A post about Air Miles Maps and Is An Air Mile Different For a Potato Chip? from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

Well the first impression answer for that question is, no, an air mile is an air mile is an air mile. But some “goods carrying commercial vehicle” drivers may have different requirements to meet if the meet the requirements of being ‘route salesmen”. here’s a bit of what the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety AdmInsistartion) [...]

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If you came here looking to buy an air mile radius map for your business, school, personal use, etc., you may have noticed my order page is missing. At this moment I am not making maps to order.  I am working out a much better method with which to kick-off 2010, with better, more useful [...]

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Tuesday – October 2, 2009 MapPoint 2010 Released, MapPoint 2010 New Features and Articles, and More Welcome to another issue of the MP2Kmag Update. Microsoft recently released MapPoint 2010 with significant new features such as the Map Setting pane. This new pane allows users to control the amount of detail displayed for 17 separate mapping [...]

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A post about Air Miles Maps and What Is an Air Mile? from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

Many of our clients ask for “Air Miles Maps” because they found us through a search on keywords like “Radius maps” or “Circle maps”.  But normally only the folks working on FMCSA compliance issues really want “Air Miles”.   There are a lot of definitions for “mile” as you can see in the extract from Wikipedia.  [...]

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A post about Air Miles Maps and Some More Clarification on Air Miles maps from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

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"? The term "air-mile" is inter

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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 [...]

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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 a [...]

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I’ve mentioned the 100 and 150 air mile radius rules for “local” commercial vehicle operations a number of times … here, here, and here for a few of the more interesting entries. The basics are that commercial, goods carrying vehicles that do not require their drivers to have CDL’s (Commercial Driver Licenses) are still subject [...]

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I often post hints to keep you legal if you operate commercial vehicles under the so-called "short haul" exemptions from the standard FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) HOS (Hours Of Service) or RODS (Record Of Duty Status) (log book) requirements. Wow! How’s that for an acronym-loaded sentence … do you think we have enough [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A post about Air Miles Maps and ANALYSIS OF EXEMPTIONS FOR TRUCKS OF 10,000 TO 26,000 POUNDS from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

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 [...]

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A post about Air Miles Maps and More Government Control Can Be Good? from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

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 [...]

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A post about Air Miles Maps and Are These Radius Maps Free? from Air Miles Map. Read more at:Air Miles Map - We Make Custom Air Mile Radius Maps for Business

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 [...]

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