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NewsDecember 30, 2010

HOS Proposal Seems Likely to Lead to More Litigation

Early reaction to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed changes in the hours of service rule indicates that the rule is likely to remain in litigation. It is not clear what the proposed changes will do for safety. The agency says they will make trucking safer. The safety advocacy community says they do not go nearly far enough. The trucking industry says they go too far

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

NHTSA to Begin Speed Limiter Rulemaking

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is going to begin a rulemaking that could lead to mandatory speed limiters on heavy trucks, as requested by American Trucking Associations and Road Safe America

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

IFTA Adopts Interest Amendment

Carriers who underpaid fuel taxes will have to pay less interest under a new amendment to the International Fuel Tax Agreement

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

Transportation and Construction Coalition Warns of Highway Funding Cuts

Changes to government spending rules recently proposed by The House Republican Conference has a coalition of highway users and road-building groups up in arms over the possibility that highway funding could be treated as any other spending proposal

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

Mullen Group Expanding Oil Field Capabilities in Western Canada

Mullen Group Ltd. announced today a number of transactions that will expand its fluid handling and hauling capabilities in northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia

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NewsDecember 30, 2010

TA TravelCenters to Install On-island DEF Pumps

TravelCenters of America has confirmed it will soon begin installing on-island Diesel Exhaust Fluid dispensers. TA expects to install about fifty on-island DEF pumps at locations across the country in 2011

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NewsDecember 29, 2010

Investing in Driver Health Can Yield Dividends

Some 200 medical researchers, doctors, regulators, trucking executives and others spent two and a half days in Baltimore this week talking about truck and bus drivers. From the blizzard of studies, statistics and analyses came a short message to the trucking industry: Invest in health

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NewsDecember 29, 2010

FMCSA Answers Questions About Driver Life Expectancy Statistics

The Department of Transportation has produced a piece of research that to a limited extent supports its claim that truck driving contributes to a shorter life expectancy than other occupations

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NewsDecember 29, 2010

Safety Group says New HOS Proposal Doesn't Go Far Enough, Canadians say it Could Have Been Worse

Reaction to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration latest HOS proposal isn't exactly inspiring

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NewsDecember 29, 2010

U.S. Marines Place first Military Order for All-Electric Commercial Truck

Smith Electric Vehicles announced the purchase of two all-electric Smith Newton trucks by the United States Marine Corps, the first military organization to order Smith Newtons off the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule

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