Truck Desk

06/02/2022

One of the ways to address the driver shortage is to encourage younger drivers to join the industry. Currently, 49 states and the Washington DC give commercial driver licenses to people under 21. This permits younger drivers to drive semi-trucks intra-state (popular throughout large states like California and Texas). They just can't cross state lines.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Section 23022, empowered the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to establish the Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program (SDAP) to allow drivers 18-20 explore interstate trucking careers under very specific conditions. Every potential truck driver, young or old, must be able to meet the Department of Transportation (DOT) physical fitness requirements.

05/05/2022

The American Trucking Association (ATA) has voiced support for 68-mph speed-limiters on all new heavy trucks. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has also been making recent strides to limit the speed of heavy-duty commercial vehicles (Class 7-8)

05/04/2022

We made the top 200 finalists of the Nav Small Business grant. Thanks for all the support so far.

04/21/2022

Introduced by the American Trucking Association (ATA) in 1973, the index serves as an indicator of shipping activity, and consumption of goods in the United States. Analysts also use the truck tonnage index to determine the state of the U.S. economy as over 70-percent of all freight tonnage is via truck.

04/01/2022

We started operating April 1st, 2021 and celebrate our one year anniversary today. Thank you for being part of our company's journey this past year. Cheers to less fines, better CSA scores and zero out-of-service orders. Stay loaded🚚🚛

03/31/2022

Fun facts:

1). The term 'bobtail' was gotten from animals (like cats and rabbits) that have really short tails in some of their breeds. Hence a truck without a tail is a bobtail.

2). 'bobtail' was also popularized by the popular Christmas song 'jingle bells'. The song contained the lyric “bells on bobtails ring”. In the song, bobtail refers to the tail of a horse that has been cut short to avoid getting tangled in the sleigh driver’s reins.

3) Bobtail insurance applies to auto liability coverage for an owner/operator after a load has been delivered and while the truck is not being used for trucking purposes.

03/30/2022

The FMCSA is amending its regulation that requires truck drivers to provide employers a list of their traffic violations each year.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3JTVoq7

The FMCSA is amending its regulation that requires drivers operating a CMV in interstate commerce provide their employers a list of traffic…

03/30/2022

Please help vote for us in Nav's small business grant application. Truck Desk is a Compliance-as-a-Service solution for the trucking industry. Client acquisition is always a challenge in service/consulting businesses. We hope to use the funds to register for an American Trucking Association allied membership (as well as advertising to ATA members to build a pipeline for potential clients).

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03/24/2022

What are the weirdest/funniest trucker slangs you've heard?

03/16/2022

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a new Federally backed supply chain visibility initiative yesterday. The project is called FLOW (Freight Logistics Optimization Works).

Secretary Pete mentioned on a radio interview with SiriusXM that he doesn't intend for this to be another Government owned and operated solution. He sees the Department of Transportation as a coordinator of private sector participants who are invested in making FLOW a reality. The core solution will be in form of a website or portal where players at different levels of the supply chain can track components, sub-assemblies and final goods as they move from manufacturers to consumers. "Participants contribute data in order to access the data from all other participants" he said. DOT doesn't deem the data to be shared as proprietary and is encouraging project participants to share as much as they can in order to improve the overall efficiency of the nation's supply chain.

FLOW includes eighteen initial participants all of whom are major players in the logistics industry. They include Port of Long Beach, Georgia Ports Authority, MSC, CMA, CGM, Target, Land O'Lakes, CH Robinson, FedEx, Prologis, Flexivan and more.

03/15/2022

Carriers who have owner-operators leased under them are responsible for their DOT compliance whether or not those owner-operators have their own authority. The definition of "employee" for compliance purposes includes owner operators (FMCSR §390.5). Remember that Driver Qualification Files need to be maintained 3 years after the driver leaves. This means if an owner-operator was leased to you for even a day, you are now responsible for maintaining their DQ file until 3 years after they leave. Exceptions to this is in the rare occurrence where the carrier-operator relationship is strictly on a for-hire basis.