Grocery delivery fleet gets reprieve from 30-minute break requirement
Transco’s team drivers in its grocery division who make wholesale deliveries to grocery and convenience stores will be allowed to use on-duty non-driving time to satisfy the 30-minute break requirement.
FMCSA proposes decrease in 2020 UCR fees
Carriers with one or two trucks paid $69 in 2018 and $62 in 2019. Under the new proposal, these companies would pay $60 for their 2020 UCR fees.
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Hours of service listening session set for GATS
The GATS listening session, which will be at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, will begin at 10 a.m. and is scheduled for two hours. FMCSA says the listening sessions will allow the public to present comments, views and relevant research on t…
Mailbag: Worm turns a bit on regs favor with hours proposal, readers sound off
In this week’s Overdrive Radio, readers weigh in largely favorably on FMCSA’s this-week-proposed hours of service changes — a big departure from reader reactions to new regs over recent history. Also: Better split-sleeper data blind spots that could h…
As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions
The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with …
Trucking rap sheet: CDL testing schemes, HHG moving fraud, more
Action in six trucking-related crimes – including CDL testing schemes, medical exam fraud, household goods moving fraud and falsification of safety records– has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General….
Missouri-based trucker shut down following fatal crash
According to FMCSA, trucker Bruce Andrew Pollard was driving a tractor-trailer in a work zone along I-465 eastbound in Indianapolis on July 14 when his truck, traveling faster than the posted speed limit, collided into a line of vehicles. Two young chi…
FMCSA renews hours exemption for paper company drivers
WestRock to allow its Chattanooga, Tennessee, paper mill drivers to occasionally work up to 16 consecutive hours and return to work with less than 10 consecutive hours off duty. The drivers travel on approximately 275 feet of public road between the sh…
Fines for trucking regs violations increased
The DOT, in order to find the 2019 adjustment amount, had to multiply the penalty amount by the percentage change between the October 2018 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the October 2017 CPI-U, which this year was 1.02522.