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‘Beyond Compliance’ to be CSA’s 8th BASIC?
As FMCSA moves toward decision on using ‘8th BASIC’ approach to the Beyond Compliance credit program required by Congress, carriers and safety consultants speak up on the ideas in Chicago listening session.
April 25, 2016
Business
Potential for fatigue detection points to intensive enforcement
Fatigue-related monitoring could be next in line. Its advance in the regulatory arena will depend on two things: the effectiveness of technology in predicting fatigue in relation to crash risk, and to what extent, if any, privacy law restricts or prevents a mandate.
April 22, 2016
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ProSight’s new drug-testing program
Developed in partnership with the Foley Carrier Services DOT compliance and employer-assist firm, the new program claims to go above and beyond by detecting patterns of pharmaceutical drug abuse, among other things.
April 22, 2016
Hours of Service
Senate bill clears up 34-hour restart confusion, could add new hours limits
The bill corrects a legislative mess-up from December that put the 34-hour restart in jeopardy by ensuring the restart will remain available for truckers. However, it would also put in place a new 73-hour on-duty limit in a consecutive seven-day period.
April 21, 2016
Business
Camera systems taking a lead in data harvest
With such strong momentum and expanding uses for cameras, the technology could well follow the same path as that of electronic logging devices: widespread early adoption by large fleets and an eventual federal mandate industrywide. The systems may also work in tandem with automated trucks.
April 21, 2016
Channel 19
An upward trend in truck-occupant crash deaths
In the years following FMCSA’s 2003 publication of the hours of service rule that first included the 14-hour on-duty window, the percentage of truck-occupant crash deaths among all truck-involved fatalities is on an upward trend.
April 21, 2016
Business
DOT’s study on truck size and weight contains little fresh news
An extensive federal study of heavier and larger trucks says greater analysis and fewer data limitations are necessary to gauge impact on the transportation system. The federally mandated research echoed the study’s technical reports, released last June by the DOT.
April 21, 2016
Business
Your health — ripe for biomonitoring and telematics
In the not-so-distant future, your truck and its associated systems will be able to read your vital signs and alert you and others to an impending health breakdown. This data could be synced to your truck’s communications system, which could automatically send select health data to your fleet, your insurance provider or FMCSA.
April 20, 2016
Business
FMCSA looking for owner-operator comments on potential carrier incentive program
The FMCSA is required by the December-passed FAST Act highway bill to implement the program within 18 months of the bill being enacted.
April 20, 2016
Business
Missouri seeks second exemption to help military vets into trucking
The exemption would effectively give military truck drivers credit for their military training and expertise.
April 20, 2016
Business
Data — The unseen hand steering your career
As fleet owners continue to find more ways to turn their drivers and prospective drivers into sets of data, they are moving recruitment, retention and safety management closer to science than art. This expanding harvest of data and the eagerness of predictive analytics vendors to help fleets make better use of it are reshaping how the industry relates to drivers.
April 19, 2016
Hours of Service
Flexible split sleeper berth exemption extended 4 more years
Private carrier McKee Foods has been granted an extension to its 2015-granted waiver, which allows its drivers to divide their 10 required sleeper berth hours into 5/5, 6/4 or 3/7 splits. FMCSA’s own commissioned research has shown split sleep has little to no bearing on truck driver fatigue or safety. Truckers, however, still must abide by the rigid 14-hour rule.
April 19, 2016
Business
Wired, watched and weeded out: How constant monitoring by fleets, regulators will shape tomorrow’s driving force
In this special series, built on months of reporting by Overdrive editors, an in-depth exploration on the acceleration of driver monitoring systems, biometric health readings, the availability of massive data sets on truckers and how it all gives way to constant monitoring by fleets — and regulators — of truckers, their habits and their fitness to operate.
April 18, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Teamsters, safety groups to Congress: Don’t touch hours of service
Two key trucking items likely to see action in the appropriations process include a fix to the hours of service legislative screw-up from Congress’ 2016 DOT appropriations law and the revival of the so-called “federal authority” provisions floated in recent transportation-related bills.
April 18, 2016
Business
Truck-involved crash fatalities down, injuries up in 2014
A look at FMCSA’s statistics from 2014 on fatal highway crashes involving large trucks.
April 18, 2016
Business
Cargo tanks tested at two Alabama facilities must be reinspected, FMCSA says
Owners and operators of certain cargo tanks may need to get their tanks reinspected or retested, per a notice issued Friday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
April 18, 2016
Business
DOT further delays speed limiter, drug/alcohol clearinghouse rules
The projected publication dates of two looming trucking regulations have been delayed again, according to the Department of Transportation’s monthly regulatory update.
April 15, 2016
Business
Who’s OOIDA given to so far this election season?
Data pulled for the period between Jan. 1, 2015, and March 31, 2016, shows no contributions to presidential candidates. It does show broad support for candidates with a record of backing policies also supported by OOIDA.
April 15, 2016
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