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Electronic Logging Devices
Trash haulers, oil rig group and others ask FMCSA for ELD exemption
Trash hauling and recycling fleet American Disposal Services, oilfield service fleet Cudd Energy Services, the Agricultural Retailers Association and the Association of Energy Service Companies have each petitioned FMCSA for ELD exemptions for five years.
January 4, 2018
Business
Trucker breaks and pay, infrastructure bill, FMCSA boss confirmation on tap as Congress returns
Congress could soon take action to block states from enacting laws on driver breaks and pay reforms, take up an infrastructure funding package, further delay ELD compliance for livestockers, confirm a new FMCSA boss and moreā¦
January 3, 2018
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Electronic Logging Devices
Comment period opens for OOIDAās request to exempt small business truckers from ELD mandate
OOIDA has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to exempt small businesses (defined by the Small Business Administration as those with up to $27.5 million a year in revenue) who have no at-fault crashes on their record and who have a āSatisfactoryā or āConditionalā from the ELD mandate.
January 3, 2018
Business
DOT opens 2018 UCR filing process after delay, fees reduced
Independent truckers operating one or two trucks will pay $69 this year, down from $76 in 2017. Enforcers are giving carriers 90 days to register before issuing citations.
January 3, 2018
Channel 19
Business outlook trending pessimistic in the new year for owner-operators
And ā¦ a few late Christmas wishes from a variety of owner-operators on Overdriveās Facebook page, with their rigs dressed up for the holiday last week. . .
December 31, 2017
Overdrive Extra
The Year of the ELD: Top trucking trends from 2017 as ELD mandate descended
Coverage of the mandate and its myriad of twists and turns throughout dominated the news cycle in 2017. It also dominated Overdriveās usual in-depth coverage of the industry. However, a few other key trends emerged too, including regulatory repeals by the Trump Administration, booming rates and the rise of the electric truck. More hereā¦
December 31, 2017
Business
More clean inspections: Enforcement change or improved compliance?
Both enforcement-practice changes and, veteran officers suggest, improved operations on the part of truckers are responsible for clean inspectionsā recent rise.
December 29, 2017
Business
Spot market extremely tight, favoring truckers, ahead of Christmas week
A lot of truckers took time off last week ahead of Christmas, which meant there were already fewer trucks on the road. It was also the first week under the electronic logging device mandate, and the combination of the upcoming holiday and new regulations pushed the national load-to-truck ratio for vans up higher than itās ever been ā 10.1 loads per truck.
December 29, 2017
Channel 19
A view on the rise in clean inspections, from a state where theyāre fairly uncommon
In our annual CSAās Data Trail analysis, Indiana state ranks 10th this year in clean inspections, with less than a third of their total inspections having come out entirely violation-free over the course of calendar year 2016. But look at improvement in truckersā favor in that metric, and youāll see that Indiana is one of just a few states that improved in that particular metric by more than 50 percent over the preceding year.
December 28, 2017
Business
Many readers feel little change in clean inspections
While more clean inspections overall may well be the reality for inspections recorded in the federal Motor Carrier Management and Information System database, Overdriveās audience of mostly owner-operators is more skeptical.
December 28, 2017
Business
A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdriveās annual CSAās Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
Business
CVSA asks for updates to inspection-report processes for the digital age
Many state jurisdictions, CVSA says, ā do not have the manpower to follow up on unreturned inspection reports. For these jurisdictions, the practice ofĀ receiving returned inspection reports creates a paperwork burden with no clear value or purpose. Meanwhile,Ā motor carriers spend time and resources certifying, returning and storing inspection reports that are not being used by many of the recipients.ā
December 26, 2017
Business
The other side of the ELD pancake
āItās been a rough week for some, but just like Dr. Phil says, āThereās always another side to the pancake, no matter how thin it is.'ā
December 22, 2017
Channel 19
āE-logs will cure everything, right?ā
What they wonāt cure, from hours violations incurred while passing full truck stop after full truck stop to overheated communication with inspectors to the sense of pride most longtime truckers take in their professional record. Also: ELD-specific enforcement update, OOIDA portal for any tickets received.
December 22, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD protest enters third day in Miami
A group of drivers and owner-operators have shut down along U.S. 27 near the Florida 826 interchange in greater Miami through the end of the day today, at least, in protest of the electronic logging device mandate. Others have joined in around the country.
December 20, 2017
Overdrive Radio
Brave new trucking world: Talking ELD angst, adjustment with Gary Buchs; plus Wes Memphisā latest
Owner-operator Gary Buchs: Trucking ādidnāt dieā on December 18. āIt just changed, and with every change thereās opportunity.ā This Overdrive Radio edition runs through what the Landstar-leased owner-operator feels could be effective owner-operator strategy in the weeks and months ahead.
December 19, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Surge of new ELD users tests vendorsā systems
Though most prominent electronic logging device manufacturers reported no disruptions in service as the ELD mandate took effect Monday, more than one ELD supplier was reported to have temporary service outages most of the day due to the wave of new users coming online.
December 19, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD-Day: On the ground with enforcement in Kentucky as truckers, officers adjust to new logs reality
Reporting live from the scales on the ELD mandateās enforcement deadline, Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills notes Kentucky personnel are checking e-logs, albeit loosely for some. Overdrive readers on Facebook mostly reported the day was business as usualā¦
December 18, 2017
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