Truck drivers may find the lure of early morning or late evening road time attractive: comparatively little traffic and greater opportunities to get the job done promptly. But with typical weekly mileage for drivers easily reaching 3,000, it’s inevitable and statistically likely they’ll meet with law enforcement. It’s just the nature of business on the…
Fleet managers and industry leaders may be justified in their trepidation over the federal government’s new ELD mandate, which requires commercial vehicles to be equipped with electronic logging devices. With more than 800 pages and years in the making, the new regulations are intended to make roads safer, fleets more accountable and the industry more…
The federal mandate requiring the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in the transport industry to record truck drivers’ duty status was instituted Dec. 10, 2015, into the Federal Registry, giving fleets and carriers two years to implement the rule’s provisions. The mandate overlays strict controls on drivers’ duty hours and establishes penalties for failure…
Federal hours-of-service rules have been put on hold this month in two states to accommodate shipment of emergency supplies following flooding caused by Hurricane Joaquin. Governors in North Carolina and South Carolina suspended the rules that also regulate trucks’ sizes and weight limits. South Carolina’s suspension applies to drivers carrying “equipment, materials, services, supplies, food,…
