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Hours of Service
Study finds 2013 restart restrictions negatively impacted safety
“Regulations should serve to improve safety, not create additional safety risks.” –Maverick’s Dean Newell on the 2013-implemented restart restrictions.
April 29, 2015
Hours of Service
Concrete haulers granted exemption to hours-of-service provisions; fireworks haulers request one
FMCSA last week granted an exemption to ready-mix concrete haulers from the agency’s 30-minute break requirement implemented in the 2013 hours-of-service changes. It’s also considering a temporary exemption for pyrotechnics haulers.
April 6, 2015
Hours of Service
FMCSA’s hours-of-service restart study: Congressman writes DOT to note concerns about trucker participants
Hanna’s letter includes four key points to Foxx and FMCSA that he says should be considered for the study, including — perhaps of most concern for the study’s efficacy — ensuring selection of drivers that “are truly representative of the industry,” Hanna writes.
April 6, 2015
Hours of Service
Dept. of Energy, Oregon log haulers get hours-of-service exemptions
FMCSA in recent weeks announced it has granted the Oregon Trucking Associations and the Department of Energy their requested exemptions from the 30-minute break requirement of the 2013 hours-of-service rule.
March 30, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Kenny Capell’s obstruction of justice case at the scale house, in his own words
Capell hopes it becomes common practice in law enforcement to better respect the job trucking professionals do by refraining from waking sleeping codrivers absent reasonable suspicion.
March 23, 2015
Hours of Service
FMCSA offering up to $2k for participating in hours-of-service study
FMCSA and the university tapped with completing the agency’s Congressionally required study on the 2013-implemented hours-of-service changes is still on the hunt for truck operators willing to volunteer for the study.
March 12, 2015
Hours of Service
Kentucky temporarily suspends hours rules for food, medicine, grain haulers
Kentucky has suspended hours-of-service rules for truck drivers supplies such as food, water, medicine, propane and grains headed to areas affected by severe winter weather in recent weeks.
March 10, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Jeff Clark for FMCSA Administrator? And: Lookback Tony Justice podcast
Operator Jeff Clark fires up the campaign machine, and a lookback podcast performance from Tony Justice — Dave Dudley’s “Six Days on the Road” and Justice’s own “Who Needs Heaven.”
March 7, 2015
Business
Citing handling of hours-of-service rules and CSA, Senator vows to reform FMCSA
Sen. Deb Fischer this week announced she plans to introduce legislation to reform the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, with the aim of making the agency more under Congressional control, more transparent and more inclusive of trucking industry stakeholders.
March 6, 2015
Hours of Service
Permanent hours-of-service fix, minimum driver age, highway funding top ATA agenda for 2015
In addition to a more long-term hours-of-service fix, Osiecki says ATA will promote increasing fuel taxes to boost highway funding, building a national freight plan, lowering the legal age to obtain a CDL and dealing with federal emissions standards.
February 18, 2015
Parking
Arkansas matters, and so do the truckers
Latest media foul well apparent from this headline: “Truckers Use Walmart Parking Lot as a Truck Stop; Customers Feel Unsafe” — actually, just one customer. . .
February 18, 2015
Parking
Barriers to the next generation of drivers detailed in ATRI’s demographics study
It will be difficult, noted ATRI President Rebecca Brewster, to keep drivers in trucking if “the drivers are forced … to drive during periods of increased risk” due to the nature of the hours of service regulations.
February 14, 2015
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