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After following GPS up an Oregon mountain service road and getting stuck, trucker walks four days out of the forest

It’s certainly a GPS-snafu story, but Jacob Cartwright’s is also a story of determination, given the distance traveled out on foot and the spirit to continue after what had to be, days into the trek, a growing sense he might not make it.

May 1, 2018

Business

Prepass, Oregon programs now interoperable for bypass

PrePass carriers that operate in Oregon can now allow their transponders to be enrolled in and utilize Oregon’s state-operated Green Light weigh station bypass system at 21 facilities throughout the state, with a waiver of Prepass’ data privacy policy.

January 17, 2018

Business

Reefer, van spot market demand remain high in the last week over much of the country

Last week, the national average reefer rate hit its highest mark in three years at $2.40 per mile, and the market has looked more like June than November.

November 22, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Intrastate ELD mandates: California enforcement deadline likely to be late 2020, Oregon this year

California is planning to seek an intrastate adoption of the electronic logging device mandate that is likely to impose a deadline of December 31, 2020, for intrastate carriers. Oregon will enforce on the federal timeline Dec. 18 this year.

November 1, 2017

Business

Pacific Northwest wildfires prompt HOS suspensions, highway closures

Oregon and Washington have issued emergency declarations, suspending hours of service regulations for some truckers providing emergency relief and hauling supplies to the states due to wildfires. Several highways, including a section of I-84, have been closed because of the fires.

September 6, 2017

Business

OOIDA petitions FMCSA to withhold federal funding from 20 states for enforcement, including ELDs

The petition singles out 26 states that haven’t as yet adopted the ELD mandate, while 20 of those are out of compliance with fed regs adoption rules in general, OOIDA says. The MCSAP program granted more than $65 million in funding to those 20 states last year.

August 30, 2017

Business

This is why we can’t have celestial events

“It will be a blessing to be unable to view giant spaceships, as they descend upon us. It’s been nice knowing all of you. Give my rock collection to the children aliens, they’ll enjoy it.”

August 18, 2017

Business

Top 10 toughest states for tire violations

Oregon, Texas and North Carolina lead the tire-violations rankings, the latter two also showing an uncommonly strong focus on maintenance/equipment-related violations overall. Peruse more nationally ranked data on equipment violations here.

October 11, 2016

Business

Stoking the log fires: Hours violations, fleet size and ELDs

The smallest carriers are feeling the heat of hours enforcement in select states, even as violations declined nationally in 2015.

July 11, 2016

Business

Update: Top 10 toughest states for hours of service violations

Since Overdrive’s CSA’s Data Trail series began with analysis of the 2011-12 period in 2013, when there were just three states above the 20 percent mark for hours violations, there have never been as many states above that mark than today. For this year, Arkansas, Wyoming top the list.

June 28, 2016

Business

Calif. VMT tax pilot project follows Ore.’s weight-mile lead

Trucking telematics provider EROAD tapped to track heavy-duty participants in California’s vehicle-miles-traveled tax pilot project, running nine months beginning in July.

March 28, 2016

Business

Oregon, Washington areas under state of emergency with flooding, sinkholes and slides

NB I-5 is back open following a landslide near Woodland, Wash., in the Southwest part of the state that closed it entirely on Wednesday; problems elsewhere continue to mount.

December 11, 2015