvania
The new bypass sites are northbound and southbound I-83 in Newberry and northbound and southbound I-79 near Hadley.
June 24, 2019
Hours of Service
FMCSA’s move to redefine ‘ag commodities’ for HOS regs proceeds
Currently, the agency defines ag commodities as “any agricultural commodity, nonprocessed food, feed, fiber, or livestock,” but that definition could change should the agency proceed with the rulemaking process after it solicits feedback with this ANPRM.
June 24, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Hopes and hazards in using ELD data: Detention reduction
With wells of data at their fingertips, ELD providers are beefing up offerings to their customers, with potential to reduce wasted time and improve load choices. However, the privacy tradeoffs can cut into an operator’s competitive edge.
June 24, 2019
Regulations
Vlogger Trucker Josh details a cross-border run from Canada to Mexico
In one of his most recent episodes, Trucker Josh gives the skinny on crossing from Canada into the U.S. See it here.
June 22, 2019
Channel 19
Resurgent rebellion against the prospect of CSA scores returning to public view
A loose coalition of groups such as the Motor Carriers for Regulatory Reform, the ASECTT group, NASTC and many others have been the most vocal speaking out against the draft language in a DOT funding bill in the House to return CSA SMS scores to public view.
June 19, 2019
Hours of Service
Group wants turfgrass sod included as ‘ag commodity’ for hours exemptions
Currently, drivers hauling ag commodities operate under certain HOS exemptions, such as the 150-air-mile radius exemption that allows drivers carrying ag commodities to skip recording duty status if they stay within a 150-air-mile radius of the source of the commodity, among others.
June 19, 2019
Business
UPS seeks reprieve from two driver training rule provisions
In its request, UPS asks for exemptions from the requirement that a driver training instructor have two years of experience and have held a CDL for two years, and the requirement to register each training location for a unique Training Provider Registry (TPR) number.
June 18, 2019
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