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Regulatory onslaught to shrink capacity, spur rate increase, economist says
The regulatory bottleneck heading toward the trucking industry in 2014 will further shrink the driver pool and the industry’s capacity and could lead to a 6 percent increase in truckload rates by the second quarter of 2014, said Eric Starks
December 6, 2013
Hours of Service
Undoing hours rule, implementing e-logs key items on 2014 ATA agenda
ATA Chairman Phil Byrd said undoing this year’s hours-of-service rule changes, working on an electronic log mandate, fixing CSA and working to improve driver respect are some key areas ATA will focus on in 2014.
December 4, 2013
Channel 19
Another voice on the hours of service: Owner-operator Tom Quinton
As Quinton’s and recent other commentary makes clear, the new hours of service rule is foregrounding the problem of, simply, time. Time enough to get the work done in the day allotted to do it.
November 30, 2013
Business
Data analysis: Ten years isn’t a lifetime…for Yoda
“As much as I’d like to be able to write a happy ending for the hours of service story, I can’t. The HOS are just the tip of the iceberg.”
November 24, 2013
Channel 19
Trip-planning / service locator app bags prize; hours hearing vid
Another play in the trucking smartphone-apps landscape, with a robust trip-planning function; and full video of this week’s House Small Business Committee’s hours of service hearing.
November 23, 2013
Hours of Service
Owner-operator testifies to Congress on damaging effects of new hours provisions
Owner-operator Tilden Curl testified before Congress this week to say the new rules have cost him thousands of dollars a month and do little to make the industry safer.
November 22, 2013
Hours of Service
FMCSA’s Ferro defends hours rule, says agency won’t undo it
Administrator Anne Ferro persistently defended her Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service rule Nov. 21 in a House subcommittee hearing, saying she is not open to repealing the regulations.
November 21, 2013
Overdrive Radio
OOIDA survey latest to show hours-of-service rules cut pay, increase driver fatigue
A full 65 percent of the 4,000 truck drivers surveyed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association said the new hours of service rules have caused them to receive less income, while 46 percent report feeling more fatigued since the new rules took effect.
November 20, 2013
Hours of Service
Agency needs to justify hours rule that’s ‘purely ideological,’ congressman says
Overdrive had the exclusive opportunity to speak with Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), who’s been backing a delay of the new hours rule since July, about the upcoming House hearing on hours of service rules.
November 19, 2013
Overdrive Radio
Drivers need more professional discretion: Voices on the hours changes
In this Voices-series podcast, operators weigh in further on the hours changes as a House subcommittee hearing looms Nov. 21. Call 530-40-VOICE, 530-408-6423, to weigh on these and other issues.
November 18, 2013
Hours of Service
More than 50% of drivers report at least 5% pay drop due to hours of service rules, ATRI reports
More than half of driver respondents in a recent study say that the July 1 hours of service rule change has decreased their pay by 5 percent or more.
November 18, 2013
Channel 19
Bon voyage — a final word on leaving trucking
Thomas Dempsey’s farewell to trucking “toward a more stable industry, one that young people will want to enter, and current drivers will choose to stay with, and be proud to do.”
November 16, 2013
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