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Hours of Service

Hours of service listening session set for GATS

The GATS listening session, which will be at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, will begin at 10 a.m. and is scheduled for two hours. FMCSA says the listening sessions will allow the public to present comments, views and relevant research on the proposed hours changes.

August 19, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off

In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could have been avoided, mainstream news spin, more on the proposal …

August 16, 2019

Voices

As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions

The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with some welcoming the proposed changes and others dismissing them.

August 14, 2019

Hours of Service

Stop the clock: Proposed hours of service overhaul would allow drivers to pause 14-hour countdown

FMCSA announced its proposal to reform hours of service regulations. Chief among the changes is the proposal to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour on-duty time for up to three hours, and expanding the split-sleeper option to 7/3, beyond the current 8/2. Full details here…

August 14, 2019

Business

Trucking rap sheet: CDL testing schemes, HHG moving fraud, more

Action in six trucking-related crimes – including CDL testing schemes, medical exam fraud, household goods moving fraud and falsification of safety records– has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General.

August 9, 2019

Business

Comment period for FMCSA pilot program for under-21 interstate truckers ends next week

Drivers and interested parties can now comment on the proposal through Aug. 14. The proposal would expand the current under-21 program for military-trained drivers to drivers under the age of 21 that were not trained to drive trucks in the military.

August 9, 2019

Business

Missouri-based trucker shut down following fatal crash

According to FMCSA, trucker Bruce Andrew Pollard was driving a tractor-trailer in a work zone along I-465 eastbound in Indianapolis on July 14 when his truck, traveling faster than the posted speed limit, collided into a line of vehicles. Two young children and their mother were killed, and seven others were hospitalized.

August 8, 2019

Business

Autonomous regulations comment period extended through late August

FMCSA is seeking comments on a number of topics, including cybersecurity, hours of service for automated driving system operators, CDL endorsements for ADS operators, medical qualifications for ADS operators and more.

July 31, 2019

Business

FMCSA renews hours exemption for paper company drivers

WestRock to allow its Chattanooga, Tennessee, paper mill drivers to occasionally work up to 16 consecutive hours and return to work with less than 10 consecutive hours off duty. The drivers travel on approximately 275 feet of public road between the shipping and receiving departments shuttling trailers.

July 30, 2019

Business

Fines for trucking regs violations increased

The DOT, in order to find the 2019 adjustment amount, had to multiply the penalty amount by the percentage change between the October 2018 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the October 2017 CPI-U, which this year was 1.02522.

July 30, 2019

Business

Comment period opens for proposed CDL knowledge test change

The rule, if made final, would not require states to offer CDL knowledge tests to out-of-state drivers, but it would give states the option to offer the tests, then transmit the results to the driver’s home state, which would then be required to accept the results.

July 29, 2019

Channel 19

Revisiting the soft-market banana peel — freight relationships paying off for some

Randy Carlson “will have had my operating authority for 25 years” come next May. Right now, “trucking is the best it’s been in that entire 25 years” in general terms, he says, despite the slowdown for so many in the spot market, illustrating the value of steady freight partners.

July 25, 2019