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2016’s top trucking stories: ELD mandate and 34-hour restart survive, Trump on trucking, autonomous truck action and more

Year’s top trucking stories include ELDs, hours, Trump and trucking, gliders’ potential demise, slow rates and more.

December 30, 2016

A Volvo VNL equipped with the Otto retrofit autonomous system hauled a load of Budweiser 125 miles in October in Colorado.

Another trucker shut down following fatal crash

Immediately after the crash, urine and blood samples were collected. The blood sample collected from Johnson tested positive for marijuana and PCP. Johnson also hadn’t kept proper logs for 6 months, authorities say.

December 30, 2016

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Fighting tickets: Don’t forget DataQs to clear your PSP/CSA record

While prospective employers/lessors aren’t strictly required to use FMCSA’s PSP reports to view prospective drivers’ roadside inspection violations and recordable crashes, plenty do. Any violation marked on an inspection report will be included there going back three years, and any crash, five years.

December 28, 2016

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Owner-operator served shutdown order by FMCSA

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued an effective shutdown order to a Lowell, Massachusetts-based single-truck owner-operator after an investigation showed he was in violation of several major federal safety laws.

December 28, 2016

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When the time bombs started going off: Channel 19 year in review, part 1

Indulge us as we run back through the rules, the regs, the rigs and the past, present and future of driver pay — all the rage with the “driver shortage” notion analyzed and discussed and thrown under the falling-fuel-surcharge bus. … And so much more Counting down the hours to 2017: 14, 13 …

December 27, 2016

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6,600 drivers will need new medical card after Georgia-based examiner’s arrest, DOT estimates

Truck drivers who received their current medical certification from Dr. Anthony Lefteris, who operated out of a Petro in Atlanta, will need to be re-examined and issued a fresh medical certification by another examiner, the Department of Transportation says.

December 20, 2016

Another large fleet seeking exemption for pre-CDL holders

The exemption would allow pre-CDL drivers for the carrier to begin work as a truck driver before returning to their home state to receive the license. The drivers who would qualify for the exemption have passed all required tests, New Prime says.

December 20, 2016

New Prime, part of the larger Prime Inc., has requested an exemption to allow its commercial learner’s permit holders who have passed the CDL skills test to drive in team operations until they get back to their home state.

Alleged medical card fraud could affect thousands of truckers

Dr. Anthony Lefteris operated out of an Atlanta Petro Stopping Center. He has been charged by federal investigators for allegedly issuing medical certifications to drivers without performing full medical exams, according to court records.

December 16, 2016

FMCSA and some states sharpen audit teeth with ‘enhanced investigative techniques’

‘EIT’ in the parlance of acronym-happy bureaucratese, Jeff Davis of Fleet Safety Services likened new investigative approaches of auditors to another EIT, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques — or ‘compliance-review waterboarding,’ so to speak …

December 16, 2016

“What’s it mean when a bunch of exclamation marks pop up on my computer?” —Anonymous Tennessee state trooper, after checking a carrier’s DOT number, to a driver he’d just put through a Level 3 inspection — and clear evidence understanding of the CSA Safety Measurement System isn’t total among law enforcement. The driver knew what those marks meant — alerts that the carrier’s category scores were higher than FMCSA’s intervention thresholds — but didn’t exactly offer to help the officer. He was on his way shortly.

Hours of Service

2013 hours regs permanently nixed, ATA says; FMCSA disputes

ATA says the “restart rollback” is now permanent. FMCSA says it’s still waiting on the results of a report, as Congress directed.

December 16, 2016

ATA says the “restart rollback” is now permanent. FMCSA says it’s still waiting on the results of a report, as Congress directed.

Thursday round-up: Supply chain mandating ELDs?, Wal-Mart moving toward cab cameras, nolo contendere for operator

Reporting out of Arkansas: Wal-Mart’s private fleet begins to test in-cab camera systems. Howard Salmon pleas out from under a following-too-close citation. And: one regular reader calls foul on the notion that brokers/shippers will require ELDs in contracts for exempt truckers post-mandate.

December 15, 2016

The forward-facing camera, mounted just left of center at the top of the windshield, in independent Howard Salmon’s 1999 KW.

Electronic Logging Devices

OOIDA asks court to toss ELD decision and rehear case

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has asked the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear its case against the U.S. DOT’s rule to mandate the use of electronic logging devices.

December 15, 2016

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Implementation of FMCSA’s new carrier registration system delayed indefinitely

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is once again delaying the final implementation of its Unified Registration System, which existing carriers will use for their biannual updates, name changes and transfers of authority.

December 14, 2016

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Gliders losing altitude: Emissions regs crack down on pre-2010 engines, crimping a hot market

Federal regulations taking effect Dec. 27 restrict the glider market by allowing much smaller sales after 2017. The expansive emissions standards finalized effectively close the loophole that allowed glider kit sales to flourish. That leaves glider kit makers scrambling to alter their operations or shuttering their glider business altogether.

December 14, 2016

Fitzgerald Glider Kits receives cabs and chassis directly from Freightliner, Kenworth and Peterbilt, then installs remanufactured 2003 and older Detroit Diesel Series 60 engines and reman Eaton-Fuller transmissions. Glider assemblers like Fitzgerald will need to either bring these engines into compliance with 2010 regulations or seek alternative paths to ensure compliance with Phase 2 emissions regulations.

Electronic Logging Devices

Baseline compliance ELD from ISE Fleet Services

ISE’s eFleetSuite ruggedized Android tablet paired with a connection to the engine’s electronic control module is an e-log for those without much need to “go above and beyond” in functionality.

December 14, 2016

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FMCSA calls for 25 percent of truckers to be drug tested in 2017

The agency announced Tuesday that carriers will be required to randomly test at least 25 percent of their drivers in the calendar year. This requirement includes owner-operators leased to carriers.

December 13, 2016

FMCSA reduced the required drug testing rate in 2016, following years of tests yielding positive results at less than 1 percent.

Electronic Logging Devices

Is the ELD mandate’s pre-2000 exemption simply delaying the inevitable?

At least one analyst says yes, within 24 months of the ELD mandate going into effect, “nearly everyone will need an ELD, whether they like it or not, purely from a market standpoint.” That’s not a universally held viewpoint, however.

December 12, 2016

11.8% — That’s the overall pre-2000-truck share of total operating Class 8s on the road today, according to RigDig Business Intelligence, a sister business of Overdrive. Such small numbers – and smaller non-ELD carriers’ control of more than half of the pre-2000 units – leads FTR Transportation Intelligence COO Jonathan Starks to conclude that the market for such vehicles “will be very sparse. If somebody has an old truck that is in that good of shape and they don’t like the ELD rule, they aren’t selling.” Small fleet owner David Morin suggests a lot of such equipment could be subpar, given many engine rebuilders “don’t know their a– from their elbow.” He did manage to find a good runner early in 2016, though, a story told in part at this link. “I’d rather buy a truck that is in a junkyard, blown up or whatever, and pull it out and rebuild it so I know what I’ve got,” something he believes may be happening a lot over the next year. “If I was younger and this mandate went through, that’s what I’d have been doing – I’d do it properly and would take pictures all the way through so that I could show, ‘Here’s living proof of what I’ve done to that truck'” when he went to re-sell, if he went to re-sell.

Hours of Service

34-hour restart’s future clearer than before, but uncertainty lingers

Lawmakers warded off a scenario in which the 34-hour restart would be removed as a tool for truckers to use to manage their weekly on-duty time. But the future of the regulations surrounding the 34-hour restart is still unsettled.

December 12, 2016

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If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas regulations set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines – which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

EPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulations

The proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines.

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