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J.J. Keller launches new system to help fleets transition from paper logs to ELDs
The rollout system includes a custom ELD implementation plan, installation of J.J. Keller ELDs, configuration of J.J. Keller’s Encompass back-office compliance system, setup of the J.J. Keller Mobile logging app, as well as driving training on the system.
May 31, 2016
Business
With Roadcheck looming, Bendix and Goodyear offer tire prep advice to carriers
Tips on proper tare care ahead of CVSA’s annual Roadcheck inspection spree, which will focus on tires.
May 27, 2016
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House set to consider bill to reform hours of service, block Safety Fitness rule, nix state-required trucker breaks
The legislation would permanently bring back 34-hour restart rules in place in 2011, along with barring FMCSA from pursuing its January-proposed Safety Fitness Determination and barring states from enforcing break and pay laws for truckers enacted at a state-level.
May 24, 2016
Business
FMCSA shuts down Kentucky-based driver after failed field sobriety test, unauthorized passengers
A Kentucky-based truck driver has been effectively shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a bevy of violations, including a failed field sobriety test.
May 20, 2016
Business
Senate clears bill that could initiate hours of service reform
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a transportation funding bill Thursday, May 19, that could change hours of service rules for truck operators, should the House also pass the bill and the president sign it.
May 19, 2016
Business
Hours controversy continues as Senate set to vote on measure to restore 2013 34-hour restart rules
Like the House plan floated Tuesday, Blumenthal’s amendment would effectively nullify the results of the study and its impact on hours of service regulations. However, unlike the House plan, it takes the opposite approach: Instead of reverting back to 2011 rules on a permanent basis, it would revert back to restart rules that took effect July 1, 2013.
May 18, 2016
Business
House releases bill that would restore 34-hour restart rules from 2011, halt FMCSA’s carrier rating rule
The U.S. House’s Appropriations Committee released May 17 a 2017 fiscal year DOT funding bill that would make permanent 2014’s “restart rollback” by reverting hours-of-service rules for truckers to those in effect in December 2011. The bill also halts FMCSA’s work on its January-proposed Safety Fitness Determination rule until the reforms called for in 2015’s FAST Act highway bill are implemented.
May 17, 2016
Business
Supreme Court decision to allow trucker to intervene in ELD lawsuit undecided, FMCSA skips response filing
If the Supreme Court does grant trucker William Trescott’s motion, it would delay the court proceedings in OOIDA’s current case. The Supreme Court set a May 12 deadline for FMCSA to file a response to Trescott’s motion to intervene. The agency decided not to file a response, per court documents.
May 16, 2016
Business
FMCSA issues safety advisory for certain TYTAL cargo tanks
The cargo tanks have been found to have inadequate accident damage protection, and some have inadequate venting capacity of pressure release systems.
May 11, 2016
Business
Changes to out-of-service order criteria now in effect
Tires, lights, driveline joints and other out-of-service order criteria changes that took effect last month.
May 11, 2016
Business
FMCSA shuts down TN trucker after finding drugs, open beer cans in cab
Georgia State Patrol officers found an open box of beer and several open beer cans in the cab of Flynn’s truck, and a field sobriety test detected the presence of alcohol.
May 10, 2016
Business
Interstate Distributor rolls out CarriersEdge training tools to fleet
CarriersEdge, a provider of online safety and compliance training tools, announced that Interstate Distributor is using its platform to provide customized maintenance training.
May 9, 2016
Business
Motion filed asking Supreme Court to hear ELD challenge
The Supreme Court is scheduled to issue a decision May 12 on whether it may take up the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s suit against the DOT and its December 2015-published electronic logging device mandate once a decision has been issued by a lower court.
May 9, 2016
Business
Annual Roadcheck inspection spree looms
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck Inspection spree is less than month out. 2016’s International Roadcheck, which will take place June 7-9, will have a special emphasis on tire safety this year, CVSA announced last month.
May 9, 2016
Business
OOIDA: Court decision on e-log mandate could come by end of 2016
OOIDA filed a lawsuit earlier this year with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit asking the court to strike down the rule. OOIDA argued in its legal complaint that the mandate violates truckers’ 4th Amendment rights and does not have a safety benefit.
May 4, 2016
Business
Trucking Alliance: Congress should skip hours of service changes, wait on ELD data
The Trucking Alliance issued a statement May 2 urging Congress to forgo the recently unveiled changes to hours of service regulations for truck drivers and to wait on the implementation of the coming electronic logging device mandate before making any more changes to hours of service regs.
May 2, 2016
Business
Usage based insurance: Gorilla Safety co-founders see an opportunity for fleets
Gorilla Safety founders believe the system will be used by insurance companies to create usage based insurance (UBI) programs to more quickly reward fleets for their performance.
April 29, 2016
Business
FMCSA hosting roundtable on broker solvency, ability to pay carriers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will host next month an informal roundtable discussion about property broker’s and freight forwarder’s ability to meet their payment obligations to carriers. Carriers are invited to participate.
April 27, 2016
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