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Truck operators still needed for FMCSA’s study on 34-hour restart changes
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the university tapped with completing the agency’s Congressionally required study on the 2013-implemented hours-of-service changes is still on the hunt for truck operators willing to volunteer for the study.
March 12, 2015
Business
HOS rules suspended temporarily in Kentucky due to weather-related emergencies
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear last week issued an emergency order suspending hours-of-service rules for truck drivers carrying relief supplies such as food, water, medicine, propane and other goods headed to areas of his state affected by severe winter weather in recent weeks.
March 10, 2015
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Omnitracs announces customer agreements with Interstate Distributor, Pride Transport
Interstate Distributor is now using Omnitracs’ Mobile Computing Platforms — both MCP50s and MCP110s — across its 1,500-truck fleet, and Pride Transport has implemented Omnitracs Analytics’ Driver Retention Model across its entire fleet of 400 power units.
March 10, 2015
Business
Judge temporarily halts action on Tracy Morgan suit against Walmart pending driver appeal
The judge overseeing Tracy Morgan’s lawsuit against Walmart and its private fleet has temporarily halted action on the civil suit at the request of the truck driver at the center of the case.
March 9, 2015
Business
PrePass-equipped trucks surpass 500,000
HELP Inc. announced that over a half million trucks from nearly 41,000 trucking fleets are now enrolled in PrePass and qualified to bypass weigh stations and ports of entry in 31 states.
March 6, 2015
Business
Senator wants Congress to reform FMCSA, says agency has botched regulatory responsibilities
Saying it has ignored Congress, the Government Accountability Office and members of the trucking industry, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) Wednesday leveled some harsh criticism at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and called for reforming the agency.
March 6, 2015
Business
No word on who will head FMCSA when Scott Darling’s term ends this month
The acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, T.F. Scott Darling, told lawmakers this week he has just 19 days left in his interim term as head of the DOT’s trucking industry regulatory agency.
March 5, 2015
Business
Dismissal of lawsuit against Calif. emissions regs upheld by appeals court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a prior dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the California Construction Trucking Association against the California Air Resources Board’s diesel engine emissions regulations.
March 5, 2015
Business
Carriers mostly against FMCSA’s insurance increase rule, while some favor raising liability minimums
More than 2,000 comments were submitted on FMCSA’s solicitation for input from trucking industry stakeholders and the public at large on a potential rule to up the minimum about of liability insurance trucking companies must legally carry. Here’s a sample.
March 4, 2015
Business
CSA bill aims to remove ‘dark cloud’ over carrier hiring
Broker group TIA says the bill could remove the stigma among shippers and brokers, the general public and the courts that CSA is a proper tool to use when hiring carriers. It instead would direct shippers and brokers to other hiring criteria.
March 4, 2015
Business
Final Rule to mandate electronic logging devices again slated for Sept. 30, DOT announces
In a departure from a report issued in mid-February, the Department of Transportation has changed its expected publication date for a Final Rule mandating the use of electronic logging devices, according to a supplemental report issued by the DOT last week.
March 3, 2015
Business
House introduces bill to clarify CSA ratings’ role in hiring carriers
Five Republicans in the U.S. House have introduced a bill that would remove carrier rankings in the DOT’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability from public view until FMCSA implements its long-awaited Safety Fitness Determination rule.
February 27, 2015
Business
Feb. 26 is carriers’ last chance to comment on FMCSA’s potential insurance increase rule
The public comment deadline on a rule that could increase the amount of liability insurance required to be held by carriers ends Feb. 26, giving carriers and other industry stakeholders until 11:59 p.m. Thursday to submit their input.
February 26, 2015
Business
Sleep science: fleets using software to write their own HOS rules
The fatigue model of Omnitracs Analytics uses hours-of-service data from electronic logs to predict when drivers slept. For each driver it calculates a fatigue score on a scale of 100, with 100 being the most extreme case of fatigue.
February 25, 2015
Business
Trucking Alliance’s 2015 agenda includes push for quicker action on e-logs, insurance increase rule, retaining public CSA scores and more
The Trucking Alliance plans to push for quicker implementation of an electronic logging device mandate, an increase to the minimum amount of liability insurance that trucking companies must hold and a speed limiter mandate, among other items.
February 24, 2015
Business
Give the blue-collar kids a chance, too
“I saw on the news the other day where the president wants to give free community college to students now. Well, why not free technical and vocational school tuition as well?”
February 23, 2015
Business
Walmart driver in Tracy Morgan case files appeal to halt proceedings
Driver Kevin Roper filed his appeal Feb. 16, following federal Judge Lois Goodman’s Feb. 3 order denying Roper’s second request to delay Morgan’s lawsuit against Walmart until the criminal proceedings conclude.
February 23, 2015
Business
FMCSA shuts down carrier for hours, maintenance violations
A small Colorado-based fleet has become the latest to be shut down by federal regulators, following a compliance investigation that revealed disregard for key safety regulations, FMCSA announced this week.
February 19, 2015
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