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I-5 corridor suffers ‘total disruption’ after bridge break (detours included)

An Interstate 5 bridge was hit the evening of May 23 by an oversized truck in Skagit County in Washington state near Mount Vernon and, subsequently, a large piece of the bridge broke loose and ...

FMCSA shuts down Colorado-based carrier for myriad of violations

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered trucking company GD Cars, based in Aurora, Colo., to immediately cease all operations after the carrier's equipment was found to have serious safety deficiencies, its drivers were not ...

Agency wants to eliminate quarterly financial reporting

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed a rule May 24 to eliminate the requirement of certain for-hire motor carriers to submit quarterly financial reports to the agency, which will remove an estimated 200 hours ...

Peterbilt hires Darrin Siver as new GM

Peterbilt Motors has hired Darrin Siver as its new general manager in a move to replace outgoing GM Bill Kozek, who announced this week he was leaving PACCAR after 26 years to become the president ...

FMCSA shuts down two drivers following accidents while DUI

The Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has shut down two drivers with imminent hazard out-of-service orders, both announced this week. New Mexico-based Bobby Cleveland was issued an imminent hazard out-of-service order after he ...

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Chart the future of critical issues — fuel economy, safety technology, infrastructure funding, and much more at this year's Commercial Vehicle Outlook conference held August 21-22 at the Dallas Convention Center. Registration is open and your early bird special of $245 includes all sessions, meals and networking opportunities.  The early bird ends July 15th.  

Transportation secretary nominee Foxx eases through Senate committee

Anthony Foxx According to reports from Washington, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx — the man tagged to replace Secretary Ray LaHood in President Barack Obama's Cabinet as head of the Department of Transportation — made it ...

North Carolina working on anti-tolling legislation

A piece of legislation that would prohibit tolling of existing Interstate lanes in North Carolina is halfway to the governor's desk, as the state's House of Representatives passed the bill 108-7 earlier this week. The bill ...

Carriers favoring sign-on bonuses, performance-based driver pay

Gordon Klemp spoke to a group fleet executives May 21 in Birmingham, Ala., at the 2013 CCJ Spring Symposium about trends in driver pay. Nearly half of carriers are offering sign-on bonuses, compared to only ...

Pilot hit with 7th lawsuit, sued in Florida by owner-operator

Pilot Flying J has been sued for at least the seventh time after federal allegations arose in the middle of last month that the truck stop chain had systematically and intentionally withheld millions of dollars ...

ATA’s Tonnage Index down from March, but up 4.3% year over year

According to numbers reported this week in the American Trucking Associations' monthly For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, April's index reading was 4.3 percent higher than the same month in 2012 — the largets year-over-year gain since ...

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Crackdown: FMCSA’s putting extra muscle into shutting down truck fleets

From in-depth coverage and data review, it's become clear that FMCSA is putting extra muscle into shutting down truck and bus fleets. Small ...

CSA’s crash flaw: Enforcement, accident rates do not mesh

Risk & Reward, Part 1: How CSA’s data shows discrimination toward small carriers

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