Podcast: CARB compliance flexibility, or lack thereof, not set in stone
In the first of two podcasts on CARB's 11th-hour flexibility maneuvering, Joe Rajkovacz of the CCTA urged operators around the nation to get involved in the process, as potential new compliance options...
View ArticleCARB: Operators’ voices, more on the regs in podcast part 2
This feature podcast follows the Monday, Nov. 25, installment on CARB's 11th-hour flexibility maneuvering. Call 530-408-6423, state your name and location, and give us your view on the state's...
View ArticleChecking in with ‘Truckers against CARB’— rally, public meeting Thursday
Video interview with Loren Hutnick about his "Truckers Against CARB" rally planned for Thursday in Sacramento, as CARB takes up public comment on the flexibility-enhancement provisions it introduced...
View ArticleCARB’s ‘loan denial provision’ less appealing by the minute
Details on proposed changes to amendments to CARB's Truck and Bus Rule adopted earlier in the year -- owner-operators have through Thursday, July 17, to comment on the changes.
View ArticleBig data blowback: Trucking goes to Congress over CSA
Behind the CSA bill -- H.R. 5532 would require FMCSA to revamp the CSA program, pulling scores and non-crash-associated data from public view in the meantime. Prognosis for the bill in the short term:...
View ArticleThursday round-up: What deer whistles, elections and NASTC’s annual meeting...
Tools designed to mitigate hazard, maybe? At least one of these, maybe two (and it's not the NASTC meet, I can assure you) doesn't normally work so well. Nonetheless, fingers can always be crossed...
View ArticlePodcast: Legal delays as CARB rules ‘go hard-fast’
As lawsuits against the California Air Resources Board hit the same technical "buzzsaw" and get delayed and delayed, notes Joe Rajkovacz of the CCTA, deadlines for rules compliance come and go.
View ArticleEntry level driver training podcast: The data problem
What's dogged any training rule for the last 20 years? There's no particular evidence of a relationship between adequacy of training and drivers' safety on the road.
View Article$400k trucks? Overdrive talks to CCTA’s Joe Rajkovacz about impact of...
A recent decision by a federal court denied the California Construction Trucking Association's appeal of the EPA’s greenhouse gas standards based on a lack of standing.
View ArticleDriver voices raised against highway bill amendment to resolve state/federal...
Protection of independent/small-fleet business freedom or "wage theft" from company drivers? A growing conflict over a highway-bill amendment as House-Senate conference gets under way.
View ArticleRegs outlook: Change is in the air
Between hope and a hard place: The potential import for owner-operators of a new federal administration as regards ELDs, speed limiters, CARB's pursuit of an Ultra-Low NOx emissions standard and more,...
View ArticleIt’s complicated: Channel 19 year in review, part 3
Part 3 in this year in review, in which the "real Leroy Mercer" reared his head (sort of -- yeah, it's complicated), and Elves Trucking's time-card hours compliance strategy didn't look well in light...
View ArticleAlert to DOT: Industry shows unity against safety-rating change in light of...
A recent letter, urging DOT to scrap the Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking as premature, brings in a large variety of state and private industry associations as signatories, including ATA, OOIDA,...
View ArticleBill would expand California lemon law to cover commercial trucks
SB 713 would modify the current California lemon law to newly apply to trucks heavier than 10,000 lbs. and under the operation of a business, without size exclusions, up to 18 months from the date of...
View ArticleAs more states move toward legalizing marijuana, it remains off limits for...
In one of the first laws of its kind, Maine has enacted rules that forbid the state’s employers from firing employees or refusing job applicants for testing positive for marijuana use. Do these laws...
View ArticleResults of the Minnesota fatigue checklist blowback
392.3 violations issued appear to have reverted since the checklist was invalidated in federal court to how they were intended to be used, according to regulators and industry watchers: cases where...
View ArticleCase to protect owner-operator status in California heads to court
Earlier this month, a federal court in California heard oral arguments in the Western State Trucking Association’s lawsuit against a California Supreme Court ruling that WSTA says could effectively...
View ArticleOwner-operator status in question in California, carriers try to find...
The fix? Have previously single-truck operators leased to carriers obtain their own authority and become independent owner-operators and have carriers separate their trucking arms and brokerage arms.
View ArticleCalif. lawmakers could act on ruling that threatens owner-operators — but it...
One bill in the California General Assembly would offer relief to fleets and owner-operators by nullifying an April ruling by the California Supreme Court. The other, however, would make the court...
View ArticleFederal judge’s opinion presents a twist in California’s...
A new judgement in a federal district court interprets the strict ABC employee/contractor test as pre-empted by federal law when it comes to truck transportation, bucking an April ruling by the...
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