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Eight renewable natural gas trucks are hauling freight for Graphic Packaging, part of Paper Transport’s growing mix of alternative-fuel transportation options that also includes a Tesla Semi pilot.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued revised recordkeeping rules it says will simplify and improve the system employers us
Read More →The Department of Transportation’s truck safety program is getting better but still has a way to go, says the DOT Inspector General in a critique to be released today. The agency that runs the program, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, needs to speed up its rulemaking machinery
Read More →The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the start of a two-year study into the causes of crashes involving large trucks
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has fined Rush Trucking Corp. of Wayne, Mich., $150,000 for multiple violations of the federal hours-of-service safety regulations
Read More →A new definition of "commercial vehicle" gives the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration jurisdiction over interstate for-hire property and passenger carriers based on gross vehicle weight as well as weight rating
Read More →Legislative leaders in Maine are fighting Gov. Angus King's proposal to prop up the state Highway Fund with money collected from overall state taxes, and truckers may get the raw end of the deal
Read More →A number of bills to raise the speed limit in Kentucky will likely go nowhere
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will propose a pilot program to train selected 18-year-olds as truck drivers. In an interview on the progress and challenges of the FMCSA, Julie Anna Cirillo, acting assistant administrator, said the proposal still is under review but the agency intends to publish it soon for public comment. The program, suggested last year to the agency by the Truckload Carriers Association as a way to relieve the driver shortage
Read More →Effective January 1, 2001, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration expanded the scope of its 24-hour toll-free driver hotline (1-888-DOT-SAFT) to let consumers notify the agency about movers who violate commercial regulations
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U.S. Rep. Bud Shuster, longtime chair of the powerful House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced today that he will retire at the end of January
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