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Webinar: Driver shortage could persist
A driver shortage is emerging but several factors are working against meeting the demand for drivers.
June 25, 2010
Business
Agency changes hours docs policy
The FMCSA will relieve carriers that use electronic mobile communications of maintaining other supporting documents to verify driver logs.
June 4, 2010
Business
FMCSA hearings planned
Hearings will be on on several areas including hours of service, electronic on-board recorders and household movers.
June 4, 2010
Business
Hours rules exemption extended in Gulf states
Haulers of certain loads are exempt from HOS until June 30 in the four Gulf Coast affected by the oil spill.
June 1, 2010
Channel 19
Running below the E-O-B-Radar…
In my research for the cover story of the current edition of Overdrive, “Getting on board,” about the growing use of electronic onboard recorders for logging among many major carriers throughout the United States, I had a conversation with expediting husband-wife team Bob and Linda Caffee about curiosities of their electronic logging system. “We drove […]
May 18, 2010
Channel 19
Flex time — ATA lays down support for sleeper berth/HOS flexibility in comments to feds
The latest wrinkle in the ongoing debate over potential changes to trucking hours-of-service regulations, for which so many drivers have offered various proposals for injecting flexibility into the system, is the biggest trucking-company organization in the nation’s support for codifying split rest in the sleeper berth. “Allowing shorter documented sleeper berth periods [other than the currently […]
April 22, 2010
Overdrive Extra
How recorders can protect you
If it seems electronic onboard recorders are becoming much more prevalent, it’s because they are. Thousands of units are in place in major carriers. The recent final rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration means that thousands more are on the way for fleets that rack up too many hours-of-service violations. The May Overdrive […]
April 9, 2010
Channel 19
Amid industry discussion of EOBR rule, smartphone logging apps proliferate
Though the FMCSA’s just-published limited-mandate and performance-standards rule for electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs) for logging did next to nothing to open up the market for tools beyond the paper log and expensive devices tethered to the truck’s ECM, smartphone applications with similar functionality continue to proliferate. The UDrove app and online storage service, released earlier this year (functional […]
April 8, 2010
Channel 19
Trucking through hours-of-service flexibility and EOBRs
With a new rule mandating electronic on-board recorders for a boosted number of hours-of-service (HOS) noncompliant carriers, the ongoing HOS listening sessions and FMCSA review of the current hours rule and the expectation among industry parties that an across-the-board EOBR mandate may be in the offing several years down the road, the issue of work time […]
April 5, 2010
Business
FMCSA adjusts recorder mandate
FMCSA’s rule requires onboard recorders for carriers shown in a single audit to be in serious hours-of-service noncompliance.
April 2, 2010
Home
Drivers call for hours changes
Drivers and others in trucking called for more flexibility in sleeper berth regulations Friday, March 26, during the fifth public hearing on revising the hours of service rule. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration held the day-long meeting at a convention center in Louisville, Ky. FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro, who has attended some of the […]
March 31, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Hours of services changes: Sooner and later
If you have any doubt about whether the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., are getting the message about needed flexibility in the hours of service revision, worry no longer. I attended part of the fifth hours of service public hearing last week in Louisville, Ky., and the calls for a more sensible approach to sleeper berth […]
March 30, 2010
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