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Business

Trucking rap sheet: Clean inspection briberies, CDL schemes and fraudulent drug tests

A number of California DMV employees were charged for their roles in fraudulently changing CDL testing scores, a Texas trucking company owner was charged for bribing for clean inspections, and a Washington drug screener was charged for fabricating DOT drug test reports.

December 11, 2017

Business

Kentucky-licensed trucker shut down following accident caused by drug overdose

According to FMCSA, Kinmon was driving west on I-74 in Ohio on Aug. 18 when his truck slowed down to a stop and began rolling backwards. The truck rolled into adjacent travel lanes, jackknifed and hit a guardrail before coming to a stop with the trailer blocking the westbound lanes.

December 8, 2017

Business

FMCSA orders shutdown of one-truck fleet, two drivers

A one-truck fleet and its driver based in Washington state and a California-licensed trucker have been effectively shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in separate shut down orders.

December 7, 2017

Business

FMCSA renews Medical Review Board charter for two years

The MRB is composed of five members from medical institutions and private practice. They are tasked with giving advice and recommendations to FMCSA on medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of truckers

December 7, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs: What to expect from enforcement as the mandate descends

As of Dec. 18, states and their federal truck enforcement partners will begin issuing violations and citations, in some cases with fines, to those subject to the electronic logging device mandate who aren’t using e-logs. Practices will vary considerably for log checks with those devices.

December 5, 2017

Channel 19

Recalcitrant politicos in sights of anti-mandate rallies kicking off Monday nationwide

Organizers are hopeful that the Dec. 4 “ELD media blitz” in numerous locations nationwide will finally get the attention of lawmakers — some drivers, too — who have become recalcitrant in the face of a growing feeling of inevitability around the mandate.

December 1, 2017

Business

Notes on things that shouldn’t be self-certified

Wendy on FMCSA’s ELD registry: “‘Self-certification’ is a fancy term for ‘because I said so’, and pretty much every human being who has or is a parent has heard or used that phrase.”

November 29, 2017

Business

Unified Carrier Registration board meeting to be held Thursday

The board came under fire recently after a court ruled it violated federal open meetings laws by holding a meeting on Sept. 14 without notifying the public. During that meeting, the board voted to reduce carrier registration fees for 2018 and 2019, which the court did not strike down.

November 28, 2017

Business

I’ll take ‘Education and Training’ for the safety, Alex

“Any coherent business owner will tell you education and training are your most important safety features, in any setting, commercial or otherwise. … How is this being left out of the safety discussion?”

November 27, 2017

Channel 19

Roundup: A source of supposed DOT ‘bot attack’; The ‘fatbergs’ clogging the regs swamp

Source of supposed “bot” attack on regulatory reform comments identified. And transport attorney Henry Seaton’s talk at NASTC’s annual meeting identifies safety-rating, hours and other issues as principal fatbergs to clear in regs-reform efforts.

November 21, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

No points against CSA score for ELD violation during phase-in period

Drivers who receive a violation for having no ELD between Dec. 18 and April 1 will not have points recorded against them in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability carrier scoring system, safety officials said today at a public hearing in Birmingham, Ala.

November 15, 2017

Business

And just what a-‘bot’ that amateur-hour advocacy group

As reports surface of “bots” commenting on regs, Wendy expresses doubt, with humility: “I’m just part of that ‘amateur-hour’ advocacy group who didn’t nonetheless make a ‘rookie mistake’ by encouraging ‘bots’ to do a job people need to be doing themselves with genuine, applicable, relevant information to have any credibility.”

November 15, 2017