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Channel 19

TruckerNation hours comment drive ongoing via social sites

The TruckerNation organization has consulted with FMCSA toward making commenting on the FMCSA’s hours proposal possible via dedicated posts on TruckerNation’s Facebook pages, where interested drivers can grant the org. permission to file their commentary as a third party.

September 3, 2019

Hours of Service

Second FMCSA listening session on hours of service set for D.C.

The second of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s listening sessions on the proposed hours of service changes will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17, at U.S. DOT headquarters in Washington, D.C. The listening session will be held from 1-3 p.m. and is open to the public.

September 2, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Trucker Talent Search: Hear the performances; And: More on hours amid comment period

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, run through talent-search music, with a warm-up by Long Haul Paul Marhoefer and plenty emcee’ing by trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, who’s played a major role through the event’s six years in making it an ongoing anchor among the community of musicians who also happen to haul freight on the open road…

August 30, 2019

Overdrive Extra

One trucker’s somewhat mixed feelings on the hours of service proposal

Clifford Petersen on the hours proposal: “I will say definitively … that yes, we need greater flexibility. After all, we are professionals, and no one knows our needs better than we do. Still, there are areas that need clarification …”

August 28, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Listen/watch: Owner-operators, drivers weigh in on hours at FMCSA’s listening session

If you missed the Great American Trucking Show or the FMCSA’s webcast last week, you can sit in on the first hour_plus of the hours of service listening session held at GATS Aug. 23 via this video and/or audio player. The session was devoted to some proposed hours changes aimed at increasing both safety with some measure of flexibility for drivers.

August 28, 2019

Business

Grocery delivery fleet gets 30-minute break flexibility

Transco’s team drivers in its grocery division who make wholesale deliveries to grocery and convenience stores will be allowed to use on-duty non-driving time to satisfy the 30-minute break requirement.

August 27, 2019

Hours of Service

Drivers press for cumulative 30-minute break in first HOS listening session

Kicking off the formal comment period for FMCSA’s proposal to enact hours of service reforms, owner-operators and other stakeholders took the mic before FMCSA’s top decision makers at a public listening session Friday at the Great American Trucking Show.

August 23, 2019

Hours of Service

Truckers have until Oct. 7 to file comments on FMCSA’s hours of service proposal

Proposed changes include allowing drivers to pause their 14-hour on-duty clock for up to three hours and extending the split sleeper berth options for drivers to include splits of seven hours and three hours, among other proposed reforms; comments are being facilitated, likewise, at GATS this week.

August 22, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Hours edits: Drivers in full control with ELDs

Office edits to a log, unlike with many AOBRD systems, will go to the driver for final approval under the ELD spec. Survey results show some carriers and drivers clearly appreciate the ability with many AOBRDs to bypass any driver-approval step in the log-edit chain.

August 21, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Hours overhaul a little slow out of the gate

The U.S. DOT’s proposal to revamp federal hours of service regulations still hasn’t been officially published in the Federal Register, though an agency spokesperson says the notice of proposed rulemaking teed up for publication Thursday.

August 20, 2019

Hours of Service

Hours of service listening session set for GATS

The GATS listening session, which will be at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, will begin at 10 a.m. and is scheduled for two hours. FMCSA says the listening sessions will allow the public to present comments, views and relevant research on the proposed hours changes.

August 19, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off

In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could have been avoided, mainstream news spin, more on the proposal …

August 16, 2019