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Voices
POLL: Where do you stand on gun purchasing restrictions?
Are further restrictions on gun purchasing needed? As debate grows over the issue in the wake of the Florida school shooting, another in a line of massacres, this poll asks for your thoughts on purchasing restrictions, enforcement of existing laws and more.
February 23, 2018
Gun Control Hot Button
Electronic Logging Devices
Intrastate ELD mandates: California enforcement deadline likely to be late 2020, Oregon this year
California is planning to seek an intrastate adoption of the electronic logging device mandate that is likely to impose a deadline of December 31, 2020, for intrastate carriers. Oregon will enforce on the federal timeline Dec. 18 this year.
November 1, 2017
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Business
Irma flooding closes portions of I-10, I-95 in Florida
State officials have closed I-10 in Lake City in both directions between milemarker 296 and milemarker 301 because of flooding. In the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, there are some closures on I-95 and I-595, as well as some state roads and highways.
September 11, 2017
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Business
Storms update: Florida suspends trucking regs ahead of Irma, Houston ports and major fuel pipeline reopen
Though the effects of Hurricane Harvey’s recent onslaught of Southeast Texas remain well in focus, another major hurricane is barreling down on the U.S., prompting Florida to extend trucking regulations ahead of Irma’s likely weekend landfall.
September 5, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
The crazy quilt of intrastate hours logging and ELD mandates
States failing to adopt an e-logging mandate. Hours of service regs differing from the federal rule. ELDs missing state-specific features. For the intrastate driver required to use e-logs, the change could get complicated.
June 5, 2017
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Electronic Logging Devices
Florida legislature eyeing December 2018 ELD deadline for intrastate carriers, California uncertain
Florida’s move for its sizable intrastate market follows that of Texas, which adopted a December 2019 date for the ELD requirements for intrastate carriers. California Highway Patrol reps, meanwhile, note they’re yet uncertain on an intrastate ELD mandate there.
May 8, 2017
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Hours of Service
POLL: Interstate/intrastate — Which hours of service rule do you operate within?
What’s the nature of your operation when it comes to hours of service — are you running under the primary U.S. hours rules (irrespective of niche-specific variants like oilfield), a combination of U.S./Canadian rules, one of the various intrastate parameters or short-haul exceptions?
May 4, 2017
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Business
Demand edges down, but freight volumes steady in van, lagging a bit in reefer with weather
A little “bitter fruit” in the spot market update this week, notes Ken Harper of DAT. “We’re still seeing good volumes on freight, especially on the Top 100 van lanes, but unfortunately the capacity is there as well, so rates haven’t lifted.”
March 29, 2017
Van rates averaged $2.33 per mile last week from Chicago to Buffalo, but the return trip from Buffalo to Chicago still lagged at a paltry $1.33 per mile on average. If you can make it fit with your schedule, split that trip to boost your revenue. In the example here, a load from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, which paid an average of $2.82 per mile last week, paired with a load from there back to Chicago, will make for a $2.14 average for all loaded miles on the round-trip, compared to $1.83 for the there-and-back. That works out to about $625 more in revenue for 135 extra miles, not counting any deadhead.
Business
Florida governor proposes free CDLs for military veterans
Florida Gov. Rick Scott included a proposal in his budget that would cut fees for military veterans receiving their CDLs.
February 2, 2017
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (right)
Parking
Florida parking-availability information system deployment getting under way
An information-distribution system to be deployed first on the I-4 and I-95 corridors by the Florida Department of Transportation will aim to distribute parking-availability data to professional drivers in real-time.
September 13, 2016
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Business
Florida group plans trucking rally from Miami to Tallahassee for June 6
Florida truckers have come together with plans for a rally ride from Miami to Tallahassee to “express their dissatisfaction” with some specific issues plaguing the industry. A press release issued to Overdrive by Ponce Seoane and Alberto Cruz-Torres, two of the organizers, begins with this appeal: We are a group of owner operators and transportation professionals […]
May 20, 2016
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Business
Paid parking pas de deux
“Even Dr. Phil knows there’s two sides to a pancake, and looking at both of them is necessary to describe the pancake fully. You can’t have a conversation without two sides.”
April 20, 2016
…where there are about 9 parking spaces for every 7,000 trucks.
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