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South Dakota OCTOBER 2020 Table of Contents Useless Facts..............................................................................2 Chairman’s Message....................................................................3 President’s Message............................................................5 October Driver of the Month................................................. 7 SDTA Annual Pheasant Hunt.......................................................9 Economy & Industry Data..........................................................11 Wait is Over for 2020 Emergency Response Guidebooks...........12 Economy & Industry Data Continued.....................................13 Myron Rau Inducted into Transportation Hall of Honor..........15-17 Welcome New SDTA Members.................................................18 Number of Members Signed Up Since 2020 Convention.............18 FMCSA Schedules Listening Session on Broker Transparency.....20 Lawmakers Weigh Options on Legislating in Pandemic........23-25 Driver of the Month Nomination Form......................................26 Driver of the Month Nomination Rules.......................................27 Condolences.................................................................29 What’s Happening with SDTA....................................................31 SDTA & SDTA Services Board of Directors Listing.......................36
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. • Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. • The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses. • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. • The average secretary’s left-hand does 56% of the typing. • There are more chickens than people in the world. • New Jersey grows two-thirds of the world’s eggplant. • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” • All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. • No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver or purple. • “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. • All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. • Almonds are members of the peach family. • Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. • There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. • Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. And can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.” • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. • Humans and bananas share about 50 percent of the same DNA. • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. • In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. • Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. • The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross. • Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, but when reaching adulthood, we only 260. • The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.” • A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. • The word “School” comes from the ancient Greek for “FREE TIME”. • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. • On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. • It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. reprinted from https://laughbreak.com/lists/useless-facts/
SDTA’S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JERRY OLLERICH,, CHAIRMAN BOB WILLEY, VICE CHAIRMAN JUSTIN ANDERS TREASURER ROBERT CHRISTIAN, PAST CHAIRMAN RICK HOOGENDOORN, ATA CHAIRMAN MYRON L. RAU, PRESIDENT SDTA’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS GREG BALDWIN STEVE BENNING KRISTAL FISER SHANNA GRAY EVAN GRONG PETE HALVERSON ERIC HAMIEL JEFF HANNAHS RANDY HARTLEY STEVE HOFFMAN LARRY KLAAHSEN JUSTIN LARSON THOMAS MURPHY MATT PARKER BRIAN STERN RYAN VIESSMAN SDTA’S PAST CHAIRPERSONS STAN ANDERS LARRY ANDERSON ROBERT APPELWICK DAVID BULTSMA TED BULTSMA RICH BURNS ROBERT CHRISTIAN DARROLD DEAN BERNARD FELDHAUS MIKE HABECK RICK HOOGENDOORN ALTON PALMER JEFF PARKER GENE PHILLIPS MICHELLE SCHIPPER RANDY THOMPSON WAYNE VIESSMAN STEPHEN WILLERS
Reluctantly, but necessarily, I replaced my "smart phone". Phone upgrades are always touted to be easy and seamless. The same was said about the trucking industry transforming from paper logs to ELDs. When a new, or well-maintained piece of equipment isn't working properly, it is usually "operator-error". I've learned to slow down, re-think what I am doing, and the equipment WILL work properly. Anyway, after a steep learning curve and many frustrating cuss words, I finally began to understand and use with ease the ELD device and my new phone. I learned that not only can I make good use of devices; they actually make conducting my business easier! I can interact with customers and the office in a more timely manner. My customers want easy, fast access to me as we set up the next loads. It is important that you know that our esteemed leader, Myron Rau was recognized and honored by the South Dakota Department of Transportation Hall of Honor for his life-long contributions to improving the integrity of our state's infrastructure, and improving safety for everyone on our highways. Myron is a wellrespected lobbyist in Pierre and Washington DC as he works tirelessly to advance YOUR interests...yet another perk of belonging to SDTA. A reminder that the Annual Pheasant Hunt is Thursday, November 12, leaving the ClubHouse Hotel at 9:00 AM, (register as soon as possible), and that the Fall Board of Directors meeting, which is open to all members, is scheduled for Friday, November 13, 10:00 AM at the ClubHouse Hotel (RedRossa restaurant) in Pierre, SD. This is my personal invitation to attend, learn, contribute and profit from the meeting. Learning constantly about improving the bottom line is a huge dividend as a member of SDTA. Remember and honor our veterans every day, but especially on November 11. Respect what their sacrifices have purchased for us, by voting on November 3. Exercise your right to vote in person or absentee, but take the time and effort to VOTE! Stay well, stay safe, and "Keep between the ditches"!
