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Video evidence: the next wave of driver scoring
Using technology to score drivers started the moment the automobile replaced the horse-drawn wagon. By the early 1920s many fleets were using mechanical devices to record time and miles and compare drivers' performance with route ...
FMCSA finalizes changes to CSA’s SMS site, redesign coming Aug. 2
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s carrier rankings site — the Safety Measurement System — is getting a makeover in August, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has finalized the redesign of the site first ...
Turning up driver satisfaction
The trucking industry has always been plagued by turnover but it's the early kind that hurts the most. According to research by Stay Metrics, nearly a third of new drivers quit within the first three ...
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 3: The ‘ugly little secret’ of CSA
This is the third and final part of the CSA's Distorted Rankings series, which is part of the broader CSA's Data Trail series. Click here to see Part 1 of the series, and click here ...
ATA Forecast: Tonnage to grow, freight revenues ‘surge’ through 2025
American Trucking Associations 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.
Overall ...
Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference Registration Now Open!
The Commercial vehicle Outlook Conference will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on August 20-21st. Registration is now open and a limited number of hotel rooms have been set aside at the Dallas Omni Hotel, conveniently adjoining the conference hall. If convenience, sessions and networking aren’t enough, by attending CVOC you will also receive VIP access to the Great American Trucking Show. Click here to learn more about this event!
Omnitracs relocates to Dallas
Omnitracs, a provider of fleet management systems to transportation and logistics companies, announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from San Diego, Calif. to Dallas, Texas. The transition is scheduled to take place in early ...
Willow Run Foods adds Cadec PowerVue to manage CNG vehicles
Cadec Global announced that Willow Run Foods has added Cadec’s PowerVue software to its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fleet of vehicles in addition to its existing diesel fleet vehicles. Willow Run Foods is the first distributor ...
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 2: SMS, safety rating system disconnect compounds problems
This is the second part of the CSA's Distorted Rankings series, within the CSA's Data Trail series. Click here to read Part 1.
CSA was intended as an improvement to FMCSA’s SafeStat rating system that used ...
Monday Money: Linehaul rate talks still ‘not favorable’ for shippers
Truckload linehaul rates paid by North American shippers in June were 5.2 percent higher than in June of last year, according to the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index, a measure of market fluctuations in per-mile truckload ...
Lawsuits against Caterpillar consolidated, new suits continue to be filed
More than a dozen lawsuits have now been filed against former truck engine maker Caterpillar over its 2007-2010 year model ACERT C13 and C15 engines, as carriers claim the engines had defects that Cat knew ...
CSA’s Distorted Rankings, Part 1: CSA’s flawed scoring doesn’t stop third parties from judging carriers
Three and a half years after Compliance Safety Accountability began its radical scrambling of how trucking safety is regulated and scored, carriers and owner-operators continue to suffer from its fallout, while bureaucrats struggle to repair ...
June spot market freight soars on economic upturn: 6 slides
Freight availability on the spot market was 50 percent higher in June compared to the same month the previous year, continuing a pattern of elevated activity in 2014, according to the DAT North American Freight Index, a ...
The give and take of low-rolling-resistance tires: Do fleets pay a longevity penalty for them?
No one’s gotten around to reinventing pine-scented air fresheners yet, but otherwise it seems that virtually every component or system found on today’s heavy-duty trucks is undergoing some sort of evolutionary change. Tires are no ...
Agency makes carrier insurance increase priority, delays Safety Fitness Determination rule
The prospect of a proposed Safety Fitness Determination rule coming this year seems to have diminished, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made its work on producing a rule raising the minimum amount ...
Pilot Flying J to pay $92M fine in fuel rebate withholding scheme
Pilot Flying J has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve the criminal investigation into the company's fraudulent rebate withholding scheme, agreeing to pay a $92 million fine and full restitution ...
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