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Journal

Costs of EPA’s 2004-10 emissions rules questioned Mandates led to more expensive trucks, lower sales, layoffs, study contends The National Automobile Dealers Association and American Truck Dealers on March 8 released a report that questions the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s cost analysis of emissions control requirements for ...

By CCJ Staff Published April 1, 2012

Upfront

On Common Ground Industry groups come together to promote increased size and weight measures Last year, the American Trucking Associations forecasted the industry will haul 30 percent more tonnage in 2021 than it does now. Without an increase in truck weight, that would mean 18 percent more ...

By Jeff Crissey Published November 1, 2011

Journal

Leading news, trucking market conditions and industry analysis Legislators ask Obama to withdraw hours rewrite President Obama should withdraw the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed hours-of-service revision because its costs would hurt the U.S. economy, House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor wrote Oct. ...

By CCJ Staff Published November 1, 2011

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 ...

By CCJ Staff Published June 7, 2011

Law

Treating brokers as carriers is risky business Brokers should be considered just arrangers, not providers Q I think a big issue for brokers is getting shippers to draft a contract that make us arrangers of transportation and not carriers or service providers that hire subcontractors. I have ...

By Henry Seaton, info@transportationlaw.net Published February 13, 2011

CCJ 100

The seventh in a series of quick peeks into the world of commercial vehicles through the lens of Commercial Carrier Journal Retrospective -- 1970 - 1979 Sowing the seeds of deregulation When President Roosevelt signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, he did so to protect the fledgling ...

By Aaron Huff Published November 3, 2010

CCJ 100

The sixth in a series of quick peeks into the world of commercial vehicles through the lens of Commercial Carrier Journal Restrospective 1960 - 1960 The 1960s: Teamsters, turmoil and technology The1960s started out quietly enough – a continuation of the placid 1950s. But in 1963, President Kennedy ...

By Jack Roberts Published October 1, 2010