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Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate: Engine ruling creates winners, losers
From Overdriveās in-depth guide to ELD compliance: How FMCSAās mid-game ruling on the pre-2000 exemption created winners and losers among the owner-operator segment.
November 27, 2017
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Bill Frerichsā ELD implementation notes, hopes, worries as mandate bears down
In which a nine-truck fleet owner begins implementing ELDs. And: A few key differences between AOBRDs, grandfathered in with the ELD rule through 2019, and the much more detailed ELD specification/required capability.
November 27, 2017
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Business
House committee to hear from small business truckers on regulatory burdens
The Houseās Small Business Committee on Wednesday will hold a hearing featuring owner-operators and other small business truckers intended to examine the impact federal regulations have on small trucking companies and āexplore ways to to provide regulatory relief to the industry.ā
November 27, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Penske deploys ELD service for rental customers
The Penske Driver app is available for both Android and iOS/Apple devices. The app connects using Bluetooth inside Penskeās rental trucks to integrally synchronize with the truckās engine, meeting ELD mandate requirements.
November 22, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
OOIDA requests ELD mandate exemption for small businesses with no at-fault crash history
If granted, the exemption would include only such situated carriers whoĀ ādo not have a Carrier Safety Rating of āUnsatisfactory,ā and can document a proven history of safety performance with no attributable at-fault crashes,'ā
November 21, 2017
Channel 19
Roundup: A source of supposed DOT ābot attackā; The āfatbergsā clogging the regs swamp
Source of supposed ābotā attack on regulatory reform comments identified. And transport attorney Henry Seatonās talk at NASTCās annual meeting identifies safety-rating, hours and other issues as principal fatbergs to clear in regs-reform efforts.
November 21, 2017
Business
Cross-border trucking reforms part of NAFTA negotiations
A rework of the U.S. DOTās cross-border trucking program with Mexico is under consideration in a planned update of the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to Teamster staffer Mike Dolan. NAFTA currently allows any Mexican-based carrier to apply for authority to operate in the U.S.
November 21, 2017
Overdrive Extra
A potential role for cameras and wearables in regulating drowsy driving
Until very recently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has largely ignored fatigue monitoring technology, and therefore any potential it has for a significant revision of the hours of service. Instead, regulators for decades have tinkered with the hours of service as if it were a magic template to solve the fatigue problem for every [ā¦]
November 21, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
A guide to ELDs: Many choices, some low cost, for meeting mandate
On Monday, the U.S. DOT begins enforcement of its ELD mandate, which requires drivers to use electronic logging devices to track hours of service. See Overdriveās comprehensive guide to ELD compliance hereā¦
November 20, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
FMCSA delays ELD compliance for ag haulers for 90 days
Truckers hauling agriculture loads and livestock will receive an additional 90 days to comply with the U.S. DOTās electronic logging device mandate, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Monday. The waiver gives such haulers until mid-March to adopt an ELD.
November 20, 2017
Regulations
Hours of service: Fatal flaws, a slow response to potential fixes
The fixed 14āhour onāduty clock virtually forces truckers to continue to operate when they feel tired and otherwise would opt for a long break. With fatigue monitoring tech on the rise, is there hope for change?
November 20, 2017
Business
Why driver fatigue-monitoring tech could spread quickly among fleets
While fatigueāmonitoring technology holds the potential for a new approach to addressing hours of service, few observers anticipate federal action in that direction in the near future. The integration of such systems, though, appears to be well on its way, with no need for a government decree.
November 17, 2017
Business
And just what a-ābotā that amateur-hour advocacy group
As reports surface of ābotsā commenting on regs, Wendy expresses doubt, with humility: āIām just part of that āamateur-hourā advocacy group who didnāt nonetheless make a ārookie mistakeā by encouraging ābotsā to do a job people need to be doing themselves with genuine, applicable, relevant information to have any credibility.ā
November 15, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD maker launches petition to add 14-hour flexibility, presents data on detention and race-the-clock dynamics
KeepTruckinās petition has a goal of garnering 10,000 signatures, and it believes their data shows hard evidence of the hurry-up effect of undue dock delays. It could provide evidence of ārace-the-clockā dynamics many operators have long suspected as part-and-parcel of the 14-hour rule/ELD/dock-delay combination.
November 14, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Carriersā āmagic eraserā role in compounding uncompensated-detention issue: Rico Muhammad on the e-log shift
As a trade-off for the ultimate hassle of mandated e-logs, in this Overdrive Radio podcast Muhammadās hopeful owner-operators can both individually and collectively use the change as a cudgel to their advantage when dealing with brokers, shippers, receivers ā¦ anyone who would insist on wasting driversā time.
November 14, 2017
Business
FMCSA holding public discussion forum Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala.
Discussion topics include FMCSA priorities and goals; the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program; the electronic logging device mandate; commercial vehicle traffic enforcement; and FMCSAās state grant programs.
November 13, 2017
Hours of Service
Intermodal fleet gets log-keeping exemption
Rail Delivery Services has been granted an exemption that allows its drivers who occasionally work more than 12 hours in a day to utilize the 100 air-mile radius logbook exemption.
November 13, 2017
Regulations
Fatigueās fast track ā regulations: Are fatigue-monitoring systems destined to upend hours-based regulations?
November 12, 2017
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