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Hours of Service

Railroad companies seek hours reprieve for drivers responding to emergencies

The companies say the employees who would be covered by the exemption clear derailed or disabled trains or debris blocking tracks or railroad rights-of-way when they respond to unplanned events that affect interstate commerce, service, or the safety of railway operations.

March 8, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Fireworks haulers get ELD waiver for Independence Day period

In its decision to grant the exemption, FMCSA says the 11-day exemption would not negatively impact safety. The agency also says it conducted “a comprehensive investigation of the safety performance history” of the 53 companies the exemption would cover.

February 15, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Preparing for the impossible, shutdown pessimism and the divisions in trucking history

Steve Bixler on those situations when contingency plans come up short, his long advocacy for an experienced-driver regs-review panel, the history of the “shutdown” and what’s changed since he started in the 1970s, and more in this Overdrive Radio podcast. Also: Slow roll convoy in the offing in Illinois this weekend …

January 25, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Time to require good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase agreements?

Owner-op Clifford Petersen asks whether it’s time for an update to the Truth in Leasing regulations to cover good-faith disclosures in lease-purchase contracts: “Maybe it’s time to make a stand and start eliminating predatory practices within our industry.”

January 15, 2019

Channel 19

The broker-margin transparency federal law already affords to carriers who request it

Owner-operators have a “right to review” amounts paid by shippers, collected by brokers and disbursed to themselves in any brokered freight transaction. But a right does nothing for anyone if not exercised — too many truckers, watchers contend, just aren’t aware of this one.

January 9, 2019

Business

FMCSA to allow states to issue one-year commercial learner’s permits

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will soon allow states to issue commercial learner’s permits for up to one year instead of the current six-month limit with the option to renew the permit for another six months.

December 20, 2018

Business

EPA to investigate questions surrounding pro-glider kits study

By opening this investigation, the agency’s inspector general now has two active investigations into studies regarding glider kit emissions. The new probe will investigate the EPA’s use of a maligned study produced by Tennessee Tech that has been deemed flawed by the college.

December 12, 2018

Channel 19

Hours of service proposal could come by end of March

Signs point to a decision on whether to move forward with hours change from FMCSA sooner than later — by Spring, regulators said during a call with owner-operators put together by Scott Reed and Scott Jordan of the Independent Carrier Group covering hours, the ELD mandate and exemptions, training and enforcement topics.

December 6, 2018

Custom Rigs

Iowa-based independent’s restoration of an e-log-exempt 2000 Pete 379

The FMCSA’s change to its guidance on the pre-2000 model year exemption to the ELD mandate — when the agency specified the engine year instead of the chassis year as the determining factor — sealed the deal for owner-operator Scott Hampton in his plans to do a $75K custom-restoration of his 2000 Peterbilt 379.

November 26, 2018

Business

EPA intends to review truck emissions regs to uniform rules, add tighter NOx standards

The U.S. EPA on Tuesday announced plans to explore overhauling emissions regulations for heavy-duty trucks and engines, aiming for greater simplicity of emissions regulations and national uniformity of such regs, said EPA Acting Administrator, Andrew Wheeler.

November 13, 2018

Overdrive Radio

How a ’96 Classic came to be ‘The Goose,’ and: Hope for small-biz primacy with FMCSA?

So just how did Daniel and Phyllis Snow’s 1996 Freightliner Classic XL come to be called ‘The Goose’? In this Overdrive Radio podcast, the independent owner-operators tell that story. Also: A bit of stumping for the importance of small business in trucking from none other than the top motor carrier safety regulator in the nation,

November 9, 2018

Hours of Service

New personal-conveyance FAQs illustrate FMCSA’s round-trip view of ‘under dispatch’

In the agency’s new FAQ series, Question No. 1 solidifies an interpretation of any dispatch as encompassing a round trip, and also attempts to clarify seeming contradictions between that interpretation and the new personal conveyance guidance. More on PC enforcement during audits, too, muddying waters.

November 9, 2018