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Behind-the-wheel training: âArbitraryâ nature of hours minimum doesnât mean there shouldnât be one
From Alaska-based driver and trainer Dan Tucker: âThirty hours of behind-the-wheel training, even for the most intuitive student, is marginal if for no other reason than they canât possibly encounter and learn from enough varied situations to be adept at handling the next one.â
March 1, 2017
Channel 19
High driver turnover correlated with higher OOS, crash volumes and CSA scores
Data firm Vigillo found a close correlation between high turnover and generally more negative carrier numbers in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs compliance rating program. Also: FAST Act CSA requirements update â suggested CSA changes expected late Spring/early Summer.
February 28, 2017
Business
Trump orders creation of teams to target regulations for removal
Trump directed all federal agencies, including the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, to establish a team to evaluate existing regs and make recommendations about regulations that need ârepeal, replacement or modification,â the Executive Order states.
February 27, 2017
Overdrive Extra
The weak arguments for skimping on behind-the-wheel training
Itâs sadly ironic that the agency charged with improving trucking safety would rely on lame excuses to shrug its shoulders at a simple, common-sense way to shore up safety.
February 25, 2017
Regulations
Trucker vlogger PaleriderTV busted at an Oklahoma weigh station
â$200 I left at a scale house in OKlahoma,â says Palerider. âA big olâ nice, new scale house.â Find out why here.
February 24, 2017
Business
Pushback on allowing carriers to drug test drivers via hair sample prompts FMCSA to re-open comments
Granting requests made by driver trade unions, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has re-opened the public comment period for a request made by some of the countryâs largest carriers to allow them to drug test driver applicants via hair sample instead of a urine sample. FMCSA currently only accepts results from urine sample testing.
February 24, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
FMCSA clarifies ELD compliance extensions, non-compliant devices
Two new guidelines from FMCSA on ELDs: Older devices that buy carriersâ time but arenât long-term compliance options for the mandate can be transferred to a new truck and operators will have eight days to deploy a compliant device if their ELD is found to be non-compliant.
February 22, 2017
Business
As Congress eyes NAFTA rework, FMCSA policy granting Mexican carriersâ authority goes to court
Cross-border trucking with Mexico saw action in Congress last week, and it is set to see action next month in court, as a federal court is slated to hear arguments March 15 against a 2014 FMCSA policy allowing Mexican carriers to apply for long-haul operating authority in the U.S.
February 21, 2017
Business
Penske settles with drivers in case over unpaid meal and rest breaks
Penske will pay 344 current and former drivers $15,000 each to settle the now 8-year-old case. The case produced a landmark ruling in 2014 regarding state-level laws regarding driversâ pay and breaks, prompting concern from carriers about the potential for similar lawsuits.
February 21, 2017
Voices
Reader: ELDs set to exacerbate existing parking, detention issues
âI donât think anyone has really considered what making all trucks go ELD will do and all the problems it will cause. There isnât enough parking now.â âreader Josiah Gonzalez, via email. And: A little personal conveyance wiggle room.
February 21, 2017
Business
Alert to DOT: Industry shows unity against safety-rating change in light of CSAâs problems
A recent letter, urging DOT to scrap the Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking as premature, brings in a large variety of state and private industry associations as signatories, including ATA, OOIDA, NASTC and WSTA. The broad nature of the coalition should âindicate how seriously everyone views this issue.â
February 20, 2017
Channel 19
Livestock haulersâ efforts to secure hours changes in light of ELD mandate, stalled
âWeâre 100 percent dependent on road transportation of our cattle. Take that away from us and weâre back to cattle drives.â âTim OâByrne of the American Cattle Transporters Advisory Group, a coalition hoping to liberalize split-berth/14-hour regs for livestock haulers in light of ELD mandate.
February 17, 2017
Business
Whoâs in charge at FMCSA until Trump can nominate a new boss?
Though President Trumpâs choice to run the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has been confirmed by the Senate and begun work at the DOT, thereâs still a litany of posts Trump must fill at the DOT, including naming a new administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
February 16, 2017
Safety
Federal level action on truckersâ right to carry: Myth and attempted process
Two in five respondents to an Overdrive survey about carrying weapons have the mistaken belief that a federal law prohibits truckers from carrying a gun in their vehicle. Instead, only states have such laws, but because they vary widely, compliance becomes complicated for any gun-toting driver engaged in interstate commerce.
February 16, 2017
Safety
Truckers who carry, and one who doesnât, detail their reasons
Most truckers favor the right to carry a weapon on the road. Even those who donât often say they stand by the old saying: âIâd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.â
February 15, 2017
Safety
Danger zone: Truckers stick to their guns despite questions about firearm laws, Overdrive research reveals
New Overdrive research shows large concerns over threats to truckersâ personal safety. Though varying state concealed-carry laws make it difficult to cross state lines and remain in compliance, many truckers remain armed.
February 14, 2017
Voices
8 in 10 readers view behind-the-wheel minimum hours crucial for training rule
Recent Overdrive polling makes clear: Most owner-operators believe the 30 hours originally proposed for, though not included in, FMCSAâs final training is insufficient as a minimum, and overall 78 percent believe a minimum of 30 or more is necessary.
February 13, 2017
Channel 19
Cybersecurity alliance formed specifically to address IoT, the Internet of TruâŚ, um, âThingsâ
In AT&Tâs analysis of the threat to internet-connected things, including vehicles, over the recent past, the company said âin the past three yearsâ it âhas seen a 3,198% increase in attackers scanning for vulnerabilities in IoT devices.â
February 13, 2017
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