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In these difficult economic times, managing a couple of non-profit trade associations is a challenge. Keeping the balance sheet balanced is difficult when we rely solely on allied member support and regular member purchases. Having said that, when a new program comes up, it needs to be seized and promoted to the membership. As a member of the SDTA, your business will receive discounts and the SDTA will get a small spiff. National Purchasing Partners (NPP) recently signed a Strategic Marketing Partnership with the SDTA. NPP avails all SDTA Members the ability to enjoy exclusive offers and negotiated pricing from many brands such as: Verizon, Office Depot, Staples, Sherwin-Williams, ADP, Pitney Bowes, Best Buy, American Express, TrueCar and many others. NPP is a business to business marketplace where association members save on products and services they use every day. As a member of the SDTA, your business can join for FREE today! To get started and enjoy the discounts, all you need to do is sign up. Simply visit mynpp.com/ association/sd-trucking-association and click “Start Saving”. Next, select “Company Savings” and enter your business information. Finally click “Submit” and start saving. Your employees can save too! Once your business is an NPP Member, you can share employee offers with your team. When you sign up, you will be able to see the deals that your employees can enjoy. Some of those savings come from: Verizon, Office Depot, Staples, SherwinWilliams, Expedia, Priceline, Hotelogical, Best Buy, American Express, Legal Zoom and many others. In closing, I want to remind everyone that in less than a month, the general election will take place. Keep in mind that we will be electing or re-electing our entire state legislature. Please have a voting discussion with your entire staff and make sure they all have an opportunity to vote! Be careful, be safe and stay healthy!
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Congratulations to Wes Coffee, A&A Express LLC, Brandon, SD. He has been selected as the October 2020 Driver of the Month by the South Dakota Safety Management Council. Wes has been a professional truck driver for over seventeen years, five years of which have been logged for A&A Express LLC.
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He is everything you would want in a company driver. He is knowledgable of the industry, the company and the equipment. He is always going above and beyond to help the company as well as the other drivers. Wes is 56 years old. He and his wife Dawn reside in Elk Point, SD. Wes is a step dad to two adult children, James (40) and Rachel (36). The South Dakota Trucking Association joins the Safety Management Council in congratulating Wes Coffee for being selected as the October 2020 Driver of the Month.
The SDTA Safety Management Council is looking for Driver of the Month nomination forms. This form along with rules of qualification can be found on pages 26-27 of this publication.
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Economics and Industry Data Trucks move roughly 72.5% of the nation's freight by weight. That is just one of many statistics calculated and tracked by American Trucking Associations' professional staff that you can learn about here. For more on Trucking Economics, follow Bob Costello, Chief Economist for American Trucking Associations at @ATAEconBob
Revenue:
$791.7 billion in gross freight revenues (primary shipments only) from trucking, representing 80.4% of the nation’s freight bill in 2019.
Tonnage:
11.84 billion tons of freight (primary shipments only) transported by trucks in 2019, representing 72.5% of total domestic tonnage shipped.
Taxes:
• $45.7 billion paid by commercial trucks in federal and state highway-user taxes in 2018. • Commercial trucks make up 13.7% of all registered vehicles, and paid $18 billion in federal highway-user taxes and $27.7 billion in state highway-user taxes, in 2018. • 24.4¢ in federal fuel tax paid for each gallon of diesel fuel as of January, 2020. • 18.4¢ in federal fuel tax paid for each gallon of gasoline as of January, 2020. • 28.2¢ paid on average in state fuel tax for each gallon of diesel fuel as of 2020. • 26.7¢ paid on average in state fuel tax for each gallon of gasoline as of 2020.
Number of Trucks:
• 36.9 million trucks registered and used for business purposes (excluding government and farm) in 2018, representing 24.2% of all trucks registered. • 3.91 million Class 8 trucks (including tractors and straight trucks) in operation in 2019, up 2.6% from 2018.
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• 304.9 billion miles traveled by all registered trucks in 2018 • 184.2 billion miles traveled by combination trucks in 2018 (continued on page 13) TRUCKING NEWS ~ PAGE 11
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ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRY DATA continued... Number of Companies:
• According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, as of April 2020, the number of for-hire carriers on file with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration totaled 928,647, private carriers totaled 799,342 and other* interstate motor carriers totaled 84,763. • * Other’ motor carriers are those that did not specify their segment or checked multiple segments. All other categories were excluded. • 91.3% operate 6 or fewer trucks. • 97.4% operate fewer than 20 trucks.
International Trucking:
Trucks transported 67.7% of the value of surface trade between the U.S. and Canada in 2019. Trucks transported 83.1% of the value of surface trade between the U.S. and Mexico in 2019. In 2019, the value of truck-transported trade rose 1.2% to $429.0 billion with Mexico; truck-transported trade with Canada fell 1.5% to $343.0 billion.
