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Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: FMCSA ‘barked up the wrong tree’ with 2013-implemented restart changes
Podcast: In the wake of Congressional efforts to force a stay on the 2013 restart provisions of truckers’ hours of service this week, readers weighed in on their view of the so-called ‘Collins amendment.’
December 10, 2014
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Business
FMCSA publishes official notice of insurance increase consideration, looking for industry input
FMCSA announced Nov. 26 it is seeking trucking industry input on a potential rulemaking that would increase the $750,000 minimum amount of liability insurance motor carriers must have.
November 27, 2014
Business
Regulatory update: DOT’s latest projections for mandating electronic logging devices, speed limiters
The DOT could require the use of electronic logging devices by Fall 2017. A proposed speed limiter rule is expected in the coming months. Here’s a look at the rest of FMCSA’s regulatory timeline.
November 17, 2014
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Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Legal delays as CARB rules ‘go hard-fast’
As lawsuits against the California Air Resources Board hit the same technical “buzzsaw” and get delayed and delayed, notes Joe Rajkovacz of the CCTA, deadlines for rules compliance come and go.
November 13, 2014
If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in on how you have dealt (or not) with the CARB regs. Have you seen CARB enforcement firsthand? We’ll utilize your input in a future “audio mailbag” podcast. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence.
Overdrive Radio
Audio mailbag: Liability insurance, sleeper berth flexibility
The first in a series of Voices podcasts airing editorial comment on a variety of issues, here stemming from discussion of both sleeper berth period flexibility and FMCSA’s planned liability insurance hike in D.C. Call 530-208-6423 at any time to record a message.
October 31, 2014
If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in on these or any other pressing issue with a message. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence.
Business
Heads up: Deadline for compliance with CARB reefer emissions regs coming Oct. 31
Motor carriers running 2007 year-model reefer units in California must purchase a diesel particulate filter for their reefer engines by Friday, Oct. 31, to be in compliance with the states reefer emissions regs.
October 29, 2014
CARB lead featured
Business
Division on liability insurance hike in the spotlight at regulatory meeting
An FMCSA advisory committee discussion offered insight into how the agency will proceed with its rulemaking to increase liability insurance minimums and the potential consequences facing small business truckers if and when an increase occurs.
October 28, 2014
Could you survive a hike in liability insurance to $2 million? $4 million? Do you already carry well above the minimum required for property carriers. If you’re using a mobile device, tap the image to call and weigh in. If you’re on a desktop, call 530-408-6423. Make sure to tell us your name and state of residence, and we’ll put a podcast together rounding up the responses.
Business
Committee recommends doc questionnaire on prescription pain meds
Industry representatives worried that the questionnaire would put yet another stumbling block in the driver medical certification process; doctors argued it would help document their determination of whether a driver is fit to receive a medical card.
October 28, 2014
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Business
NTSB says FMCSA oversight, hands-free phone usage to blame for violent 2013 crash (with video)
FMCSA should restrict the hands-free use of portable electronics and lapsed in its oversight of a problematic carrier, according to a recent report by NTSB, who says both factors contributed to a May 2013 truck/train crash that caused a train derailment that led to an explosion.
October 23, 2014
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Business
Insurance increase rule, speed limiter rule running behind FMCSA’s projected schedule
File this under “no news can sometimes be news” — Two trucking-related federal rules in the works have missed projected schedules for their advancement through the rulemaking process.
October 22, 2014
An FMCSA rule to require speed limiters in trucks is expected to be sent to the White House for approval this month. However, it’s running behind the DOT’s project Oct. 9 date, as is the agency’s rule to raise liability insurance minimums.
Hours of Service
80 percent of public oppose overturning current hours rule, trucking questions study
Safety groups are pushing a new study that shows 80 percent of the American public wants Congress to leave the 2013 hours-of-service rule in place and to abandon efforts to suspend the rule. Trucking groups, however, say the results of the study are “misleading” and “harmful.”
October 17, 2014
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Business
Agency action on increasing insurance will give truckers, public extra comment period
The upcoming rule to increase the minimum amount of liability insurance that carriers and brokers must carry will have an additional step that allows fleets and owner-operators another chance to offer formal comment on the rule.
October 5, 2014
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