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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
Channel 19
Why ‘automatic’ may or may not mean ‘automatic’ when it comes to ELDs
In OOIDA’s case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didn’t require devices that ‘automatically’ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?
April 15, 2016
Business
New medical exam forms required beginning April 20
Medical examiners performing physical exams on truck drivers will be required to use the revised versions of the Medical Examination Report Form and the Medical Examiner’s Certificate Form beginning April 20.
April 14, 2016
Business
ABF Freight to charge customers compliance surcharge for loads in and out of California
This month, the Arkansas-based ABF Freight began the California Compliance Surcharge to offset the state’s higher operating costs and stricter regulations.
April 14, 2016
Channel 19
‘A broken system’: Small fleet owner on CSA, SFD reliance on roadside inspections, violations
Hazmat, securement violations for a two-gallon tote holding spare oil? Check. Bob Delullo’s thoughts on CSA and the proposed SFD rule are a variation on the “garbage in, garbage out” phrase to describe systems doomed by the component parts on which they are based.
April 12, 2016
Business
Trucking groups fire back at FMCSA over carrier rating rule, say it circumvents Congressional intent
An ad-hoc coalition of trucking organizations issued a letter Monday, April 11, to Acting FMCSA Administrator Scott Darling disputing comments made by FMCSA’s Joe DeLorenzo last week. The groups reiterate their argument that the rule violates federal law, despite FMCSA’s claims otherwise.
April 12, 2016
Business
Missouri seeking to extend skills test waiver for military veterans
FMCSA says since the issues in the request could be applicable in all states, it is seeking public comment on whether the exemption, if granted, should cover all state licensing agencies.
April 11, 2016
Business
CVSA’s annual Roadcheck inspection spree to focus on tire safety
Inspectors will be measuring tire tread depth, checking tire pressure, checking to make sure no items are lodged between dual tires and examining the overall condition of the tires to ensure no deep cuts or bulges exist in the sidewalls.
April 8, 2016
Business
Market will likely require owner-operators to adhere to new food safety standards despite exemption
Most, if not all, owner-operators will be exempt from the FDA’s new sanitation rules for food haulers, but shippers and brokers likely won’t hire carriers who aren’t in compliance with the new rule.
April 8, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Big data at ‘tipping point’ for new safety applications
Fatigue management and monitoring techs will become, over the next 30 years, ubiquitous in fleet trucks — even, says safety expert Don Osterberg, in owner-operated units.
April 7, 2016
Business
Safety Fitness rule not a violation of FAST Act, FMCSA says in media briefing touting rule’s benefits
Joe DeLorenzo, head of enforcement and compliance for FMCSA, spoke briefly in a conference call with trucking industry media Thursday, April 7, touting both the rule’s ability to expand the agency’s ability to target unsafe carriers and addressing concerns about the rule’s relationship to the December-enacted FAST Act highway bill.
April 7, 2016
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