Owner Operators United Inc announced today that Mike Rone has joined the association and effective July 1 will serve as technical consultant on CSA 2010 rules.

Mike Rone is a Certified Fleet Safety Director. The Certification was received through joint recognition from the Texas Motor Transportation Association and Texas A&M Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). Management positions held include:
 
Weighing & Inspection Manager
Traffic Manager – Rates
Terminal /Safety Manager– Truckload Carrier
Vice President of Transportation/Safety

As owner and operator of RMR Consultants, Mike Rone founded his company 10 Years ago in May of 1999 in order to bring a increasingly necessary service to a under-serviced, but highly regulated industry. Mike Rone knew the industry needed to have a more complete and accessible compliance information and resources. Mike Rone felt that RMR Consultants could provide professional advice regarding Specialized D.O.T. Compliance, support, and information regarding Regulatory matters. RMR provides clients with knowledgeable and assistance with paperwork,accounting,audits and the long list of burdensome work that companies and individuals in the carrier industry need to do business.
 
We look forward to working with Mike and hope that all OOU members will contact Mike to welcome him aboard.
 
As you all know the OOU is Drivers helping Drivers Worldwide, an Mike
will fit right in, as a matter of fact, Mike has already started working on a report for the OOU to submit to Washington DC {csa 2010 report}

Heres the contact info for Mike,
 
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 270209 Flower Mound, TX 75027
Office Location:
1011 Clint St., Suite 100, Carrollton, TX 75006
Phone: 972-245-7300
Toll Free: 1-888-593-7096
Fax: 972-245-7307
Email:rmr@rmrconsultants.com

Here’s the comment I POSTED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE Tulsa Times

Hello,
My name is Dan Little, with the OOU Inc. [Owner-Operators United Inc.} a nationwide drivers association.
The OOU and other associations around the USA are try’n to see to it that all stranded Arrow drivers are given safe rides home.
I have also asked the legal staff at the OOU Inc to research both state and federal laws broken by Arrow thru these actions. Federal Warn Act comes to mind.
The OOU Inc will file any lawsuit needed on behalf of the Arrow Drivers should those drivers request it.
I feel Arrow disgraced the entire trucking industry thru this action and NO excuse will do
If you are an Arrow Employee, please feel free to contact myself or any member of the OOU Inc for help thru these troubled times.
Thank You
Dan Little
Pres / Owner-Operators United Inc.

Owner-Operators United Inc. / a drivers association is arranging help for stranded Arrow Drivers nationwide. Any arrow Driver or family member can call Dan Little – Pres. OOU Inc for help 660-322-0783
Any Arrow driver can call, the OOU has members in all 50 states and we Will help get them home

Mr. Thomas,

Here is the information you requested about the new FMCSA 2010 rules.

Each of the links will give you a total overview.

Heres the FMCSA 2010 rules,

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodologyVersion1_2Final_2009_06_18.pdf

Here is the report that shows 47.9 % off trucking co’s will fail.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/rulemakings/final/E8-29253-New-Entrant-Safety-Assurance-Process-Final-Rule-12-16-08.htm

Here is a quote from the following report

“The FMCSA has reviewed audits conducted in a recent five-year period and estimates that 47.9% of companies would have failed audits under the new rules! Under CSA2010″

http://blogdg.ctl.ca/2009/11/get_ready_for_csa_2010.html

And here is a letter I sent to the ATA about FMCSA 2010

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From

Dan Little / pres.

Owner-Operators United Inc

Po Box 53

Carrollton, Mo. 64633

1-660-542-8735

To,

David Potts

ATA Safety,Security, and Operations Dept.

703-838-1848

2,December,2009

Dear Mr. Potts,

I have reviewed your report to the FMCSA, dated 28, January, 2009.

While we both agree that safety is everyone’s main concern, I find your report to be rather one side’d and nowhere in that report

did I see where you asked for safe guard’s to be included.

I have asked our legal team to research the FMCSA 2010 changes to verfy that NO driver will face double jeopardy,

DOUBLE JEOPARDY – Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution. ‘[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.

I did see where you asked that large carriers be considered, due to mere truck numbers.

I ask you this, and should point out before hand,

Over 80 percent of all raw materials shipped in this country today, are carried by carriers with fleets of less than 100 trucks, and with that in mind,  and with FMCSA’s own report saying that “going back two years in audit’s, had they been done under these new FMCSA rules, 49 percent of all carriers would fail”

How sir, do you feel this new set of rules will in anyway make our highways any safer ?

Do you feel 49 % of all trucking Co’s need to be placed out of business ?

According to the ATA’s own website,

“Safety in the trucking industry has greatly improved while operating under the current hours-of-service rules,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. “Over the past five years we’ve seen a strong decline in truck-involved crashes on our nation’s highways.”

Figures from the DOT clearly demonstrate that the trucking industry is now the safest it has been since the DOT began keeping crash statistics in 1975. The number of truck-involved fatalities on our highways has

decreased by 19 percent since the new HOS rules took effect. The number of injuries has decreased by 13 percent since 2004.

Lets take a look at your figures,

Where in your or the DOT figures do you show the number of trucking company’s that failed in the last 3 years ?\

Those trucking co’s no longer on the road are showing as operational co’s as of your report.

In the first quarter of 2008, 935 trucking co’s went out with total jobs lost accounting to well over 100,000. that number was again matched in the 2nd quarter.

I do not see these figures included in your report. Therefore your statistics are flawed.

Do you feel , as it appears in your letter to the FMCSA, that a drivers right to appeal any outcome of these new rules should Not be heard.