Employment:
• 7.95 million people employed throughout the economy in jobs that relate to trucking activity in 20189 excluding the self-employed • 3.6 million truck drivers employed in 2019 (an increase of 1.7% from 2018) Reprinted from www.trucking.org
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Myron Rau Inducted into South Dakota Transportation Hall of Honor
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The purpose of the Transportation Hall of Honor is to to recognize those persons who hade made a lasting, valuable, and/or unique contribution to South Dakota’s air, highway, public transit, or rail transportation systems. Items to be considered are technological innovations, political activity, legislative accomplishments, creativity, time, cost savings efforts, and economic impact. “Myron has dedicated his entire professional career to making our highway and transportation systems in South Dakota safer” wrote the Department of Public Safety Cabinet Secretary Craig Price. It is that reputation that shows why Myron Rau is well deserving of this recognition.
Myron was raised on a farm near Java, SD. He would go onto graduate from South Dakota State University. In 1975, Myron joined the South Dakota Highway Patrol as a state trooper. His first duty station was in Huron. Throughout his career he worked his way through the ranks to Captain of the Motor Carrier Division in 1992 before retiring from the Highway Patrol in 2001. After retiring from his Highway Patrol position, Myron started working for the SD Trucking Association and South Dakota Auto Dealers Association and is still in that position today. In his early years as a Motor Carrier Sergeant, he dedicated his time and effort into protecting the infrastructure of the state. Myron realized roads and bridges were on the South Dakota’s biggest investments, so protecting them from unnecessary damage became a priority to him. He made sure commercial vehicle had their registration and taxes paid for the larger than normal use of the highways. In 1994, Myron tried to convince the Legislature it was time to adopt federal regulations to help govern the safety of commercial vehicles. The legislature declined, but he most definitely made an impact because in 1995, again with encourContinued on page 17
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Myron Rau Inducted into South Dakota Transportation Hall of Honor continued... agement from Myron, South Dakota adopted the standard set of safety regulations and out-of-service criteria for commercial drivers. Myron has been a tireless advocate for the trucking industry for almost 20 years as the President of South Dakota Trucking Association by continuing the partnerships he’d established years before. Knowing that working with industry stakeholders is the most effective way to solve problems and create opportunity, it was these partnerships that were key to success in South Dakota. His partners in safety know he advocates for the solution, not the advantage.
He is trusted by the partners, legislators, and government agencies alike. He is known in the trucking industry and legislature as the go to guy for transportation issues. He is someone who has all interests at heart - a tell-it-like-it-is advocate for doing the right thing. Myron’s lifetime of work has built a foundation that will last for generations. That is why he was inducted into the Transportation Hall of Honor. It was a night to celebrate his lasting contribution to South Dakota’s transportation system.
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FMCSA Schedules Listening Session on Broker Transparency October 9, 2020 • by HDT Staff
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has scheduled a virtual listening session to get input Owner-Operator groups believe freight brokers should be required to share more information with motor carriers about transactions.
THE SESSION WILL BE HELD ON WED., OCT. 28, 1:00-2:30 P.M. EASTERN TIME.
FMCSA would like to hear from members of the public on their views on the regulation of property carrier brokers in general, and on three pending petitions concerning specific property carrier broker regulation issues. After receiving petitions from owner-operator groups to amend certain requirements for property carrier brokers, FMCSA published a notice in the Federal Register on Aug. 19 requesting public comment on the petitions. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association requested that FMCSA require property carrier brokers to provide an electronic copy of each transaction record automatically within 48 hours after the contractual service has been completed, and explicitly prohibit brokers from including any provision in their contracts that requires a motor carrier to waive its rights to access the transaction records. The Small Business in Transportation Coalition requests that FMCSA prohibit brokers from coercing or otherwise requiring parties to brokers’ transactions to waive their right to review the record of the transaction as a condition for doing business. SBTC also wants FMCSA to ban broker contracts from including a stipulation or clause exempting the broker from having to comply with the transparency requirement. This meeting does not pertain to broker or freight forwarder minimum financial responsibility matters. The session will be held via videoconference and will be accessible to the public for its entirety. The session will be held via videoconference only, with registration required at www.fmcsa. dot.gov in advance of the meeting. FMCSA encourages early registration. The virtual session will allow members of the public to make brief statements to the panel. If all interested participants have had an opportunity to comment, the session may conclude early.
