Let the 14-hour conversations … begin?
‘Continue’ rather than ‘begin’ is probably the best word to describe what’s been at the forefront of hours-change debate for years now. Voices here following OOIDA’s lodging of a petition to the FMCSA to add an up-to-three-hour off-duty pause to extend…
Bring your nap mat, but don’t worry about the driving experience
Uber’s ride-hailing app gets all DOT on its drivers: “The professionally-licensed career drivers know the dangers on the road and making a bunch of Ubers take a nap isn’t going to increase safety nearly as much as training and education” could …
OOIDA asks FMCSA to institute pause button for 14-hour clock
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a petition with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration asking the agency to allow drivers to pause their 14-hour daily clock for up to three straight hours and to nix the 30-minute r…
‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
Grassroots advocacy, redux — more on last week’s meetings in Congressional offices
Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruzy, attended by truckers from different groups and locales — he urges drivers to do similar: “Go talk to these people. They put their pa…
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 Transportation’s electronic logging device mandate and the current hours of service rule.
‘Should have planned better’ only goes so far when road realities are at play
As so many owner-operators have noted in past, “planning better” 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 la…
‘Don’t work more for less’ is reader Tom Hall’s message on hours, ELDs
“A specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will ‘haul 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?'” –Tom Hall on the scrum over income, pay,…
‘Here’s to causing a crisis’: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, who’s closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour rule’s inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
POLL: Are you running with an ELD/AOBRD for logs or holding off?
With reports varying considerably from operators following the initial enforcement date of the ELD mandate in December, what’s your status for e-log implementation, whether already set up with one, protesting the mandate by shutting down/leaving the bu…