Accordingto the laws of the US

There is no absolute right of appeal for all decisions rendered by a lower court or administrative agency. Federal and state constitutions and statutory provisions create appellate courts and prescribe the types of cases that are within their jurisdiction. An appeal may be granted as a matter of right, such as from a trial court to an intermediate appellate court or only at the discretion of a superior appellate court, for example, by a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court. If the decision presented does not meet the statutory requirements for review, the appellate court is powerless to hear the appeal and review is denied.

So I ask this, Do you  feel that drivers who are found in violation of these new rules should have NO safe gaurds built into these rules ?

I have several other points in the new FMCSA 2010 rules that we need to cover but I will await your reply to this letter first.

Thank You for Your time,

Dan Little

Pres. / Owner-Operators United Inc

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I feel that this new program will cripple this industry and cause thousands of people nationwide to lose everything they have.

This program could not have come at a worse time for this country.

Heres a link to the NPR interview about FMCSA 2010

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120833750

Please let me know your views on this new set of rules & if Congressman Stearns wants these to take effect.

Thank You

Dan Little

Pres./ Owner-Operators United Inc

2,December,2009

Dear Mr. Potts,

I have reviewed your report to the FMCSA, dated 28, January, 2009.

While we both agree that safety is everyone’s main concern, I find your report to be rather one side’d and nowhere in that report

did I see where you asked for safe guard’s to be included.

I have asked our legal team to research the FMCSA 2010 changes to verfy that NO driver will face double jeopardy,

DOUBLE JEOPARDY – Being tried twice for the same offense; prohibited by the 5th Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution. ‘[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause protects against three distinct abuses: [1] a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal; [2] a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction; and [3] multiple punishments for the same offense.

I did see where you asked that large carriers be considered, due to mere truck numbers.

I ask you this, and should point out before hand,

Over 80 percent of all raw materials shipped in this country today, are carried by carriers with fleets of less than 100 trucks, and with that in mind,  and with FMCSA’s own report saying that “going back two years in audit’s, had they been done under these new FMCSA rules, 49 percent of all carriers would fail”

How sir, do you feel this new set of rules will in anyway make our highways any safer ?

Do you feel 49 % of all trucking Co’s need to be placed out of business ?

According to the ATA’s own website,

“Safety in the trucking industry has greatly improved while operating under the current hours-of-service rules,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. “Over the past five years we’ve seen a strong decline in truck-involved crashes on our nation’s highways.”

Figures from the DOT clearly demonstrate that the trucking industry is now the safest it has been since the DOT began keeping crash statistics in 1975. The number of truck-involved fatalities on our highways has

decreased by 19 percent since the new HOS rules took effect. The number of injuries has decreased by 13 percent since 2004.

Lets take a look at your figures,

Where in your or the DOT figures do you show the number of trucking company’s that failed in the last 3 years ?

Those trucking co’s no longer on the road are showing as operational co’s as of your report.

In the first quarter of 2008, 935 trucking co’s went out with total jobs lost accounting to well over 100,000. that number was again matched in the 2nd quarter.

I do not see these figures included in your report. Therefore your statistics are flawed.

Do you feel , as it appears in your letter to the FMCSA, that a drivers right to appeal any outcome of these new rules should Not be heard.

Accordingto the laws of the US

There is no absolute right of appeal for all decisions rendered by a lower court or administrative agency. Federal and state constitutions and statutory provisions create appellate courts and prescribe the types of cases that are within their jurisdiction. An appeal may be granted as a matter of right, such as from a trial court to an intermediate appellate court or only at the discretion of a superior appellate court, for example, by a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court. If the decision presented does not meet the statutory requirements for review, the appellate court is powerless to hear the appeal and review is denied.

So I ask this, Do you  feel that drivers who are found in violation of these new rules should have NO safe gaurds built into these rules ?

I have several other points in the new FMCSA 2010 rules that we need to cover but I will await your reply to this letter first.

Thank You for Your time,

Dan Little

Pres. / Owner-Operators United Inc

The OOU Inc. today announced that Brad Kramer the Colorado state rep had accepted the post as Director of Relations for Company drivers who are members of the OOU Inc.

Any Co. driver that has questions or concerns should contact Brad.

Brad has years on the road as both an Owner Operator and Co. driver and will be a huge asset to all members.

The OOU Inc today announced a new membership drive starting April 1, 2009 and ending on Dec 24th, 2009

The OOU member that sign’s up the most new members will win a new Shotgun, choice of 12 or 20 ga.
Shotgun model to be announced later.

In the event the winner can not legally own a shotgun then he or she will recieve, a cash amount equal to the price of the shotgun.

ALL FFL RULES APPLY

New this year will be a $50.00 cash prize to the runner-up member that sign’s up the most new members.

Re-newal memberships are NOT counted as new Membership’s.

Good Luck to all.
Membership app’s can be downloaded & printed at the OOU Inc main website.
www.owneroperatorsunited.org

Again Good Luck
Dan Little

OOU Inc asks NY State Rep to Resign,,,,,,,,,

OOU Members form Alliance

Last week Richard Hayes, OOU, Inc. Executive Board Memeber, 24/7 Management of Hereford, Tx-hauling fat cattle, Dan Little, President of OOU, Inc., Little and Little Trucking of Carrollton, Mo-hauling feeder cattle and exotics and Kendle Beecham, OOU, Inc. Kansas Representitive, Beecham Trucking, LLC of Valley Falls, Ks joined forces. These three companies bring together approximately 30 trucks in the central united states and have dispatch available for cattle, and exotic hauls and flat bed freight of all kinds from three states.

We offer dispatch for OOU, Inc. owner operators that need assistance for affordable prices and on a more permanent basis, if wanted. Our mission is to get the best freight available for our trucks. If you are interested call Dan at 660-332-0783 or Kendle 785-484-2280.