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Owner Operator Trucking, EOBR & CSA 2010, PeopleNet wants to help you!

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Owner operator trucking professionals who are getting a little nervous about the upcoming implementation of CSA 2010 and EOBR (electronic onboard recorder) regulations should take a look at two new service offerings from PeopleNet. PeopleNet has created two new services they expect to have a positive impact on a freight carriers CSA 2010 score. In fact, they are so confident they even offer a no-cost guarantee for trucking services that sign up.

The CSA 2010 is designed to assess carriers and drivers most recent 24 months of driving history and crash data using the new Safety Measurement System (SMS). Using this data they hope to identify problems with unsafe driver behaviour before it becomes a serious problem and reducing the number of accidents, fatalities and injuries related to the trailer trucking industry.

PeopleNet’s EOBR is in line with current safety regulations and will continue to be in compliant with the recent FMCSA ruling 395.16. A low-cost fleet management system with eDriver Logs that allows fleets to electronically monitor drivers hours of service and stay in compliance with the hours-of-service regulations in force.
PeopleNet’s CSA 2010 service bundle is a little more involved and covers the full range of safety features that help transport trucking professionals when they’re on the road. On board event recording of all of the important information; engine-fault-code monitoring, speed alarms and more with Speedgauge; and onsite help by PeopleNet Professional Services to make sure customers are ready for CSA 2010 by helping them understand the technology and how to implement it to assess, measure and impact trucking safety performance.

There could be some heavy fines on the horizon for trucking firms and owner operator trucking professionals that aren’t ready for EOBR and CSA 2010, if sources and the FMCSA are correct? Current estimates around the freight trucking industry indicate that freight carriers will be up to 8.5 times more likely to end up paying more than normal and being told by the FMCSA what they need to do to get in line with the new regulations.

What violations are the ones most cited by the FMCSA? According to sources five of the top 10 most frequently cited violations in 2009 were related to hours-of-service violations, so you might want to make sure your paper work is in order and correct?

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Trucking Transport Improving in Canada, Canadian trailer trucking industry

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The last twenty months has been chaos for a Canadian transport trucking industry that has had to deal with unstable freight rates for trucking transport, but there are reports by Canadian agencies tasked with watching over the freight industry in Canada think that things could be starting to return to normal and freight rates could start being a little more stable as we head further into 2010. The latest figures indicate according to some freight industry experts that the Canadian freight trucking industry has made it through the worst part of the recession. Hopes are that the recession is over and the improvement in the numbers isn’t just a temporary event and that we’ll get to win back some of the losses that we all have seen during the past twenty months of financial instability.

This is great news for the Canadian trucking industry and the freight industry as a whole if the experts are right and the recession is starting to lessen and we can expect the numbers to begin to get better. Stable prices for transporting truck freight is going to give customers and freight carriers more confidence that things are finally beginning to turn around in the freight industry and business around the world as a whole. This could mean firms are going to be willing to spend a little more to build business, which is going to make business even better.

If the price of trucking transport continues to be chaotic though, things are going to get even tougher for some firms in the Canadian trucking industry that are already close to the financial edge. The longer we spend in recession, the more trucking firms are going to head into the red on the accounting sheet and the more losses we are going to see.

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Amendments to Highway Act

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Transport trucking drivers operating on the transportation roadways of Manitoba will need to apply the brakes and wait patiently for a safe chance to pass tow trucks and roadside assistance once amendments to the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act introduced by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton come into law. The new amendments would also require owner operator trucking to treat all government enforcement officers with the red lights on there vehicle flashing, like conservation officers and transport enforcement officers, the same when they’re trying to pass them on the highway.
There haven’t been any reports of problems with vehicles on the roads of Manitoba not respecting emergency vehicles trying to get from point A to point B. The reasons for the changes are therefore difficult to figure, but there must be a reason why they would make amendments like this.
The message of the changes does seem to be that motorists carrying trucking loads need to error on the side of caution when behind an emergency vehicle and respect the lives of people trying to do important jobs. The job of emergency workers is difficult enough without them becoming one of the people they’re trying to save due to the aggressive driving behavior of someone traveling on the roads.
The amendments to the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act also mean that on highways with more than one lane drivers are required to keep one lane between them and emergency vehicles with flashing lights, whenever possible.
Motorists caught ignoring the new amendments will be fined $278 for their transgressions.

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