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Voices

Truckers: No to ‘beta’ testing when lives at stake

Truckers polled this month agreed by and large with much of Consumer Reports’ “Too much autonomy too soon” verdict about the ‘Autopilot’ technology deployed in the Tesla Model S in ‘beta’ form, recently in use during a fatal crash in Florida.

August 15, 2016

Channel 19

Better rates: Employee drivers need fair-labor protection, reader argues

A prescription for improved rates long-term — a reader argues for federal wage protection for company drivers.

June 23, 2016

Channel 19

An hourly future for driver pay?

There’s evidence that legal and other pressures could lead to more prevalence for a time-based pay model, particularly for company drivers. Should a state-to-state patchwork of enforceable labor laws be the way forward?

February 9, 2016

Channel 19

So does FMCSA’s safety rating rule in fact violate Congressional directive?

Another week, another letter to Congress from an ad hoc coalition of groups challenging FMCSA’s new safety rating rule’s release on grounds it violates the FAST Act highway bill.

February 4, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Highway bill effort to resolve federal/state legal conflict over carrier services, driver wages

New court interpretations of the FAAAA introduce contradictions between federal and state law (particularly in CA) that challenge incentive-based compensation.

November 2, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Audio mailbag: More voices in favor of swift action on the problem of uncompensated detention

Calls continue to come in from drivers around the nation in response to the Detention détente series of reports — in this podcast, drivers weigh in on the regulatory apparatus’ potential role.

September 28, 2015

Business

There’s an app for that

Another electronic device to tell you when you’re tired! Wendy looks at the “reasons professionally licensed human beings in the transportation industry no longer have the ability to tell themselves they’re tired.” …

May 27, 2015

Business

The trucking jubilee

“It ain’t no party for the fish involved, and it ain’t no disco for the drivers, but the fat cats eat well, and fill their coffers with easily caught fish, who are addled and unsure of their surroundings.”

April 22, 2015

Channel 19

+25 percent: What double the liability insurance coverage will likely cost

One insurance rep cites a likely 25 percent increase in premiums for independent owner-operators boosting $1 million liability coverage to $2M. More on FMCSA’s expected insurance-hike proposal here.

September 30, 2014

Business

URS: FMCSA begins deactivating carrier authorities with update-enforcement provision

Part of the rationale for the system is a clean-up of FMCSA data – the agency has begun deactivating motor carrier authorities that are not being actively updated by set deadlines, depending on the motor carrier.

March 28, 2014

Voices

Readers debate New Entrant test

While a majority were positive about FMCSA’s plan to introduce regs testing into the process for obtaining operating authority, questions as to the scope of test questions remained as the second federal listening session on the subject approached.

March 13, 2014

Channel 19

‘Haul it for free?’: Readers sound off on recent hours study

Wisecracks and ideas on rates following the recent UT Global Supply Chain Institute’s study on the new hours of service’s economic impact, which noted companies along the supply chain should focus on efficiency rather than raise rates/pass along costs…

January 23, 2014