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POLL: The hours of service ruleās future ā tied to fatigue monitoring tech?
With some watchers predicting a technology-heavy future for hours of service limits, whatās your thoughts today on the possibility of fatigue-monitoring technology brought to bear in the regs?
October 10, 2017
Business
Lawsuit claims DOT board failed to disclose public meeting about carrier fees
The Small Business in Transportation Coalition filed a federal suit Sept. 27, claiming the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the UCR board failed to provide a formal seven-day public notice to alert trucking stakeholders and the public about the meeting and its time and location.
October 9, 2017
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Regulations
Fatigueās fast track: How fleetsā private eyes are monitoring drivers
Video cameras, evolving with facial reading and paired with other data, are delivering many a safety managerās holy grail ā real-time fatigue detection.
October 9, 2017
Business
Why is CARB ignoring its own emissions data in push to ban traditional engines?
āItās no secret that California has been going its own way on emissions. Thatās not the point here. The point is that the internal combustion engine, by CARBās own admission, is far superior to that of an electric powertrain in terms of its carbon intensity score.ā
October 9, 2017
Business
Broad, sweeping statements are all poppycock
After last weekās anti-ELD mandate demonstrations: āāYou canāt get two truckers to agree the sky is blue.ā Honey, hush. I guess that broad, sweeping statement can be put to rest.ā
October 9, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Truckstop.com offering online database of āvettedā ELD providers
The list of vetted providers will grow, Truckstop.com says, but currently includes Glostone Trucking Solutions (seller of GeoTab), GPS Insight, HOS-Reporter, JJ Keller, KeepTruckin and Omnitracs.
October 6, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Group of D.C. demonstrators parks up near the White House
Twenty-nine bobtail trucks staged in the wee hours on Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the White House today in an attempt to garner the attention of the President on the electronic logging device mandate.
October 6, 2017
Business
Threat of Tropical Storm Nate prompts HOS waivers in Alabama, Florida
As of Friday morning, the storm is forecast to reach hurricane status before it makes landfall along the Gulf Coast over the weekend.
October 6, 2017
Business
The double-billion burger they refuse to eat
āPro-ELD propaganda does not address the true safety issue in the industry, and that is the sense that every driver is disposable. Thereās always another. (Thin mint, sir? No thank you. Bring me a bucket.)ā
October 6, 2017
Overdrive Radio
From the scene in D.C. and around the country as grassroots groups press against the ELD mandate
This weekās Overdrive Radio podcast: Anti-ELD demonstrators in D.C. met with officials at FMCSA offices Thursday after spending Wednesday spread across the city in small groups. Tony Justice on tactics. A sampling of calls from around the country about events this week.
October 5, 2017
Regulations
Fatigueās fast track ā Dashcam Monitoring: Private Eyes, Watching You
Imagine a future where a dashcam records your head nods, rate of blinking, the length of the blinks and how wide open your eyes are when at rest. Where road-facing cameras note improper lane keeping and following distances. Where a remote computer crunches that and other data, prompting emergency warnings to you and your dispatcher.
October 5, 2017
Business
FDA launches training module for new food hauling regs
Individuals who complete the online training module will be able to obtain a certificate of completion from the website. Carriers are also required to maintain records documenting training to be presented to FDA upon request.
October 5, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD protests Day 2: Truckers roll in, stage along rigs in front of DOT headquarters
Early Wednesday, roughly 30 trucks rolled into Washington, D.C., bobtail, and parked along Constitution Ave. and in front of Department of Transportation headquarters, where truckers protested the ELD mandate, the hours of service rule and more.
October 4, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
PeopleNet offers ISE eFleetSuite e-log
PeopleNet will offer ISE ELDs specifically to fleets with less than 50 vehicles who are looking for a compliance-only solution.
October 4, 2017
Channel 19
Itās the little things: ELD conversations where it matters short- and long-term, on Capitol Hill
Poll results: Nearly half of respondents are reporting being shut down this week, and more from D.C. with a slow start to ELD protest events scheduled to run through this coming weekend. Drivers meet reps, Congressional staffers, more ā¦
October 3, 2017
Business
DOT looking to expand auto hauler definition, seeks public comment
The Federal Highway Administration is considering expanding the definition of auto haulers to include high-mount tractor-trailers that are not able to haul vehicles on the tractor itself. These trucks would then fall under traditional auto hauler length restrictions.
October 3, 2017
Business
Bills in Congress would require FMCSA to implement sleep apnea rule
Following the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationās announcement this summer that it had tabled a rule meant to implement screening criteria and treatment protocol regulations for obstructive sleep apnea, Congressional Democrats aim to press the agency to resume working on the rule.
October 3, 2017
Channel 19
Truckers converge on Washington, D.C., for events this week
Scenes from Doswell, Va.: Among other efforts, the āELD or Meā anti-ELD mandate groupās planned D.C. activities have gotten under way today, after things got started in earnest as the group members set up shop at the Doswell Truck Stop in Doswell, Va.
October 3, 2017
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