Jami Jones
Managing Editor at Land Line Media Magazine
Managing Editor of Land Line Magazine
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4 days ago |
landline.media | Jami Jones
If you’re trucking in a truck with a pre-2000 engine and running on paper logs, just keep on trucking. There’s no truth to a rumor circulating the internet saying the ELD exemption is ending. The last time the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration talked about ending the pre-2000 engine electronic logging device exemption was back in 2022. At that time, the agency was only considering ending it. Since then, it’s basically been crickets on the subject.
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3 weeks ago |
landline.media | Jami Jones
In a depressed freight market with rates in the gutter, motor carriers are cutting all kinds of corners, sacrificing highway safety in the meantime. The situation is multifaceted, with a number of avenues being utilized to put cheap labor in the seats of truckers who oftentimes lack compliance with the English-proficiency regulation. What is the English-proficiency regulation? For starters, here is the actual regulation, with emphasis added:§ 391.11 General qualifications of drivers.
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1 month ago |
landline.media | Jami Jones
VIDEOOOIDA is home to many who have served our country, including President Todd Spencer. We sit down with him to hear about how he got his start in the Army and how that transitioned into a career in trucking.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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