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Jan 25, 2016

TRUCKS DETENTION TIME * USA: Time to tell FMCSA about

* Missouri - Stuck waiting to load or unload? 

-- If the wheels aren’t turning, truckers aren’t earning. As cliché as it sounds, it’s the prevailing truth in the trucking industry... Wasted time at the dock waiting to load and unload is a drain on a trucker’s available legal time to make money – and FMCSA is studying just how bad the problem of detention time is... Approximately 45 percent of owner-operators indicate that they spend more than 11 hours a week waiting to load and unload. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has long held that unpaid detention time is not only a financial burden on small-business owners and professional truck drivers, but it also has a negative effect on safety, as detention time strains a driver’s hours-of-service limits... So here’s the chance for truckers to let FMCSA know just how bad the problem is... The agency is currently working on a study proposal to assess truck driver detention times and their direct operational impacts on safety. The OOIDA Foundation is gathering information from OOIDA members in order to direct this research accurately. .. Truckers are asked to take a few minutes to complete a 10-question survey. Click here to access the survey and when you have completed it, please select the “submit” button... 
(Photo: ... words from Otis Readding) -- Grain Valley, MO, USA - Land Line - 22 Jan 2016

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Jan 14, 2008

Loading Times * UK - Westminster trials 40 min

Westminster,London,UK -Commercial Motor/Road Transport, by Roanna Avison -14 January 2008: -- Westminster Council is to allow unlimited time for loading before 11am in a trial of 40-minute delivery slots. Under the current system there is no time limit on deliveries before 11am, but between 11am and 6.30pm drivers are limited to 20 minutes... In June the London Council agreed to double the loading/unloading limit to 40 minutes, but at the same time the council extended this limit to pre-11am deliveries. Local authorities have been left to come up with their own interpretation of the rules. Some, including Kensington and Chelsea and Islington, have introduced a blanket 40-minute loading limit... The Freight Transport Association has welcomed Westminster's approach and called on other authorities to follow suit...

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