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Business

Clean inspections account for a bigger share of checks; Updated state rankings for enforcement intensity

Total heavy-duty truck & driver inspection numbers rose by more than 70,000 in 2017, much of it accounted for by clean inspections. Read more about this.

August 22, 2018

Business

Leeway to report a malfunctioning ELD

In June 2018, the FMCSA created an email address for use when requesting an extension beyond the allowed 8-days to repair or replace a malfunctioning ELD.

August 20, 2018

Business

More states shift focus to hours-, ELD-related violations

Data show the extent to which more individual state truck enforcement departments are putting their attention in a big way on associated ELD mandate violations & hours.

August 17, 2018

Channel 19

Tesla Semi and its clean inspection violate the eye test of more than one reader

The Tesla Semi, inspected at Donner Pass Inspection Station, received a clean inspection report; however, many Overdrive readers are not impressed by its looks.

August 17, 2018

Business

Some pain amidst the gains — CSA’s Data Trail after the e-log shift

Carriers with one to four trucks, whose hours violations as a share of all violations has been falling for years, claimed a larger percentage for the first four months of this year: This and other trends are detailed in Overdrive’s first CSA’s Data Trail update after the turn to ELDs.

August 16, 2018

Business

‘Top-tier’ most effective states ranked in ATRI crash/inspections analysis

The state of Indiana leads the way in the American Transportation Research Institute’s ranking of state enforcement departments on the effectiveness of their truck-enforcement units, based principally on an assumed relationship between crashes and traffic-enforcement activities.

August 6, 2018

Business

CVSA to collect data on underride guards during normal inspections Aug. 27-31

From August 27-31, 2018, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will conduct a Rear Impact Guard Check. Details and more information here on Overdrive.

July 31, 2018

Channel 19

A little hope for H.R. 5948, the bill that would exempt small carriers from the ELD mandate

OOIDA Board Member and small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold, at least, feels that if the small-fleet (10 or fewer trucks) exemption bill were to make it out of committee, through the House, through the Senate and to the President, “he’d sign it.”

July 17, 2018

Business

Nearly 1,600 trucks sidelined during unannounced Brake Safety Day

According to CVSA, a total of 11,531 roadside inspections were conducted on Brake Safety Day, and 1,595 commercial vehicles, or 13.8 percent of those inspected, were placed out-of-service.

July 17, 2018

Business

Driver focused inspection spree begins Sunday

Inspections will focus on traffic violations, seat belt enforcement, driver roadside inspections and driver regulatory compliance.

July 13, 2018

Overdrive Radio

A ‘malfunction junction’ where ELDs meet hours enforcement: Owner-operator Jon Hose’s OOS story

The independent shares his story of being put out of service with a false-log violation in Missouri early in June. The violation was a result of en-route malfunctions of his One20 F-ELD, and offers insights on how inspectors are handling en-route malfunctions, and how you can be prepared for one should it happen to you.

July 12, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Hours of service violation rate cut in half under ELD mandate, FMCSA says

In the months leading up to the December 18, 2017, deadline for adoption, the percentage of inspections including an hours violation fell slightly to 1.2 percent. In the most recent two full months, since so-called hard enforcement of the ELD mandate began, that percentage has dropped to 0.69 percent (April) and 0.64 percent (May), according to FMCSA’s figures.

June 25, 2018