Senate DOT appropriations bill would set e-log, CSA safety fitness...
In addition to offering restart-changes relief pending further study, the bill requires an ELD final rule by January 2015 and SFD proposal by December of this year, in addition to an OIG audit of the...
View Article34-hour restart fix left out of FAA extension bill
Hopes that Congress would undo a provision passed in December that could kill the 34-hour restart entirely came up empty when the House's Transportation Committee unveiled the aviation-focused...
View ArticleMailbag: Potential 34-hour restart change reinforces elemental hours problems...
Given the complexity of the recently proposed 34-hour-restart change, it's no wonder (as you'll hear in this podcast) that a desire for the simplicity of pre-14-hour-rule regs is such a topic of...
View ArticleSenate DOT bill, unlike House, skips changes to ELD mandate, driver breaks
The Senate’s 2018 fiscal year DOT appropriations does not include any changes to the coming electronic logging device mandate, nor does it include the so-called Denham Amendment, which intends to block...
View ArticlePartial government shutdown: Is the President/House’s $5 billion border-wall...
With the technical fifth day of a partial federal government shutdown under way (not the bulk of the DOT, which remains open through budgetary-led shutdowns typically), led by a demand for $5 billion...
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