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Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption

The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries — […]

July 24, 2012

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Diesel exhaust listed by WHO as cancer causing agent

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, has formally categorized diesel exhaust as cancer-causing but fails to recognize advancements in diesel technology in the developed world.

July 23, 2012

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ObamaCare: Love it? Or repeal it?

As you’ll likely be aware, on June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the president’s health care act, including a provision that requires Americans to prove they have health insurance or pay a fine. Also under the law, those with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage, children up to age 26 can stay […]

July 22, 2012

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CSA two-punch: Second lawsuit brought

A suit against the FMCSA’s CSA program brought by the ASECTT group alleged unfairness to small carriers within FMCSA’s compliance and enforcement regime.

July 19, 2012

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Will CSA take its first significant hit standing up?

OOIDA’s suit against the FMCSA’s CSA enforcement regime charges the agency with significant mishandling of driver information in the MCMIS database — and lack of an adequate dispute process.

July 18, 2012

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Truck parking push not over with Jason’s Law

Following the cheers that went up around the trucking community for the “Jason’s Law” truck parking legislation’s inclusion in the MAP-21 highway bill in June, owner-operators like Overdrive reader William McKelvie put a quick lid on the possibility of any resulting driver complacency relative to the parking problem. “While everyone has jumped on the proverbial […]

July 17, 2012

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New book series for the kids: ‘Grandpa and the Truck’

Former independent household goods hauler’s wife Colleen Kelly Mellor’s new series of “Grandpa and the Truck” children’s books blends trucking respect with educational needs.

July 16, 2012

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ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated

The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]

July 16, 2012

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Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler

Keith Redden’s retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. “I said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,” he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floyd’s Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to […]

July 16, 2012

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Union campaign to boost inspection dollars tars truckers

Can you imagine your state’s government employees resorting to something like this? The image here is of a billboard, among other similar ads that are part of a campaign being waged by British Columbia, Canada’s weigh-station inspection force for more funding, attempting to exploit the general public’s supposed fear of Class 8 on-highway trucks. The […]

July 12, 2012

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Jabin Bogan’s Mexico entry re-enacted

The latest news, from AP reporter Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, notes that on July 5, U.S. truck driver Jabin Bogan’s defense team gathered with local officials, prosecutors (which is trying Bogan on smuggling charges) and experts to “reenact” the alleged wrong turn that saw Bogan enter Mexico with a load of surplus […]

July 10, 2012

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R.I.P. Sheriff ‘Cottonmouth’ — Ernest Borgnine dead at 95

The trucking-film classic “Convoy” costar played a sherriff who used CB subterfuge in attempts to undermine a group of protesting haulers in the 1970s Sam Peckinpah flick.

July 9, 2012