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House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows, âfriend to the blue collar worker, opponent of over-regulation and champion for the small businessman,â until it comes crunch time⌠âAnd the caucus might want to look up the word âaccountabilityâ before throwing it around anymore.â âŚ
January 24, 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
Electronic Logging Devices
Truck renting group seeks ELD exemption for all of 2018
The Truck Renting and Leasing Association has been granted a 90-day exemption through April 19 from the ELD mandate. It has also announced it has filed a petition for an exemption to last through the end of the year.
January 23, 2018
Channel 19
Grassroots efforts continue around ELD mandate, hours of service flexibility
Wednesday, January 17, a group of truckers took a meeting with United States Senator Ted Cruz in order to press concerns over the Department of Transportationâs electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.
January 19, 2018
Channel 19
How do you prevent cracks in your convex mirrors?
Cold-weather issues, take one. Enquiring minds among readers want to know:Â âI have had my convex mirrors crack in the wintertime more than once and was wondering if I am the only one and what people have found to stop it.â
January 18, 2018
Business
Conditions ripe for driver pay hikes as tight market, tax cuts could force carriersâ hand
The corporate tax cut in the tax reform package delivers âreal money,â in the words of one FTR analyst, âso itâs a real opportunityâ for driver pay growth. âIâd expect drivers will say ⌠âOK, corporate America, this is what you asked for. Now itâs time to give back.'â
January 18, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
FMCSA issuing brief ELD waiver to short-term rental trucks, exempts motion picture haulers
The U.S. DOT has announced it wonât start requiring the use of electronic logging devices for short-term rental trucks, defined as 30 days or less, until March 18. Also, 6,500 drivers who haul equipment for TV and movie productions will be exempt from the ELD mandate for at least five years.
January 17, 2018
Overdrive Radio
âShould have planned betterâ only goes so far when road realities are at play
As so many owner-operators have noted in past, âplanning betterâ will only get you so far when it comes to ELDs, a 14-hour rule with rigid ends and little opportunity to extend it or stop it for mid-period rest. Owner-operator Mark Kirbyson, in this latest edition of Overdrive Radio, concurs wholeheartedly.
January 16, 2018
Voices
âDonât work more for lessâ is reader Tom Hallâs message on hours, ELDs
âA specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will âhaul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'â âTom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.
January 16, 2018
Channel 19
âHereâs to causing a crisisâ: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, whoâs closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour ruleâs inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
January 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
KeepTruckin ELD in Pilot Flying J stores
The KeepTruckin e-log app and ELD system, well-known among drivers, is now being stocked for purchase in Pilot Flying J stores.
January 11, 2018
Business
Spot market records broken again for first week of the year
With on-highway anecdotes of $5-plus/mile rates not hard to come by, the weekly spot market demand report gets a little closer to revealing ELDsâ rates impact in van, reefer. The first week of the new year âhas broken all the records we set when we ended the old year,â says DATâs Matt Sullivan.
January 10, 2018
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