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Lawmakers Weigh Options on Legislating in Pandemic Joe Sneve - Sioux Falls Argus Leader
A team of South Dakota officials are looking at options for keeping the 2021 Legislative Session on track while also balancing safety concerns during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. State lawmakers make up a fraction of the hundreds who come through the doors at the capitol building each day during the annual legislative session. Lawmakers met using the hybrid of in-person and remote interactions during a special session earlier this week, but it’s unclear if those remote options will work during the full session. “To keep all those working and operating in a functioning way through the pandemic is going to take a lot of mental horsepower for staff and legislative leadership,” said Reed Holwegner, director of the South Dakota Legislative Research Council, which provides administrative support for the Legislature. A subcommittee of the Legislature’s Executive Board in August began working to find options to keep the state’s legislative body functioning during the upcoming session. They expect to have a final decision by year’s end. The subcommittee is looking at three methods of conducting business when session begins January 12: • Require legislators to be in Pierre to conduct business face-to-face; • have the entire Legislature use internet and telephone technology to attend committee meetings and proceedings on the chamber floors; • or a hybrid that allows some lawmakers to stay home and others to be in Pierre. So far, when legislators have had to convene during the pandemic, remote attendance has been an option for legislators. On Veto Day in late March, just weeks into the pandemic, nearly all legislators attended using remote technology, casting votes through their computers. And though more legislators were physically present for Monday’s special session to consider $13 billion in COVID-19 spending, dozens again participated from locations outside of the capitol building. House Speaker Steven Haugaard, R-Sioux Falls, said if there’s no vaccine yet available by the time final decisions need to be made, he anticipates his fellow members of the executive board will create an attendance policy that legislators be present at the Capitol but able to attend meetings remotely while sitting in breakout and committee rooms throughout the building. “We’re taking those measures to be safe. It might be that we’ll build in an option for remote attendance. But we could probably do that on site,” he said. Right now, though, that’s not really an option. The capitol building has undergone many renovations and upgrade projects since being built in 1910, but not all rooms where legislators meet are accessible with technology to allow remote voting. That’s why Holwegner and his team at the LRC are in the midst of an estimated $350,000 project to bring the necessary wiring and connectivity to nearly all of them and improve the voting systems used in the chambers of the Senate and House. Those dollars are expected to be reimbursed with federal CARES Act funds. But requiring all legislators to converge on the capitol building during session - regardless of where they’re at while attending meetings - might not be the safest way to go, said Sen. Minority Leader Troy Reinert, D-Mission. “We’re still in the middle of a pandemic, and we’ve already buried one of the legislators that we served (Continued on page 25)
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Lawmakers Weigh Options on Legislating in Pandemic continued...
with,” he said, referring to the death of Huron legislator Bob Glanzer, one of the first South Dakotans to die from COVID-19. “It’d probably be a good idea to allow remote access.” Masks likely won’t be mandatory inside the capitol. Democrats support such a policy, but GOP leadership in South Dakota has thus far shown no appetite for requiring masks or face covering. Still, Haugaard said it will be important for legislators and anyone else at the capitol this winter to be respectful of those around them. And in some instances, that means wearing a mask, he said. “There’s been a push from the staff in particular that there be distancing and masks and those kinds of things,” he said. “We’re taking those measures to be safe.” Lawmakers noted that the pandemic situation could look a lot different by the time session arrives, whether that’s a drop off in spread or general concern. And if a vaccine is made available and determined to be effective, the work being done by the Executive Board might be all for naught. “If there’s a vaccine, then I’m not sure anyone has a good reason not to show up,” Haugaard said. “We really do need to get back to business where we are able to interact with one another directly.” Reprinted from
We know that especially during these difficult times it has been hard to maintain stability. We thank you for supporting your Association. We look forward to what 2021 has to offer!
To all of those who renewed their membership with SDTA!
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February 06, 1942 - October 14, 2020 Jimmy passed away on October 14, 2020 in Rapid City, South Dakota, he was born on February 6, 1942 in New Underwood, South Dakota to Harry and Vivian (Johnson) Henrichsen. He is survived by his wife Linda K Henrichsen of Rapid City, South Dakota and two pets Zoe and Abby, son Leith Little of Grand Junction, Colorado, granddaughter Harley Najera of Craig, Colorado, two great granddaughters Mia and Aliyah, and daughter Danielle Little of Estacada, Oregon. He is survived by siblings, sister Jeani Withington of Hilo, Hawaii, brothers John Henrichsen (Sue Henrichsen) of Rapid City and Jerry Henrichsen (Vicki Henrichsen) of Hermosa, sister-in law Anita Henrichsen and sixteen nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by Harry and Vivian Henrichsen, his brother Fay Henrichsen and brother-in-law Dick Withington. Jimmy lived in Rapid City and graduated from Rapid City High School in 1961. Met his wife in Denver, Colorado and married in Rapid City on March 15, 1986. As esteemed resident of Rapid City, he leaves behind his logging family and will be well missed in the Black Hills. Jimmy was a quiet, calm, gentle soul with a work ethic of an ox. He enjoyed nature and found peace within the hills; he always said “not a bad office”. He loved watching the sunrise and will be remembered daily by many not only family but many friends. He had a love for “old school ways” and never really understood the new ways of being, which was a charming quality he carried with him through life. His hobby was spending hours tinkering on his truck and visiting with his friends. He was a member of both the South Dakota Trucking Association (SDTA) and (received in 2018 recognition of 55 years of dedicated service) and The Black Hills Log Haulers Association. The family has decided on a celebration of life next summer in 2021, date to be announced.
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