Several trucking industry groups offered their support over the weekend for a provision that would, if included in a looming bill in Congress, suspend two key provisions of hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, along with requiring FMCSA to provide more scientific justification for the restart provisions.
Downtime is a killer for fleets, with very real bottom line consequences. Customer support specialists for Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America calculate that a commercial vehicle downtime event today can cost a fleet as much as $2,000 a day. Obviously, mitigating or even avoiding costly downtime events is a high priority for fleets […]
The suspension of parts of the 2013 hours-of-service rule moved a step closer to fruition Thursday evening, as the U.S. House cleared the spending bill that includes language to halt enforcement of some HOS provisionsat least until September of next year.
Update, 12/11: Though certain elements of the 1,600-page omnibus spending bill have caused members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle to voice their disapproval of the bill’s passage, the bill is still expected to clear both chambers of Congress this week. However, some reports have indicated Congress is preparing a stopgap measure […]
Electronic data interchange (EDI) was in its infancy when Ken Weinberg co-founded Carrier Logistics, Inc. (CLI), in 1972. The concept sounded promising to the young entrepreneur who developed a dispatch, accounting and freight management system for less-than-truckload carriers named FACTS.
n Oregon Democrat, a Wisconsin Republican and the spirit of Ronald Reagan came together in the House Wednesday to renew the call for an increase on fuel taxes to save the failing Highway Trust Fund. But the current president, speaking later, questioned whether any such effort can garner enough votes in this Congress or in […]
Prime Inc. (No. 16 in the CCJ Top 250) announced it is adding Bendix ADB22X air disc brakes and the Bendix TABS-6 Advanced trailer roll stability system to its highway safety efforts.  The fleet is equipping 2,500 new refrigerated trailers with the Bendix ADB22X and Bendix TABS-6 Advanced safety technologies.
Over-the-road truck drivers do not cross this threshold for days and weeks at a time. The truck becomes “home†for at least 10 hours a day while parked at a truck stop, a rest area, or other nondescript location that can accommodate 18 wheelers.  Team drivers may spend all 10-hours of their off-duty time in […]
Medical examiners in FMCSA’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners will soon be receiving a bulletin from the agency to clarify current federal rules — or lack thereof — regarding screening and testing drivers for sleep apnea, according to a letter from actingFMCSA Administrator Scott Darling.
