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Leading news, trucking market conditions and industry analysis Hours-of-service final rule retains 11-hour driving limit New rule shortens workweek from 82 to 70 hours; 34-hour restart requires two rest periods from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. On Dec. 22, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...

By CCJ Staff Published January 4, 2012

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

Fuel Insurance

Carriers can use technology, strategy to combat volatile diesel prices In mid-December, crude oil prices appeared to settle into the $80- to $90-a-barrel range with fuel inventory high and demand generally low. And while diesel fuel prices are at a two-year high, the market fundamentals suggest ...

By Aaron Huff Published January 1, 2011

Journal

FMCSA makes further CSA changes Agency softens terminology, withholds cargo BASIC scores The term “deficient” is no longer in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s vocabulary when it comes to the Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) – at least not in public. On Nov. 18, the agency announced ...

By CCJ Staff Published December 3, 2010

Finances

Trucking adds 5,900 jobs in July The for-hire trucking industry continued to add jobs in July even as the overall U.S. economy lost jobs due to the wind-down of the federal government’s 2010 Census effort, according to preliminary figures released Aug. 6 by the U.S. Department ...

By CCJ Staff Published September 1, 2010