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Time to account for independent dispatch services in regulation?

TIA wants limits on independent dispatchers to work for just one carrier, and if more, registration as a broker. Here, owner-ops weigh in via Overdrive Radio.

December 4, 2020

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Listen back: Truckers, brokers sound off in freight transaction transparency session

Three petitions, a wide array of views. Hear the full session audio, edited slightly to remove technical interruptions, in this edition of Overdrive Radio.

November 2, 2020

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Transparency in high demand, though seldom formally sought from this broker: Part 2 with Paul Berman

In this Overdrive Radio episode, East Coast Transport's Logistics VP discusses potential new requirements related to freight-transaction transparency, and more.

June 4, 2020

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Highway robbery: A clouded transparency

You think you’re all set: After 120 deadhead miles, you’re almost to the pickup — when the broker calls. The load’s canceled, he says, and $150 truck-ordered-not-used (TONU) is coming your way. … True? Or did he just find somebody cheaper …

March 9, 2018

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Research broker histories before taking load from new source

Using resources available on different load boards to research a broker’s credit history, days to pay and more can help prevent a bad experience.

August 10, 2017

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‘Poison pill’ for independents reportedly out of highway bill

House-Senate reconciliation of differing versions of a long-term highway bill, announced Tuesday afternoon, notably excluded “interim hiring standards” language that excluded unrated carriers.

December 1, 2015

The ‘poison pill’ that remains in the recently passed highway bill, by the numbers

Unless fixed or removed in the House-Senate highway bill conference committee, the House’s carrier “hiring standard” would unduly disadvantage well more than 1.5 million drivers for 440,000 carriers in the competition to secure business.

November 9, 2015

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TIA, OOIDA support proposed language change to eliminate highway bill ‘poison pill’ for Unrated carriers

The proposed change, to be considered this week during House highway bill debate, notably excludes the thousands of Conditional rated carriers operating amid increasing difficulty obtaining a review after correcting problems.

November 2, 2015

This chart, from July 2014 reporting on the current safety rating system, shows that since the advent of the CSA program, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has become much less likely to issue ratings. Of reviews of U.S. carriers in the then most recent complete fiscal year, 2013, about 76 percent of reviews that could have resulted in a safety rating actually did so. Compare that to the final pre-CSA year of 2010, when the percentage of ratable reviews was 87 percent. (Full FY 2014 numbers showed the trend stabilizing, with 75 percent of all reviews resulting in a safety rating; and, once again, more Conditional ratings were issued than Satisfactory ones.) Furthermore, the overall number of intensive carrier reviews – the kind that result in safety ratings – in 2010 was twice as high as the number conducted in 2013. That’s because the agency has shifted away from the traditional compliance review to greater reliance on more focused reviews and away from a safety-rating approach. Transportation attorney Hank Seaton has contended FMCSA has shifted accountability for determining carrier safety “from itself onto the shippers and brokers,” an attempt to “strong-arm the public” into doing the agency’s job.

Bye-bye CSA scores? Another group calls for removal of public carrier rankings

The Transportation Intermediaries Association has become the latest organization to call on the DOT to remove from public view the carrier percentile rankings in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability trucking regulatory program, saying it has “serious concerns” about the scores’ methodology and correlation (or lack thereof) to crash risk.

April 17, 2015

Legislation introduced to clarify broker/shipper carrier-selection requirements

TIA believes H.R. 4727 would remove the “confusing and conflicting vagaries” of CSA BASIC data as it relates to charges of the negligent selection of a carrier,

May 23, 2014

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New Entrant test debated in initial regulatory session

Call 530-408-6423, 530-40-VOICE, to contribute thoughts on the New Entrant test rulemaking under way to an upcoming Overdrive podcast. Two more federal sessions, in March at MATS and April at CVSA, are planned.

January 14, 2014

Overdrive‘s January cover story charted the particulars of gaining operating authority. The New Entrant test FMCSA is crafting would put yet another step in that process. Find Part 1 of the story via this link.

Broker organization sues over hike in bond requirement

AIPBA alleges FMCSA violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, given the agency did not conduct rulemaking to raise the minimum required broker bond from $10K to $75K, slated to go into effect October 1.

July 19, 2013

Overdrive reporting on efforts to raise the broker minimum surety requirements in June 2012. Read that story here.

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