Tools designed to mitigate hazard, maybe? I’ll be out at the National Association of Small Trucking Companies’ annual meeting tomorrow here in Nashville. Look for updates here at OverdriveOnline.com through early next week from what always proves to be an informative gathering of small fleet owners and operators. Topics of discussion on tomorrow’s schedule: Hours of service, e-logs, sleep apnea and medical certification, CARB, efficiency and more.
If you’re one of those in Nashville for the meet, get in touch; it’d be great to put a name to a face, as it were, if we’ve not previously met.
Readers’ hopes for the national elections (illustrated in the above poll results) were realized, given the shellacking Democrats took across the nation. Which reminds me of the NASTC meeting in one way in particular. Joe Rajkovacz of the California Construction Trucking Association and its Western Trucking Alliance will be giving an update tomorrow on the California Air Resources Board’s emissions regs there. And given the election results, Rajkovacz won’t have to eat his hat — at least not for the next couple years.
Now, for the record I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Rajkovacz wearing a hat, but that’s neither here nor there. Here’s what he told me in September about the prospects for the House bill that would force FMCSA’s hand on the call for CSA scores to be removed from public view, at least until the agency repairs onerous parts of the scoring regime:
I think you’re going to see more of this, especially if the Fall election gives the Republicans control of both houses…. Other than that, right now, my opinion is there’s zero chance this will ever get through a Democratically controlled Senate. I’d eat my hat if that happened, but I feel safe in that bet today.
His digestive system no doubt thanks the voters. How’s that for hazard mitigation?
