Archive for air mile maps
Some More Clarification on Air Miles maps
We get a lot of questions here at Air Miles Maps Online regarding the finer points of the Federal Motor carrier Safety Administration rules for so-called “short haul” or “local” log book (RODS) exemptions. It’s always best to go to the source:
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/hos-faqs.asp C-2 What is an "air mile"? [...]
Why You Need an Air Miles Map
There are a number of reasons you might need an air mile radius map to keep your business legal, more efficient, or both. A primary reason for many clients are the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) rules regarding driver hours of service rules. I’ve written about them before and I’ll likely write more, but [...]
Even Better Maps Are Coming!
I started this site because I was getting tons of traffic to my GPS Tracking News and Commentary site regarding Air Mile Maps and various related issues. I am pretty much a one-trick pony in this area, although I worked for years I\on projects in the GIS (Geographic Information Systems field, I am not [...]
Air Mile Radius Maps
This is a sample, do not use for navigation or rules compliance, please:
Apparently I struck a chord a couple days back when I posted about the 100 and 150 "air mile" commercial driver hours of service rules. People have been searching for an easy utility to make/view radius maps around their business to see if [...]
What You Don’t Know About Air Miles Can Bite — 2
A recap in case you didn’t read the first part of this series … here … we are talking about what a commercial vehicle actual is, as defined by the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and what commercial vehicles might be exempt from the general FCMSA requirement for RODS (Record Of Duty Status), commonly [...]
What You Don’t Know About Air Miles Can Bite
I’ve used the premise many times that one of the bona fide paybacks (ROI) of using GPS tracking on your business vehicles is being able to know that you’re complying with the US FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) regulations. The ones regarding HOS (Hours Of Service) for drivers are particularly complex … and thus [...]
ANALYSIS OF EXEMPTIONS FOR TRUCKS OF 10,000 TO 26,000 POUNDS
Here’s where the Federal Motor carrier Safety Agency has quantified the cost savings for using either the 100 air mile radius or 150 air mile radius (so called, "short haul") rules used in lieu of keeping a standard hours of service record (RODS) commonly known as a log book. It’s a bit interesting, it seems [...]
More Government Control Can Be Good?
Why the governement should take more control rather than less of trucker’s hours of service.
This issue is one of those narrow niches where the government actually could do something of benefit to all by virtue of pushing recalcitrant trucking firms to put down the 19th century buggy whips they still use and move into the [...]
Are These Radius Maps Free?
All about Air Mile Radius Maps and why we are here.
Some months ago I made a series of posts about managing you business vehicles using special purpose air mile radius maps. Here’s one of the introductory air mile radius maps articles, and another that has had quite a few ‘reads’ and search ‘hits’.
I’ve been offering [...]