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January 2018

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14 | Overdrive | January 2018 Logbook Many fl eets are switching to 10W-30 engine oils from traditional 15W-40 oils. The reason is fuel economy. Thinner viscosities mean the engine doesnʼt have to work as hard and uses less fuel. Think of it like swimming through honey vs. water. Honey is thicker than water, so more energy is used to move through it. The same goes for an engineʼs moving parts. A 15W-40 oil requires more energy to move through it whereas 10W-30 oil produces less drag on your engine. But can a 10W-30 protect as well as a 15W- 40? You bet. It comes down to quality additives and composition of base oil. In fact, Shell ROTELLA ® T5 10W-30 can protect as well or better than industry-standard 15W-40 oils. Give it a shot in your fl eet. To learn more go to ROTELLA.com/products ROTELLA ROUNDUP The 411on10W-30 By Dan Arcy, Shell Lubricants Comments, questions or ideas? Email us at RotellaRoundup@JWT.com 1151572_A136_Jan_2018_OVERDRIVE_2_25x79_5.indd 1 12/12/17 3:50 PM Untitled-25 1 12/13/17 9:51 AM A bipartisan group of 20 U.S. senators last month filed a letter with Senate leaders Mitch McCo- nnell (R-Ky.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressing their support for a congressional measure to give livestock and insect haulers at least an extra 10 months to comply with the federal government's electronic logging device mandate. The senators say the move would give the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration "time to make necessary adjustments to hours of service rules to address animal welfare concerns" that live- stock haulers say are presented by the current HOS regulations. The Dec. 5 letter came two and a half weeks after FMCSA an- nounced it was giving livestock haulers and other drivers who haul agriculture loads an extra 90 days to adopt an ELD, which extended the compliance deadline for such drivers into mid-March. The agen- cy also said it plans to tweak HOS regulations for livestock haulers to better fit their operations. FMCSA's waiver does not change the HOS regulations that livestock and agriculture haulers operate un- der. Drivers covered by the waiver include those hauling "any agri- cultural commodity, non-processed food, feed, fiber or livestock," regardless of their distance traveled or whether they cross state lines. Drivers operating in the ag- riculture industry already have an hours of service exemption that clears them from maintaining records of duty status if they drive within a 150-air-mile radius of the source of their agriculture products or livestock. The agency's new proposal would expand that to include agriculture haulers operating unladen vehicles within a 150-mile radius of the load's source point and after its delivery, meaning the exemption would apply to agricul- ture haulers operating an unloaded vehicle on their way to pick up a load and after they've delivered their load, in addition to while they are loaded and in transit. – James Jaillet FURTHER DELAY OF LIVESTOCKERS' ELD COMPLIANCE SOUGHT Livestock haulers, unlike the rest of the indus- try, already have until mid-March to adopt an ELD. Moves in Congress could give them even more time. ROY MAYNARD, owner of Alba, Missouri-based Viking Propane, pleaded guilty to transporting hazardous materials in interstate commerce without a commercial driver's license. He was indicted in May for transporting liquefied petroleum gas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. KENTUCKY-LICENSED TRUCKER Scotty R. Kinmon was shut down after overdosing on heroin and crashing his truck. Kinmon was driving west on Interstate 74 in Ohio on Aug. 18 when his truck slowed down to a stop and began rolling backward into adjacent travel lanes, jackknifed and hit a guardrail before coming to a stop.

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