Tag: FMCSA: Page 80

Business

Operators vent over EOBR

Many drivers expressed disdain for electronic onboard recorders and the intent to mandate them at an FMCSA listening session.

March 23, 2012

Business

FMCSA inspector outlines top hazards

Top driver problems are logbook issues, record of duty status isn’t current, isn’t in possession of a medical certificate, doesn’t speak English and carrier requires or allows driver to drive after 14 hours on duty.

March 23, 2012

Business

CSA change will help flatbeds

Flatbed carriers will get some relief on their safety rating under a new change in how securement is weighted in the CSA program.

March 22, 2012

Business

FMCSA: Drivers not rated

FMCSA official contends truck drivers do not get a CSA score, as do carriers.

March 22, 2012

Business

ATA questions crash accountability decision

ATA laments decision by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to hold trucking responsible in its CSA program for every truck-involved crash.

March 20, 2012

Business

LogBook

Driver harassment, the hours rule, Navistar’s engine transision, sleep apnea regulations and more industry news items are featured.

March 20, 2012

Business

ATA, TCA challenge hours rule

ATA questioned changes to the restart provision requiring it include two consecutive periods between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.

March 16, 2012

Channel 19

Overdrive trucks to NYC today

Overdrive editor Max Heine and I are doing a little air-trucking this afternoon to NYC for the Jesse H. Neal awards banquet put on by American Business Media. My two-part feature on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is one of three finalists in the Best Series category for […]

March 15, 2012

Business

Teamsters challenges Mexican trucker safety

Union countered to halt cross-border trucking program with Mexico, which was preceded by Mexico filing a brief.

March 12, 2012

Channel 19

CSA-Proofing, part two: Closed greasing system

Owner-operator Gordon Alkire’s engineered a solution to the problem of needing to get under the truck to grease front and rear suspension components with a system he says he’s spent a mere $75 on.

March 9, 2012

Business

FMCSA asks court to exclude recorder use survey

Driver survey indicated enforcement officers make poor use of EOBR data, but carriers utilize the devices effectively to harass drivers.

March 8, 2012

Channel 19

Hours debacle covered at news site Politico

**(Overdrive editor Max Heine is posting updates from the Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting via the OD Twitter feed and Facebook page today. Expected to be included among the news are company driver and owner-operator of the year awards. Stay tuned.)** Click through the thumbnail of the graph here for Politico writer Adam Snider’s brief […]

March 6, 2012