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Business

House’s transportation bill would return CSA scores to public view

Scores were pulled from public view in December 2015 by the FAST Act highway bill, due to concerns about the data’s efficacy and whether the system accurately portrayed carriers’ safety performance and safety risk.

June 6, 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

Under-21 interstate pilot program for military vets enters next phase

FMCSA is now accepting applications from drivers and carriers to participate in the pilot program. As part of the pilot, FMCSA will compare the safety records of the under-21 drivers in the program to a control group of drivers ages 21-24 with CDLs and comparable training and experience driving trucks.

June 3, 2019

Hours of Service

Trash, recycling pickup company requests reprieve from certain short-haul exemption provisions

Kimble Recycling & Disposal says its short-haul trash and recycling pickup drivers cannot complete their work day within the 12 hours required by the short-haul exemption and requests to allow its drivers to operate up to 14 hours in a day.

May 30, 2019

Hours of Service

DOT funding bill would force 30-minute break to remain in hours regs

In what could become a clash between lawmakers in the U.S. House and a Department of Transportation aiming to propose an overhaul to drivers’ hours of service regulations, a working version of the annual Transportation Department funding bill released by the House’s Appropriations Committee last week would bar the DOT from eliminating the 30-minute break requirement of current hours regs.

May 28, 2019

Business

FMCSA extends emergency declaration in Plains, Midwest due to flooding

With the extension, the emergency declaration will be effective through July 2, or until the emergency ends, whichever is sooner. The declaration suspends hours of service regulations for truckers providing “direct support of relief efforts” to affected areas.

May 23, 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

Business

Trucking rap sheet: Trucker convicted of felony assault after hitting CARB inspector with truck

A truck driver in California has been convicted of felony assault after being found to have intentionally moved his truck and struck a California Air Resources Board inspector during a roadside inspection. A Mississippi CDL tester was also arrested in a CDL scheme.

May 13, 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

Channel 19

Erroneous status-switch to on-duty driving, while parked — Mark Kirbyson’s latest ELD issue

In November Kirbyson began having an issue with the ELD in his 2007 Caterpillar-powered Peterbilt kicking him into on-duty driving status, while he was asleep in the bunk. “Have others experienced a similar issue?” he asks. How’d you solve it?

April 24, 2019

Business

Ohio DPS looks to ease transition of military veterans into trucking

Ohio DPS proposes to eliminate skills test waiver requirements that state an applicant must have been a military position that requires driving a commercial vehicle in the last year and that the applicant must have operated a commercial vehicle for at least two years before leaving the military.

April 19, 2019