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Hours of Service
OOIDA asks FMCSA to institute pause button for 14-hour clock
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a petition with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asking the agency to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour daily clock for up to three straight hours and to nix the 30-minute rest break required by current hours regs.
February 14, 2018
Channel 19
ā100 percent OKā to bring up detention before you get off the phone
āDonāt leave money on the table,ā redux ā that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your businessā accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Channel 19
Grassroots advocacy, redux ā more on last weekās meetings in Congressional offices
Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruz, attended by truckers from different groups and locales ā he urges drivers to do similar: āGo talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.ā
January 27, 2018
Channel 19
Grassroots efforts continue around ELD mandate, hours of service flexibility
Wednesday, January 17, a group of truckers took a meeting with United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to press concerns over the Department of Transportationās electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.
January 19, 2018
Overdrive Radio
āShould have planned betterā only goes so far when road realities are at play
As so many owner-operators have noted in past, āplanning betterā will only get you so far when it comes to ELDs, a 14-hour rule with rigid ends and little opportunity to extend it or stop it for mid-period rest. Owner-operator Mark Kirbyson, in this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, concurs wholeheartedly.
January 16, 2018
Voices
āDonāt work more for lessā is reader Tom Hallās message on hours, ELDs
āA specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will āhaul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'ā āTom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.
January 16, 2018
Channel 19
āHereās to causing a crisisā: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, whoās closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour ruleās inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
January 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Are you running with an ELD/AOBRD for logs or holding off?
With reports varying considerably from operators following the initial enforcement date of the ELD mandate in December, whatās your status for e-log implementation, whether already set up with one, protesting the mandate by shutting down/leaving the business, remaining on paper logs with an exemption, or another scenario?
January 8, 2018
Hours of Service
DOT surveying truckers on personal vehicle commute times
FMCSA has announced intentions to survey drivers about the time they spend commuting in their personal vehicles, seeking to determine how often truckersā commutes to their driving jobs exceed 2 and a half hours. The agency also says it intends to study the ramifications of āexcessive commuting on safety and driver fatigueā after the surveyās completion.
January 5, 2018
Overdrive Extra
The Year of the ELD: Top trucking trends from 2017 as ELD mandate descended
Coverage of the mandate and its myriad of twists and turns throughout dominated the news cycle in 2017. It also dominated Overdriveās usual in-depth coverage of the industry. However, a few other key trends emerged too, including regulatory repeals by the Trump Administration, booming rates and the rise of the electric truck. More hereā¦
December 31, 2017
Business
A silver lining: Clean inspections on the rise
In Overdriveās annual CSAās Data Trail update, after a few years of decline in the totals overall, inspections increased by more than 4 percent. Fortunately for operators, those additional thousands of inspections can be attributed in part to an influx of inspections that contained no violation.
December 27, 2017
Channel 19
āE-logs will cure everything, right?ā
What they wonāt cure, from hours violations incurred while passing full truck stop after full truck stop to overheated communication with inspectors to the sense of pride most longtime truckers take in their professional record. Also: ELD-specific enforcement update, OOIDA portal for any tickets received.
December 22, 2017
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