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Electronic Logging Devices

ELD maker launches petition to add 14-hour flexibility, presents data on detention and race-the-clock dynamics

KeepTruckin’s petition has a goal of garnering 10,000 signatures, and it believes their data shows hard evidence of the hurry-up effect of undue dock delays. It could provide evidence of “race-the-clock” dynamics many operators have long suspected as part-and-parcel of the 14-hour rule/ELD/dock-delay combination.

November 14, 2017

Channel 19

Interesting approach to accessorials for Uber Freight app users

It’s not exactly common when dealing with a broker that accessorials like truck-ordered-not-used, detention and the like are up-front accessible and available to anyone — or guaranteed should situations arise that cause them to come into play. How does $200 + $2/mile deadhead on a canceled load sound?

August 3, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Making the e-log switch: The evolution of small fleet Old Time Express

“I know a lot of people, and especially a lot of drivers, would like to cut my head off when I say this …” — that’s Old Time’s Mark White in preamble to some perhaps underappreciated e-log lessons he delivers toward the end of this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast. File under: things people might not want to hear.

July 7, 2017

Channel 19

Negotiating the brokerage contract: Back solicitation, detention and more

Leander Richmond of Mich.-based eight-truck Eagle Express Inc. learned the hard way of one broker’s no-detention-pay standard policy at first-come first-served shipper/receiver facilities — likewise the “insulting” offer when he objected.

February 14, 2017

Channel 19

E-logs and detention, redux | An 800-pound gorilla in need of a few good lumpers

Will ELDs point the way out of the detention ‘quagmire’? If they do, it won’t happen all at once, no doubt. Could be a wild ride ahead …

February 9, 2017

Overdrive Extra

Trying to fix the detention problem

I just sit here and wait till they get it all sorted out,” Johnson said when he finally figured out the bungled paperwork situation at his drop, learning it would cost him another two or three hours. “Guess who gets screwed in the meantime.”

August 1, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: ‘Major trucking issue’ — detention at shippers/receivers and its income, safety impact

How big is the problem of detention at shippers and receivers for American truckers? For readers of Overdrive, it’s a “major issue,” in the words of more than one you’ll hear in this “mailbag” edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast.

July 22, 2016

Business

Serious excess-detention issue lost on many brokers, survey says

A new survey conducted by DAT shows something of a disconnect between carrier/broker views on detention. While detention is one of the top 5 business issues for 8 in 10 carriers, only 20 percent of brokers agreed that detention was that significant for them.

July 18, 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

Voices

‘Be the change you want to see’

From the cab of Clifford “Dream Walker” Petersen on the state of the industry. Drivers have strength in numbers, and individual actions will go a long way toward improving conditions for owner-operators.

May 24, 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

Electronic Logging Devices

‘We’ll get through this e-log implementation’ — projecting carrier-shipper relationships after the ELD mandate

"We'll get through this e-logs implementation," says compliance consultant Jeff Davis -- better rates, efficiency, productivity for small fleets await.

November 11, 2015