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Business
Study used in glider emissions reversal under review, school tells EPA
Tennessee Technological University, paid by Fitzgerald Glider Kits to perform a study measuring the exhaust emissions of glider kit trucks, has told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to disregard the study until the university can âassure its validity.â
February 22, 2018
Business
FMCSA grants waiver to help hurricane-displaced Puerto Ricans obtain CDLs
FMCSA has issued a 90-day waiver from proof of U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residence and domicile requirements for Puerto Rican citizens relocating to the U.S. in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria. The agency is also seeking comments on a longer exemption with the same terms.
February 21, 2018
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Electronic Logging Devices
Use DataQs to contest 395.8(a) violations written for not having an ELD prior to April 1
If you incurred a 395.8(a) prior to April 1 simply for not having an ELD record and you were keeping paper logs, challenge it through the FMCSA DataQs process to remove it from carrier records.
February 21, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Several states consider measures to block ELD mandate enforcement
The bills mostly cite concerns of small business truckers as the reasons to repeal the mandate or suspend its enforcement, as well as the potential for the mandate to drive up prices of goods for consumers. Legislators in South Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Idaho have introduced resolutions taking aim at the mandate.
February 20, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Not so calm before the ELD storm
Results of the ELD âsoft enforcementâ period have proved less than gentle for some owner-operators. Thereâs also evidence of other unresolved issues as the gate opens April 1 for issuing out-of-service orders.
February 20, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Magellan e-log operable on iOS devices
The BYOD (bring-your-own-device), $10-monthly variant of the longtime GPS provider Magellanâs electronic logging device is now available for iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad.
February 20, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Split sleeper-berth option high on haulersâ hours wish list
The large majority of reader respondents youâll hear in this mailbag edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast took the notion of a pause button for the 14-hour rule farther. Itâs split rest, or split sleeper berth period flexibility, that most want,
February 17, 2018
Voices
Trumpâs progress report: Favorable to mixed for readers
At the anniversary of Donald Trumpâs first year in office, we asked readers how they felt he was doing so far â results were largely favorable, with some qualifiers around the ELD mandate and his governing style.
February 16, 2018
Business
You can âplanâ on making my eye twitch
âThings that make my eye twitch, for a thousand, Alex,â including recent articles about shippers âfalling all to pieces because theyâre having a hard time getting freight covered during the post-ELD adjustment period. ⌠They should have planned better.â
February 16, 2018
Channel 19
Let the 14-hour conversations ⌠begin?
âContinueâ rather than âbeginâ is probably the best word to describe whatâs been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDAâs lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.
February 15, 2018
Regulations
FMCSA allowing lower mounting of trailer rear ID, clearance lamps for TrailerTail aero devices
FMCSA contends that because all trailers are required to have red and white reflective sheeting or reflectors to indicate that a trailer is part of a commercial vehicle rather than a passenger vehicle, the lights do not have to be positioned at the top of the trailer.
February 15, 2018
Hours of Service
OOIDA asks FMCSA to institute pause button for 14-hour clock
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a petition with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asking the agency to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour daily clock for up to three straight hours and to nix the 30-minute rest break required by current hours regs.
February 14, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Electrical contractors seek ELD exemption
The group states the operation of commercial vehicles by the line workers that would be covered under the exemption âis so limited that the ELD requirement is triggered infrequently.â
February 14, 2018
Business
FMCSA has a new boss: Senate confirms Martinez to run agency under Trump
Testifying before a panel of U.S. Senators in October, Martinez said he intends to uphold the agencyâs electronic logging device mandate and institute data-driven reforms to the agencyâs regulatory process and, specifically, the oft-criticized Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
February 14, 2018
Business
âClean trucksâ program at Washington ports gets extension to 2019 with registration
Announced last week, the Northwest Seaport Alliance offered owners as yet noncompliant with the requirement to utilize 2007 and later emissions-spec engines by April 1 an extension through to January 1 of next year, with a caveat.
February 13, 2018
Channel 19
Mintu Pandherâs small fleet success in fuel hauling, truck-stop ownership
Small fleet owner Mintu Pandher, who came to the U.S. with his parents in 1999, followed the growth in oil drilling into independence as an owner-operator. His Akal Energy small fleet grew fairly quickly over several years with contracts with some fuel providers, running out of Laramie, Wyo.
February 8, 2018
Business
Report: Detention sucks over $1 billion from truckersâ wages annually, boosts crash risk
Drivers see an average annual pay loss of between $1,281 and $1,534, the report concludes, as well as potentially contributing to an extra 6,500 truck crashes each year. The DOTâs Office of Inspector General has called on FMCSA to bolster its data collection efforts around detention and its impacts.
February 7, 2018
Channel 19
Independence basics: Binda Atwalâs attractions to trucking
Itâs the income possibilities owner-operator Binda Atwal names as his principal attraction to trucking, for his young family â Atwal and his wife are the proud parents of two children, a four- and one-year-old.
February 7, 2018
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