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When airline pilots sound like, well, highway pilots

With French media reporting apparent location of the second “black box” from the GermanWings flight, a note about some reporting that rung some familiar bells on the line between profit, safety.

April 2, 2015

Germanwings crash 2nd black box

Next round of emissions, fuel economy regs move closer to implementation

The new fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards would go into effect for 2018 model year vehicles, building upon the Phase 1 fuel economy and emissions standards that went into effect last year.

April 1, 2015

It’s the little things, like Google

Not rocket science: Allow small things to go faster than large things… they’ll explode into stardust when they hit the large things.

March 20, 2015

GAO rep: FMCSA’s app the latest misstep in pushing ‘unreliable’ CSA scores

Susan Fleming of the Government Accountability Office said FMCSA’s smartphone app release this week, which highlights carriers’ CSA ratings, again exposed the need to remove the scores from public view.

March 19, 2015

Where do you stand on the issue of whether carrier CSA scores be public property? If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in with a voice message we may use in a future “mailbag” podcast. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Be sure to include your name and base location in the message.

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: ‘Don’t help the lawyers. Help us.’ –Readers on insurance

In this podcast, readers weigh in on rising insurance costs, urging regulators and congress not to hike minimums, which might well serve only to line the pockets of attorneys and deleteriously affect the trucking business.

March 17, 2015

More costs piled on by regulators in the form of an insurance hike, readers argue in the podcast below, would only serve to idle more trucks and boost crash settlements unnecessarily, with them attorney’s fees.

Appeals court upholds dismissal of CCTA lawsuit against CARB regs

According to Joe Rajkovacz, CCTA government affairs director, further action is under way: “We will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

March 5, 2015

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‘Help us stay in business’: Owner-ops tell FMCSA insurance increase would shut them down

Owner-operators say they fail to see the need for an increase to the minimum amount of liability insurance required of carriers, and they’re afraid an increase would drive premium costs to a point that would force them to close shop.

March 4, 2015

What’s your view of the perceived need for an insurance minimum increase? If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in with a voice message we may use in a future podcast. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Be sure to include your name and base location in the message.

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA alters course on e-log mandate, moves up projected publication date

FMCSA announced it has reversed a projected delay in the rule, moving up the expected publication date for a Final Rule mandating electronic logs by about six weeks.

March 3, 2015

What is an entry-level driver?

Will traditional training approaches survive an ELDT rulemaking? This and other issues were explored in the first meeting of the Entry Level Driver Training Advisory Committee.

March 2, 2015

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Comment period closes tonight for FMCSA’s work to increase carrier insurance minimums

The public comment deadline on a rule that could increase the amount of liability insurance required to be held by carriers ends Feb. 26, and carriers and other industry stakeholders have until midnight 11:59 p.m. Thursday to submit their input.

February 26, 2015

Faster e-log implementation, hair drug tests, speed limiters highlight Trucking Alliance’s 2015 action items

The Trucking Alliance said it plans to push for quicker implementation of an electronic logging device mandate, an increase to the minimum amount of liability insurance that trucking companies must hold and a speed limiter mandate, among other items.

February 25, 2015

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Hours of Service

Permanent hours-of-service fix, minimum driver age, highway funding top ATA agenda for 2015

In addition to a more long-term hours-of-service fix, Osiecki says ATA will promote increasing fuel taxes to boost highway funding, building a national freight plan, lowering the legal age to obtain a CDL and dealing with federal emissions standards.

February 18, 2015

ATA’s Dave Osiecki said this week ATA’s 2015 lobbying agenda includes finding a long-term fix to the hours-of-service contention between FMCSA and the trucking industry.

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