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Hours of Service
Move in Senate would restore 2013âs 34-hour restart rules, require 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. periods
The saga toâfixâ 34-hour restart regs continues: A Senate measure filed this week would again require truckersâ 34-hour restart to include two 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. periods and limit the restartâs use to once a week. The amendment was filed Tuesday, the same day the House released a plan to permanently nix the 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. requirement.
May 18, 2016
Hours of Service
House bill restores 2011 hours of service rules, kills Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking
The measure does not tie the changes to the 34-hour restart study currently being conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a departure from trucking-specific provisions cleared by Congress in recent years.
May 17, 2016
Hours of Service
Fireworks haulers request amendment to Independence Day HOS exemption
The American Pyrotechnics Association requested that four carriers be removed from the exemption and four carriers be added to the exemption, which was granted by FMCSA last year, keeping the total at 51 carriers.
May 6, 2016
Hours of Service
Trucking org calls for removal of hours reform in Senate bill, says ELDs should guide new rules
The potential 73-hour cap would be âcounterproductive to truck driver safetyâ and could set a dangerous precedent of politicizing trucking regulations, the Alliance argues, adding that regulators should wait on data derived from the ELD mandate before implementing hours reform.
May 2, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: Potential 34-hour restart change reinforces elemental hours problems for readers
Given the complexity of the recently proposed 34-hour-restart change, itâs no wonder (as youâll hear in this podcast) that a desire for the simplicity of pre-14-hour-rule regs is such a topic of discussion of late.
April 29, 2016
Electronic Logging Devices
FleetCompleteâs ELD builds on tracking-system base
The Toronto-based Fleet Completeâs mobile app-based ELD (with engine-connected hardware) comes at $7 for a monthly subscription price, but it requires the base $29-monthly tracking system as well.
April 26, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Off the clock: An hours of service alternative
Whatever happens for better or for worse, itâs worth noting that a system based in reality â the driverâs true fitness for duty, not some rigid, almost arbitrary system cooked up by regulators â could be a big improvement over a one-size-fits-all system that actually fits very few.
April 23, 2016
Hours of Service
Senate bill clears up 34-hour restart confusion, could add new hours limits
The bill corrects a legislative mess-up from December that put the 34-hour restart in jeopardy by ensuring the restart will remain available for truckers. However, it would also put in place a new 73-hour on-duty limit in a consecutive seven-day period.
April 21, 2016
Channel 19
An upward trend in truck-occupant crash deaths
In the years following FMCSAâs 2003 publication of the hours of service rule that first included the 14-hour on-duty window, the percentage of truck-occupant crash deaths among all truck-involved fatalities is on an upward trend.
April 21, 2016
Hours of Service
Flexible split sleeper berth exemption extended 4 more years
Private carrier McKee Foods has been granted an extension to its 2015-granted waiver, which allows its drivers to divide their 10 required sleeper berth hours into 5/5, 6/4 or 3/7 splits. FMCSAâs own commissioned research has shown split sleep has little to no bearing on truck driver fatigue or safety. Truckers, however, still must abide by the rigid 14-hour rule.
April 19, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Teamsters, safety groups to Congress: Donât touch hours of service
Two key trucking items likely to see action in the appropriations process include a fix to the hours of service legislative screw-up from Congressâ 2016 DOT appropriations law and the revival of the so-called âfederal authorityâ provisions floated in recent transportation-related bills.
April 18, 2016
Channel 19
Why âautomaticâ may or may not mean âautomaticâ when it comes to ELDs
In OOIDAâs case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didnât require devices that âautomaticallyâ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?
April 15, 2016
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