Logbook
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Overdrive
| August 2014
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INFO
to
205-289-3555
or
visit
www.ovdinfo.com
Aug. 16: Chi-Town Large Cars NFP 10th Anni-
versary Truck Show and Benefit; Lynwood,
Ill.; Saturday; www.chi-townlargecars.org
Aug. 21-23: Great American Trucking Show;
Dallas; Thurs.-Sat.; www.gatsonline.com
Aug. 22-24: Western Maryland Truck Show
featuring Little Texas, Travis Minnick Band,
Girlz in Black Hats; Grantsville, Md.; Fri.-Sun.;
www.westernmarylandtruckshow.com
Sept. 26-27: Guilty By Association Truck Show
& Customer Expo; 4 State Trucks/Chrome
Shop Mafia, Joplin, Mo.; Fri.-Sat.; www.
chromeshopmafia.com
Oct. 17-18:
Overdrive's Pride & Polish; St.
George, Utah; Fri.-Sat.; pdidiesel.com
CALENDAR
THE MINIMUM INSURANCE INCREASE rule's project-
ed publication date was moved up by the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration from November to Sept.
19. The agency first announced its intention to pursue
the rule in April, when it published a study saying the
$750,000 minimum is too low and needs to be increased
to account for inflation and higher medical costs.
THE SAFETY FITNESS DETERMINATION rule's
projected publication date was delayed by the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration from Dec. 17 to
Feb. 10, 2015. The rule has been in the works since 2007
and would create a carrier scoring system the agency
would use to target carriers deemed unsafe. It would
permit FMCSA to use a data set similar to that used in
its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program's Safety
Measurement System rankings.
A RULEMAKING for improving standards for rear
impact or underride guards was begun by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Responding to
a Truck Safety Coalition petition, NHTSA said it would
issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for
rear impact guards for single unit trucks and a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking concerning the guards on trailers
and semitrailers.
IDLE FREE, a Madison, Wis.-based APU manufacturer,
was acquired by Phillips & Tempro Industries, an Eden
Prairie, Minn.-based investor in companies that provide
cooling products serving the heavy-duty truck industry,
among others.
