Blogs
- 17 hours ago
- infrastructure
Say it ain’t so, Joe: VP bemoans infrastructure woes, pitches fix; Senate next to act
With only days left before the Highway Trust Fund runs dry, and as Congress rushes to find a solution before the August break, the White House continues to pitch infrastructure investment and its Rebuild America program, with Vice President Joe Biden taking to the whiteboard ...
- 22 hours ago
- litigation
Another lawsuit against Navistar’s EGR-only MaxxForce engines made public
Another class-action lawsuit against Navistar-International and its MaxxForce engine line has come to light, and like the others, it accuses the truck and engine maker of knowingly selling engines with defects and concealing those defects from truck buyers.
- 23 hours ago
- Reefers
Food distribution giant hit with $20 million in mishandling charges
Sysco Corp., the largest U.S. food distribution company, will pay almost $20 million dollars in restitution, costs and penalties in California for the illegal practice of holding perishable foods – such as seafood, milk and raw meat – in unrefrigerated sheds.
- 2 days ago
- big data
Video evidence: the next wave of driver scoring
Video-based risk management systems have become the next wave of technology used to score driver performance. These systems show the conditions inside and outside the cab that caused a risky event to occur. With the additional content, fleet managers can quickly determine the root cause ...
- 2 days ago
- csa
FMCSA finalizes changes to CSA’s SMS site, redesign coming Aug. 2
One of the key goals of the redesign is to better highlight elements of the SMS that actually correlate with crash risk, FMCSA says.
- 2 days ago
- Blogs
Turning up driver satisfaction
Stay Metrics plans to match personality profiles of drivers to retention and safety performance. The end result will be a profile that is predictive of which drivers are most likely to be long term drivers and safe drivers based on their individual personality characteristics.
- 3 days ago
- csa
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 3: The ‘ugly little secret’ of CSA
In the final part of the CSA's Distorted Rankings series: An in-depth look at how severity weights and peer groups lead to other CSA problems.
- 3 days ago
- drivers
Preventable or not: Doe’s trailer dinged by dock door
John Doe began backing his trailer under a motor-driven rollup dock door, which unexpectedly began to roll down and hit the top rear of trailer. Was this a preventable accident?
- 3 days ago
- indicators
Truck tonnage falls in June following four months of big gains
Truck tonnage as measured by the American Trucking Associations' monthly For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 0.8 percent in June. The index is still up 2.3 percent from the same month last year and 3.2 percent compared to 2014's first quarter.
- 3 days ago
- economy
ATA Forecast: Tonnage to grow, freight revenues ‘surge’ through 2025
The ATA has released the latest edition of its look at the future of freight, and that future is bright: continued growth for not just the trucking industry, but for the freight economy overall. Carriers, however, will need to adapt to thrive.
- 3 days ago
- infrastructure
Dear Congress: ‘This is no way to run a railroad,’ a dozen USDOT secs say
Current Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and 11 former DOT chiefs on Monday sent a letter to Congress saying the lawmakers’ work doesn’t end with the patch to the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund that is currently under consideration.
- July 21, 2014
- litigation
FMCSA sued by drivers for allegedly divulging too much in pre-employment reports
Six drivers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration claiming the agency “disparaged” their safety records and diminished their value as truck drivers by oversharing information on their Pre-Employment Screening Program reports.
- July 21, 2014
- fuel prices
Diesel sees biggest price drop since November, hits 2014 low
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell 2.5 cents in the week ended July 21 to $3.869, according to the DOE. That's the biggest price drop since the week ended Nov. 11, and the lowest the national average price of diesel ...
Video evidence: the next wave of driver scoring 
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 2: SMS, safety rating system disconnect compounds problems 
FMCSA finalizes changes to CSA’s SMS site, redesign coming Aug. 2 
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 3: The ‘ugly little secret’ of CSA 
