POLL: Are you planning to shut down April 12?
With “Stand as One” slow-roll events over the weekend, movement continued toward the April 12 date on which many slow-roll participants plan to shut down in hopes of bringing greater awareness to the driver’s voice on hours of service, parking, trainin…
Railroad companies seek hours reprieve for drivers responding to emergencies
The companies say the employees who would be covered by the exemption clear derailed or disabled trains or debris blocking tracks or railroad rights-of-way when they respond to unplanned events that affect interstate commerce, service, or the safety of…
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 ele…
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 spea…
No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention
With urban traffic rapidly worsening, it indirectly puts pressure to address wasted time at the docks.
FMCSA officially confirms it’s proceeding with proposal for hours of service overhaul
Martinez hinted that greater flexibility for splitting on- and off-duty time into segments, generally referred to as split sleeper berth options, are likely to be included in the proposal. During the comment period, FMCSA received “excellent quantitat…
Further dissection of post-ELD mandate crash rates, and the blues of Watermelon Slim
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, Overdrive Senior Editor James Jaillet’s conversation with Northeastern University academic Alex Scott, who with colleagues completed a recent study around potential safety-sensitive impacts of the electronic-logging-dev…
Post-ELD mandate crash data a knock on hours regs, too
These two elements being true — crashes numbers are flat despite more widespread adherence to hours of service regs — isn’t that as much an indictment of hours of service regs as it is the ELD mandate?
Concrete pavers get 30-minute break, short-haul exemption relief
FMCSA says drivers transporting ready-mixed concrete and related materials and equipment in vehicles other than those with rotating mixer drums to use 30 minutes or more of on-duty “waiting time” to satisfy the 30-minute break requirement, as long as t…
Driver shutdown afoot? Facebook groups stir controversy over calls to turn off the keys
With some groups of truckers coalesced around a “Truckers Stand as One” moniker and calling for an April 12 “industry-wide shutdown” — and an attendant media blitz in the run-up to that date Feb. 21 — views vary on whether any such action is necessar…