Electronic Logs Mandate: Outrage & Applause
The electronic logging device mandate has sparked a variety of responses with some questioning and others embracing the change.
August 26, 2014
The electronic logging device mandate has sparked a variety of responses with some questioning and others embracing the change.
August 26, 2014
After 28 years of proposals, studies, drafts, revisions, legal battles and technological innovations – not to mention an Act of Congress – federal regulators are close to requiring most interstate commercial drivers to keep track of their work hours with an electronic device.
April 18, 2014
Early experience with the hours-of-service changes bear out expectations that 24-7 truckload carriers will come under pressure to add personnel, change service levels or both.
August 29, 2013
DataQs, the online system for correcting CSA scoring, has the reputation of being cumbersome and unpredictable, but there’s a way for safety managers to get what they need from it. Call it the ABCs of DataQs.
May 28, 2013
In the two years it has been up and running, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations Compliance, Safety, Accountability program has demonstrated many flaws and shortcomings. But the program is credited with the signal achievement of shining a brighter light on truck safety.
January 16, 2013
Imagine: A truck driver gets a signal on his dash, warning him that a car ahead that he cannot see has slammed on the brakes. Or that he's going too fast for the curve ahead/
January 8, 2013
Topping the list of federal initiatives on truck safety technology is a proposal due any time from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require stability control systems on heavy-duty tractors
May 16, 2012
Almost no one is happy about the new hours of service rule. Maybe that means the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made the moves that will lead to stability, at long last. Or maybe not.
February 14, 2012
The 34-hour restart gives daytime drivers a chance to catch up on their rest, but it does not work as well for night drivers. In fact, it may even be detrimental to driver performance
January 28, 2011
The hours of service rules are hot news right now, with possible changes pending in a rewrite that's due before the end of the year
December 3, 2010
Back in 2001, Dupre Logistics had a problem. The Louisiana fleet was having too many accidents, some of them fatal
December 2, 2010
A fatal accident caused by a truck driver starts a chain of events that are disruptive, dispiriting and hugely expensive
December 2, 2010
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is best known as the outfit that issues those clearance stickers to trucks that pass a roadside inspection. That has been the alliance's core program since it was founded in 1980
November 3, 2010
The group of trucking companies that is pushing legislation to mandate electronic onboard recorders plans to spend the rest of the year gathering allies and building support for passage of the bill next year
November 3, 2010
Sleep apnea is a public health problem and a truck safety problem that could soon morph into a legal problem for the trucking industry
November 3, 2010
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