Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | february 2017 19 JOURNAL NEWS LEARN MORE AND FIND A LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR AT MINIMIZER.COM OR 800-248-3855 MINIMIZER POLY PRODUCTS • TESTED AND TORTURED TM • DAILY BY TRUCKERS FOR TRUCKERS TESTED AND TORTURED TIRE BENCH TOOL BOXES FENDERS TOOL BENCH TIRE MASK Times change. So should you. NAILED IT NICE TRY Basic seat with standard suspension Minimizer seat with Long Haul suspension #RespectTheDriver Another fleet seeking split sleeper berth exemption for team drivers D illon Transportation, a 103-truck fleet that runs mostly team operations, has asked for an exemption allowing its drivers to split their required sleeper berth time into two segments of at least three hours each instead of the required 10 consecutive hours or the 8/2 split. In an exemption request to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Mount Juliet, Tenn.-based fleet proposes allowing its team drivers to split sleeper berth time into two periods totaling 10 hours – either 5/5, 4/6 or 3/7. Dillon says it will reduce drive time from 11 hours to 10 hours before a driver is required to take his sleeper berth time. Dillon says all of its trucks are equipped with telemat- ics and electronic logging devices, as well as speed limiters, to ensure hours- of-service compliance. Go to Regulations.gov and search FMCSA-2016- 0443. – Matt Cole Dillon Transportation is seeking an exemption to allow its team drivers to split sleeper berth time. Kiene_CCJ0217_PG.indd 1 1/17/17 3:41 PM