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Tag: ELD mandate: Page 14
Channel 19
Round-up: Best safety device â you; Answering an ELD-exemption question
No safety tech can be an effective substitute for the ship captain: âNo matter how fancy [your truck], no matter how new, the best safety device in your truck is you.â âReader 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 arenât enforcing the ELD mandate yet simply because they canât
Some states wonât be writing citations or tickets for non compliance with the ELD mandate because, legally, they canât.
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 thatâs put truckers in the driverâs 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 ârules are rules,â 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
Channel 19
Grassroots advocacy, redux â more on last weekâs 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 â he urges drivers to do similar: âGo talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.â
January 27, 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 âafter the ELD mandate went into effect,â says DATâs Matt Sullivan. âPrices are still very elevated in many parts of the country.â
January 25, 2018
Business
Freedom from deception
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
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
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
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