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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* Georgia - Shippers’ Coalition Pushes for Higher Truck Weights
Atlanta,GA,USA -Transport Topics/AP/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution -2 Nov 2011: -- A coalition of Georgia businesses are pushing for higher truck weight limit... The group wants federal and state officials to allow limits of up to 97,000 pounds, from the current 80,000-pound limit for big rigs... The coalition of shippers includes Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific and International Paper... The group says the move would help the economy and the environment, although some state officials worry about safety and maintenance issues if heavier trucks are allowed on Georgia roads, AP said...
* Atlanta and Tennessee - UPS Freight Targets Missed LTL Pickups
Atlanta,GA/Memphis,TN, USA -The Journal of Commerce, by William B. Cassidy -Nov 2, 2011: -- New pickup notification system helps LTL shippers better manage ‘first mile’ ... UPS Freight is rolling out technology that will help less-than-truckload shippers better control the “first mile” of any freight movement, the LTL pickup... It’s an attempt to apply the kind of automation parcel carriers deploy for their customers in a very un-parcel-like environment, the LTL shipping dock. UPS and FedEx, the largest U.S. transportation companies, are leveraging parcel and package technology to drive greater automation inindustrial trucking... FedEx last week rolled out an electronic shipping platform that helps it bundle FedEx Freight LTL services with FedEx Ground and FedExExpress services... At UPS Freight, the LTL Pickup Notifications system takes aim at a thorny service problem for LTL shippers and carriers — missed shipments. A large proportion of LTL shipments are scheduled on an ad-hoc basis, by telephone, says transportation consultant Satish Jindel of SJ Consulting Group, Pittsburgh...
* Missouri - OOIDA legal victory forces FMCSA to ‘evaluate’ full EOBR mandate
Grain Valley,MI,USA -Land Line, by Jami Jones -2 Nov 2011: -- The recent OOIDA legal victory that vacated a regulation mandating electronic on-board recorders for “bad actors” has also sent the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration back to the drawing board on its proposed full EOBR mandate... The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on Aug. 26 to vacate the 2010 final regulation mandating the use of electronic on-board recorders for companies with a safety history that reflects a 10 percent or greater level of noncompliance with the hours-of-service regs in one compliance review... OOIDA filed suit against the agency contending that the rule was arbitrary and capricious because it does not “ensure that the devices are not used to harass vehicle operators,” as required by law. The Association’s lawsuit also contended that the cost-benefit analysis failed to demonstrate the benefits of the technology and that the EOBRs violate the Fourth Amendment...
The court needed only one of the three arguments to vacate the rule – the harassment argument.
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