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Overdrive Radio

Listen/watch: Owner-operators, drivers weigh in on hours at FMCSA’s listening session

If you missed the Great American Trucking Show or the FMCSA’s webcast last week, you can sit in on the first hour_plus of the hours of service listening session held at GATS Aug. 23 via this video and/or audio player. The session was devoted to some proposed hours changes aimed at increasing both safety with some measure of flexibility for drivers.

August 28, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off

In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could have been avoided, mainstream news spin, more on the proposal …

August 16, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The AOBRD-to-ELD shift: Data/edits and visibility at roadside

With AOBRDs, edits made in the back office as a general rule don’t present to the roadside officer. Under the ELD specification, however, data transmittal at roadside includes those edits. It also includes detailed records of the truck’s GPS positions, engine on-off records, engine hours and the like.

August 15, 2019

Voices

As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions

The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with some welcoming the proposed changes and others dismissing them.

August 14, 2019

Hours of Service

Stop the clock: Proposed hours of service overhaul would allow drivers to pause 14-hour countdown

FMCSA announced its proposal to reform hours of service regulations. Chief among the changes is the proposal to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour on-duty time for up to three hours, and expanding the split-sleeper option to 7/3, beyond the current 8/2. Full details here…

August 14, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift

The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.

August 13, 2019

Business

Autonomous regulations comment period extended through late August

FMCSA is seeking comments on a number of topics, including cybersecurity, hours of service for automated driving system operators, CDL endorsements for ADS operators, medical qualifications for ADS operators and more.

July 31, 2019

Overdrive Radio

More flexible sleeper splits: Didn’t take long for this newbie team to see potential value

Introducing Hartsville, Tenn.-based Tommy and Linda Bryant of Hartsville, Tenn., mid-careers but brand-new to trucking and operating a team. Would they use a 5/5 split if it were an option? You bet.

July 19, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA denies request to exempt small carriers from ELD mandate

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has denied a request from the Small Business in Transportation Coalition that sought to exempt trucking companies with 50 or fewer employees from the electronic logging device mandate.

July 16, 2019

Business

Truckers hauling post-hurricane relief loads granted the usual regs waiver

The U.S. DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a regional emergency declaration that suspends hours of service regulations and size/weight regs for drivers hauling relief loads and supplies to areas affected by Hurricane Barry, which made landfall in Louisiana on Saturday.

July 15, 2019

Channel 19

Speed limiters: Senate bill to mandate a 65 mph setting a ‘terrible idea’

Voices on the Senate bill from a Georgia Republican that would mandate a 65 mph speed setting for trucks capable of it. And more on the ‘careful what you wish for’ dynamics in regulatory change.

July 10, 2019

Channel 19

Martinez heard the message — +flexibility — now will his agency deliver?

To cap the week, here’s a celebration of the spirit of a system in which we can all at least participate by speaking freely. Views on and hopes for the impending hours revision hammer home the central message of a majority of haulers. In the words of one reader: “Quit stalling. Get some relief for us.”

July 5, 2019