Tag: Collin Mooney

Channel 19

AOBRD-to-ELD — absent new reg/legislative action, ‘soft enforcement’ not happening

With the final ELD mandate deadline coming up Dec. 17, no “soft enforcement” period is in the offing — “nobody’s really talking about it,” says Collin Mooney, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.

October 16, 2019

Voices

‘About time’: Readers respond to new CVSA directive not to wake off-duty drivers to inspect

Responses to CVSA’s new policy directive to inspectors not to wake off-duty truckers for the purposes of conducting a random inspection ranged from exasperated positivity — “About time” ran the two-word response of multiple readers at Overdrive’s Facebook page — to I-hope-they-get-the-memo identifications of specific problem jurisdictions.

November 14, 2018

Business

More clean inspections: Enforcement change or improved compliance?

Both enforcement-practice changes and, veteran officers suggest, improved operations on the part of truckers are responsible for clean inspections’ recent rise.

December 29, 2017

Business

A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise

In Overdrive’s annual CSA’s Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.

December 27, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs: What to expect from enforcement as the mandate descends

As of Dec. 18, states and their federal truck enforcement partners will begin issuing violations and citations, in some cases with fines, to those subject to the electronic logging device mandate who aren’t using e-logs. Practices will vary considerably for log checks with those devices.

December 5, 2017

Business

CSA and Tire Basics

Stay out of trouble with the DOT through careful inspections and diligent routine maintenance.

December 1, 2011