Jami Jones

1 week ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

A Nevada Assembly committee is scheduled to consider a bill this week that would result in doubling the minimum liability insurance requirement for “intrastate-only freight.”State law requires a $750,000 minimum liability insurance for affected truck drivers. The Assembly Growth & Infrastructure Committee is scheduled to discuss a bill at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8 that would increase the liability insurance minimum for affected Nevada truck drivers to $1 million the first of the year.

2 weeks ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

Prompted by an OOIDA petition that was followed by a presidential executive order, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance voted to make a lack of English proficiency part of the out-of-service criteria for truckers and to shore up CDL testing standards. Citing highway safety, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association petitioned the Alliance on March 12 to make non-compliance with the English-proficiency regulation, 391.11(b)(2), part of the out-of-service criteria.

2 weeks ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

The ink on President Donald Trump’s executive order had barely dried before the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance tackled shoring up enforcement of the English-proficiency regulations. Responding to a petition from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association calling for non-compliance with the English-proficiency regulation 391.11(b)(2), CVSA’s Driver and Traffic Committee took up the issue on Tuesday, April 29.

3 weeks ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

What started out as a bill intended to regulate ATVs, minibikes and the sort on Oklahoma roads has been replaced with legislative language tackling non-domiciled CDLs and English proficiency. The Oklahoma Senate passed SB20 on Feb. 26. In its original form, it addressed the use of street-legal utility vehicles to travel on U.S. highways with a posted speed limit of 50 mph or less. After passing the Senate unanimously, the bill moved to the House on Feb. 27.

1 month ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

Pressure continues to mount on regulators to return to enforcement on truck drivers who fail to comply with the existing English-proficiency regulations. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., recently cranked up the heat at the federal level. On Thursday, April 10, Hageman sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to repeal the 2016 guidance issued by the DOT.