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Voices

ATA v. OOIDA dust-up: Truckers respond

Truck drivers weigh in on the ATA and OOIDA following ATA President Chris Spear's claims that individuals associated with the OOIDA threatened the ATA.

May 7, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Truckers lose in the authenticity battles and baseless accusation flinging between ATA, OOIDA

At a time when the industry seems at least in some ways to be coalescing around a few pressing issues — need for hours of service reform, a lack of parking and battered highways, to name a few — the groups only stand to hang their members out to dry by continuing to throw punches.

May 3, 2018

Business

Todd Spencer takes the helm as OOIDA president

The Board of Directors for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association on Thursday voted unanimously to approve Todd Spencer as OOIDA’s new president. He’s been elected to a five-year term and was sworn in as president last week.

April 30, 2018

Business

OOIDA, safety groups rally against bill to allow under-21 interstate truckers

In a letter sent to the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the committee where the bill was filed, OOIDA and a long list of other groups, told lawmakers they strongly oppose the DRIVE Act’s passage. The groups claim in the letter that younger drivers are much more likely to crash. The act’s training requirements are also “woefully inadequate,” they write.

April 19, 2018

Overdrive Extra

OOIDA’s Todd Spencer talks driver pay, ‘driver shortage’ in live Fox Business segment

In a live segment aired last week on Fox News’ spinoff Fox Business, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Acting President Todd Spencer fielded questions from host Stuart Varney about — what else? — the country’s “serious shortage of truck drivers,” as Varney put it.

April 4, 2018

Hours of Service

Bill in Congress would allow drivers to pause 14-hour clock for up to three hours

A bill filed in the U.S. House Thursday by Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) would allow drivers to take one break per day — of up to three hours — that does not count against their 14-hour on-duty allotment. The bill mirrors a petition filed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association last month, calling for a pause button for drivers’ daily 14-hour clock of up to three hours and the removal of the mandatory 30-minute break required by current hours regs.

March 29, 2018

Business

OOIDA files class-action suit against PA Turnpike over toll hikes

OOIDA says the PTC’s toll hikes “place an undue burden on interstate commerce while improperly diverting toll revenue to other projects unrelated to the turnpike.” Association CEO and acting president Todd Spencer says truckers have overpaid by as much as 70 cents-per-mile.

March 28, 2018

Business

Highway robbery: A clouded transparency

You think you’re all set: After 120 deadhead miles, you’re almost to the pickup — when the broker calls. The load’s canceled, he says, and $150 truck-ordered-not-used (TONU) is coming your way. … True? Or did he just find somebody cheaper …

March 9, 2018

Business

OOIDA wants court to rehear case over sleep apnea guidelines for truckers

Following a court’s dismissal of the case in January, OOIDA has filed a motion for the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear its argument that FMCSA illegally altered sleep apnea screening guidelines for truck drivers. FMCSA refutes OOIDA’s assertions, and the court sided with FMCSA in January.

March 1, 2018

Channel 19

Let the 14-hour conversations … begin?

‘Continue’ rather than ‘begin’ is probably the best word to describe what’s been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDA’s lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend the clock.

February 15, 2018

Hours of Service

OOIDA asks FMCSA to institute pause button for 14-hour clock

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a petition with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asking the agency to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour daily clock for up to three straight hours and to nix the 30-minute rest break required by current hours regs.

February 14, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Some states aren’t enforcing the ELD mandate yet simply because they can’t

Some states won’t be writing citations or tickets for non compliance with the ELD mandate because, legally, they can’t.

February 1, 2018