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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
Electronic Logging Devices
Computer-assisted logs: To print or not to print
If you’re using a mobile-device logging app or a laptop-based program for hours of service, don’t leave those printers at home just yet.
July 11, 2014
Business
Agency shuts down driver said to have driven 35 hours straight before fatal crash
FMCSA announced it has shut down an Illinois-based driver with an imminent hazard out-of-service order after a fatal crash led to the discovery he had driven well over HOS limits and falsified his logs to conceal the violations.
February 13, 2014
Channel 19
More off/on-duty discussion
Debate continues over loading/unloading situations and what exactly consitutes “off-duty” time under the new hours rule.
August 1, 2013
Hours of Service
Hours-of-service break requirement top issue with new regs, enforcers say
Though it’s too soon to know exactly how enforcement of the new hours-of-service regulations are faring, the enforcement community to this point has noticed some confusion and many questions regarding the required 30-minute break.
July 12, 2013
Hours of Service
FMCSA issues guidance on breaks in on-duty time
The guidance comes on the heels of the July 1 effective date of hours of service rule changes and clarifies guidance it says has an “effect of discouraging drivers from taking breaks” or documenting them in their logs.
July 11, 2013
Hours of Service
Log book inspections put 366 drivers out of service
Concentrated inspections at four locations on Oregon’s portion of Interstate 5 placed 26 percent of inspected drivers out of service.
July 18, 2012
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