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Is This a Good Time to Apply for Weigh Station Bypass Service?
The key to improving your truck fleet’s safety is to review your Inspection Selection System (ISS) score. It deeply affects whether a truck will be inspected by safety enforcement officers or not and whether you get a green light or a red light from your weigh station bypass service provider. So how can you improve your ISS score? It is a simple four-step process.
Blog, Regulations, Safety, Trucking CommunityGetting Required Truck Driver Medical Exams May Become Difficult
Motor carriers and truck drivers are required to use certified medical examiners for driver physical examinations. Medical examiners who do not fully register with Login.gov by Feb. 23 will be dropped from the National Registry and will be unable to submit or retrieve driver data. In other words, they will be unable to perform the functions of a certified medical examiner.
Blog, Regulations, SafetyLessons from the Truck Sleeper Berth Compensation Case
The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld a lower court decision, ruling that sleeper berth time beyond eight hours in a team driver operation was compensable. The case involved a motor carrier’s truck driver training program where driver trainees occupied the sleeper berth for ten hours and more while their veteran co-drivers operated the truck. For motor carriers considering truck driver compensation, the ruling case offers at least three major lessons.
Blog, Regulations, Trucking CommunityTrucking Things to Know Now, Part 12: Federal Regulatory Updates
Whatever the political headlines of the day, federal agencies continue to add new trucking regulations, adopt new forms, and extend or discontinue previous waivers and exemptions. In this series, “Trucking Things to Know Now,” PrePass provides quick updates on regulatory developments, often with links to more information.
Blog, Regulations, Safety, Trucking CommunityCalifornia Dreamin’ of Zero-Emissions Trucks Hits Bump in the Road
Work by the American Transportation Research Institute underscores the challenges ahead for all-electric fleets in California. The battery materials needed to power millions of California based cars and trucks would consume over 400% of the annual global production of cobalt, 379% of graphite, 492% of lithium, and a “mere” 89% of global nickel production.
Blog, RegulationsNew Independent Contractor Rules Will Affect Owner-Operator Truckers
These latest DOL regulations reject a Labor Department ruling from the prior administration that attempted to simplify the employee/independent contractor question by establishing two “core” factors, out of six factors overall, in determining worker status – the nature and degree of control over the work and the worker’s opportunity for profit or loss. The new final rule considers all six factors equally under an “economic reality test.”
Blog, Regulations, Trucking CommunityWant More Bypasses? 6 Ways to Increase Weigh Station Bypass Opportunities.
Sometimes your PrePass weigh station bypass transponder may not give you the green light to continue down the road, and your truck must pull into a weigh station. What happened? And, more particularly, what steps can you take to ensure it doesn’t happen again? Here are six ways truck drivers and motor carriers can increase their bypass chances.
Blog, Safety, Trucking CommunityDriving Cost Savings with RFID and Electronic Tolling
Read the new PrePass whitepaper, “RFID Tolling for Trucks: Enhancing Safety, Efficiency, and Environmental Benefits,” and learn how an RFID transponder is the best choice for when it comes using toll roads equipped with automatic electronic tolling. Not only does an RFID transponder help you save time, fuel, and money, but it also gives you fleet reliable time in transit, improved safety, and reduced environmental impact.
Blog, Safety, Trucking CommunityHas Your Electronic Logging Device Been Cancelled? FMCSA Revokes More ELDs.
It’s almost like feeling out of sorts, heading to your doctor’s office, and learning that your long-time family physician has retired. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requires most interstate motor carriers to have electronic logging devices, in their trucks. Truck drivers, in turn, become accustomed to the particular ELD make and model in their cabs. Now they learn that FMCSA has revoked their ELD. What should fleets and drivers do?
Blog, Regulations, Safety, Trucking CommunityClearinghouse II: Truckers Must Complete Return-To-Duty Process or Lose Their CDL
The “prohibited” clearinghouse status means that a person holding a commercial driver’s license or a commercial learner’s permit engaged in the prohibited use of drugs or alcohol or refused a drug or alcohol test. Those CDL or CLP holders cannot legally operate a commercial motor vehicle.
Blog, Regulations, SafetyPodcast #77: Expect These New & Updated Trucking Regulations in 2024
Listen to this new episode of the “Eyes on the Road” podcast as we discuss what you can expect with Warren Hoemann, a PrePass consultant and a former second in command at the FMCSA. He talks about new trucking rules involving: speed limiters, automatic emergency braking, side underride guards, hair testing truckers for illegal drugs, electronic truck identification, brokers and freight forwarders and much more.
Blog, Podcasts, Regulations, SafetyNavigating the Road Ahead: A Sneak Peek into 2024’s Trucking Regulatory Landscape
As busy as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and other federal regulatory agencies were during 2023, they couldn’t finalize everything on their rulemaking agendas in one calendar year. So, 2024 will offer the continuation of many rulemakings from 2023. Will these regulators take on anything completely new in 2024? The Unified Regulatory Agenda says yes… but remember that the dates shown for agency actions are only estimates.
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