Jack Darden has been driving for years. Based in Richmond, Virginia, he was sick of paper logs and wanted to find a better electronic solution. What he didn’t realize initially, was that not only would he be changing how he logged for himself, but helping out his fellow drivers and improving the fleet management for his supervisor and the company.
Read More »How a Driver Can Lead the Way for Better Fleet Management with eLogs
This past year saw a lot of changes in the trucking industry, particularly with the regulations. The ELD Mandate was finally published after being scheduled and rescheduled throughout 2015. Although the use of ELDs is not effective immediately due to the grace periods, it will definitely have a huge impact over the next coming years.
So it’s not a surprise that BigRoad’s Top 5 Blog Posts are almost all related to the ELD Mandate. These posts were the most viewed on the BigRoad blog and received a ton of shares/likes/comments on our social media networks, particularly Facebook.
If you missed any of these blogs or want a second look, here are the Top 5 Blogs from BigRoad for 2015.
Read More »Top 5 BigRoad Blogs of 2015
On Tuesday morning, it was announced that the ELD mandate has cleared the White House and is set for publication with the Federal Register. It has been speculated that the ruling will be published for the end of November.
So how does this affect you?
Well it depends. Are you a driver? Do you manage a fleet? Do you manage safety and compliance for your company – tracking down drivers on a daily basis to correct form and manner errors on their paper logs?
Read More »ELD Mandate Clears – So How Does This Affect You?
Today, BigRoad is hosting a joint webinar with the National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) at 2 pm central time. The topic of this free webinar is HOS, eLogs and ELD: What’s the Real Story?
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On Saturday October 17, BigRoad attended the Truck Convoy in Paris, Ontario which is a two-day event benefitting the Special Olympics. It was such a great event! We met a lot of different people – drivers, volunteers, families and even representatives from the Special Olympics organization itself.
I have been reading numerous stories about the lack of truck parking, electronic on-board recorders possibly being mandatory in trucks, freight rates possibly dropping, and the costs of trucks increasing with the constantly changing EPA regulations in concert with CARB.
Read More »The State of the Trucking Industry: EPA, CARB, HOS, FMCSA …….
New Guidance from FMCSA regarding the HOS rules imposed July 1st: Under the new guidance, effective July 12, 2013, there is no requirement for employer instructions, either written or verbal. The old guidance said that the driver had to get written instructions from his employer spelling out how long the off-duty time would be.
Read More »New FMCSA HOS guidance regarding 30 min Break Times
There was a good article published in the Wall Street Journal today focusing on the costs of the new HOS rules to the industry and the drivers: both money and work/life balance. There are definitely some societal benefits to reducing sleepy drivers, but the data used by the FMCSA to justify the position on the new HOS rules seems suspect, in my opinion. Trucking and truckers are just an easy target and slapping on new regulations is easy for regulators to do, because the general public is not going to spend the time to really understand the numbers, and of course they want safer roads. It’s just not necessarily the trucks and truckers that are the problem.
Read More »Truckers Are Losing Sleep Over 70-Hour Work Limit: New HOS Rules
