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Channel 19
Hours debacle covered at news site Politico
**(Overdrive editor Max Heine is posting updates from the Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting via the OD Twitter feed and Facebook page today. Expected to be included among the news are company driver and owner-operator of the year awards. Stay tuned.)** Click through the thumbnail of the graph here for Politico writer Adam Snider’s brief […]
March 6, 2012
Business
CSA Proof Your Rig
Pack the right parts and inspect your truck diligently to avoid time-consuming, costly inspections.
March 1, 2012
Channel 19
Back to basics in apnea debate: The importance of sleep
Last night on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program of fuel hauler Allen Smith and his wife, Donna, discussion of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board’s joint work on the issue of sleep apnea gave way at a crucial moment to a reiteration of the reality of the […]
February 24, 2012
Channel 19
More than a typo? Split sleeper wishful thinking
Trans Products / Trans Services Regulatory Manager Rich Wilson, during a break between sessions of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., early this month, pointed out a couple curious problems with the medical forms some states are using. One, he pointed out, defined stage 3 hypertension as a blood pressure reading […]
February 23, 2012
Business
Court dismisses hours of service case
A federal court dismissed the hours of service lawsuit Feb. 8, ending nearly three years of litigation.
February 9, 2012
Business
Amendment defeats heavier trucks
A bipartisan amendment to require a study of the impact of heavier truck weight limits was approved.
February 1, 2012
Business
Is FMCSA putting back in the air what EPA takes out?
New FMCSA rules require truckers to take a 30 minute break. What effect will this have on air quality?
January 30, 2012
Business
Groups want hours of service case dismissed
Previous settlement agreement wanted to change 2008 hours of service rule.
January 24, 2012
Channel 19
Rich Wilson’s ‘state of the industry’; and MCSAC apnea update
You’re likely to remember Rich Wilson (pictured), former owner-operator and current regulatory manager with the Trans Products/Trans Services company, for his part in the Truck Driver Social Media Convention last fall, where he urged the drivers and owner-operators in attendance really be a part of the regulatory process — on the front end, in the […]
January 13, 2012
Channel 19
Intent v. interpretation: Questions raised by new hours rule
The intent is not living up to the interpretation of language in the hours of service final rule, Rich Wilson of Trans Products / Trans Services told me this morning. Just one example of the disconnect (notwithstanding the one I wrote about last week) was noted by owner-operators Linda Caffee and Henry Albert of […]
January 6, 2012
Channel 19
Stiff wind to pay the toll: The 2011 Channel 19 year in review
What better way to start the new year than with a look back on the previous? I did it last year, after all, so let’s make it a tradition, how bout? The Chinese Year of the Rabbit saw all manner of issues hopping in and out of the national on-highway spotlight, bookended by a proposed […]
January 1, 2012
Channel 19
FMCSA’s hours rule justification includes, well, guess who…
You can imagine my surprise yesterday when, just as I’m perusing portions of the new hours rule’s full text in preparation for a story or two I’m putting together for Truckers News and Overdrive, I get an email from a colleague making note of the fact that none other than my own reporting is sourced […]
December 29, 2011
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