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ELD mandate: Is drivers’ time saved by e-logs worth near $2 billion annually?
Just as it’s pretty hard to estimate time saved in a reliable way, it’s pretty hard for paper and pencil to malfunction in the same way a computer can — delving into FMCSA’s ELD mandate cost-benefit analysis.
February 18, 2016
Voices
The 34-hour restart’s complicated limbo
Here’s the latest. Nothing about the 34-hour restart will change until FMCSA issues its certified report on its mandated comparative restart study. If the report says what many truckers have hoped, however, the restart could disappear entirely.
February 17, 2016
Business
Driver training rule expected this month, speed limiter rule delayed again
The latest on rules to mandate speed limiters, institute minimum driver training requirements, survey the industry on sleep apnea and set up a database of drivers who have refused or failed a drug test.
February 16, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD makers to hear from FMCSA next week on determining compliant devices
The meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 25., from 1-3 p.m. Eastern and will help ELD providers determine if their products meet the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s requirements.
February 16, 2016
Channel 19
Oops: Appropriations bill may have done away with 34-hour restart entirely
Turns out the 34-hour restart-related item in the late-2015 Congressional appropriations bill may have done a little more than was intended, eliminating the restart entirely. Before you start (or continue, as it were) recapping hours, however …
February 12, 2016
Business
FAA bill with trucking hours and pay implications advances
A bill that would prevent states from requiring truckers and their employers to comply with state laws regulating hours of service, such as meal or rest break requirements, has been approved by the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The bill would also, if enacted, throw cold water on state-level initiated driver pay reform.
February 12, 2016
Business
Carrier asks FMCSA for exemption from short hauler log-keeping rules, blames detention time
The request would exempt Farruggio’s drivers who stay within the 100 air-mile radius but occasionally exceed the 12-hour limitation from having to complete a daily record of duty status. The company says approximately 12 percent of its drivers exceed the 12-hour limitation on a weekly basis, primarily due to waiting times at rail yards and piers.
February 11, 2016
Business
Marten ordered to pay former driver $51k after firing him for refusing overweight load
The specific incident that led to Sinkfield’s firing occurred in May 2014, when he refused a load at a shipper’s facility because it was 40 pounds over the 80,000-lb. federal limit and several pounds over allowable axle limits. A judge found his firing, despite being related to several incidents, was wrongful, as the load refusal was protected by federal law.
February 9, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate: What about trucks plated below 26,000 lbs.?
Q&A: Will under 26K-lb. trucks be required to utilize ELDs under FMCSA’s final rule? Short answer: Yes, but complications with the short-haul exceptions in the hours rules may apply to some operations.
February 8, 2016
Business
FMCSA grants exemption for wireless rechargeable tow lights
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted an exemption to allow the use of rechargeable wireless temporary stop, turn and tail lights during towing situations.
February 8, 2016
Business
Drivewyze to run four-state ‘e-inspection’ field demonstration
Drivewyze’s e-inspection test will be expediting Level 3 driver inspections on lanes in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania in cooperation with enforcement departments and truckers running those areas.
February 5, 2016
Voices
POLL: Do you see a benefit to Wireless Roadside Inspection?
With technology in the test phase, questions remains as to safety credit/violation policy as well as whether any Wireless Roadside Inspection program would be voluntary or not — what’s your take on potential benefits/drawbacks of any future program today?
February 5, 2016
Business
Aviation bill would reemphasize federal authority over states’ regulation of truckers’ hours, pay
A bill unveiled in the U.S. House’s Transportation Committee this week seeks to restrict state’s ability to regulate truckers’ on-duty time, such as required rest breaks, and could have an impact on driver pay reform efforts being conducted at state levels.
February 4, 2016
Channel 19
So does FMCSA’s safety rating rule in fact violate Congressional directive?
Another week, another letter to Congress from an ad hoc coalition of groups challenging FMCSA’s new safety rating rule’s release on grounds it violates the FAST Act highway bill.
February 4, 2016
Business
Sleep apnea data collection ‘pre-rule’ moves forward, set for publication
The data request is intended to not only gauge the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea among truck operators, but also to get feedback from the industry about how a sleep apnea rule could affect truckers and the industry at large.
February 4, 2016
Business
N.Y. truck decal fees deemed unconstitutional, state barred from collecting them
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has won its class action lawsuit against New York after a state trial court ruled its Highway Use Registration and Decal taxes are unconstitutional, as the fees imposed burdens to interstate commerce, the court ruled.
February 3, 2016
Voices
Threading the needle through trade policy, regulation, hammer swingers and the erosion of the middle class
Readers’ responses to a recent call for change to the 14-hour rule in the hours of service thread the needle through 30 and more years of American history and the erosion of the blue-collar middle class.
February 3, 2016
Business
Wireless Roadside Inspection research project’s final phase under way
Though the FAST Act highway bill and late-2015 appropriations bill made future Wireless Roadside Inspection funding contingent on a forthcoming report, bills left open funding streams dedicated to current projects, now under way.
February 2, 2016
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