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Coalition takes opposition to truck weight increases to Capitol, questions DOT review
With Congress hard at work on the next surface transportation reauthorization, a coalition of public health and safety groups, truck drivers, law enforcement and families of truck crash victims took time from their Capitol Hill rounds Wednesday to oppose any increases to federal truck size and weight limits.
April 9, 2014
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to delay driver compliance with medical examiner rule
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a legal petition asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to push back the compliance date of the medical examiner registry rule until more agency-certified examiners are available for truck operators.
April 8, 2014
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ATRI seeking driver feedback for hours of service, detention time studies
The American Transportation Research Institute announced this week it’s looking for input from truck operators on the impacts of the current hours of service rule and about detention time for two separate studies it’s working on.
April 8, 2014
Business
NTSB safety rec’s to NHTSA include blind spot mitigation, underride guards, trailer data collection
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that regulations be put in place to require new trucks to be equipped with systems to boost blind spot awareness and side and rear underride guards and to require that better data be collected on trailers involved in crashes.
April 7, 2014
Business
Agency reinstating ‘informal hearings’ as mechanism to challenge violations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has reinstated informal hearings as an additional way to contest enforcement cases, and this time the option is available nationwide.
April 4, 2014
Business
Study recommends separate natgas GHG standard, trailer aero mandate
Expanding the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and greater use of aerodynamic devices on trailers are among the strategies recommended by a new National Research Council report for reducing fuel consumption by tractor-trailers, transit buses, commercial vehicles, trucks, and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
April 4, 2014
Business
Med cards from Georgia examiner invalidated by agency, drivers must recertify
CDL holders who received medical certification from Dr. Paul Besdansky in Garden City, Ga., must be reexamined and certified by another medical examiner, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced.
April 3, 2014
Business
ELD mandate: Public comments split so far in support of, against rule
The public comment period for the ELD mandate proposal opened Friday, March 28, and as of April 3, 20 comments had already been submitted. Commenters have come down on both sides of the issue, with some saying the mandate is a needed safety mechanism and others dismissing the rule as unnecessarily burdensome and an intrusion of privacy.
April 3, 2014
Business
FMCSA shuts down carrier for ‘widespread, serious violations’ hours violations
FMCSA has issued a shut down order to DND International for systematic hours violations and logbook falsification violations. The order comes as a follow-up to a shut down order issued to one of its drivers in February, following a fatal crash.
April 3, 2014
Business
Congressmen ask GAO to study FMCSA’s hours rule research, methodology
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate studies done by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on the most recent hours of service regulations changes, which took effect last year, to check the agency’s research and methods used to create and back the rule.
April 2, 2014
Business
ITS Compliance receives private equity investment
ITS Compliance Inc., an outsourced provider of compliance, safety, and asset management services for truck fleets, announced it received an aggregate investment of $5.75 million from Argentum and First Analysis, private equity growth investors.
April 1, 2014
Business
FMCSA shuts down Texas-based FTW Transport for hours, drug and alcohol violations
The agency announced this week it has shut down a the Forest Hill, Texas-based FTW Transport, issuing an imminent hazard out-of-service order for violations related to hours-of-service compliance and drug and alcohol regulations.
April 1, 2014
Business
Agency hears input on New Entrant rule, commenters say trucking business ed needed
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s second of three listening sessions dedicated to developing a knowledge test of for motor carrier, broker and freight-forwarder New Entrants was held last week in Louisville, Ky., at the Mid-America Trucking Show.
March 31, 2014
Business
Crash accountability in CSA? Agency still waiting on report
A study that evaluates both the impact of implementing crash fault weighting into CSA scores and FMCSA’s ability to implement such a system is still being reviewed by the agency and peers prior to its release, said an FMCSA official last week.
March 31, 2014
Business
Electronic logging device rule proposal published, comment period ends May 27
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s latest attempt at an electronic logging device mandate has been published in the Federal Register as a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and the agency will accept public comment on the proposed rule for 60 days.
March 28, 2014
Business
CPCheck changes name to Transportation Data Source
Carrier Performance Check (CPCheck) announced that the company has changed its name to Transportation Data Source (TDS), which will also be the name of both of its original two products: CPCheck and TurboSearch. The name change allows TDS to expand its monitoring and search features within the transportation industry.
March 27, 2014
Business
PeopleNet announces partnerships with Zimmerman, Mesilla Valley Transportation
At the 76th annual Truckload Carriers Association’s annual conference in Grapevine, Texas, PeopleNet announced an extension of its 12-year partnership with Mesilla Valley Transportation for its entire 1,100-vehicle fleet and a new partnership with Zimmerman Truck Lines. “Over the past 12 years, we have taken advantage of PeopleNet’s expanding driver and vehicle data to help […]
March 25, 2014
Business
Could Einstein fix CSA?
Let’s consider what the genius who imagined the math behind the workings of the universe might think about the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
March 24, 2014
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