Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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VOICES 12 | Overdrive | December 2016 More than one trucker refused to give up in response to the Halloween decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's elec- tronic logging device mandate fi nal rule, issued a year ago. See page 14 for news about the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association's plans to fi le a motion asking the same appeals court for a rehearing. In an Overdrive Radio podcast you can access by scanning the code below or via OverdriveOnline. com/OverdriveRadio, one such trucker urged OOIDA and fellow truckers to "keep fighting" and, re- spectively, find the opening to take their challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court or proceed with individual and collective appeals elsewhere. North Carolina-based small fl eet owner David Morin addressed his own appeal to his congressman directly. Just as FMCSA's original limited mandate for ELDs was struck down in 2012, Congress itself required de- velopment of the current mandate. In the open letter, he reiterated the cost burdens and the minimal safety benefi t. "The forced sales of these units will go into the billions," he wrote. "Then add the monthly subscription rates, and one can see what this is all about. Safety has absolutely nothing to do with it. … "In a government founded on the principle of 'Of the people, by the people and for the people', one can see the people taking a major hit propagated by corporate and now governmental greed. It's high time for the governmental agencies to start using some common sense." Readers urge OOIDA to continue ELD fi ght Owner-operators' issues of most concern ELD mandate 33% Regulatory impacts 30% Hours of service 8% Truck parking 7% The economy 7% Other 15% Thomas Ivie was driving in Kansas City, Missouri, "when the wheel and tire of a car ahead of me came off . It rolled into the left lanes and out of my sight." Traffi c slowed down quickly. "All of a sudden, the tire was in the air, heading straight for me." Ivie presumes another vehicle hit it to make it airborne. Luckily, it "only took out the left portion of my bumper, and no other damage was done," Ivie says. "No one else reported being struck by the tire, to my knowledge." The driver who lost the tire was uninsured. To catch Ivie's video of the incident and more views through readers' windshields, or to upload your own, go to OverdriveOnline.com/dashcamcentral. The 'flying tire incident' Polling results here took the top 10 trucking issues from the American Transportation Research Institute's annual survey and asked readers to name their top concern. Hours of service and related issues figured in the top three. Seven in 10 readers chose either the ELD mandate, the cumulative impact of regulations or the hours regula- tions themselves. OverdriveOnline.com poll