IN PRINT — ELDs Part 3: Inside the Black Boxes

If you're prone to anxiety when facing a wide variety of choice, such as when you're buying a pair of shoes or a candy bar, consider asking someone else in the fleet to spec' an Electronic Logging Device (ELD). There are more than 25 suppliers in the space now; by this time next year that number is expected to swell fourfold.

IN PRINT — ELDs Part 2: The Learning Curve

TORONTO, ON -- When I replaced my typewriter with a laptop some years ago, everyone told me it would be an easy transition. It's the same thing, they told me. The keyboard, at least, was more or less the same. I soon discovered I'd have a few other things to deal with, like software and operating systems and crashes and batteries and floppy disks and updates and the dreaded Blue Screen of Death - moments before a deadline. The move to electronic logs from paper won't be any different.

Transport Canada begins consultations on ELDs

TORONTO, ON - Transport Canada has officially launched "informal" consultations around Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) -- a move that the Canadian Trucking Alliance sees as a precursor to mandating the equipment for federally regulated carriers. Such consultations come before the more formal process of publishing a proposed rule in Canada Gazette Part 1, which the alliance expects sometime in early 2017. A 60-day comment period would then be required before a final rule is published, and a compliance date would be one or two years after that. "The momentum is clearly building towards a mandate," said David Bradley, president and CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA). He also called on provincial governments to "get on board and start preparing" for mandates that mirror those at the federal level.

OOIDA Slams U.S. ELD Mandate, Files Lawsuit

GRAIN VALLEY, MO - Just mere days after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration unveiled regulations that will take effect in two years requiring most U.S. truckers to use electronic logging devices (ELD) the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a lawsuit to stop the requirement.

Teletrac, MeLeod Software Extend Partnership

GARDEN GROVE, CA - A telematics provider and a trucking software company have extended their partnership into a new realm. By connecting the Teletrac Fleet Director Hours of Service (HOS) platform with McLeod Software's LoadMaster, which manages transportation dispatching and accounting, fleet managers can quickly review drivers' HOS statuses and create U.S.-compliant loads assignments, according to an announcement.

Study: U.S. Truck Safety Hit by Changes in HOS Rules

ARLINGTON, VA -- New analysis of changes to the 34-hour restart provisions in U.S. hours of service rules for truckers confirms what many in the trucking have been saying since they took effect.

ATA thanks Congress for ‘common sense’ on reset

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Much-reviled restart rule will be suspended after Senate approves omnibus spending bill with rider pertaining to hours of service.

Carriers Raise Rates to Make Up for HOS Losses

Truckload carriers are not raising their rates high enough to cover their productivity losses from the HOS rules, DAT analyst says.

HOS Regulations, Reality Clash, Truck Drivers Say

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) tells Congress that new hours-of-service (HOS)rules clash with reality of trucking.

SPECIAL REPORT: CANADIAN HOS RULES PUBLISHED

OTTAWA -- Transport Canada publishes new HOS rules

Put Breaks on Hours-of-Service Rule, ATA Says

The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Congress to suspend the new hours-of-service (HOS) rules.

U.S. Trucking Curbed by Infrastructure: FedEx Freight CEO

For U.S. trucking industry to continue advancing, the nation's infrastructure needs to improve, FedEx Freight CEO William Logue said at a conference in Houston.

Drivers Don’t Feel Rested, Just Less Productive says Schneider

GREEN BAY, WI. - Since the new hour of service rules implementation on July 1, Schneider National says it has seen just over a 3 percent drop in productivity on solo shipments and a 4.3 percent decline on team shipments.

BREAKING NEWS: US Court rejects 11-hour driving limit in HOS rule

WASHINGTON - The 11-hour daily driving time and the 34-hour restart provisions of the U.S. federal hours-of-service regulation have been tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Hours of Severance

A new rift between Ottawa and Queen's Park has emerged over Canadian HOS rules -- further loosening the feds' grip on extra-provincial carriers.