Did FMCSA get its revisions to the Hours of Service rule right this time? To find out, HDT Talks Trucking put that question to Jerad Childress of Childress Law PLLC and Truck Safe Consulting and to Chris Woody, safety manager for Nashville-based M&W Logistics.
The federal government says trucks carrying fuel in states affected by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown are allowed to carry overweight loads in an effort to address the fuel supply chain crisis.
FMCSA has issued a temporary hours-of-service exemption that applies to those transporting fuel to 17 states and D.C. in the wake of a cyberattack that caused a shutdown of a major U.S. fuel pipeline.
Do fleets have to pay drivers for more than eight hours in the sleeper? The answer just got murkier.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the COVID-19 exception to hours of service regulations for certain pandemic-related loads to May 31.
This year’s International Roadcheck commercial motor vehicle inspection blitz, scheduled for May, will focus on vehicle lighting and hours-of-service compliance.
Lytx said its new Unassigned Drive Time Service simplifies the burden of managing unassigned vehicle movements, reducing labor costs and risk of fines.
An appeals court recently upheld a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ruling that federal hours of service rules pre-empt the state of California’s meal and rest break rules.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed a pilot program to evaluate even more flexible sleeper-berth split options in the hours of service rules.
"Yard moves" can be logged as on duty not driving under trucker hours of service regulations – but just what constitutes a yard move? See how FMCSA proposed to define a yard move.
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