Tag: Rob Abbott

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
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Business
The biggest little voice in trucking
How self-styled safety-advocacy groups won over the federal government, and some trucking interests themselves, to influence trucking regulation.
September 6, 2016
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Regulations
Regulatory review: FMCSA wants you
At this week’s MCSAC meeting, discussions of driver involvement in regulatory review processes dominated the second day.
September 1, 2012
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Business
CSA: DataQs reform, more debated by MCSAC
Other top issues the MCSAC will address at its first special CSA Subcommittee meeting in October were fundamental questions of its effectiveness and goals.
August 28, 2012
Inspection
Business
Pulse
In our March 2010 issue, we reported on the impending Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010. The feds were trying to work out the bugs in nine test states, after starting with Colorado in 2008.
July 3, 2012
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Channel 19
Language of the MCSAC/MRB sleep apnea recommendations
You’ve more than likely seen the news, available via Overdrive here, that firm recommendations for guidance on required evaluation and treatment for sleep apnea among truck drivers with a body mass index (BMI) measurement of 35 or higher came down from the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee in their joint meeting with the Medical […]
December 8, 2011
Channel 19
Say ____ to electronic logs, Take 2
It’s time to play fill in the blank again on the Channel 19 blog. It’s been nearly  a year since the above headline graced this hall above a post about a rash of legislative proposals to mandate electronic logs for the entirety of interstate truckers and certain low-cost electronic logging options out there. In the […]
August 29, 2011
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