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Capitol Hill hearing took on lease-purchase agreements, truck size and weights

Not all independent truckers are seeing those benefits

GAO also recommends more research that could lead to side guard requirements.

Independent owner-operator group details how government clearinghouse will handle drug test results.

Hair follicle testing – once cleared for use in the federal database – could have the biggest effect on driver availability.

Study finds lagging response to demand surges makes managing driver recruitment and retention more difficult.

Sentiment could be growing for lowering the driver age, but questions linger over safety and wages.

A new petition is seeking White House help to get two bills that would exempt most small trucking companies and owner-operators exempted from the ELD requirement reintroduced to Congress.

Speed limiter regulations sat idling under Bush and Obama, so truck safety groups now look to Congress – and Trump – to put it in gear.

FMCSA Administrator Raymond Martinez wanted to “fast track” the HOS rules changes – but the government shutdown is in the way.

Truck drivers hauling in the state of New York will not see ELD enforcement until state regulators finish getting the rule on the books.

Trucking companies could be exposed to increased liability while a challenge to FMCSA’s hours-of-service preemption in California is pending.

States will soon be able to give would-be drivers more time to get their CDLs at the same time potentially lowering knowledge exam costs.

FMCSA has made public the denials of 10 exemption requests from its ELD rule, including OOIDA and nine smaller groups that were formally rejected earlier this year.

If you don’t answer, if you don’t look into their eyes, you lose.” 

A long list of concerns in the ATA President’s annual speech to his group’s conference, including young drivers and California’s own laws.

FreightWaves reached out to OOIDA for their perspective on the current state of affairs in trucking. We also want to engage in a dialog from the fragmented industry interests, seeking points of agreement, as well as naming points of contention.

The long-anticipated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill is up for a vote and it does not include the controversial meal-and-rest break provision that the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and other industry forces were seeking.

If there is just one word that can best sum up the official Listening Session on hours of service (HOS) that FMCSA held on Friday at the Great American Trucking Show, it would be flexibility.

The trucking industry awaits rulings from the courts, and through legislation, regarding the status of drivers. How often will rest breaks take place, and will they be paid? How will drivers be defined as independent contractors? What will be the implications either way?