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Business

FMCSA launches online hours of service example tool

FMCSA’s new interactive ETHOS tool for understanding the hours of service changes. A trucker was named a Highway Angel for helping extinguish a truck fire and saving a fellow driver. I-15 ramps closures are planned for Oct. 4-7 near Las Vegas.

September 30, 2020

Business

Widespread staged-accident insurance fraud uncovered

A U.S. Attorney has charged 28 individuals for allegedly intentionally causing accidents with tractor-trailers to get insurance payouts. A Mack-centered truck show will go on this weekend in PA. OOIDA released HOS educational videos. KeepTruckin customers get Drivewyze weigh station bypass access.

September 29, 2020

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Has your ELD updated its compliance-assist elements to reflect the hours changes?

Whether you’ve tried out any of the new flexibilities in the hours of service rule or not, this poll asks if your electronic logging device has updated the underlying rule-sets in its time counters/other compliance assist elements as of September 29.

September 29, 2020

Channel 19

Point of emphasis from readers: Hours of service regs all about how much you can drive

Hypothetical scenarios around HOS regulations spark reader conversations, pointing to a fact sometimes miscontrued. Duty limits are all about drive time.

September 29, 2020

Hours of Service

Here are the changes taking effect for 14-hour rule, 30-minute break

Prepared for the upcoming hours of service changes? Discover what you need to know while operating under the revised 14-hour and 30-minute break rules here.

September 28, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Final review: Hours of service recap, questions answered with FMCSA

How 'to work your day' with the new rule in effect Sept. 29, in the words of FMCSA's Joe DeLorenzo. New flexibilities in this week's Overdrive Radio podcast.

September 25, 2020

Channel 19

Hours of service pop quiz: Can you haul 77 hours in 7 days?

Reaching for a low-hanging-fruit example to shock the conscience, HOS legal challengers, following FMCSA's denial of their petition, made this basic mistake.

September 24, 2020

Business

Teamsters, safety groups look to halt HOS changes

With less than two weeks to go until an overhauled hours of service rule takes effect, a band of usual suspects has sued the U.S. DOT seeking to derail the new regs. I-94 EB in Michigan to close next week. FMCSA granted a waiver to allow a mirrorless rearview camera system on trucks.

September 17, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Rumble strips ahead: How to manage for downside risk in turbulent trucking times

Gary Buchs and Kevin Rutherford discuss best practices for trucking operations during turbulent times and more. Find something for your business on Overdrive.

September 4, 2020

Hours of Service

Hours changes and personal conveyance, coercion, rates

Reps from CVSA, FMCSA discuss combating coercion as the hours of service rule's new flexibility is set for Sept. 29. Read more and watch here on Overdrive.

September 3, 2020

Hours of Service

New hours of service rule, new perspectives on enforcement readiness, split rest

The new hours of service rule will go into effect Sept 29th at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time. Will enforcement be ready? Learn more from FMCSA, CVSA, others.

September 2, 2020

Business

Shorter 14-clock pauses: FMCSA wants feedback on pilot test

FMCSA wants feedback on a 30-min.-3-hour 14-hour duty window pause in the hours of service as it proposes a pilot program. In other news: A multi-state mileage-based user fee truck pilot begins Oct. 1. Love’s opened new stores in Texas and Illinois.

August 28, 2020