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Learn How to Protect & Improve Your Truck Fleet’s DOT Safety Rating
Your motor carrier DOT safety rating determines whether you are authorized to operate in interstate or intrastate commerce. It can also have significant influence on your customer relationships, negatively affect your insurance premiums and whether you’re eligible to participate in weigh station bypass service, such as PrePass. In other words, if you let your safety rating slip or fail to improve a poor rating, it can be more expensive and increasingly difficult for your trucking operation to function.
Blog, RegulationsPodcast #69: California Law Puts the Future of All Owner Operators in Doubt
Now that California’s controversial Assembly Bill 5 has taken effect, changes are quickly happening for many owner-operator truckers inside and outside the Golden State. Listen to this new episode of the “Eyes on the Road” trucking podcast and hear what changes are happening and are expected to happen in the coming months and years.
Blog, Podcasts, Regulations, Trucking CommunityFMCSA Seeks Answers on Truck ELDs
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to improve the clarity of existing regulations on electronic logging devices. The agency also wants to address some technical specification issues in response to trucking industry concerns. What FMCSA is apparently trying to avoid are rambling responses or general debate about the need for ELDs or comments on current hours of service rules.
Blog, Regulations, SafetyRegistration Open for ‘Truck to Success,’ Sponsored by PrePass
Register for “Truck to Success,” sponsored by PrePass. This three-day, in-depth training program provides step-by-step guidance from the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association. The OOIDA Foundation, the educational and research affiliate of OOIDA, is offering this seminar on Oct. 25-27, 2022. You can attend either in person at the Courtyard by Marriott in Blue Springs, Missouri, or online via Zoom.
Blog, Trucking CommunityTake the Survey: What Are Your Top Trucking Industry Concerns?
Time is running out to take the American Transportation Research Institute’s 2022 Top Industry Issues Survey. The annual survey asks trucking industry stakeholders to rank the top issues of concern for the industry along with potential strategies for addressing each issue. Now in its 18th year, ATRI’s annual analysis not only ranks the issues overall but also provides insights into how critical topics are ranked differently by motor carriers and professional drivers. The report also allows stakeholders to monitor issues over time to better understand which issues are rising or falling.
BlogTruckers to Pay Lower UCR Fees in 2023
One would think that the trucking industry would welcome an FMCSA announcement of reduced UCR fees, but this year’s decision was surprisingly contentious. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association challenged several aspects of the UCR board’s decision-making process. OOIDA sits as a voting member on that board.
Blog, RegulationsWelcome FMCSA Administrator Hutcheson
As administrator, Hutcheson leads approximately 1,100 agency employees, 900 of whom work in the four regional service centers and the division offices in each state, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. President Biden earlier nominated Meera Joshi to head up FMCSA, but she withdrew her nomination in late 2021 to take a position with the New York City Mayor’s Office.
Blog, RegulationsWhat Law Enforcement Officers Think About Trucks
Motor carriers and truck drivers may feel that law enforcement singles them out while other seemingly unsafe operators continue down the road. And truckers would be right – commercial motor vehicles are the largest objects in the traffic stream, often like that towering weed amid the smaller plants.
Blog, Regulations, Safety, Trucking CommunityLearn from Other Truck Fleets How INFORM Safety Solves Safety Problems
INFORM Safety is easy-to-use data visualization software, available to PrePass customers at no extra charge. INFORM Safety takes the very same data that the FMCSA uses to evaluate motor carrier safety and displays it in graphics and visual images, guiding the user to the underlying root causes of safety problems — all without the tedious downloading and sorting of federal files. Does INFORM Safety work out there in the real world? Join us as we look at three cases of motor carriers using INFORM Safety to address safety issues.
Blog, SafetyTrucking Group Seeks Exemption in Hair Testing for Drug Use
Members of The Trucking Alliance already utilize hair testing for their truck drivers. They believe that hair testing can detect the “lifestyle” drug user in a way that urine testing cannot. But because hair testing is not yet federally approved these motor carriers cannot share hair test results with the clearinghouse or with other carriers. They must also continue to conduct and report urine tests.
Blog, Regulations, SafetyFMCSA Proposes Updates to Trucking Medical Examiner’s Handbook
After holding public hearings and gathering advice from its Medical Review Board, the FMCSA has posted a new, proposed Medical Examiner’s Handbook. The agency is asking for public comment by Sept. 30, 2022.
Blog, RegulationsLearn How Weigh Station Bypass Adds Up to Big Savings, Part 2
In this two-part series, we look at three common interstate truck routes and demonstrate the cumulative savings that bypassing weigh stations with PrePass provides. In the first part, we examined the western route between Salt Lake City, UT and Riverside, CA. Now we tackle a truck route in the East and another cross-country.
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