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Podcast: Due diligence on the drug testing consortium
Any problem with drug or alcohol use by drivers among carriers large and small can ensure that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be “watching you for a long time,” says regulatory consultant.
May 29, 2014
Richard Wilson
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Think you’ve got inspection frustration?
It could be worse: While Overdrive’s CSA survey shows continuing concern for deteriorating law-enforcement/driver relations, be thankful you’re in America and not Argentina, as a recent case illustrates…
May 26, 2014
Stopped at scale
Business
Put the brakes on inspection
“We had our first Landstar 90-120-day inspection this week. It just so happened to fall right before the big Safety Push 2014, and although it ended up being expensive, I’m really glad it happened when and where it did.”
May 16, 2014
George and Wendy Parker's 2004 Freightliner
Business
What to expect during Roadcheck 2014
During the 72-hour Roadcheck program, in operation now for more than two decades, a motor carrier is three times more likely than usual to see one of its trucks/drivers inspected in the U.S. and Canada.
May 14, 2014
West Harrison, Indiana, weigh station in-bound
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Toll road to the CSA SMS…
Deep in the weeds of the CSA program, a reporter takes a toll road to a clean inspection…
May 6, 2014
Tyler Utterback inspection
Business
Public use of CSA scores remains a chief industry concern
As the MCSAC’s CSA Subcommittee finalized recommendations for program changes in D.C., debate continued over the public display of carrier CSA scores. In early poll results, 70 percent of Overdrive readers favor score removal.
May 1, 2014
golden triangle
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CSA crash-weighting study to be released in June, FMCSA says
Full implementation of the Safety Fitness Determination rule, which would replace the current safety-rating system, could follow two years after a hoped-for September proposal. More news from MCSAC’s CSA Subcommittee meeting…
April 29, 2014
Find a variety of ways to manage the CSA program, as well as discussions of the regime’s inequities and what’s being done to challenge them, via the stories in our 2013 CSA’s Data Trail series.
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‘Car mentality’ pervading too many pretrips?
“Open the hood,” driver, owner-operator Jeff Clark urges those who take to trucking with the “car mentality.”
April 26, 2014
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Roadside inspections, ELDs, treadle-valve corrosion discussed at MATS seminar
Topics debated at the FMCSA’s “roadside inspection” session at the Mid-America Trucking Show…
March 27, 2014
Inspector under truck
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BulkLoads board buys CoopsOpen app
The CoopsOpen app allows users to simply update station statuses as they pass scales — joining ScaleChek and Overdrive’s own Trucker Tools with similar functionality.
February 27, 2014
To use the CoopsOpen weigh station status alert app, download the iPhone or Android version via your phone’s app marketplace, then register, likewise free of charge, via CoopsOpen.com. Then use the created login and password combo to sign in to the app.
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GAO CSA report fallout: More small-carrier inspections on the way?
Some watchers feel that “reprioritizing” inspection criteria to grab and tie up more and more of the “little guys” among carriers on the road might be the onerous result of the GAO’s focus on lack of data.
February 13, 2014
Download the GAO’s CSA report via this link.
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Hopping a beverage trailer to D.C.
Follow @channel19todd on Twitter for updates from this week’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., set to take up highway-bill priorities and CSA, among other topics.
February 10, 2014
Alexandria, Va., where the beverage haulers abound — at least in this little corner of it. Not much else of note in terms of noteworthy truck equipment.
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