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NewsNovember 22, 2011

National Motorists Association Throws Down the Gauntlet on Red Light Cameras

The National Motorists Association (NMA) is challenging cities to do away with ticket-producing red-light cameras and replace them with traffic engineering solutions to combat red-light running. They're putting $10,000 on the table that says safety can be improved without tickets

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NewsNovember 21, 2011

ATRI Research Reveals Motor Carrier CSA Perspectives

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released a report detailing impact CSA has had on the daily operations of trucking companies

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NewsNovember 21, 2011

Small Business Administration Proposes Size Standards Increase for Truck Renting and Leasing Industry

The Small Business Administration has issued a proposed rule to increase small business size standards for several industries under the North American Industry Classification System, including the truck renting and leasing industry

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NewsNovember 18, 2011

Drivers: Hang on to Those Medical Certificates

Truck drivers must continue to keep a copy of their medical certificate with them for another year, while states gear up to implement an electronic system for tracking the certificates

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NewsNovember 18, 2011

ATRI Research Reveals Motor Carrier CSA Perspectives

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has released a report detailing impact CSA has impacted the daily operations of trucking companies

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NewsNovember 18, 2011

ATA Asks OMB to Consider if 'Legitimate' Reasons Exist for Hours Change

American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves, has written to Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, asking whether any "legitimate reason" exists to change the current HOS rules

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NewsNovember 17, 2011

House Links Highway Funding to New Oil and Gas Revenues

Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, yesterday made it official that the House will link funding for transportation reauthorization to the extraction of oil and natural gas from areas now closed to drilling

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NewsNovember 17, 2011

Safety Improvements Show HOS Rule Does Not Need Revision, ATA Says

The continuing improvement in truck safety shows that the current hours of service rules do not need to be revised, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said in a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget

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NewsNovember 17, 2011

Maryland Trucking Company Declared Imminent Hazard to the Public, Shut Down -- Again

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Maryland-based Gunthers Transport, LLC shut down after a lengthy investigation found it to be an imminent hazard to public safety. Company owner, Mark David Gunther, was convicted on similar charges in 1995

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NewsNovember 17, 2011

Brake Safety Week Results Show Improvement in Brake Adjustment Rates, Increased Overall OOS Rates

Enforcement data gathered from across the continent during Operation Air Brake's Brake Safety Week reveals the number of out-of-service defects for both brake adjustment and brake components are down slightly, while the overall OOS rate for brakes rose

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