Tag: Law Enforcement

Regulations

Mounting efforts to improve DataQs appeals fairness

Some in law enforcement and the trucking community see an opportunity to improve the appeals process, drawing on models already in place. Meantime, carriers using the system see it as structurally rigged to defeat most appeals.

February 15, 2021

Channel 19

Thank a trooper for that inspection? A tale of two states as Roadcheck begins

What the initial COVID pandemic response by some state agencies -- many fewer inspections -- might just say about the value of inspections.

September 9, 2020

Overdrive Radio

‘We’re supposed to be in this thing together’: Level 3 inspection advice and more with Kansas trooper

Kansas trooper Nick Wright answers a variety of DOT inspection-related questions to help prepare you for any roadside inspection. Listen on Overdrive today.

July 13, 2020

Channel 19

ELD mandate final deadline — today or tomorrow?

If FMCSA and various news outlets’ use of Dec. 16/Dec. 17 for the deadline hasn’t exactly been 100% consistent leading into this week, the CVSA’s has. Today is the last day it’s OK to use a grandfathered AOBRD for those covered by the mandate. Wildcard thereafter: as usual, extent of enforcement.

December 16, 2019

Channel 19

False log! or: Another name for ‘7.2 miles South of Chaparral, N.M.’

Small fleet owner Leander Richmond’s ongoing battle over a false-log violation that seems to stem from a dispute over just where ‘7.2 miles S of Chaparral, N.M.” happens to be. While officers are human like the rest of us, he appreciates, “by the same token, once you’re handed proof that you screwed up, fix it and the world just keeps on spinning.” If only …

October 7, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The AOBRD-to-ELD shift: Data/edits and visibility at roadside

With AOBRDs, edits made in the back office as a general rule don’t present to the roadside officer. Under the ELD specification, however, data transmittal at roadside includes those edits. It also includes detailed records of the truck’s GPS positions, engine on-off records, engine hours and the like.

August 15, 2019

Channel 19

Round-up: Jerry Ward’s final ride, trooper-to-trucker credit where it’s due, don’t be ‘that guy’…

Jerry Ward (1936-2019, rest in peace) is laid to rest in Colorado after a funeral procession fronted by a Nestor Trucking Pete, one “Mama Bear” from the Illinois State Police salutes a grain hauler, and advocacy on the other side of the parking issue activates in great Des Moines, Iowa….

April 30, 2019

Channel 19

‘Be pro out there’: More share-the-road resources

ATEF received a grant from the Office of Highway Safety. The grant allows ATEF to continue educating the public about safe highway behaviors around trucks.

February 14, 2019

Business

#WearBlueDay in the fight against human trafficking

Today, Jan. 11, is #WearBlueDay, otherwise known as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign. The CVSA alliance of trucking-industry reps and law enforcement is participating in a variety of ways in the fight against trafficking, as are plenty individual professional truckers.

January 11, 2019

Business

An hours of service ‘secret weapon’ in Kansas

For those running paper logs or ELDs, but particularly the former, Kansas has something of a secret weapon for its Level 3 driver inspections, notes highway patrol Captain Chris Turner. Many of those inspections, taking place primarily at rest stops, are performed by a “small group of retired troopers.” …

November 23, 2018

Business

Tennessee shows some truck-friendly colors

Electronic logging devices and hours of service might have something to do with truck drivers brushing up their inspection skills. More on Overdrive Online.

September 17, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA on ELDs and enforcement: Know what you’re dealing with at roadside

Listen along as FMCSA Director Joe DeLorenzo talks about ELDs, roadside inspections, and enforcement. Live coverage from GATS on Overdrive.

August 23, 2018