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Channel 19

From within or without? — pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate

Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations — hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those “equal and opposite reactions.” Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: “The pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.”

March 28, 2019

Business

More support for former Zed ELD customers

The end of this month marks the end of functionality for the Zed ELD app, and the HOS247 company says it’s offering those who continue to use the Zed ELD four free months’ worth of a subscription to its own ELD service, without any new hardware investment.

March 27, 2019

Hours of Service

POLL: Since the ELD mandate, have you felt pressure from carriers/customers to violate hours regs more or less often?

In 2017, almost half of Overdrive readers reported daily pressure to drive tired as a result of hours regs and/or coercion from carriers/customers. This poll looks at the issue viz a viz the definition of coercion from such parties as pressure to violate the hours rules. Has such pressure lessened or ramped up in the wake of the ELD mandate, if it existed at all?

March 26, 2019

Overdrive Radio

In love with trucking: Talent search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro from Nashville studio

Latest Overdrive Radio podcast: A sitdown with (and series of music sketches from) 2018 Trucker Talent Search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro, also her father, Urban Roger Brown, on hand in Nashville for the recording session that was part of the TTS grand prize.

March 22, 2019

Business

Fruit, veggie haulers request hours, ELD regs modifications

The groups, in their petition dated March 15, say that current hours and ELD rules “have significant effects on perishable produce quality and consumer safety, and contribute to higher volumes of undesirable food waste.”

March 21, 2019

Business

ATBS owner-op income benchmarking conference call rescheduled for this Wednesday

ATBS’ annual owner-op benchmarking study provides income averages for a variety of segments and other analysis, against which owner-operators can analyze their own performance.  During the call, Todd Amen will provide insight on 2018 average miles driven, net income, fuel mileage and freight rates, among other things.

March 18, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Bill to roll back ELD mandate for small carriers filed in U.S. House

A bill to allow small carriers, including single-truck owner-operators, to forgo use of electronic logging devices and return to using paper logs has been filed in the U.S. House

March 13, 2019

Hours of Service

FMCSA boss Martinez: Agency ‘very close’ to deciding on hours proposal

Martinez said the ELD mandate “really put a spotlight on something that hasn’t been looked at in over 15 years. The data generated by ELDs highlights areas of current HOS regulations where adjustments or improvements may be needed. Commerce has changed, technology has changed, and your business has changed in that time.”

March 12, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Trucker Tools, Keller integrate ELD for tracking

Mobile-based tracking and freight-match service provider Trucker Tools and compliance products purveyor J.J. Keller & Associates have begun a partnership to speed up delivery of and refine load location information moving to freight brokers and shippers from independent truckers and fleet operators.

March 12, 2019

Channel 19

Owner-operators report mostly negative, if any, change in detention times since ELDs were mandated for most

Early detention-poll results show most readers feel that the load/unload locations they visit had either seen no change (44 percent) or actually gotten a little (18 percent) or a lot (20 percent) worse on detention since late December 2017 when the electronic logging device mandate first came into play.

March 6, 2019

Overdrive Radio

More slow-rollin’ supporting shutdown call: A talk with owner-op Brian Bucenell

Owner-operator Brian Bucenell’s 2002 Peterbilt 379 was among the 100 or so trucks that participated in the “slow roll” event in Indianapolis last week. Bucenell’s also helping put on a Virginia “slow roll” event tomorrow, March 2, both of which he speaks to in this Overdrive Radio podcast.

March 1, 2019

Voices

POLL: Have detention times improved since the ELD mandate came into play?

What’s been your experience at shippers and receivers since the ELD mandate came into play in late 2017? Have detention times gotten shorter, longer, stayed the same? …

February 27, 2019