ELD mandate

House panel debates ELD certification, truck weight limits

WASHINGTON — Stakeholders in the trucking industry are jockeying for position on Capitol Hill as lawmakers begin prioritizing provisions to include in the next version of highway funding legislation.

A slate of issues were raised at a hearing Wednesday of a House Transportation subcommittee, including truck parking, freight fraud, driver pay and “fly-by-night” CDL schools, but increasing truck size and weights and evaluating the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s oversight of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-panel-debates-eld-certification-truck-weight-limits

What you need to know about the California intrastate ELD mandate

Professional interstate drivers have been required for the past several years to use ELDs to keep track of their hours of service. Since the implementation of the mandate, many states have also adopted ELD use for intrastate drivers. California is next, adopting ELD use for drivers at the turn of the year.

The California Highway Patrol has issued a final rule requiring ELD use by intrastate drivers on and after Jan. 1, 2024. The rule requires the use of devices that meet the requirements in Part...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-california-intrastate-eld-mandate

Loaded and Rolling: ELD mandate, trailer backlog and softening demand

ELD mandate interview with Rachel Premack

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Rachel Premack, editorial director at FreightWaves, was interviewed Tuesday about her article on the impact of the ELD mandate five years later. The mandate, which regulators started enforcing on April 1, 2018, requires all drivers who record their hours of service and records-of-duty statuses (RODS) to use an electronic logging device approved by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. 

This requirement heavily impacted...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-eld-mandate-trailer-backlog-and-softening-demand

Trucking association raises concerns over Canada’s ELD mandate

A trucking association said the Canadian government still needs to iron out some details of its electronic logging device mandate before enforcement begins Jan. 1.

The Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC) continues to support the ELD enforcement deadline but questions whether the mandate’s public key technology (PKI) system will be ready, as well as how ferry exemption hours of service will be counted.

“We still want to see ELD enforcement going forward in January, but there’s issues that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-association-raises-concerns-over-canadas-eld-mandate

No more delays for Canada’s enforcement of ELD mandate

Canada’s enforcement of its electronic logging device mandate will begin as planned on Jan. 1, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).

The ELD mandate requires electronic data collection of truck drivers’ hours of service, similar to the regulation that went into effect in the United States in 2017.

“Based on updates from our government partners at the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA) and provincial associations, it is our clear understanding that all...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/no-more-delays-for-canada-enforcement-of-eld-mandate

Canada’s fast-approaching ELD mandate won’t be enforced — at first

An electronic-logging device (ELD) on the dash of a commercial truck. Canada will require the use of ELDs in commercial trucks as of June 12 when its ELD mandate comes into force.

Canada took a slower road than the United States to implementing its electronic logging device (ELD) mandate for commercial vehicles. In doing so, it added teeth: a requirement that ELDs undergo certification by a third party accredited by the government. 

When the Canadian ELD mandate takes effect on June 12, it won’t have any immediate bite. Initial enforcement measures, according to the Canadian government, will consist of “education and awareness.” The mandate approaches as no ELD has been...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/canada\\\\

FMCSA denies exemptions for drivers traveling with pets

Federal regulators have denied a request by the Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC) to ease regulations for drivers traveling with their pets.

In a document to be published in the federal register Friday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) asserted that after assessing SBTC’s petition and subsequent comments that the agency couldn’t ensure safety levels would be maintained if it were to approve the request.

SBTC had been seeking an exemption from both the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-denies-eldhos-exemption-for-drivers-traveling-with-pets

FMCSA: Turfgrass haulers were eligible for HOS exemption all along

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ruled that turfgrass is considered an agricultural commodity in a decision that exempts as many as 10,000 drivers from the hours-of-service (HOS) regulation.

Ironically, the decision, scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, came in the form of a denial of Turfgrass Producers International’s (TPI) application, filed in 2018, that sought the exemption. After analyzing the law and the 47 comments filed on the TPI’s...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/fmcsa-turfgrass-haulers-were-eligible-for-hos-exemption-all-along

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