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Channel 19

The Roadcheck effect: Vacations, business as usual and a growing violation category

With Roadcheck inspections in full swing for June 2018, data from Overdrive and RigDig show violation totals have risen slightly over the past two years.

June 7, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs up the ante on parking

Check out the unintended effect of the ELD mandate on parking and what truckers are saying about the parking situation across the U.S. on Overdrive.

May 30, 2018

Business

Pilot Flying J offering free mid-trip inspections for Roadcheck preparation

Pilot Flying J is helping truckers & fleets prepare for Roadcheck inspections by offering free mid-trip inspections through its PFJ Truck Care Program.

May 25, 2018

Channel 19

Credit (or lack thereof) for clean, redux: Overdimensional haulers in inspectors’ crosshairs over visible violations

Calvin Dahl has a new approach to CSA scoring and inspection violations, specifically for oversize haulers. Read the details here on Overdrive.

May 9, 2018

Business

CVSA hosting two roadside inspection training courses this summer

Calling all motor carriers, owner-operators, truck drivers, technicians, fleet managers and more. The CVSA is holding training sessions for summer 2018. Details here.

May 8, 2018

Business

CVSA’s new working committee on crash data and investigations aims to establishment fairness, uniform practice

A motorist’s crash that didn’t touch a truck but ended up on a carrier’s record as a fatality because the motorist ended up deceased under the trailer highlights the pursuit of fairness in crash investigation with consistent reporting protocols that is among goals of CVSA’s new working crash committee.

April 27, 2018

Business

Herschel Evans wins CVSA’s driver award

With decades of driving experience and millions of crash-free miles driven safely on the road, Evans is an ambassador too less-experienced drivers on issues of safety, part of reason he was selected among many nominees for the IDEA award from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.

March 15, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Not so calm before the ELD storm

Results of the ELD “soft enforcement” period have proved less than gentle for some owner-operators. There’s also evidence of other unresolved issues as the gate opens April 1 for issuing out-of-service orders.

February 20, 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

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD mandate meets reality

Increasingly, mandated ELDs are highlighting inadequacies of the hours of service rule. But “rules are rules,” note watchers. Regarding the wiggle room that drivers enjoyed with paper logs, there is no quick tweaking of hours today in the cards that would restore that unofficial flexibility.

January 31, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

CVSA ELD inspection bulletin, updates to older AOBRD bulletin

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has added an inspection bulletin outlining officer and driver responsibilities during inspections of hours of service when the driver is using an electronic logging device, among other bulletin updates.

January 24, 2018

Business

CVSA driver-of-the-year nomination deadline Jan. 12

Fewer than two weeks remain before the deadline for the 2018 International Driver Excellence Award (IDEA) program conducted by the trucking industry/enforcement partnership that is the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. Nomination packets must be received by next Friday, Jan. 12, CVSA emphasizes.

January 3, 2018