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Fleet asks FMCSA to allow its drivers to split sleeper berth time
Dillon wants FMCSA to allow its team drivers to split sleeper berth time into two periods totaling 10 hours â either 5/5, 4/6 or 3/7.
January 5, 2017
Channel 19
If Trump really wants to save U.S. jobs âŚ
âIf he (Trump) cares about the working man, heâll stop this talk about driverless trucks.â âTrucker Jerry Jackson in Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial about autonomous vehicle tech threats.
January 5, 2017
Overdrive Extra
2017: Regulations, the economy and your career path
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January 1, 2017
Business
Another large fleet seeking exemption for pre-CDL holders
The exemption would allow pre-CDL drivers for the carrier to begin work as a truck driver before returning to their home state to receive the license. The drivers who would qualify for the exemption have passed all required tests, New Prime says.
December 20, 2016
Channel 19
FMCSA and some states sharpen audit teeth with âenhanced investigative techniquesâ
âEITâ in the parlance of acronym-happy bureaucratese, Jeff Davis of Fleet Safety Services likened new investigative approaches of auditors to another EIT, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques â or âcompliance-review waterboarding,â so to speak âŚ
December 16, 2016
Business
Abracadabra autonomous!
âTheyâre not opponents of tech, but it might be a failure of imaginationâ âVenture capitalist on disconnect between truckersâ expectations of self-driving tech and those of the folks in Silicon Valley. Wendy: âLetâs slow the row on the imagination-bashing a little and get real.â
December 16, 2016
Business
Speed limiters will hurt truckersâ bottom line and cause more accidents, operators argue in formal comments
Upwards of 4,500 comments were received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over the last three months on the agencyâs proposed rule to mandate speed limiting devices on heavy trucks, and most trucker commenters railed against the rule and its potential effects on small business truckers.
December 8, 2016
Channel 19
Minute to midnight: Clock running out for speed limitersâ first public comment
âIt is obvious to me that the majority of [speed-limited] drivers use the speed limiter setting to determine their minimum driving speed,â not the maximum. âOwner-operator Gary Buchs in his comment to the speed-limiter rule proposal docket, which closes Dec. 7 at 11:59 p.m â late Wednesday night.
December 6, 2016
Business
Driver drug and alcohol test database to be required check for carriers by 2020
Set to publish Monday, a final rule establishing the Clearinghouse database will require carriers to search the database during the pre-employment process and for current employees â at least once a year in the latter case.
December 2, 2016
Business
Already-disqualified trucker shut down by FMCSA following fatal accident
FMCSA says Dennis admitted to an investigator that he had taken methamphetamines âa few days priorâ to the Nov. 9 crash, and that he had been texting while driving shortly before the crash. He had also exceeded both driving and on-duty hours-of-service limits at the time of the crash, FMCSA adds.
November 29, 2016
Business
Drug testing database, driver training standards set to publish this week, DOT says
The DOT is projecting final rules for the CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse and the Entry-Level Driver Training standards to be published this week.
November 22, 2016
Business
Two weeks remain to formally comment on speed limiter rule proposal
If the rule were to be made final, all new trucks would be required to use electronic speed governors. There is also a possibility it will require all trucks with factory-equipped speed limiters to be governed as well.
November 22, 2016
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