Tag: out of service: Page 2

Business
330-truck fleet sat idle for nearly two weeks while trying to shrug out-of-service order
Update, 1/7/16: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced late Thursday, Jan. 7, that it has reinstated Land-Air’s “conditional” rating, allowing the carrier to resume its normal operation. The 340-driver fleet had been idle since Dec. 29.
January 7, 2016
landair
Business
Georgia trucker shut down for hiding medical history
A Georgia truck driver has been issued a shutdown order by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for being “medically unqualified” to drive in interstate commerce.
November 2, 2015
medical
Business
Inspectors place 2,300 vehicles out of service during Brake Week enforcement blitz
The results are in from this year’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Brake Safety Week held Sept. 6-12, and inspectors placed 2,321 of the 18,817 vehicles inspected out-of-service during the week for brake violations.
October 29, 2015
inspection
Business
uShip’s vision for mobile-driven ‘little LTL’
uShip CEO envisions tomorrow’s trucker as an independent who uses on-demand platforms to “help them maximize utilization of the asset”; readers’ worries over “sharing economy” competition foregrounded.
April 2, 2015
Nearby shipments search functionality and the instant-booking feature of the uShip mobile app further automates freight selection in some categories in the platform’s load universe.
Business
Hours, brakes top out-of-service violations in this year’s Roadcheck inspection blitz
Of the 72,415 drivers inspected in this year’s Roadcheck inspection spree, 4.8 percent were placed out-of-service, and more than half of those were placed out-of-service due to hours of service or logbook violations.
August 15, 2014
inspection
Business
FMCSA shuts down fleet behind driver said to have been on duty 35 hours
Illinois-based carrier DND International has been ordered to shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after the agency said its investigators found “widespread, serious violations” of hours of service regulations and with falsifying logs.
April 3, 2014
velasquez
Business
Mass. fleet owner pleads guilty to bribery; FMCSA shuts down three drivers
Korca Enterprises owner Irfan Dushku faces home confinement and extended probation after bribery attempt; and drivers in Texas, Michigan and Illinois are declared imminent hazards to public safety by FMCSA.
October 25, 2013
All three imminent hazard orders proceeded from crash investigations that uncovered patterns of serious violations, a dynamic discussed in-depth in Overdrive‘s “Crashes and Interventions” reporting as part of our CSA’s Data Trail series earlier in 2013.
Business
Agency orders Colorado trucking company to cease operation
After it uncovered a litany of regulatory violations, FMCSA has issued an imminent hazard out-of-service order to Colorado-based trucking company GD Cars.
May 24, 2013
Business
Agency orders six carriers, one driver to shut down
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has been on a cleaning sweep since late November.
December 21, 2012
Business
Understanding those happy expedite carrier CEOs
Why are those expedite carrier CEO’s so happy? I interviewed some of them to find out.
March 15, 2012
Business
Third of drivers placed out of service in Ore. inspections
This compared with the 27 percent average for a similar exercise in July.
September 28, 2011
Business
Oregon takes 27% of drivers out of service
In July, 620 inspections resulted in placing 27 percent of drivers out of service for safety violations.
August 3, 2011
(Courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation)
Previous Page
Page 2 of 3
Next Page