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“Video urges Congress to support EOBRs”
Last month, the American Trucking Associations, along with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and AAA, released a video urging members of Congress to support an electronic onboard recorder mandate for large trucks to improve driver and carrier compliance ...
Journal
Leading news, trucking market conditions and industry analysis
NTSB calls for comprehensive mobile phone ban for drivers
Recommendation calls for banning handheld, hands-free use of cell phones
Following the investigation of a 2010 Kentucky crash that killed 11 people likely caused from the use of a mobile phone ...
Safety
ATA, OOIDA seek truck crashworthiness standards
Equipment improvements would lower fatalities, groups say
For nearly four decades, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has focused on improving survivability rates for passenger car drivers involved in crashes, but two industry groups say more attention also needs to be ...
Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?
Tightening regulations, unfavorable demographics have drivers in short supply. Will rising pay and operational shifts meet demand?
In 2004, rising truck tonnage, tight capacity, lean inventories and improved freight pricing helped ignite a driver shortage that swelled to more than 100,000 over the next two years. ...
Journal
FMCSA won’t make court deadline for final HOS rule
ATA ‘clearly skeptical’ of DOT’s ‘11th hour’ research
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said last month it would not be able to meet a court-negotiated July 26 deadline to issue its final hours-of-service rule after it reopened ...
Jeff Crissey
FMCSA misses the bus on HOS rule
Newly introduced studies raise more questions than answers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s last-minute move to add four new studies to its hours-of-service docket was a point of discussion at last month’s CCJ 2011 Spring Symposium in Birmingham, Ala. ...
Journal
Capacity shortage looms large
Rate hikes about to kick in, FTR says
Truckload capacity shortages will gather momentum this year and continue through 2013 as the economy recovers and regulatory restrictions limit the driver pool, an FTR Associates economist said. Because of the economic upturn and the ...
Jeff Crissey
A fresh start in 2011
Panel suggests carrier-shipper relationship will change
During the CCJ 2010 Fall Symposium last month, a distinguished panel of fleet executives from American Central Transport, Celadon and Prime, Inc., offered their insights on challenges and opportunities facing the trucking industry in 2011. As ...
Safety
Truck-involved fatalities down 20%
Industry cites hours rules for improved statistics
Updated 2009 fatality and injury data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) released last month showed 3,380 truck-involved traffic fatalities in 2009, a 20 percent decline from the 4,245 fatalities ...
Combating Fatigue
Trust – but verify
Electronic logs are fast replacing paper as the standard for compliance. But do they improve safety?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part series on combating driver fatigue. Other stories in this series address technologies for managing driver fatigue and driver-load ...
CSA'S Data Trail
Sponsored by PeopleNet
Risk & Reward, Part 1: How CSA’s data shows discrimination toward small carriers
CCJ takes an in-depth look at data from CSA in its first two years — Here's what it says.
Crackdown: FMCSA’s putting extra muscle into shutting down truck fleets
CSA’s crash flaw: Enforcement, accident rates do not mesh
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