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Electronic Logging Devices
More hopes and hazards: ELD data aggregation for advocacy, predictive maintenance, other uses
Some research organizations and even ELD providers are using aggregate ELD data to advocate for regulatory change or other industry purposes. Other providers are building potentially powerful predictive tools around maintenance, both of usersā trucks and the roads they operate on.
June 26, 2019
Channel 19
Report your boot: Mich. small fleet owner crowd-sourcing booting incidents
Leander Richmond launched ReportaBoot.com, intended to collect booting incident reports directly from drivers/carriers from the last few years, and in ongoing fashion ā with a mind toward spurring action to tamp down particular practices of the āparking lot pirates,ā as he calls a new breed of āparking enforcementā providers.
May 21, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Plenty blame to go around in Colo. tragedy, when the damage is done
Trucker Clifford Petersen on the Colo. disaster: āLetās build a training program within our industry that the feds will model, because the standards are high, and expectations are even higher. The lives we save may be those of our own families. Those lives may be our own.ā
May 6, 2019
Voices
POLL: Would a standardized miles-traveled tax for highway funds be a good fuels-tax replacement?
With some state jurisdictions currently testing the idea of a miles-traveled tax in place of a fuel tax for road repair and expansion funds, how do you feel about the potential fuel-tax replacement being eyed as electric and hybrid vehicles become more prominent?
April 29, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Is āmoving the hours finish lineā the right tack for change?
Owner-op Gary Buchs on hours-change potential, including recent bills and petitions: āPeople regularly pontificate about how much better trucking was with the old 10/8 rules and more sleeper splits. Iād challenge these memories somewhat with a reminder that we still got tired, and that the working environment for trucking was very different.ā ā¦
April 13, 2018
Voices
POLL: Whatās your take on Trumpās first year in office?
With Donald Trumpās first year as President in the books ā and with a brief government shutdown nearing an end ā whatās your take on the first year? Good, bad, indifferent? Weigh in here.
January 22, 2018
Business
Spotted salamander for a thousand, Alex
āRest easy, Pennsylvania. Your concerns as a constituency are 100 percent being met in the salamander department by the gubmint, because theyāre here to help. Salamanders. Truckers, not so much.ā
November 17, 2017
Business
Dawdling digits and thumbtastic things
As the #ELDorMe tweetstorm continues, Wendy weighs in: āif you have to yell loud and long to get someone to pay attention to the people who helped put this administration into office, then I say keep yelling. As a matter of fact, yell louder.ā
October 16, 2017
Business
Trump nominates Raymond P. Martinez to head FMCSA
For Martinez to become the official head of FMCSA, he must be confirmed by the Senate.
September 26, 2017
Business
Notes on having notes
āI firmly believe enough interest can be generated to get the ELD law delayed until the hours of service rules can be amended, but itās going to require sticking to the point and being very specific about what the point is, and itās going to require numbers of people to direct their concerns to the correct places.ā
June 28, 2017
Business
Nice sentiments
The ELD mandate drawing closer ā¦ āIāve noticed a lot more people deciding to protest the rule. I appreciate the feelings: Iām the first one to say, āStand up to the gubmint,ā but Iāve got one question: Where were yāall all those years ago when we were begging people to make comments?ā ā¦
May 17, 2017
Business
Push back
Wendy on the importance of individual advocacy efforts: āI hear so many people say, āYou canāt change things, no one listens, Iām just going to complain on Facebook and waste valuable time I could be calling my Representative with and eat worms.'ā ā¦
January 9, 2017
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