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Business
‘Truckers to Shut Down America’ viral meme keeps moving
The Facebook page that went viral the third week of September calling for a trucking shutdown was then shut down itself under murky circumstances. Meanwhile, nontrucking promoters move toward a semblance of organization.
September 24, 2013
A flyer hosted at RidefortheConstitution.org directs readers back to another site owned by online talk show host Pete Santilli — text of the flyer begins with “Independent Truckers of America are essentially operating on slave wages…” Click through the image to read the text in full. For a decade, though income has been somewhat stagnant measured against inflation, average take-home for owner-operators in the United States has tracked around or above $50,000 yearly in Overdrive’s surveys, and recent ATBS client data showed an overall $52K/year average, hardly “slave wages.”
Business
FMCSA scraps old training proposal, embarks on new rulemaking
FMCSA withdraws its 2007 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Entry Level Driver Training in favor of developing another proposal.
September 20, 2013
Western Express driver Derek Dorsey, on Monteagle Mountain, I-24
Voices
Wanted: Smarter, simpler, more streamlined trucking regulations
This op-ed by Colorado trucking association head Greg Fulton argues for “eliminat[ing] any unnecessary or outdated regulations. At the same time, we need to streamline the existing ones.”
September 15, 2013
Voices
Driver shortage: Veteran operators’ views on who’s filling it
In the final installment of this series, longtime drivers Kenny Frye, Jim Hoskins, John Minders and Mike Hogan offer views on the quality of professional entering the industry today.
September 4, 2013
Driver Raise Clock
Channel 19
Too little too late? New grants for CARB upgrades
News of new grant funding available for truck DPF retrofits and truck replacements for California-based owner-operators shows limitations of California’s grant programs.
September 3, 2013
Click this map for a CARB page where you can access each California air quality district’s website via links embedded in a map there.
Business
Tale of two CA ports in recent protest actions
Los Angeles port truckers picketed an area trucking company Aug. 27, while the previous week, Oakland port independents ended protests after leadership agreed to reach out on their behalf.
August 30, 2013
Workers picketing Green Fleet Systems in the Los Angeles area. Photo: International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Channel 19
Some jurisdictions ‘do not compute’ new restart limitations
Uproar in an hours session at GATS yields intel on some jurisdictions’ faulty interpretations of the revised restart provisions in the new hours rule.
August 29, 2013
Hours of service packed house at GATS
Regulations
Last days for CARB’s manufacturer-delay extension
With yearend upgrade deadlines looming for small-fleet (1-3-truck) owner-operators of 1996-2006 model-year engines, purchases must be made by Sept. 1 to take advantage of manufacturer-delay extension if necessary.
August 28, 2013
problem emissions control labels (2)
Business
How to prepare for a safety audit
Safety consultant Leon Feazell detailed audit prep procedures and processes with recommendations for small carriers at the Great American Trucking Show.
August 23, 2013
Roadside inspection data drivers driver-audit selection during carrier reviews.
Channel 19
CSA: DataQ opportunity with lights, generic speeding violations
The most common lighting-related violation — top 20 states for “Inoperative required lamp” prevalence ranked here — may be basis for a DataQ challenge if the light is not required by regulation.
August 15, 2013
Follow this link for further diagrams and information on all required lamps as specified in FMCSA regulations.
Channel 19
More off/on-duty discussion
Debate continues over loading/unloading situations and what exactly consitutes “off-duty” time under the new hours rule.
August 1, 2013
Night In Nashville, Loading Dock
Voices
The undeclared war on owner-operators
Reclassification, hours of service rules, increased equipment costs and state and local regulations on idling, parking and noise are smothering the owner-operator, writes Greg Fulton.
July 30, 2013
The title of this op-ed for Overdrive by Colorado Motor Carriers Association President Greg Fulton, he says, is “a phrase that I heard from a frustrated owner-operator.”
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