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Electronic Logging Devices

More hopes and hazards: ELD data aggregation for advocacy, predictive maintenance, other uses

Some research organizations and even ELD providers are using aggregate ELD data to advocate for regulatory change or other industry purposes. Other providers are building potentially powerful predictive tools around maintenance, both of users’ trucks and the roads they operate on.

June 26, 2019

Business

UPS seeks reprieve from two driver training rule provisions

In its request, UPS asks for exemptions from the requirement that a driver training instructor have two years of experience and have held a CDL for two years, and the requirement to register each training location for a unique Training Provider Registry (TPR) number.

June 18, 2019

Business

FMCSA grants waiver to fleet allowing 150 air-mile radius for short-haul exemption

RJR Transportation requested the exemption last October. In its request, the company told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration most of its trucks operate within 100 air-miles of its headquarters, but approximately 5% of its drivers exceed 100 air miles but not 150 air miles.

June 6, 2019

Business

Trucking Law: Your rights under leasing regulations

The “truth in leasing” regulations are intended to level the playing field between them, partly by requiring a high level of transparency. Here are common owner-operator questions, answered by attorney Paul O. Taylor.

May 24, 2019

Business

DOT seeking input on regs around autonomous driving

The agencies announced Wednesday they will publish advance notices of proposed rulemaking “to ensure that all potential approaches are fully considered” while moving forward with autonomous vehicle regulations.

May 22, 2019

Channel 19

Report your boot: Mich. small fleet owner crowd-sourcing booting incidents

Leander Richmond launched ReportaBoot.com, intended to collect booting incident reports directly from drivers/carriers from the last few years, and in ongoing fashion — with a mind toward spurring action to tamp down particular practices of the “parking lot pirates,” as he calls a new breed of ‘parking enforcement’ providers.

May 21, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: E-log users, are you running with an ELD or a grandfathered AOBRD?

With the deadline for grandfathered Automatic Onboard Recording Device (AOBRD) users coming up this December, this poll asks e-log users in the audience whether you’ve made that transition to the actual ELD spec already or not? Weigh in here.

May 8, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

How to make the transition to the ELD spec from grandfathered e-logs, or AOBRDs

The key thing for trucking companies large and small to know about the Dec. 17, 2019, last-permissible date to utilize grandfathered electronic-logging-devices-by-another-name (that’d be those AOBRDs), is that it’s not too early to start making the transition today. Explore the transition here.

April 25, 2019

Business

Large fleet gets waiver to install pulsating brake lights on back of tankers

Groendyke Transport has been granted a waiver that allows it to install amber brake-activated pulsating lights on the back of its tankers to increase visibility when braking.

April 25, 2019

Business

FMCSA approves alternate cargo securement methods for certain agricultural commodities

The waiver allows for alternate securement for agricultural commodities transported in wood and plastic boxes and large fiberglass tubs, or for hay, straw and cotton bales that are grouped into large singular units.

April 17, 2019

Business

Delivering cannabis — and cash — in California

A look at the burgeoning cannabis and cash distribution businesses in California’s newly legal recreational cannabis market — via two operations with different areas of emphasis, both utilizing cargo vans for the work.

April 15, 2019

Channel 19

From within or without? — pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate

Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations — hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those “equal and opposite reactions.” Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: “The pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.”

March 28, 2019