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Hours of Service
Fixing the 14-hour rule: FMCSA moving closer to flexible sleeper-split pilot program
Kelly Regal, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s associate administrator for research and information technology, outlined the agency’s research work around sleep and fatigue at the Managing Fatigue international conference in San Diego, Calif., Tuesday. Of perhaps principle interest to owner-operators, Regal updated attendees on progress toward what she’s calling the FMCSA’s “Flexible sleeper berth […]
March 22, 2017
Channel 19
Sun-up in the oil patch, and: ’14-hour rule is the real issue’
G’mornin’, drivers. One beauty of a scene from the Reader Rigs gallery, posted on Tuesday by John Reinhardt, a sunrise early-early in the oil patch in Texas “way out in nowhere,” Reinhardt wrote, north of Pecos. And: More from Gary Carlisle on the 14-hour rule/ELDs one-two punch.
March 16, 2017
Channel 19
Correcting the personal-conveyance record
Answering Russ Hoffman’s question: “Are you sure that Personal Conveyance requires that you not have a load or trailer? I believe the regulation is Unladen (unloaded) with an empty trailer being acceptable.” By the letter of the law, he’s right.
March 2, 2017
Channel 19
Livestock haulers’ efforts to secure hours changes in light of ELD mandate, stalled
“We’re 100 percent dependent on road transportation of our cattle. Take that away from us and we’re back to cattle drives.” –Tim O’Byrne of the American Cattle Transporters Advisory Group, a coalition hoping to liberalize split-berth/14-hour regs for livestock haulers in light of ELD mandate.
February 17, 2017
Voices
New priorities for a new DOT secretary?: Take two
A bevy of reader voices raised in response to the question: “What would be your message to Trump’s incoming DOT leader?” Issues of regulation (the ELD mandate chief among them), parking/infrastructure and driver pay loomed largest.
December 7, 2016
Business
Detention data collection phase, regulatory process under way
As required by the FAST Act, DOT will report “on the impact of loading and unloading delays” on the economy, transport efficiency, safety and driver pay/income. Efforts could hold import for hours, detention pay in future.
June 17, 2016
Hours of Service
Fireworks haulers request amendment to Independence Day HOS exemption
The American Pyrotechnics Association requested that four carriers be removed from the exemption and four carriers be added to the exemption, which was granted by FMCSA last year, keeping the total at 51 carriers.
May 6, 2016
Channel 19
An upward trend in truck-occupant crash deaths
In the years following FMCSA’s 2003 publication of the hours of service rule that first included the 14-hour on-duty window, the percentage of truck-occupant crash deaths among all truck-involved fatalities is on an upward trend.
April 21, 2016
Voices
The 34-hour restart’s complicated limbo
Here’s the latest. Nothing about the 34-hour restart will change until FMCSA issues its certified report on its mandated comparative restart study. If the report says what many truckers have hoped, however, the restart could disappear entirely.
February 17, 2016
Voices
Threading the needle through trade policy, regulation, hammer swingers and the erosion of the middle class
Readers’ responses to a recent call for change to the 14-hour rule in the hours of service thread the needle through 30 and more years of American history and the erosion of the blue-collar middle class.
February 3, 2016
Channel 19
ELD mandate pre-2000 exemption: How will carriers leasing owner-operators treat it?
Answers here from respondents to a recent carrier survey conducted by CCJ. And: Reader Gary Carlisle’s thoughts on the limited potential for the ELD mandate to impact rates for the positive.
January 26, 2016
Channel 19
The tightening knot of ELDs, hours, parking: Channel 19 year in review, the finale
As in 2014 with the restart rollback, several issues came to a head in the last month of 2015, bring us back to where we started in this year in review: The problem with the hours of service, readers say, is a central safety issue.
December 31, 2015
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