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Business
YRC becomes second mega-fleet to request exemption from certain ELD mandate provisions
The nationâs fifth-largest fleet is asking FMCSA to allow it to phase in new trucks with AOBRDs after the cutoff date of Dec. 18, 2017, to replace trucks that had AOBRDs. The exemption request also seeks a reprieve to allow drivers to record their duty statuses differently in certain situations than the mandate allows.
September 18, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
KeepTruckin ELD offered at discount for 1 year
Freight broker Total Quality Logistics (TQL)Â has partnered with smartphone logbook and electronic logging device provider KeepTruckin to offer discounts on its ELD solution for TQL-contracted carriers.
September 15, 2017
Channel 19
Finger on the ELD mandate â good marketing or well over the line?
A reefer trailer advertising an ELD product with a quite actual giant middle finger to the regulation brought a question from a longtime operator about overall driver image. Whatever you think aboout the ELD mandate, are such ads over the line or all in good fun?
September 12, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD makersâ controls for data security
Suppliers restrict their electronic logging device applications from sharing data with other applications on the device as a safeguard against potential security breaches in those applications, among other efforts.
September 12, 2017
Business
Little Johnny has a plan
What do you want to be when you grow up? Mrs. Groverâs lesson for third-grade Johnny Calvinâs get-to-know-you session provides a wisecrack answer from Calvin himself, revealing truths about the U.S. Congressâ sole oversight: the votes of the constituents.
September 8, 2017
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to withhold federal funding from 20 states for enforcement, including ELDs
The petition singles out 26 states that havenât as yet adopted the ELD mandate, while 20 of those are out of compliance with fed regs adoption rules in general, OOIDA says. The MCSAP program granted more than $65 million in funding to those 20 states last year.
August 30, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Roadside with ELDs: Â Inspectors talk leeway on exemptions, DOT officials on malfunctions
Roadside inspectors, at least in Texas, will give drivers the âbenefit of the doubtâ when it comes to verifying electronic logging device mandate exemptions in the months following the Dec. 18 ELD adoption deadline.
August 27, 2017
Overdrive Radio
âBenefit of the doubtâ to the driver on the ELD mandate: Texas sergeant urges officers âpuntâ in questionable situations
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, listen in on a conversation with Texas Sergeant Dana Moore at GATS about roadside hours reality and ELDs post-mandate. Plus: Todd Amen on the burgeoning freight economy, tunes from trucker-songwriter Michael LochmillerâŚ
August 26, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Logging in the ELD environment: Annotations/notes section is driverâs friend when âweird situationsâ arise, FMCSA says
ELD exemption questions, personal conveyance circumstances, yard moves, more: In âany weird situation,â said FMCSAâs Joe DeLorenzo, âannotate it in the driverâs record [so that the situation] would be clear if somebody asked you for it.â
August 16, 2017
Business
FMCSA holds listening sessions on CSA, ELDs with no notice to trucking
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, with no public notice to the trucking industry or trucking media, is in the midst of a three-stop tour intended to gather input from trucking stakeholders on some of the agencyâs most prominent regulations.
August 10, 2017
Overdrive Radio
The mechanical prowess â and ELD trials and tribulations â of Randy Carlson
Owner-operator Carlsonâs approach to the business follows an early career as a mechanic, learning from his father, who also trucked, then in trade school and on the job at an International dealer â a solid basis on which to build an owner-operator business. Is it less common than it used to be?
August 10, 2017
Overdrive Extra
A busy independentâs plan to transition his business (and dodge ELDs in the process)
A run with John Hodges in his 1998 Freightliner Classic, part of his small fleet. As independent, Hodges juggles roles as driver, owner, cattle farmer and pastor in his local church, taking it all in stride: âTo whom much is given âŚâ
August 9, 2017
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