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Channel 19
Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?
EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just drivers’ word.
May 4, 2012
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Business
LogBook
The Arrow Truck Sales 2012 Back on the Road winner is named, the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners is required, a woman’s rescuer is named Goodyear’s Highway Hero, cargo theft increases and other industry news items are featured.
May 1, 2012
Billy Basenburg’s prizes include a 2008 Mack Pinnacle high-rise sleeper.
Voices
Roadside Attractions
Owner-operators have some strong words, an air force vet finds a third life in trucking, a demand for bee hive transport; plus Truck Gauge, Channel 19 and Truck Gallery are featured.
May 1, 2012
Scan the QR to pull up a video excerpt of owner-operator Greg Petit’s testimony to FMCSA on EOBRs and harassment. For more from the listening session, visit youtube.com/overdrivemag.
Business
ATA, OOIDA square off over EOBR mandate
Bill Graves asked members on the surface transportation bill committee to require motor carriers to use EOBRs.
April 26, 2012
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Channel 19
Speak out today in EOBR session
If you’ve not taken the opportunity to tell the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration your thoughts on just how electronic onboard recorders for hours-of-service monitoring are or will be used in the industry, today is your day. For haulers shutting down in late afternoon on the East Coast, the opportunity is particularly good. The agency’s […]
April 26, 2012
Business
FMCSA opens floor for driver commentary on EOBRs
FMCSA announced it will hold a listening session April 26, in Bellevue, Wash., to gather public commentary on EOBRs and driver harassment.
April 25, 2012
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Channel 19
Owner-operators deliver in MATS EOBR listening sessions
If you haven’t read the report my colleague James Jaillet filed from the Mid-America Trucking Show on the Friday listening sessions the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration conducted on the subject of electronic on-board recorders for hours of service compliance, find it here. Time and again, operators urged regulators to address the real problems in […]
March 27, 2012
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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
LogBook
Driver harassment, the hours rule, Navistar’s engine transision, sleep apnea regulations and more industry news items are featured.
March 20, 2012
An FMCSA safety panel made recommendations that would focus on protecting drivers from harassment when using an electronic onboard recorder.
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
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Business
Pulse
Years from now it might turn out that EOBRs and apnea screening are two intrusions that never lived up to the bluster.
March 1, 2012
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Channel 19
Back to basics in apnea debate: The importance of sleep
Last night on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program of fuel hauler Allen Smith and his wife, Donna, discussion of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board’s joint work on the issue of sleep apnea gave way at a crucial moment to a reiteration of the reality of the […]
February 24, 2012
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