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Channel 19
Cap those broker margins? Readers sound off, and one broker moves to do it himself
Despite a majority in favor of a cap, critics of any regulation limiting pricing were more vocal than the majority. Read more here on Overdrive.
May 8, 2020
Voices
POLL: Should brokers’ per-load margins be limited at a certain percentage?
Would you advocate a regulated cap/ceiling on freight brokers’ margins/percentage take on any load across the board? On certain commodities or situations like the current crisis? Or just let supply/demand sort it all out? …. Weigh in here.
May 6, 2020
Business
‘You just lose’ when middlemen don’t pay: Broker reform eight years in the waiting
Who is to blame for the lingering transportation brokerage problems and lack of attention to MAP-21? Read more details here on Overdrive.
February 28, 2020
Channel 19
With the public leery about sharing the road with robots, ‘Advocates’ may be truckers’ ally, for once
As more and more assistive driving technologies keep hitting the roads, truck drivers may find a new kind of ally in a group pressing for safety standards.
February 13, 2020
Channel 19
CBD: One trucker’s answer to chronic pain, opioid addiction
The tale of one trucker’s use of a CBD product with a small amount of THC in it to get the addiction monkey of longtime opioid use for chronic pain “off my back,” he says. The current regs around CBD essentially ask him to “put the monkey back on my back,” he says. “No thank you.” …
December 2, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Missing reins in an emerging marketplace for ELD data
Until regulations, legislation or court cases set guidelines for data privacy, “it’s kind of ‘what you sign up for is what you get,’ ” says Eric Witty of ELD supplier Trimble. “If you don’t read the fine print in an agreement you’re signing,” you might be giving a provider the right to freely share.
June 10, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Let’s end the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections
“In the wake of several state troopers and truck drivers being hit on the side of the road in recent months, I feel the time has come to change the regulations and require more than one inspection be conducted every 12 months in an approved location.” Forcing more routine around equipment inspections, owner-op Gary Buchs believes, will pay multiple dividends.
May 15, 2019
Overdrive Extra
The time is now: Build truck parking capacity
Bottom line for lawmakers sent by us to the nation’s capitol: We need an infrastructure bill that will open the flow of traffic, make safer merge lanes and truly spur on badly needed truck parking. Please don’t wait for another bridge to collapse, for another trucker trying to provide for his family to be killed for the few dollars in his pocket.
February 18, 2019
Business
FMCSA takes steps toward immediate suspension of insolvent brokers, seeks industry feedback
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration seeks feedback on its proposed rule regarding brokers and freight forwarders with inadequate surety bonds.
September 26, 2018
Business
FMCSA, DOT present oral arguments over sleep apnea guidelines, medical form changes
Attorneys for OOIDA argued last month in court that the U.S. DOT illegally altered sleep apnea screening guidelines for truck drivers by slipping an appendix into larger rule after the public comment period had ended. DOT refutes these claims.
December 14, 2017
Business
MCSAC policy panel’s long shift toward safety advocates
How it happened: When the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee began meeting in 2007, it had four members with direct involvement in trucking. Today, there are three direct trucking members. Over the same period, representatives of safety-advocacy groups more than doubled from two to five.
September 7, 2016
Business
Limiting the possibilities of life in general
“The speed limiters are coming! The speed limiters are coming!” Wendy’s reasons why this is a bad idea.
August 19, 2016
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