There’s yet another in this spring’s bumper crop of bills proposed on Capitol Hill to benefit livestock (and insect) haulers by relaxing the electronic logging device rule and also, in some cases, easing the hours of service rules specifically for this class of...
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is nudging Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Ray Martinez to act swiftly to reform the hours-of-service rule to “provide needed flexibility for [truck] drivers.” In a May 17 letter, co-signed by Senate Commerce Committee...
How the Hours of Service rules for truck drivers ever became a safety regulation is a question that has vexed many in the industry. The rules came into being in the 1930s as a combination of labor and economic regulation intended to bring some stability to the nascent...
A reduction in truck capacity was a concern for the trucking industry when the electronic logging device mandate soft enforcement period ended April 1, yet capacity has increased 11% on the spot market since then, according to DAT Solutions. But it doesn’t mean that...
If you’re using Grandfathered AOBRDs (automatic onboard recording devices) to track driver hours of service under the grandfather clause of the electronic logging device mandate, there’s something very important you need to do by mid-June, says a former commercial...
