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Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs: What to expect from enforcement as the mandate descends
As of Dec. 18, states and their federal truck enforcement partners will begin issuing violations and citations, in some cases with fines, to those subject to the electronic logging device mandate who aren’t using e-logs. Practices will vary considerably for log checks with those devices.
December 5, 2017
Voices
Team driver to law enforcement: ‘Don’t wake me up’
This letter from reader Martin Hill calls for state/federal law enforcement and inspection staff to cease practice of forcing sleeping codrivers awake for nothing more than an I.D. check.
June 21, 2013
Voices
Readers to law enforcement: Look in the mirror
Some drivers responding to news of Tennessee’s use of troopers in big rigs to nab texting four-wheelers loved the idea — others suggested it might be just another safety hazard.
April 16, 2013
Channel 19
Modest proposal: ‘Ban truck driving’
The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nation’s tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, including among them at the very end a reaction by driver Wayne Leverton to witnessing a state patrol officer in Washington State use both hands […]
December 9, 2011
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