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Business

Stay Metrics offering free Roadcheck training

This year’s training module offers information on what inspectors will be looking for with the steering wheel and column, steering systems, axels and torsion bars, suspension systems and more. Stay Metrics and Luma began offering the complimentary training modules for Roadcheck in 2016.

May 15, 2019

Business

Pilot Flying J offering free mid-trip inspections ahead of Roadcheck inspection blitz

To help truck drivers prepare for next month’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Roadcheck inspection blitz, Pilot Flying J is offering free mid-trip inspections at its service center locations through June 7.

May 6, 2019

Business

Driver arrested, nine out-of-service orders issued during two-day inspection blitz in Indiana

A truck driver was arrested for marijuana possession and inspectors issued nine out-of-service orders and 19 citations during a two-day inspection blitz in Indiana last week.

March 18, 2019

Overdrive Radio

90-plus-inch double-bunk sleeper in a cargo van? You bet

Cargo-van owner-operators Darren and Trish Ayres, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, haul in the CDL-required hazmat military-freight niche, and worked with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Fastlane Products to build a unique sleeper set-up in their Mercedes Sprinter van. Also: More onerous inspection practices that could use discouragement.

March 15, 2019

Business

Other expansion challenges: Insurance costs, administrative/compliance burdens, managing customers

Overdrive poll respondents named these challenges — higher liability premiums, greater administrative and compliance burdens, and managing current customers/finding new business — the next-most-prominent challenges for small fleet expansion beyond recruiting and retaining drivers.

March 11, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Further dissection of post-ELD mandate crash rates, and the blues of Watermelon Slim

The Overdrive Radio podcast highlighted a recent study around potential safety-sensitive impacts of the ELD mandate. Get more details on it here on Overdrive.

February 8, 2019

Channel 19

Hours of service proposal could come by end of March

Signs point to a decision on whether to move forward with hours change from FMCSA sooner than later — by Spring, regulators said during a call with owner-operators put together by Scott Reed and Scott Jordan of the Independent Carrier Group covering hours, the ELD mandate and exemptions, training and enforcement topics.

December 6, 2018

Business

Enforcement spree ongoing this week in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio

During the “Eyes on 94” enforcement spree, officers will focus on violations most likely to contribute to a crash, including speeding, following too close, improper passing, distracted driving and improper lane use.

December 3, 2018

Business

10 toughest states for hours of service violations

Arkansas has been atop this list now for four years since overtaking the previous perennial toughest hours-violation state, Oregon, in 2014.

November 26, 2018

Business

An hours of service ‘secret weapon’ in Kansas

For those running paper logs or ELDs, but particularly the former, Kansas has something of a secret weapon for its Level 3 driver inspections, notes highway patrol Captain Chris Turner. Many of those inspections, taking place primarily at rest stops, are performed by a “small group of retired troopers.” …

November 23, 2018

Voices

‘About time’: Readers respond to new CVSA directive not to wake off-duty drivers to inspect

Responses to CVSA’s new policy directive to inspectors not to wake off-duty truckers for the purposes of conducting a random inspection ranged from exasperated positivity — “About time” ran the two-word response of multiple readers at Overdrive’s Facebook page — to I-hope-they-get-the-memo identifications of specific problem jurisdictions.

November 14, 2018

Business

New CVSA policy stresses that inspectors shouldn’t interrupt off-duty drivers for random inspection

Updated policy guidance from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance issued in late September establishes that inspectors should not disrupt drivers’ off-duty or sleeper berth time, when they’re legally parked, for a random inspection.

November 12, 2018