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Channel 19
Hours of service pop quiz: Can you haul 77 hours in 7 days?
Reaching for a low-hanging-fruit example to shock the conscience, HOS legal challengers, following FMCSA's denial of their petition, made this basic mistake.
September 24, 2020
Hours of Service
DOT says itâs full speed ahead on hours changes implementation
DOT's FMCSA says it's full speed ahead on changes to HOS aimed at increasing flexibility for drivers. More from the first Truck Safety Summit session.
August 5, 2020
Channel 19
Mixed reactions to brief highway blockade after 10-4 D.C. event, more
See convoy stop traffic on I-95 ahead of the "That's a Big 10-4 on D.C." event, and learn more about truckers supporting H.R. 5948 here on Overdrive.
October 8, 2018
Channel 19
Petition for rulemaking to allow split-sleeper options with at least a three-hour break
The FMCSA seems to be moving toward a change of the split-sleeper variety following a study whose roots date back to 2014. Get more details on Overdrive Online.
July 10, 2018
Channel 19
Let the 14-hour conversations ⌠begin?
âContinueâ rather than âbeginâ is probably the best word to describe whatâs been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDAâs lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.
February 15, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD maker launches petition to add 14-hour flexibility, presents data on detention and race-the-clock dynamics
KeepTruckinâs petition has a goal of garnering 10,000 signatures, and it believes their data shows hard evidence of the hurry-up effect of undue dock delays. It could provide evidence of ârace-the-clockâ dynamics many operators have long suspected as part-and-parcel of the 14-hour rule/ELD/dock-delay combination.
November 14, 2017
Channel 19
Choking down the milk and cookies
If FMCSAâs not going to remove the 30-minute break (aka the âmilk and cookieâ break in the words of more than one operator) as requested by CVSA, there may well be rationale for reducing its severity weighting in the CSA Safety Measurement System.
September 1, 2016
Voices
âMikeâs Lawâ: National âbusiness carryâ draft language and reader reaction
The Small Business in Transportation Coalitionâs petition to Congress for a federal âbusiness carryâ program for interstate drivers had garnered 1,423 signatures as of this morning, and SBTC had drafted text of potential âenabling legislationâ and filed it with Congressional representatives.
September 26, 2014
Voices
Readers split on government, industry solutions to detention
Though all recognize the problem, grown ever more onerous with further restrictions on driversâ hours with the new rules. Here, find a round-up of views and some examples of detention success.
September 6, 2013
Channel 19
California domestic workers and truck drivers; $1,500 for a few words
Domestic workers making state-by-state inroads on their own FLSA exemption (similar to company driversâ) from the possibility of overtime pay â meanwhile, a friendly, familiar, potentially lucrative contest.
July 11, 2013
Voices
Views: Fair-labor exemption petition, truck driver as DOT secretary
Owner-operator Joe Ammons launches his petition to the DOT secretary to disallow the trucking exemption from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
May 1, 2013
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