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Hours of Service

Truckers push flexibility case at latest hours of service listening session

The FMCSA's Ray Martinez listened to truckers voice their opinions about hours of service regulations at the Guilty by Association Truck Show in Joplin, MO.

October 2, 2018

Channel 19

Here’s proof your input can be effective in changing regulation — for the better

Take a look at how your voice is effective at bringing about regulation changes and don't forget to file your comments with the FMCSA about hours of service.

September 20, 2018

Channel 19

Hopeful and careful-what-you-wish-for dynamics in reader commentary in wake of FMCSA’s hours moves

Everybody's favorite subject of debate -- the hours of service rule -- has engendered plenty among Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readers.

September 4, 2018

Hours of Service

Hours reforms process swirling, ATRI and Trucker Nation push sleep studies to back 14-hour flexibility

ATRI has released results of a study that ATRI says lends strong credence to allowing drivers to break up their 10-hour off-duty period (and, thus, their 14-hour on-duty period) into segments. Likewise, Trucker Nation says it leaned on sleep studies to support its proposal to allow drivers to use the same type of split-sleeper flexibility.

August 29, 2018

Overdrive Extra

With a sense of hope for hours reforms, truckers air their suggestions in first FMCSA listening session

Truckers seek review of hours regulations with flexibility & common sense in mind. Read more about what drivers said at the first FMCSA listening session.

August 25, 2018

Overdrive Radio

HOS reform: Now’s the time to comment, says Martinez, who hopes to ‘fast track’ potential rulemaking

FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez expresses FMCSA's wish to move swiftly through HOS rulemaking process. Get the details on Overdrive.

August 24, 2018

Hours of Service

FMCSA wants feedback on hours of service reforms around 14-hour rule, split sleeper, 30-minute break

The FMCSA needs feedback pertaining to extending drivers' 14-hour daily limit, split sleeper, 30-minute break requirement, and short-haul drivers' hours.

August 21, 2018

Channel 19

Rolling your 14: How to do an 8/2 or 2/8 sleeper-berth split

Here's a hypothetical series of logs from T. Dills Trucking leading into the current day that might help illustrate the process. Check it out on Overdrive.

July 26, 2018

Overdrive Extra

A health case for hours of service change

Leased owner-operator Clifford Peterson: “Those who make the case for the hours of service status quo ignore the health and well-being of an American icon, the over-the-road truck driver, in favor of maintenance of the bottom line.”

June 25, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Double-brokered loads, ELD issues, pausing that 14-hour clock already: Friday podcast round-up

This edition of Overdrive Radio further digs in around the expectation mismatch between brokers and carriers in load negotiations — plus more views on the potential for hours of service change from readers.

March 16, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Split sleeper-berth option high on haulers’ hours wish list

The large majority of reader respondents you’ll hear in this mailbag edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast took the notion of a pause button for the 14-hour rule farther. It’s split rest, or split sleeper berth period flexibility, that most want,

February 17, 2018

Channel 19

Let the 14-hour conversations … begin?

‘Continue’ rather than ‘begin’ is probably the best word to describe what’s been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDA’s lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.

February 15, 2018