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Business
Merry Christmas to the rat king
“Dear FMCSA, Happy holidays, from a small business trucking family!” …
December 18, 2015
Fun fact, per Wikipedia: “Rat kings involve a number of rats intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with, for instance, blood, dirt, ice, horse-hair, or feces—or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails.”
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: What will be your response to mandated ELDs?
7 in 10 readers noted they’d consider either early retirement or another line of work before they’d run with an electronic log in March 2014, when the recently released rule was proposed. What’s your outlook today?
December 16, 2015
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Voices
POLL: What’s your view of the ‘driver shortage’?
“Driver shortage” — myth or reality, all about trucker pay or a reflection of a younger generation’s generally unfavorable view of long-distance trucking, a by-product of a constraining regs enivronment? What’s your view?
December 15, 2015
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Channel 19
ELD mandate’s pre-2000 model year exception: One owner-operator’s morning celebration, more voices raised
Independent Howard Salmon — owner of a 1999 Kenworth W900 — and his reaction to news of the pre-2000 model year exception in the ELD mandate — more voices on the rule, too.
December 10, 2015
ELD grid
Business
Regulatory update: E-log rule still expected this year, driver coercion nears publication
Still slated for this year: Rules to mandate e-logs and speed limiters, a driver training rule and an extension to the CSA program.
November 16, 2015
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Voices
Return safety to drivers’ control: Fix the 14-hour rule
Texas-based Gary Carlisle weighs in on what Overdrive readers have named among the most-needed hours revisions. Also: it’s bankruptcies that will drive up rates, not wide ELD use itself.
November 13, 2015
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Electronic Logging Devices
‘We’ll get through this e-log implementation’ — projecting carrier-shipper relationships after the ELD mandate
"We'll get through this e-logs implementation," says compliance consultant Jeff Davis -- better rates, efficiency, productivity for small fleets await.
November 11, 2015
Jeff Davis
Business
Confusion on the sidelines
“So the sky is falling and we’re in imminent danger of not having enough truck drivers. We’re all going to starve and perish, unless they can get speed limiters on the trucks and everyone on electronic logs. … “
October 30, 2015
bird cartoon
Business
Space truckin’, gubmint-style
"The 1,500-light-year trip will be a Herculean effort, especially since all astronauts will be required to take a 30 minute break after eight hours of spaceship piloting."
October 16, 2015
“Interstellar weigh station, one mile ahead.”
Business
FMCSA hits back on CSA effectiveness, defends accuracy of carrier rankings system
Amid increasing calls for the FMCSA to remove CSA rankings/scores from public view, a new analysis from FMCSA reiterates what the agency has said all along about the CSA Safety Measurement System: It’s effective.
October 8, 2015
inspection barn
Business
The whips and nae naes
A modest proposal to improve highway safety: “No one should drive more than 11 hours, no one should be allowed to go faster than 64, and anyone caught ‘whipping’ or ‘nae nae-ing’ in the lane will be shot on sight….”
September 23, 2015
Do the stanky leg!
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: ‘All about the money’? — Reader views on increasing truck weight
A sizable majority of Overdrive readers (64 percent) see negative primary consequences of any significant rise in interstate truck weight limits. Find a bevy of views in this mailbag podcast.
September 17, 2015
The 2007 collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W bridge effectively muted further discussion of the truck weights back then.
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