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Tag: coercion rule
Hours of Service
Hours changes and personal conveyance, coercion, rates
Reps from CVSA, FMCSA discuss combating coercion as the hours of service rule's new flexibility is set for Sept. 29. Read more and watch here on Overdrive.
September 3, 2020
Business
How to file a coercion or harassment complaint
Filing a coercion complaint can be done via the FMCSAâs National Consumer Complaint Database in the âDriverâ section. Also here, a look at the concentration of coercion complaints, by state, over the four years the Coercion Rule has been in place.
December 19, 2019
Business
Righteous whistleblower or âdisgruntled employeeâ?
A dispute between 30-year veteran driver Kevin Hosea and the small-fleet employer who fired him earlier this year shows the complexity of coercion-related cases. The fleet owner denies allegations of coercion.
December 17, 2019
Business
Parties other than carriers now subject to enforcement under the coercion rule
One standout aspect of the coercion rule is that it marked the first time the FMCSA gained some authority to investigate and fine shippers and receivers not already under its regulatory purview. The rule also broadened agency authorities over brokers. Results, however, are a decidedly mixed bag four years in.
December 12, 2019
Business
Drivers citing coercion face an uphill battle
While coercion complaint filing might be straightforward, resolving a complaint is anything but. The process can drag for months, and protection for complainants is impossible if the coercive act is whatâs investigated. Add the absence of monetary award and possible work disruption, and thereâs no shortage of disincentives for blowing the whistle.
December 11, 2019
Business
UPS Freight fined after firing driver who refused to drive without a required ELD
OSHA ordered UPS Freight to pay the driver $15,273 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in punitive damages and approximately $2,700 in back wages plus interest. The unnamed driver was fired for refusing to drive without an ELD, and his termination was later modified to be a suspension, according to OSHA.
December 11, 2019
Business
The irony of e-logging and coercion: Complaints on a steady rise since mandate
Coercion complaints filed by drivers with FMCSA have gone up every year since the rule prohibiting coercion took effect in January 2016, more than doubling by the third year. Thatâs in spite of, or because of, another rule that same year, the ELD mandate.
December 10, 2019
Business
Cracks in the system: Blowing the whistle on coercion
In the more than four years since FMCSAâs driver protection rule took effect, results have been indirect at best, minimal at worst, when drivers report theyâve been pressured to violate regs.
December 9, 2019
Voices
POLL: Have you filed a coercion complaint under the rule protecting drivers?
Proposed in tandem with the ELD mandate, the prohibition against entities coercing or attempting to coerce drivers to violate a regulation with threats of punitive action (withholding work/payment, disciplinary measures, and the like) has been active since early 2016. Have you ever filed a complaint with FMCSA under the rule?
September 26, 2019
Channel 19
From within or without? â pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate
Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations â hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those âequal and opposite reactions.â Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: âThe pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.â
March 28, 2019
Channel 19
How to blow the whistle on problem shippers/receivers when delays force violations
A way to hold shippers and receivers accountable for delaying you into an hours violation that will require drivers doing something that hasnât exactly been easy for a fed-up group of late: working with the DOT and FMCSA. (And FMCSA holding to their part of the bargain.)
March 29, 2018
Business
âCoercionâ definition, stiffer penalties key changes in FMCSAâs coercion rule work
The exact definition FMCSA is using to define driver coercion and what led it to the definition and to the higher fines associated with such violations.
December 8, 2015
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