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Business
Aaron Huff
Tech vendors offer new solutions for e-logs, CSA 2010.
July 1, 2010
Aron
Business
Technology
CSA 2010 could fuel demand for maintenance technology.
July 1, 2010
Successful preventive maintenance programs will result in fewer roadside inspections and citations, which in turn will result in a better CSA 2010 safety score.
Business
Journal
FMCSA rethinks supporting documents, FMCSA drops cargo insurance mandate, FMCSA offers alternative to duplicat logs, pollution down at L.A. and Long Beach ports and much more industry news.
July 1, 2010
Officials of both the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles cite the Clean Truck Program implemented in 2008 as a major contributing factor for the dramatic emissions decline.
Business
Technology
New freight matching tools increase search speed, usefulness.
June 1, 2010
The iGetloaded app for the Apple iPhone, developed by Getloaded.com, brings GPS-based load searching and posting to freight matching.
Business
Journal
Fuel economy and greenouse gas emissions standards, UCR fees nearly double, trucking employment and much more are featured.
June 1, 2010
PAYROLL EMPLOYMENT IN FOR-HIRE TRUCKING Trucking companies added 1,000 jobs in April, but trucking employment was still down 47,700, or 3.7 percent, from April 2009, according to preliminary figures released last month by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Business
Safety
Firms offer products related to the FMCSA initiative, PHMSA launches an online hazmat permit process and more safety issues are featured.
June 1, 2010
Vendors are lining up with new offerings to help carriers cope with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new approach toward safety oversight, Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010.
Business
Trouble tracking tires?
Technology has delivered a host of tire condition monitoring systems, from simple driver alerts to cradle-to-grave life stories.
June 1, 2010
The Meritor Tire Inflation System by P.S.I. monitors tire health, flashes appropriate warnings and counters a low-pressure situation by taking air from the tractor-trailer’s air system and inflating any tire that is registering low.
Business
Avery Vise
CSA 2010 represents a delicate opportunity for major change.
June 1, 2010
Avery
Business
Law
Certification isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
June 1, 2010
Henry Seaton - info@transportationlaw.net
Business
In Focus: Lighting and LEDS
When it comes to comparing new lighting technology, most lighting experts see LEDs as the high-tech future of headlamps over high-intensity discharge (HID) technology.
June 1, 2010
The low current draw of LEDs provides the ability to operate marker lights such as Truck-Lite’s Model 36 Flex Lamp while the truck is turned off without draining the batteries.
Business
The EOBR RULE: Logging a Milestone
Although truck drivers have been subject to federal regulation of their work hours for more than 70 years, it wasn’t until last month that the federal government declared that any group of motor carriers must use a device rather than paper logs to monitor those hours.
May 2, 2010
By requiring a transfer of EOBR data by way of either a USB cable or wireless connection, the new performance standards allow law enforcement to obtain HOS records without entering the cab.
Business
Avery Vise: Mandating the inevitable
Electronic logs may be universal before they are required.
May 1, 2010
Avery
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