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The irony of e-logging and coercion: Complaints on a steady rise since mandate
Coercion complaints filed by drivers with FMCSA have gone up every year since the rule prohibiting coercion took effect in January 2016, more than doubling by the third year. That’s in spite of, or because of, another rule that same year, the ELD mandate.
December 10, 2019
Channel 19
Crash data before and after the Ontario province’s speed limiter mandate
Detail on a 2017-completed Ontario Ministry of Transport analysis of some crash metrics pre- and post- its 2009 speed limiter mandate. Bottom line: some food for thought as you consider whether to take concerns to your reps with the recent U.S. Senate bill that would mandate a 65-mph speed setting.
July 2, 2019
Channel 19
Mixed reactions to brief highway blockade after 10-4 D.C. event, more
See convoy stop traffic on I-95 ahead of the "That's a Big 10-4 on D.C." event, and learn more about truckers supporting H.R. 5948 here on Overdrive.
October 8, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Podcast special edition: Lay of the land for owner-ops, by the numbers again with ATBS’ Todd Amen
This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features audio from ATBS President Todd Amen’s March 20 conference call for owner-operators outlining annual mileage, revenue and income averages from 2017, among other metrics, for segments among its clients — with a look ahead through this year.
March 20, 2018
Business
Many readers feel little change in clean inspections
While more clean inspections overall may well be the reality for inspections recorded in the federal Motor Carrier Management and Information System database, Overdrive’s audience of mostly owner-operators is more skeptical.
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
‘Irresponsible’ use of data — it happens day in, day out
Jumping to a conclusion that speed limiters are the driving force behind reductions in crashes without considering other factors is, well, irresponsible indeed.
September 8, 2016
Channel 19
‘One out of every six Americans killed on the job is a truck driver’
That’s directly from a Department of Labor blog post about workplace-death stats, explored here. And: One operator’s reliable truck is another’s “dream gear” — one driver’s wisecrack “comment of the week”…
August 18, 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
Channel 19
The parking shortage and North Carolina’s ‘data-driven’ enforcement
How counting disabled vehicles as “parked” vehicles contributed to the expansion of N.C.’s truck parking enforcement effort last year. High time more states attracted tax revenue by encouraging parking facility development rather than going after $25 fines and court costs.
March 8, 2016
Business
A decade just to rebound: Pay and the driver shortage
With the exception of 2014-15, pay evidence of a supply/demand imbalance in OTR truckload drivers’ favor is not found during 2005-15, during which a driver shortage was documented for nearly every year by one analyst or another.
February 3, 2016
Business
The driver shortage alarm
The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.
February 1, 2016
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