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Unpredictable Oil Prices and Fuel Management
The global marketplace depends on commercial trucking, which transports everything from socks and canned beans to heavy equipment and parts for manufacturing. Yet unpredictable oil prices make the business side of trucking especially tricky because fuel costs easily represent the biggest expense in a trucking operations budget. The estimated annual cost for operating a single commercial …
Final Ruling In The Ongoing Hours-of-Service Battle: Focus Shifts From Rules To Safety
Over the past 10 years, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has passed three rulings on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) efforts to regulate the number of hours truck drivers spend on the roads. The FMCSA uses mandatory Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules to regulate the amount of hours truck drivers can consecutively drive without …
How The EOBR Mandate Affects Businesses
Congress recently started making preparations for the EOBR mandate, a law that requires freight companies to install electronic onboard recorders in each truck. While the mandate won’t go into effect for a few more years, freight companies should start preparing now so they’re not penalized when it’s time to enforce the law. But the EOBR …
