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Channel 19
Correcting the personal-conveyance record
Answering Russ Hoffman’s question: “Are you sure that Personal Conveyance requires that you not have a load or trailer? I believe the regulation is Unladen (unloaded) with an empty trailer being acceptable.” By the letter of the law, he’s right.
March 2, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Have you tested the e-log waters with a smartphone/tablet-based app?
What’s been your experience, or lack thereof, with the myriad of smartphone/tablet-based computer-assisted logs available today to use without a connection to the truck’s engine? Have you tested the water of e-logs with any?
March 2, 2017
Voices
Reader: ELDs set to exacerbate existing parking, detention issues
“I don’t think anyone has really considered what making all trucks go ELD will do and all the problems it will cause. There isn’t enough parking now.” –reader Josiah Gonzalez, via email. And: A little personal conveyance wiggle room.
February 21, 2017
Channel 19
Livestock haulers’ efforts to secure hours changes in light of ELD mandate, stalled
“We’re 100 percent dependent on road transportation of our cattle. Take that away from us and we’re back to cattle drives.” –Tim O’Byrne of the American Cattle Transporters Advisory Group, a coalition hoping to liberalize split-berth/14-hour regs for livestock haulers in light of ELD mandate.
February 17, 2017
Hours of Service
Maine suspends hours regs for heating fuel haulers; California reopens roads near Oroville Dam
Any carriers delivering home and business heating fuels in New Hampshire and Maine are exempt from hours-of-service regulations, per emergency declarations in each state.
February 15, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Small fleet saves time and hassles with ELDs
The biggest ELD hurdle for nine-truck JJ&T Trucking, says Jake Taylor, company co-owner with his wife, Christy, was less operational than technical.
February 10, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
E-log sticker merits easy time at weigh station
Gastonia, N.C.-based hotshot/tow owner-operator Buster Lewis took up the Continental VDO RoadLog to eliminate the hassle of pushing paper logs, he says — big bonus: No weigh-station hassles for him and his 2006 Freightliner Business Class straight flatbed.
February 9, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs and the detention quagmire
Rico Muhammad’s reefer freight operation, based in Atlanta, is comprised of two trucks operating primarily in the Southeast and sometimes outside the region. He names detention’s operational quagmire as perhaps the principal issue for owner-operators moving to ELDs.
February 8, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs’ early adopters face productivity, operational challenges
Examining the operational impacts of fully engine-connected electronic logging devices both positive and negative — adopted by these independents and leased small fleets/operators, well ahead of the ELD mandate.
February 7, 2017
Hours of Service
Severe weather prompts another hours of service suspension in GA
The order loosens hours-of-service regulations for drivers in 16 counties in the state hauling fuel or loads helping the relief effort.
January 26, 2017
Voices
Readers debate viability of pre-2000 model year approach to avoiding ELD mandate
At the center of the commentary, pushback on the notion that near-20-year-old equipment could be considered reliable enough to deliver suitable profitability. As one commenter noted, telling his story, an owner-operator might do well “to have two [or three] — one to run, and one for a spare. And one for parts if you can store it.””
January 18, 2017
Hours of Service
Winter storm prompts hours suspension for certain truckers in Oklahoma
The emergency declaration was issued Thursday, Jan. 12, and is effective through Feb. 11. The declaration says direct assistance only applies to the “restoration of essential services” such as electrical, sewer, water and telecommunications, and for essential supplies such as feed, food and fuel.
January 17, 2017
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