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OOIDA asks Supreme Court to hear cross-border trucking case

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has petitioned to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the group’s case against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s cross-border trucking pilot program with Mexico.

November 5, 2013

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FMCSA chief honors safe drivers at OOIDA celebration

Trucking’s top regulator said Friday that she was “grateful and honored” to call the names of 35 “remarkably impressive owner-operators” in recognition of their accident-free years.

October 18, 2013

FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro talks with OOIDA member John Taylor, who was recognized for 62 years of accident-free driving.

Driver shortage: Countdown to a capacity crunch, and a boost in rates?

Is higher driver compensation just around the corner? This series — part 1 available here — looks at the tightening of the employment market for drivers, and the potential for a rate boost.

August 29, 2013

The American Trucking Associations, assuming a current shortage of more than 20,000 truck drivers compared to available jobs, projects the gap to grow annually over the next 10 years.

Lumper fees: Sometimes a little push-back works

Readers respond to Wendy Parker’s “To lump or not to lump…” story about the lumper fees common at grocery distributors — if carriers aren’t being compensated for fees by shipper or receiver, then U.S. law has been violated.

August 6, 2013

House bill would increase trucking insurance minimum by millions

A bill referred to the House’s transportation committee last week would raise the minimum insurance required by trucking companies from $750,000 to $4,422,000.

July 23, 2013

Roll-over crash scene

Broker organization sues over hike in bond requirement

AIPBA alleges FMCSA violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, given the agency did not conduct rulemaking to raise the minimum required broker bond from $10K to $75K, slated to go into effect October 1.

July 19, 2013

Overdrive reporting on efforts to raise the broker minimum surety requirements in June 2012. Read that story here.

Idle Smart/OOIDA partnership

OOIDA members to receive rebate on the purchase of the Idle Smart automatic engine start/stop solution for in-cab climate control.

July 17, 2013

Display Unit, Idle Smart

OOIDA sues agency over violation appeals process

OOIDA is suing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for the second time in a year over its violation appeals process.

May 24, 2013

Roundup: Strange bedfellows, scale-house burger, Android barker

Legislation can make for odd bedfellows among supporters, Wendy Parker orders a cheeseburger — at the wrong drive-through, and Mack Trucks’ Bulldog magazine gets new digital distribution.

May 9, 2013

Click through the image to download the mag’s app for Android.

C.R. England appeals $1.3 million judgement to OOIDA

C.R. England is appealing a federal court’s final judgment favoring the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in its 11-year-old class-action suit.

April 11, 2013

Inconsistent enforcement: Insist on inspection, not citation

The way the DataQs challenge system is working suggests conventional wisdom about citations and CSA scores is flawed, with the issue of unfinished clean inspections looming larger for carriers looking to improve CSA scores.

March 27, 2013

If you have a CSA score above the intervention threshold in one or more of the BASICs, you need clean inspections to improve scores in a timely manner, such as vehicle inspections resulting in application of a Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance decal.

Who’s keeping score: PSP is driver-info ‘gold standard’

FMCSA’s Pre-employment Screening Program is the only place to find full driver-specific detail of the information contained in the Motor Carrier Management Information System database that underpins CSA.

February 11, 2013

Independent owner-operator Martin Jez

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