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Channel 19
Mintu Pandher’s small fleet success in fuel hauling, truck-stop ownership
Small fleet owner Mintu Pandher, who came to the U.S. with his parents in 1999, followed the growth in oil drilling into independence as an owner-operator. His Akal Energy small fleet grew fairly quickly over several years with contracts with some fuel providers, running out of Laramie, Wyo.
February 8, 2018
Channel 19
Independence basics: Binda Atwal’s attractions to trucking
It’s the income possibilities owner-operator Binda Atwal names as his principal attraction to trucking, for his young family – Atwal and his wife are the proud parents of two children, a four- and one-year-old.
February 7, 2018
Business
Into the limelight: Sikh truckers in America
Sikhs have been a growing part of America’s professional driver force for three decades. Though there are tens of thousands in trucking, non-Sikh counterparts have little information and a lot of misconceptions about them — the ELD protests began to change that.
February 6, 2018
Channel 19
Round-up: Best safety device — you; Answering an ELD-exemption question
No safety tech can be an effective substitute for the ship captain: “No matter how fancy [your truck], no matter how new, the best safety device in your truck is you.” –Reader Paul Maine ALSO: Isolated farm-equipment haul prompts ELD mandate question.
February 5, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate enforcement, by state
Updating shorter lists that ran in January, this map shows states that have confirmed their ELD-mandate enforcement intentions ahead of April 1, whether they will not be writing citations or leaving it up to the individual inspector.
February 2, 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
Business
Fuel prices, post-ELD pressure sustain elevated rate picture on spot market
Rising fuel costs, topping $3/gal. nationally in recent weeks, have added pressure on freight rates, slowing their seasonal decline a bit. But the bigger story remains a capacity crunch that’s put truckers in the driver’s seat on rates, partly a result of proliferating ELDs.
February 1, 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
Truckers sound off in favor of OOIDA’s ELD exemption request
The exemption, if granted, would apply to small businesses (those with up to $27.5 million a year in revenue) who have no at-fault crashes on their record and who have a “Satisfactory” or “Conditional” safety rating. The comment period closes Thursday, Feb. 1, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
January 29, 2018
Channel 19
Grassroots advocacy, redux — more on last week’s meetings in Congressional offices
Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruz, attended by truckers from different groups and locales — he urges drivers to do similar: “Go talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.”
January 27, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Groups representing Sikh, Punjabi truckers seek ELD compliance delay for certain drivers
Two groups representing Sikh truckers and Punjabi truckers are petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a delay in complying with the electronic logging device mandate for members who haul agricultural products, as well as small business trucker members.
January 25, 2018
Business
Mid-January freight slowdown materializes in vans, reefers, though rates remain elevated
Normal seasonal declines in load posting activity have been occurring at a much slower pace than the pace of marked increases “after the ELD mandate went into effect,” says DAT’s Matt Sullivan. “Prices are still very elevated in many parts of the country.”
January 25, 2018
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