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Brake inspection blitz happening this week
The annual Brake Safety Week inspection spree is taking place this week, Sept. 7-13. CVSA says more than 30,000 trucks and buses will be inspected.
September 5, 2014
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Business
Guilty until proven innocent: Answering key sleep-apnea questions
As new medical certification processes come into play, more drivers are being asked to get sleep apnea testing. Some are asking questions, getting varied answers – and being taken off the road prematurely.
September 4, 2014
Dr. Randolph Rosarion shares insights on being a U.S. Department of Transportation medical examiner and other issues via his Dotmedicalexaminer.com website.
Business
Trucking co. owners plead guilty to violating FMCSA shutdown order, creating ‘chameleon carrier’
Two former trucking company owners pleaded guilty Aug. 19 to violating shutdown orders issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in a reincarnated carrier scheme conducted in 2012 and 2013.
September 2, 2014
Channel 19
Speed limiters not ‘worth the hassle’: More voices on potential mandate
Michael Goodman, among others: “Forcing speed limiters will make roads less safe and be another unnecessary cost to the millions of truck owners in the United States.”
August 29, 2014
Joey Slaughter at the Great American Trucking Show TSG health walk
Parking
Petition circulated on “right to carry” for driver self-defense
A new “right to carry” petition is being circulated by SBTC’s James Lamb. It’s collecting signatures in an attempt to demonstrate that there’s support for easing many interstate drivers’ ability to legally travel with firearms.
August 28, 2014
In this linked story probing gun-control issues in the wake of the school shootings in Connecticut in 2012, 91 percent of readers favored either the status quo or fewer restrictions on ownership.
Business
Final audit of FMCSA’s cross-border program begins as it enters final month
The Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General has begun its final audit of the cross-border trucking pilot program with Mexico. Here’s what it’s looking to find.
August 27, 2014
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Channel 19
Will FMCSA ‘un-ring’ the CSA alarm?
Reader Thomas Little may best have paraphrased the thoughts of many: With CSA, “FMCSA fully intended” to “let the industry do their policing for them. Spoon-feed the detailed data into the marketplace to drive consumer choice of motor carrier … and then stand back and pretend that wasn’t how CSA was supposed to be used… They won’t be able to unring that bell.”
August 27, 2014
Public scrutiny of safety ratings in the CSA SMS is live with the recent update to the public display. Placed front and center of a carrier’s front page in the CSA SMS now is carrier’s current safety rating, often at odds with what percentile rankings in the SMS seem to say about the carrier’s safety.
Business
Coercion rule comments: Hours still the problem, ‘coercion’ needs definition
Common themes of regulatory criticism popped up often in the public comments offered on DOT’s proposed driver coercion prohibition rule, like the new pressures and restrictions caused by the agency’s 2013 hours-of-service rule and holding shippers, receivers and brokers accountable.
August 26, 2014
XRS in-vehicle EOBR module
Business
Coalition of trucking groups calls for removal of public CSA scores
Ten trucking groups sent a letter to the DOT pleading for the public scores in the CSA program to be removed from public view, pointing to research that says the scores are not a reliable predictor of safety.
August 26, 2014
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Business
Ontario court to hear challenge to speed limiter law
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has agreed to hear a challenge to province’s speed limiters law. The next step will be for the province’s highest court to schedule oral arguments before a three-judge panel.
August 25, 2014
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Business
CSA changes: Agency implements plan to account for due process in inspection citations
Violations against drivers or carriers that are dismissed or result in a “not guilty” ruling will no longer count in Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring nor on driver Pre-Employment Screening Reports, FMCSA says.
August 25, 2014
Indiana State Trooper inspection under truck
Business
FMCSA names acting administrator as Ferro tenure ends
T.F. Scott Darling III has been named Interim Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The news comes in a farewell message to staff from outgoing Administrator Anne Ferro, circulated by the FMCSA communications office.
August 22, 2014
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Business
Inspections, natural-gas vehicles probed at GATS
An analysis of Vehicle Maintenance BASIC violations shows the driver is in control of carrier scores; And natural gas, according to some, is ready to ‘Ride on’ indeed.
August 22, 2014
inspection
Channel 19
Analysis of what’s happening with ELDs / bankruptcies
Analyst Donald Broughton on what’s happening behind a trend that is running against the usual for trucking bankruptcies: FMCSA’s pressure on company over hours of service noncompliance.
August 21, 2014
CCJ’s Jeff Crissey talking economic trends after Donald Broughton’s presentation at the 2014 Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference preceding this year’s Great American Trucking Show.
Business
FMCSA wants industry’s help in producing ‘reg neg’ driver training rule
In an attempt to satisfy requirements of the current MAP-21 highway funding law, FMCSA says it is checking the feasibility of producing a required entry-level driver training rule as a “negotiated rulemaking,” or “reg neg.”
August 18, 2014
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Voices
Readers say no to speed governing, less equivocal on a national speed limit
Haven’t we been here before? With some industry organizations calling for a national 65-mph speed limit and governing of Class 7 and 8 trucks to similar limits, readers weigh in.
August 18, 2014
ATA speed graphic
Business
Drivers, foreman awarded $953k after refusal-to-drive firings
Two drivers and a foreman for the Pontiac, Mich.-based Asphalt Specialists have been awarded $953,916 in back wages and damages after the Department of Transportation deemed they were wrongfully terminated for refusing to drive beyond federal hours of service limits.
August 18, 2014
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Business
Hours, brakes top out-of-service violations in this year’s Roadcheck inspection blitz
Of the 72,415 drivers inspected in this year’s Roadcheck inspection spree, 4.8 percent were placed out-of-service, and more than half of those were placed out-of-service due to hours of service or logbook violations.
August 15, 2014
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