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THUD update: House retains provision barring FMCSA from increasing insurance minimums, still no Senate bill
With Congress returning from its roughly two-week Memorial Day recess, work likely will resume in the coming week on 2016 appropriations bills for the DOT. And those bills could earn the trucking industry a few regulatory victories.
June 5, 2015
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Roadcheck road reports heading into final day
UPDATED: Reader reports from locales around the nation throughout the second day and final morning of the Roadcheck inspection blitz. What are you seeing? Weigh in here.
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NHTSA publishes Final Rule requiring trucks made in 2017 and beyond to be equipped with stability control systems
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration June 3 published a Final Rule requiring that all trucks made Aug. 1, 2017, and after be equipped with electronic stability control systems that prevent vehicle rollovers.
June 3, 2015
Business
Where inspections are rising: Illinois nearly doubles activity in wake of high-profile crashes
Following high-profile truck crashes that killed two of its officers between 2012 and 2014, Illinois bucked recent downward inspection trends with a doubling of intensity over those years.
June 3, 2015
Hours of Service
Obama weighs in on hours of service rollback, says it may be cause for veto
The White House released a policy statement this week saying the bill’s further entrenchment of the restart rollback and other trucking regulatory changes included in 2016’s DOT funding bill are potential hang-ups for presidential approval.
June 3, 2015
Business
Decreasing inspections: Georgia’s numbers fall
The state dialed back on overall inspections from 81,183 in 2013 to 69,188 in 2014, a 15 percent decline. According to state officials, such a level may not hold as it focuses on doing more with less.
June 2, 2015
Business
Decreasing inspections, enforcement variability as movement against CSA gains steam
With Roadcheck ramping up Tuesday, June 2, Overdrive’s annual update to the winding CSA’s Data Trail shows a downward national inspection intensity trend, though some key states move in the opposite direction.
June 1, 2015
Business
Cameras in place of rearview mirrors: Daimler asks DOT to allow it
Citing it as a way to improve aerodynamics and gain more flexibility in creating new technologies, Daimler Trucks North America, parent company of Freightliner and Western Star, has petitioned the U.S. DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asking it to allow camera-monitor systems as a compliance alternative to rearview mirrors.
May 31, 2015
Channel 19
How to: Influence enforcement actions at roadside
Some things are obvious — “take pride in your stuff,” says one officer — others not so, when it comes to managing encounters with officers, whether at roadside or in a weigh station inspection barn.
May 29, 2015
Business
FMCSA looks to press states again on CDL program compliance
FMCSA announced this week it again wants to perform a formal information collection process to ensure states are complying with federal requirements dictating Commercial Driver’s License issuance programs. The State Commercial Driver’s License Program Plan is part of 2012’s MAP-21 highway funding act, which requires states to submit a plan to the U.S. DOT describing the […]
May 29, 2015
Business
Roadcheck 2015 inspection spree set for next week, here’s CVSA’s checklists for drivers, carriers
Roadcheck, the annual inspection blitz done by a joint effort of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and others, is scheduled for next week.
May 28, 2015
Business
Following March price-fixing guilty plea, bunk heater manufacturer faces class action complaint
The complaint seeks “damages to [plaintiffs’] businesses and property in an amount to be determined at trial” for purchasers in a bevy of states.
May 27, 2015
Business
DOT highway bill that would require detention time pay filed in U.S. House
House transportation committee members last week reintroduced the White House’s Grow America Act, a six-year highway bill that would designate half a trillion to U.S. roadways in the next six years and mandate that truck operators be paid by their employers for on-duty hours not spent driving.
May 27, 2015
Business
Broker group gets CSA-related carrier hiring standards bill introduced in Senate
Introduced last week in the Senate is a bill aimed at mitigating CSA’s role in brokers’ and shippers’ carrier hiring decisions. The bill was introduced in the House earlier this year.
May 26, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Hours of service wish list: ‘We are people, not machines’
Results: Readers sound off in podcast, survey toward a more perfect hours rule.
May 23, 2015
Business
Rollover system mandate set for publication as OMB clears rule
A federal rule to require all new trucks to be equipped with electronic stability control systems has been cleared by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, meaning the rule likely will be published in the coming weeks.
May 22, 2015
Overdrive Radio
‘Huge mistake’: Readers sound off on speed limiters
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, voices are raised against any speed limiter mandate, while some emphasize alternatives to imposing a single speed on on-highway trucks, such as adequate training and rewards for voluntary governing,
May 20, 2015
Business
Crash treatment in CSA ‘not fair,’ says FMCSA’s safety head, says agency wants to fix
FMCSA’s Jack Van Steenburg, while admitting the agency’s CSA program’s lack of crash weighting is unfair, did not give specifics as how the agency could fix it. He spoke Tuesday with TCA’s David Heller about a wide range of trucking regulations.
May 20, 2015
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