Tag: regulations: Page 40

Voices

Readers: More gun restriction won’t help

Nine out of ten Overdrive readers either favor the status quo on official gun control or call for fewer restrictions on ownership.

January 16, 2013

Business

Driver fatigue criteria questioned in court

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has requested a federal court’s intervention in what it describes as FMCSA amending out-of-service criteria outside the rulemaking process.

January 4, 2013

Voices

Breaking: Regulators apologize for delaying Santa

Regulators have determined the Claus operation is an imminent hazard to the motoring public and have ordered Santa to cease operation effective immediately.

December 24, 2012

Channel 19

CSA/PSP: Due process, access key operator concerns

Diving into the issues surrounding operators’ access to information being collected about their businesses by DOT and due process concerns with dismissed citations/violations.

December 6, 2012

Voices

Reader: FMCSA attacks safety ‘from the wrong end of the beast’

“If rates were up where they should be, drivers wouldn’t have to complain about receiving and loading fees one bit.”

December 3, 2012

Voices

Does FMCSA’s medical card verification program violate HIPAA?

Short answer: Probably not. Here find a roundup of viewpoints from readers on this and other issues surrounding FMCSA’s new medical card-verification policy.

November 23, 2012

Channel 19

Turkey day dispatch: More docs with CDLs needed?

“We need more thanks paid to the nation’s drivers for the jobs you do day-in day-out. Clearly there’s a dearth of it in many quarters.”

November 22, 2012

Channel 19

7 EOBR “myths” discussed

Fleet reps Allen Lowry of Central Refrigerated and Vincent Dinino Jr. provided a window on fleets’ real-world perspectives relatives to areas of contention around electronic onboard recorders for hours compliance.

November 20, 2012

Channel 19

Redux: Have you seen your ‘CSA scorecard’?

With third party vendors providing tools to carriers to compute their drivers CSA scores, only one continues to take that functionality directly to the “drivers” of CSA — professional operators. Have you seen a tabulation of your CSA performance? We want to hear from you.

November 15, 2012

Channel 19

Mobile trends: Has your smartphone replaced your GPS?

Survey results from uShip’s annual mobile technology survey showed a majority of operators either relying on their smartphones for navigation more than their GPS units or recognizing that potential.

November 12, 2012

Business

FMCSA: Expect sleep apnea guidance proposal in near term

At the 2012 Truck Driver Social Media Convention, Elaine Papp, chief of FMCSA’s Medical Programs Division, offered insights on the agency’s plan to introduce official sleep apnea guidance.

October 28, 2012

Channel 19

Readers: GPS regs won’t fill a void of common sense

Politicians making ridiculous comparisons notwithstanding, in the late call for regulation of GPS units, many readers noted there could be no technological excuse for a lack of driver common sense.

September 27, 2012