California Air Resources Board

CCJ 100 Milestones

To mark CCJ’s centennial anniversary, here is the CCJ editors’ list of some of the most important regulations, innovations and events that have shaped the trucking industry over the last 100 years. Disagree with a ranking? Feel like there’s something we missed? We’d love to hear ...

By Avery Vise, Jeff Crissey, Aaron Huff, Jack Roberts, Dean Smallwood Published March 10, 2011

Journal

FMCSA wants EOBRs for interstate carriers Plan would apply to all carriers that use logbooks All interstate commercial truck and bus carriers that now use records of duty status (RODS) to track compliance with hours-of-service regulations would have to use electronic onboard recorders under a proposed regulation ...

By CCJ Staff Published March 6, 2011

Journal

CSA goes live with new name Most motor carriers unranked in new SMS With a federal appeals court clearing the way, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration flipped the switch Dec. 12 on its long-awaited new enforcement initiative and renamed it the Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) program. ...

By CCJ Staff Published January 1, 2011

Fuel Savvy

Tighter standards on the way for light-duty cars, trucks In addition to the proposed rule on greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy trucks (see page 48), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are developing tougher greenhouse ...

By CCJ Staff Published November 8, 2010

Avery Vise

Model of efficiency? The EPA/NHTSA fuel plan is much ado about not much Boil down more than 1,000 pages of regulation and analysis on the proposed heavy truck fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction standards and you are left with this conclusion: Either you are clueless or ...

By Avery Vise Published November 3, 2010

Jack Roberts

One good turn deserves another Higher weight limits would be rare courtesy for trucking Everyone connected to the trucking industry knows it has an image problem. And this image problem isn’t new. Except a brief period in the mid-1970s when the public at large associated trucking with ...

By Jack Roberts Published September 1, 2010

Law

SEA score sinks drayman Leave safety issues to FMCSA where they belong Q We are a small drayman that must depend upon the steamship lines to interchange containers and chassis for delivery of our customer’s freight as well as shipments they route. We have one SEA score ...

By CCJ Staff Published July 1, 2010

Court: California can regulate reefer units

California may continue enforcing its restrictions on transportation refrigerated units as a result of a ruling Friday, April 2, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The court rejected a challenge by the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers ...

By Avery Vise Published April 5, 2010

Who’s got the freight?

Q We are a property broker that arranges transportation using various load matching services. We do all that we can to confirm that the carrier we hire is licensed, authorized and insured, and our contract precludes double brokerage. We are sick and tired of ...

By CCJ Staff Published February 1, 2010