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Life
St. Christopher Truckers Fund offering free vaccine vouchers for drivers
Truckers can print the vouchers from the organization’s website and take them to Kroger, The Little Clinic, Walgreen’s or The Medicine Shoppe at White’s Travel Center to receive the free vaccines.
October 26, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
States object to OOIDA’s assertions that they can’t enforce ELD mandate
Questions are being raised by state officials about the validity of a recent legal petition filed by OOIDA. Several states responded to note that, as far as they were concerned, their regulatory code was fully up to date, including the ELD mandate.
September 5, 2017
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to withhold federal funding from 20 states for enforcement, including ELDs
The petition singles out 26 states that haven’t as yet adopted the ELD mandate, while 20 of those are out of compliance with fed regs adoption rules in general, OOIDA says. The MCSAP program granted more than $65 million in funding to those 20 states last year.
August 30, 2017
Business
Human trafficking convicts would be barred for life from trucking under Senate bill
A bill introduced by the Senate’s Commerce Committee this week would permanently disqualify truck drivers from holding a CDL if they’ve been convicted of a human trafficking offense. The legislation part of a two-bill package aimed at combating human trafficking that occurs on U.S. roadways.
July 14, 2017
Business
Court sides with DOT in cross-border trucking case, allowing Mexican carriers to continue U.S. operation
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Teamsters Union challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s cross-border trucking program. FMCSA in January 2015 opened the U.S. operating authority application process to all Mexican carriers, prompting the Teamsters’ court challenge.
July 7, 2017
Business
Trucker pay reform efforts at state level could be stymied by revival of Denham Amendment
Congress is again considering legislation that would block state-level efforts to dictate driver pay reforms and hours of service restrictions. The so-called Denham Amendment, first brought to the table by Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) in 2015, seeks to reassert federal authority over hours of service regulations and the industry’s standard per-mile driver pay model.
July 5, 2017
Voices
Between cynicism and hope: Readers, associations weigh in on ramifications of CSA study
While many readers were cynical about the entire project, associations from OOIDA to ATA were hopeful that the National Academies’ CSA revision recommendations would be taken seriously by the FMCSA.
June 30, 2017
Business
Supreme Court refuses another trucking case, this one about carriers’ access to drivers’ history
The six driver plaintiffs claimed FMCSA’s PSP reports disparaged their reputations and made it harder for them to find work. The courts have also consistently disagreed with OOIDA-backed plaintiffs’ assertions.
June 20, 2017
Business
OOIDA offering training course to meet new FDA sanitary food hauling regs
OOIDA’s course includes a one-hour training module and a test, which awards a certificate of completion, a card to keep in the truck cab and templates of written procedures and checklists for van trailers, reefers, flatbeds, liquid bulk tankers and hoppers.
June 19, 2017
Overdrive Radio
‘Not adding up’: Following Supreme Court’s hit to ELD challenge, owner-operators reckon with next steps
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s official denial of OOIDA’s appeal for it to throw out the ELD rule, attention turned to the Trump administration and, more closely, Congress. A bevy of readers faced down the reality of further limited options for an ELD challenge.
June 13, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Supreme Court rejects ELD appeal, ending OOIDA’s challenge options
In a win for FMCSA, the Supreme Court has declined to take up OOIDA’s challenge, leaving in place a lower court decision that upholds the rule and its Dec. 18 compliance date. OOIDA says it will continue its ELD challenge via Congress and the White House.
June 12, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Supreme Court could decide June 8 whether to hear ELD lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide as early as June 8 whether it will hear the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s lawsuit against the federal government’s rule to mandate use of electronic logging devices for truck drivers.
May 26, 2017
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