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Channel 19

Erroneous status-switch to on-duty driving, while parked — Mark Kirbyson’s latest ELD issue

In November Kirbyson began having an issue with the ELD in his 2007 Caterpillar-powered Peterbilt kicking him into on-duty driving status, while he was asleep in the bunk. “Have others experienced a similar issue?” he asks. How’d you solve it?

April 24, 2019

Business

BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers

BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.

April 24, 2019

Voices

Shutdown report: Participation estimated, issues raised, tactics debated as April 12 arrives

Participating truckers view any effectiveness of this shutdown as having the potential to demonstrate some unity among drivers, whose voices in regulatory and industry discussions don’t always rise to the top. At once, there’s reason to doubt that numbers are sufficient to make a statement, and others object to anarchic tactics they’ve seen.

April 12, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Does your ELD provider provide an avenue for you to opt out of sharing location/other data with them?

Different providers take different approaches to the employment of user data for internal purposes — is it clear via policy that your ELD data is not being used internally by the provider, or does the provider at least give a clear avenue for opting out of any internal company use?

April 11, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Why pick a fight with the air? And: Downtime for the spot market 3 o’clock hustle

This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast comes as MATS continues in Louisville, with conversations with two owner-ops showing commonality between them in a willingness to be the contrarian in this loud age, on a variety of things — Chad Boblett and Henry Albert, on rates, ELDs, aerodynamics and more.

March 29, 2019

Channel 19

From within or without? — pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate

Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations — hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those “equal and opposite reactions.” Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: “The pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.”

March 28, 2019

Business

More support for former Zed ELD customers

The end of this month marks the end of functionality for the Zed ELD app, and the HOS247 company says it’s offering those who continue to use the Zed ELD four free months’ worth of a subscription to its own ELD service, without any new hardware investment.

March 27, 2019

Hours of Service

POLL: Since the ELD mandate, have you felt pressure from carriers/customers to violate hours regs more or less often?

In 2017, almost half of Overdrive readers reported daily pressure to drive tired as a result of hours regs and/or coercion from carriers/customers. This poll looks at the issue viz a viz the definition of coercion from such parties as pressure to violate the hours rules. Has such pressure lessened or ramped up in the wake of the ELD mandate, if it existed at all?

March 26, 2019

Business

ATBS owner-op income benchmarking conference call rescheduled for this Wednesday

ATBS’ annual owner-op benchmarking study provides income averages for a variety of segments and other analysis, against which owner-operators can analyze their own performance.  During the call, Todd Amen will provide insight on 2018 average miles driven, net income, fuel mileage and freight rates, among other things.

March 18, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Bill to roll back ELD mandate for small carriers filed in U.S. House

A bill to allow small carriers, including single-truck owner-operators, to forgo use of electronic logging devices and return to using paper logs has been filed in the U.S. House

March 13, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Trucker Tools, Keller integrate ELD for tracking

Mobile-based tracking and freight-match service provider Trucker Tools and compliance products purveyor J.J. Keller & Associates have begun a partnership to speed up delivery of and refine load location information moving to freight brokers and shippers from independent truckers and fleet operators.

March 12, 2019

Channel 19

Owner-operators report mostly negative, if any, change in detention times since ELDs were mandated for most

Early detention-poll results show most readers feel that the load/unload locations they visit had either seen no change (44 percent) or actually gotten a little (18 percent) or a lot (20 percent) worse on detention since late December 2017 when the electronic logging device mandate first came into play.

March 6, 2019