Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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February 2014 | Overdrive | 63 Logbook At the first of three planned federal listening sessions on new entrant testing Jan. 13 in Nashville, Tenn., a great deal of discussion centered on who exactly needs to be tested in any given company. The new entrant test- ing requirement for motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders was mandated by the MAP-21 highway bill passed in Congress in 2012. Once established, the testing would constitute yet another step in the process for owner-operators applying for their carrier operating authority. Also, it potentially could apply to existing businesses in certain circumstances, depending on the ultimate scope of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administra- tion's rulemaking. The National Association of Small Trucking Com- panies holds monthly new entrant training seminars at its headquarters in Hender- sonville, Tenn., said David Owen, president. The seminars are geared toward preparing for the new entrant audit as well as strategies for profitability. The latter ought to remain outside the appropriate regulatory scope, Owen and others said. Nancy O'Liddy of the Transportation Intermedi- aries Association pointed to her association's broker certification programs, which include regulatory and business curricula, as a model suggestive of the need for a broader reach into new New entrant test debated in initial regulatory session entrant businesses with the test, at least on the brokerage side. FMCSA will conduct two more listening sessions in pursuit of this rulemaking – March 28 at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., and April 7 at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance meeting in Los Angeles. – Todd Dills 866-543-7915 $ 4,000 Sign-On Bonus No Forced Dispatch 100% Pass-Through fuel surcharge Ask about our new $195/week High Mileage Lease Program! Referral bonus program offered $ 2/avg Per Loaded Mile 60¢/gal Top Fuel Discount Lease Purchase Options Available Call and see if your military experience will transfer to Malone $ 248,446 Top Income Call a recruiter today and learn more about how we take care of our people. Flatbed Owner Operators... DON'T JUST DRIVE, BELONG! $ 4,000 SIGN-ON BONUS Untitled-33 1 1/16/14 10:33 AM Text INFO to 205-289-3555 or visit www.ovdinfo.com Logbook_0214.indd 63 1/28/14 10:47 PM