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Oakley Trucking adds CSA score-based per-mile pay increase
The North Little Rock, Ark.-based dry bulk hauler will pay all new lease owner-operators an additional 10 cents-per-mile on both loaded and empty miles on top of their base pay. Drivers can keep that top bonus by not having points added to their CSA scores while leased to the company.
February 27, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Not so calm before the ELD storm
Results of the ELD “soft enforcement” period have proved less than gentle for some owner-operators. There’s also evidence of other unresolved issues as the gate opens April 1 for issuing out-of-service orders.
February 20, 2018
Business
FMCSA has a new boss: Senate confirms Martinez to run agency under Trump
Testifying before a panel of U.S. Senators in October, Martinez said he intends to uphold the agency’s electronic logging device mandate and institute data-driven reforms to the agency’s regulatory process and, specifically, the oft-criticized Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
February 14, 2018
Business
FMCSA clarifies how to submit crash preventability review requests for pilot program
For the crash preventability program, carriers need to select “Crash could not be prevented” in DataQs, ensure that the crash occurred after June 1, 2017, and select an eligible crash type. If a preventable crash ruling is changed to non-preventable, the crash is removed from a carriers’ CSA score.
February 7, 2018
Business
Trucker breaks and pay, infrastructure bill, FMCSA boss confirmation on tap as Congress returns
Congress could soon take action to block states from enacting laws on driver breaks and pay reforms, take up an infrastructure funding package, further delay ELD compliance for livestockers, confirm a new FMCSA boss and more…
January 3, 2018
Business
More clean inspections: Enforcement change or improved compliance?
Both enforcement-practice changes and, veteran officers suggest, improved operations on the part of truckers are responsible for clean inspections’ recent rise.
December 29, 2017
Channel 19
A view on the rise in clean inspections, from a state where they’re fairly uncommon
In our annual CSA’s Data Trail analysis, Indiana state ranks 10th this year in clean inspections, with less than a third of their total inspections having come out entirely violation-free over the course of calendar year 2016. But look at improvement in truckers’ favor in that metric, and you’ll see that Indiana is one of just a few states that improved in that particular metric by more than 50 percent over the preceding year.
December 28, 2017
Business
A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
Channel 19
Trends in violations, inspections move in truckers’ favor
Since year 2012, when the violation-free inspection percentage was below 40 percent, while the total number of inspections has remained relatively level and even fallen a little, violation-free inspection numbers have grown considerably, by more than 18 percent.
November 2, 2017
Business
Truckers can participate in meeting Friday on future of CSA
Friday’s meeting will allow the public to offer input to be considered by FMCSA in the development and implementation of an action plan to address CSA’s deficiencies outlined in National Academies of Sciences report. Registration is required for online or in-person attendance.
September 5, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD delay, trucker break laws on Congressional docket in coming weeks
A few prominent trucking policy reforms could be on tap in Congress in the coming weeks and months as lawmakers return to Washington from their annual August recess. Most prominently, lawmakers could take up a bill — or a rider to a must-pass spending bill — to delay the compliance date of the looming electronic logging device mandate.
September 5, 2017
Business
FMCSA holds listening sessions on CSA, ELDs with no notice to trucking
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, with no public notice to the trucking industry or trucking media, is in the midst of a three-stop tour intended to gather input from trucking stakeholders on some of the agency’s most prominent regulations.
August 10, 2017
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