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Hours of Service

Quick takes: Readers mixed on hours of service changes’ impact on their own operations

When it comes to implementing the FMCSA's revised hours of service regulation, truck drivers have some questions and concerns. Read more here on Overdrive.

May 18, 2020

Hours of Service

POLL: Which hours of service change will benefit you most, if any?

The FMCSA earmarked four areas of change in its hours of service modifications final rule — the 30-minute break, split-sleeper options, and the short haul and adverse driving conditions exceptions. Which do you stand to benefit from in your operation?

May 14, 2020

Business

News roundup, May 13: FMCSA extends coronavirus HOS waiver; OOIDA asks for end to overweight exemption

The U.S. DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended its nationwide hours of service exemption for drivers hauling loads as part of COVID-19 relief, and OOIDA calls for an end to COVID overweight exemption.

May 13, 2020

Channel 19

With rates ‘nowhere near sustainable’ for independent truckers, debate stirs over ‘re-regulating’

Owner-operators at D.C. demonstrations, others discuss the potential need to evaluate regulation-free pricing in the trucking. Read more here on Overdrive.

May 5, 2020

Business

Oversize/overweight permitting and ‘harmonization’: State of the states, and technology

More simplicity in states' regulatory and tech approaches to permitting could ultimately result in more practical oversized load routing. Details on Overdrive.

March 6, 2020

Channel 19

1099 company drivers? Don’t need an ‘ABC test’ for that

Want to cut the skirting of self-employment tax, enhance employee protections offered by workers comp and unemployment insurance required of most bona fide employers? Enforcing previous, more nuanced independent contractor tests on the books should do that job just as well as any so-called ‘ABC test.’

January 29, 2020

Parking

Parking perils: The increasing cost, and risk, of booting and towing

Booting and towing incidents have become more numerous and more costly, owner-operators and others report. Some advocates call for national regulation of the practice, particularly when drivers are asleep in their trucks.

January 2, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Countdown through a parking shortage, tech surge, truck boot … 2019’s Top 10 podcast episodes

Listen: A year-in-review on the Overdrive Radio podcast this week, covering a boatload of ground all told: From trucking history to shutdowns and slow rolls, parking and booting, the ELD mandate and hours of service, small fleet business and the limits to quick growth, working the spot market and so much more …

December 27, 2019

Business

Cracks in the system: Blowing the whistle on coercion

In the more than four years since FMCSA’s driver protection rule took effect, results have been indirect at best, minimal at worst, when drivers report they’ve been pressured to violate regs.

December 9, 2019

Business

Wilson Logistics petitions FMCSA to allow pre-CDL drivers to run team

Wilson’s request would still require a CDL holder in the truck at all times, but not necessarily in the front seat. Wilson says the exemption would allow the CLP holder “to participate in a revenue-generating trip back to his or her state of domicile to obtain the CDL.”

November 5, 2019

Channel 19

Small group of truckers in Lexington, Ky., today showing Yang campaign support — a little for Trump, too — around President’s rally

In a bid for national attention to driver issues, today a small group of truckers banded together in Lexington, Ky., with support from an Andrew Yang campaign-supporting Super PAC to display Yang support around a Trump rally. They invited Trump-supporting truckers to fly their banners, too.

November 4, 2019

Channel 19

More split-sleeper wishful thinking: Specialized carriers association backs sleeper splits up to 5 and 5

A look at the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association’s commentary on FMCSA’s hours of service proposal. It closely mirrors what I’ve heard from so many truckers who remember the split-sleeper-berth rules of days gone by. Namely, that’s something along these lines: “Let us split as we see fit.”

October 31, 2019