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Business

‘Beyond Compliance’ to be CSA’s 8th BASIC?

As FMCSA moves toward decision on using ‘8th BASIC’ approach to the Beyond Compliance credit program required by Congress, carriers and safety consultants speak up on the ideas in Chicago listening session.

April 25, 2016

Business

Prime wants $500,000 reimbursement from state of New York for truck taxes, fees

The taxes — a certificate of registration and a highway use tax decal — totaled about $19 per truck.

April 18, 2016

Business

Who’s OOIDA given to so far this election season?

Data pulled for the period between Jan. 1, 2015, and March 31, 2016, shows no contributions to presidential candidates. It does show broad support for candidates with a record of backing policies also supported by OOIDA.

April 15, 2016

Channel 19

Why ‘automatic’ may or may not mean ‘automatic’ when it comes to ELDs

In OOIDA’s case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didn’t require devices that ‘automatically’ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?

April 15, 2016

Parking

‘All the money in the world’ may not be enough to solve trucking’s parking crisis, panelists say

Simply adding more parking spaces, even along busy freight corridors, likely wouldn’t fix the country’s widespread truck parking shortage, said four panelists at a seminar held last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show.

April 5, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

OOIDA hits FMCSA with lawsuit to block ELD mandate, calls rule arbitrary and unconstitutional

The Owner-Operator Independent Driver’s Association this week filed initial arguments in its challenge to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic logging device (ELD) mandate final rule.

March 31, 2016

Business

Kenworth offering discounts to OOIDA members

Kenworth is offering $1,000 savings on T680 and T880 models with a 52-inch or 76-inch factory-installed sleeper. The program also includes Kenworth T660, T800 and W900 glider kits equipped with a 72-inch or 86-inch factory-installed sleeper.

March 24, 2016

Business

Former OOIDA staffer named ATA’s legislative Senior VP

Mike Joyce, a veteran of Capitol Hill who served as director of legislative affairs for OOIDA between 2005 and 2010, has been named the American Trucking Associations’ senior vice president of legislative affairs.

February 16, 2016

Business

Owner-ops: Carrier rewarding system a way to help big carriers, ice out small ones

More concerns and questions were raised than praise given Tuesday at an FMCSA hearing intended to gather carrier and trucking industry stakeholder input on the potential establishment of a program to reward carriers who go above and beyond minimum requirements of federal safety rules.

January 13, 2016

Overdrive Radio

CSA scores pulled behind the curtain — what’s next?

Following FMCSA’s pull of the CSA SMS from public view, some signs that the CSA bell will continue to ring in carrier selection processes from brokers and shippers in the “private CSA world.” Some reader views, too, on FMCSA’s next move.

December 7, 2015

Business

Trucking industry weighs in on CSA, other provisions of FAST Act highway bill

Trucking stakeholder groups weighed in after a Congressional conference announced a five-year unified highway bill. What’s your view? Call 530-408-6423 to weigh in yourself.

December 2, 2015

Channel 19

Driver voices raised against highway bill amendment to resolve state/federal legal conflicts

Protection of independent/small-fleet business freedom or “wage theft” from company drivers? A growing conflict over a highway-bill amendment as House-Senate conference gets under way.

November 16, 2015