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Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Whatâs your most likely response to the ELD mandate?
As of now, whatâs your most likely response to mandated ELDs, assuming the regulation makes it intact: Will nothing change for you? Will you wait for rule challenges to play out before moving electronic for hours? Or something else entirely ⌠?
April 6, 2016
Business
FDA to implement new sanitation regs for food haulers, likely excludes many owner-operators
The federal governmentâs Food and Drug Administration released April 5 a Final Rule that sets new standards for food haulers. It includes a notable exception, however, that likely encompasses many single-truck operations.
April 5, 2016
Parking
âAll the money in the worldâ may not be enough to solve truckingâs parking crisis, panelists say
Simply adding more parking spaces, even along busy freight corridors, likely wouldnât fix the countryâs widespread truck parking shortage, said four panelists at a seminar held last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show.
April 5, 2016
Business
Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills wins three major journalism awards
Overdrive and Senior Editor Todd Dills won Best Series for CSAâs Data Trail, a continuation of the series that received business-to-business mediaâs highest honor, the Grand Neal, in 2014. He also won Neals for Best Data Journalist and Best Range of Work.
April 4, 2016
Business
FMCSA shuts down Calif.-based driver after multiple DUI convictions
Previously, Zaverukha was convicted twice in Connecticut for alcohol-related violations while driving a truck and once in Massachusetts.
April 4, 2016
Business
Owner-ops voice concerns over ELDs, give feedback on potential âBeyond Complianceâ program
Truck drivers, fleet personnel and owner-operator advocates voiced their concerns at the Mid-America Trucking Show about the DOTâs electronic logging device mandate and provided their thoughts on the âBeyond Complianceâ program the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is required to establish.
April 1, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
OOIDA hits FMCSA with lawsuit to block ELD mandate, calls rule arbitrary and unconstitutional
The Owner-Operator Independent Driverâs Association this week filed initial arguments in its challenge to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs electronic logging device (ELD) mandate final rule.
March 31, 2016
Business
FMCSA blocks Canadian trucker from U.S., citing violations of out-of-service orders
FMCSA said Gill âwillfully disregarded the out-of-service orderâ in three separate instances in four days and continued driving his truck before being shut down after the fourth order. He was also found to have surreptitiously taken his truck from a storage facility where it had been towed.
March 30, 2016
Business
Truck operators to take on most of driver training rule costs, per FMCSA figures
Drivers themselves will bear the bulk of the ruleâs costs, according to FMCSAâs calculations. The 30-day period for owner-operators and other industry stakeholders to file formal comments ends in a week.
March 30, 2016
Hours of Service
Hours exemption for Oregon loggers extended per 2015-passed highway bill
The extension of the expiration date is in response to a provision in the December-passed FAST Act highway bill that extended exemptions in effect when the bill was enacted. The bill extended the exemptions to five years from the date they were were issued from two years.
March 28, 2016
Hours of Service
Request to allow some drivers to use detention time as off-duty time denied by FMCSA
An exemption request from the American Trucking Associations that would allow drivers to exclude detention time at a natural gas or oil well site from their total 14 on-duty hours has been denied by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
March 28, 2016
Business
FMCSA shuts down two-truck fleet in fourth carrier shutdown order of year
The agency says the two-truck N.C.-based carrier didnât follow hours of service rules, didnât properly maintain its equipment, didnât drug test drivers and more.
March 28, 2016
Business
Wyoming-based seven-truck carrier ordered to shut down following FMCSA investigation
Violations include: Failing to conduct pre-employment background checks on drivers, failing to ensure drivers were qualified before dispatching them, failing to properly monitor drivers to ensure compliance with hours-of-service requirements, using a driver who tested positive for a controlled substance and failure to maintain equipment.
March 24, 2016
Business
Annual Roadcheck inspection blitz dates set for early June
Approximately 75,000 inspections occur each year during the Roadcheck inspection blitz, done by a joint effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and others. Here are the dates for this yearâs Roadcheck.
March 23, 2016
Business
FMCSA orders recall-affected Volvo trucks out-of-service
Affected trucks include model year 2016-2017 VNL, VNX, and VNM trucks manufactured from May 11, 2015 through March 8, 2016.
March 23, 2016
Channel 19
âCSA-equivalentâ scoring pitched to brokers, shippers
Regarding its âCSA-eâ re-engineering of CSA percentiles, SaferWatch raises the specter of negligence lawsuits for brokers not utilizing available information assessing risks when selecting carriers â but if Congress and so many others are right, itâs never been a better time to stop such use altogether.
March 22, 2016
Business
Indiana steel co. petitions FMCSA to exempt its drivers from 14-hour rule
FMCSA has received an exemption request from ArcelorMittal-Indiana Harbor, asking that its truck operators be able to have 16 on-duty hours once starting their clock and be allowed to return to work with fewer than 10 consecutive hours off duty. The drivers in question only operate vehicles in and around the plant, the company says.
March 22, 2016
Business
Trucking pressure to stop FMCSA from working on new carrier rating system gains traction in House
âIt is irresponsible and inconceivable that FMCSA would use the same data and analysis Congress said is faulty in a new safety fitness determination,â the lawmakers write in their letter. The letter comes in response to requests by industry groups to halt FMCSAâs Safety Fitness rule pending a CSA revamp.
March 21, 2016
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