More than four years after the trucking industry asked the federal government to mandate speed limiters on new heavy-duty trucks, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it would launch a rulemaking on the issue in 2012. In August, senior officials NHTSA and the ...

Contrary to the ruling of a federal district court, various aspects of the concession agreement imposed on carriers operating at the Port of Los Angeles are preempted by federal law, the American Trucking Associations told a federal appeals court. On Dec. 28, ATA submitted its ...

A federal appeals court has granted the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's request for another month in order to propose regulations outlining the supporting documents carriers must retain for verifying drivers' logs. The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), which also could expand the categories of ...

According to data released from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver campaign, the top three reasons warnings and citations were issued to both commercial and non-commercial vehicle drivers include speeding, failing to use a safety belt, and failure to obey traffic control ...

Although a draft version of the proposed changes to truck driver hours-of-service regulations have been public for nearly a week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration formally published the notice of proposed rulemaking in the Dec. 29 edition of the Federal Register. Comments on the ...

The operator of South St. Paul, Minn.-based trucking companies Danner, Inc., and Bull Dog Leasing, Inc., was indicted Dec. 22 in federal court in Minneapolis for allegedly defrauding contracted truck drivers into returning to him funds related to settlement between the operator and the Minnesota ...

Cherry Hill, N.J.-based NFI said its 2010 revenue was more than $900 million -- three times the revenue it posted just nine years earlier. Over 10 years, NFI completed nine acquisitions, giving it the footprint it has today -- more than 5,600 employees, more than ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) recently cited Elizabeth, N.J.-based New England Motor Freight Inc. for 17 violations after an employee sustained a foot injury while operating a forklift at the company's Pawtucket, R.I., freight terminal. The company faces a ...

Market research firm Pike Research forecasts that the sales of hybrid commercial trucks will grow from 9,000 in 2010 to more than 100,000 in 2015 as fleet operators respond to rising fuel costs and stricter emissions. “Payback periods on hybrid drivetrains are improving for medium and ...

Eaton Corp. said that customers of its hybrid systems have collectively accumulated more than 100 million miles of service with an estimated 4 million gallons reduction in diesel fuel consumption. More than 4,500 of Eaton’s hybrid systems are in use today, Eaton says. In addition ...