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The Keys Truckers’ ‘Letter to Capitol Hill’
File this one under “modest proposal.” Seems Keys Truckers Jan and James (pictured) McCarter are always involved when a nice slab of satire graces the blog here, not to mention good music. In any case, last week was a banner in both quarters. Amid the week’s run of comments surrounding our top-10 trucking songs poll […]
August 15, 2011
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A window on FMCSA’s CSA driver-enforcement authority goals
I thought I’d share a document leaked earlier in the year — specifically in May, and to the Transportation Weekly publication — that purported to be a draft highway bill whose genesis was within the Obama administration. It contains a 12-page section headed by “Driver Safety Provisions,” beginning on p. 366, that seems to further […]
August 10, 2011
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‘Medically certified’ — join us for radio show Wednesday to probe driver health regs
At 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow evening (Wed., June 22) I’ll join Truth About Trucking Live hosts Allen & Donna Smith as well as my colleague Max Kvidera for a special show probing the issues raised by the current, June Truckers News cover story Kvidera and I penned about state and federal regs for driver […]
June 21, 2011
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Driving Miss Crazy shoots straight
Just how Birmingham News “Driver’s Side” traffic columnist Ginny MacDonald settled on the handle Driving Miss Crazy is something of a mystery. But like the friendship that evolved between the black chauffeur and the elderly Jewess in the film the handle plays on, the moniker smacks of a magnificent sense of humor. And that’s something […]
June 2, 2011
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‘The center cannot hold’ — FMCSA’s hours quandary
There is a growing feeling among industry watchers that in order to fully settle the decidedly unsettled regulatory situation surrounding the hours of service, Congress is going to have to legislate a solution. That sentiment has come to me from industry executives, consultants, former regulatory types and, in some senses, drivers. Comments from owner-operators and […]
May 11, 2011
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Ferro on detention: ‘Shippers should be held accountable.’
If you missed the open call the Trucking Solutions Group’s member owner-operators held with FMCSA administrator Anne Ferro last week, you missed a lot. The wide-ranging conversation ran the gamut of topics from cross-border trucking to hours and detention concerns. About the last of which, it was heartening to hear, Ferro noted that she in […]
May 10, 2011
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Back to the past: $4 diesel returns
Well it’s official, folks. The Energy Information Administration’s weekly diesel report this week showed the national average with 3 cents of the $4 mark, reaching the highest point yet in the now near nine-month run-up in price we’ve seen since last August, by now oh-so eerily reminiscent of the 2007-08 run (an Overdrive headline in April 2008 […]
April 6, 2011
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NPR looks at truckers’ health issues and regulation
A radio story on regulators’ scrutiny of truckers health aired last week Friday for a larger than usual audience — on NPR by reporter Frank Morris out of station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. He introduced the heart — or stomach — of the story quickly: “Outside the Iron Skillet restaurant on I-70 east of […]
August 4, 2010
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News flash: Owner-operator likes electronic logs
Jeffersonville, Ind.-based owner-operator Perry Famularo says he “was one of those guys who said, ‘If you make me go to electronic logs, I’m out of here.’” Leased to Dart Transit, though, he was presented with the opportunity a couple years ago to try out one of the PeopleNet eLogs units the mostly owner-operator carrier was beginning to test and offer its […]
July 16, 2010
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Tonight: CSA 2010 round robin, webinar on gaining authority
A message yesterday from the folks with AsktheTrucker.com about their online radio show, Truth About Trucking, scheduled for 5 p.m. EST this afternoon, detailed the 40 questions the program hopes to answer about CSA 2010 (see below for a full list), delayed from July implementation for carriers to November but no less fraught with complexities […]
April 28, 2010
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Flex time — ATA lays down support for sleeper berth/HOS flexibility in comments to feds
The latest wrinkle in the ongoing debate over potential changes to trucking hours-of-service regulations, for which so many drivers have offered various proposals for injecting flexibility into the system, is the biggest trucking-company organization in the nation’s support for codifying split rest in the sleeper berth. “Allowing shorter documented sleeper berth periods [other than the currently […]
April 22, 2010
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A modest proposal for hours flexibility: ‘Gold Card drivers’
Trucker/marathoner/blogger Jeff Clark offers a well-thought-out idea for hours-of-service flexibility, giving the stellar, safe drivers out there a new name and the freedom to use their status to run how they please: “Gold card drivers” are “drivers who do not get into accidents,” he says. “They don’t get moving violations. They don’t get out-of-service violations, and they do not do drugs. These drivers deserve to be recognized. They also have a lot to teach new drivers. The standards to reach gold card status must be tough, but attainable. My proposal would be 1,000,000 miles without an at-fault DOT reportable accident, moving violations, driver out-of-service violations, or positive drug tests. The reward would be to be left alone. These drivers have demonstrated the outstanding judgment needed to achieve those standards. They do not need some bureaucrat in Washington to tell them how to do their job. These drivers should be allowed to throw away their log books and run the way they know how….”
April 16, 2010
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