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Voices

Return safety to drivers’ control: Fix the 14-hour rule

Texas-based Gary Carlisle weighs in on what Overdrive readers have named among the most-needed hours revisions. Also: it’s bankruptcies that will drive up rates, not wide ELD use itself.

November 13, 2015

Channel 19

Exemptions adding fuel to hours debate

Bob Hearns, among others, weighs in: “keep asking for those legitimate exemptions, and maybe the rule makers, who do not know the industry … might wake up and do not only the right thing, but the necessary thing.”

August 11, 2015

Overdrive Radio

Hours of service wish list: ‘We are people, not machines’

Results: Readers sound off in podcast, survey toward a more perfect hours rule.

May 23, 2015

Channel 19

Hours wish list — change if you could, would, should…

To improve the hours of service with a mind toward doing the work of driving a Class 8 truck in the safest manner possible, what one change would be the most effective?

January 10, 2015

Hours of Service

FMCSA planning to launch split-sleeper flexibility study

The common refrain that the hours rules need to better encourage drivers to “drive when rested and sleep when tired” to be tested by the FMCSA.

October 27, 2014

Hours of Service

Hours and EOBRs: Operator challenge No. 2

Using a survey and our social media channels, we quizzed readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators. Here’s a closer look at challenge No. 2 of the top five, Hours and EOBRs, with partial solutions from owner-operators, fleet representatives and others.

August 3, 2012

Voices

Speakout

Truckers speak out about the hours-of-service rule, surviving in a tough economy and the perfect truck.

March 1, 2010