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Brokers lose court bid to stop Dec. 1 bond increase
A federal court has denied a broker trade association’s motion to halt an increase in the surety bond from $10,000 to $75,000.
December 2, 2013
Channel 19
Another voice on the hours of service: Owner-operator Tom Quinton
As Quinton’s and recent other commentary makes clear, the new hours of service rule is foregrounding the problem of, simply, time. Time enough to get the work done in the day allotted to do it.
November 30, 2013
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March 24, 2025
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CARB: Operators’ voices, more on the regs in podcast part 2
This feature podcast follows the Monday, Nov. 25, installment on CARB’s 11th-hour flexibility maneuvering. Call 530-408-6423, state your name and location, and give us your view on the state’s emissions regs.
November 27, 2013
Channel 19
Trip-planning / service locator app bags prize; hours hearing vid
Another play in the trucking smartphone-apps landscape, with a robust trip-planning function; and full video of this week’s House Small Business Committee’s hours of service hearing.
November 23, 2013
Business
California delaying enforcement of retrofit deadline for truck owners
California will delay enforcement of the next retrofit deadline for truckers who report certain efforts toward compliance by Jan. 31.
November 22, 2013
Hours of Service
Owner-operator testifies to Congress on damaging effects of new hours provisions
Owner-operator Tilden Curl testified before Congress this week to say the new rules have cost him thousands of dollars a month and do little to make the industry safer.
November 22, 2013
Hours of Service
FMCSA’s Ferro defends hours rule, says agency won’t undo it
Administrator Anne Ferro persistently defended her Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service rule Nov. 21 in a House subcommittee hearing, saying she is not open to repealing the regulations.
November 21, 2013
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OOIDA survey latest to show hours-of-service rules cut pay, increase driver fatigue
A full 65 percent of the 4,000 truck drivers surveyed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association said the new hours of service rules have caused them to receive less income, while 46 percent report feeling more fatigued since the new rules took effect.
November 20, 2013
Voices
Increased federal weight limits: Voices against
Cary Goodman, Dan Gerster weigh in — no pun intended — on the notion of increasing federal weight limits to 97,000 lbs. with the addition of a third trailer axle. What do you think?
November 19, 2013
Hours of Service
Agency needs to justify hours rule that’s ‘purely ideological,’ congressman says
Overdrive had the exclusive opportunity to speak with Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), who’s been backing a delay of the new hours rule since July, about the upcoming House hearing on hours of service rules.
November 19, 2013
Overdrive Radio
Drivers need more professional discretion: Voices on the hours changes
In this Voices-series podcast, operators weigh in further on the hours changes as a House subcommittee hearing looms Nov. 21. Call 530-40-VOICE, 530-408-6423, to weigh on these and other issues.
November 18, 2013
Hours of Service
More than 50% of drivers report at least 5% pay drop due to hours of service rules, ATRI reports
More than half of driver respondents in a recent study say that the July 1 hours of service rule change has decreased their pay by 5 percent or more.
November 18, 2013
Channel 19
Bon voyage — a final word on leaving trucking
Thomas Dempsey’s farewell to trucking “toward a more stable industry, one that young people will want to enter, and current drivers will choose to stay with, and be proud to do.”
November 16, 2013
Business
Comments sought on latest Mexican cross-border carrier applicant
Those interested in commenting on Road Machinery’s Pre-Authorization Safety Audit must include the notice’s Federal Docket Management System No., FMCSA-2011-0097.
November 15, 2013
Hours of Service
House subcommittee sets hours hearing date: Nov. 21
The contracting and workforce subcommittee to the House Small Business Committee will hear testimony on the economic impact of the July 1 hours of service changes Nov. 21.
November 15, 2013
Channel 19
Solidarity with the dispatcher, forces against CARB low-use exemption change
FirstFleet drivers band behind a dispatch/payroll office employee battling cancer. Forces at work against CARB’s low-use mileage boost?
November 14, 2013
Parking
Report: Open road is gone as modern trucker grapples with hours rules, e-logs and parking shortages
A Wall Street Journal report says a “confusing tangle of rules” and a myriad of devices like electronic logs and speed limiters are dampening not only the industry’s efficiency but the will of those who are and want to be truck drivers.
November 14, 2013
Business
Paperless roadside enforcement tech debuts at Intermodal Expo
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Intermodal Association of North America will demonstrate its paperless Driver Vehicle Examination Report Notification Service Nov. 18 at the Intermodal Expo next week in Houston, Texas.
November 14, 2013
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