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FMCSA: Stop Using These 15 Electronic Logging Devices
Fleets and drivers must replace the revoked ELDs with ones on the FMCSA's registered device list of electronic logging devices.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHFleets and drivers must replace the revoked ELDs with ones on the FMCSA's registered device list of electronic logging devices.
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Two senators have restarted last year's effort to pass a bill that would mandate electronic onboard recorders on most trucks. Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., reintroduced the Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act, a bill they offered last September but that expired at the end of the congressional session
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As Congress looks for ways to cut the federal budget and deficit, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance warned a Congressional committee that funding commercial motor vehicle safety programs at lower than current levels would weaken state enforcement efforts. As a result, enforcement would be unable to maintain the progress that has been made and large truck-related injuries and deaths could tick upwards
Read More →The Pennsylvania State Police placed 131 trucks out of service during a two-day enforcement effort focusing on commercial vehicles hauling waste water from Marcellus shale natural gas drilling operations in the stat
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a new bridge oversight initiative that will let the Federal Highway Administration more closely monitor how states are performing their bridge inspections and maintenance
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You're driving down the road and approaching a truck weigh/inspection station. An amber light blinks on the dash, advising that your driver and vehicle credentials, vehicle condition and trip information are being gathered and transmitted to the inspection station's computers for analysis. A few moments later, the light blinks green.
Read More →The Texas Department of Public Safety is equipping five of its truck inspection facilities at three locations with PrePass commercial vehicle safety technology starting this summer
Read More →Brian Kurtz Trucking Ltd., of Breslau, Ontario, and Bison Transport of Winnipeg, Manitoba are the grand prize winners of the Truckload Carriers Association National Fleet Safety Awards
Read More →At a press conference Tuesday, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), announced legislation to create an infrastructure bank that would help close America's widening infrastructure funding gap and create millions of American jobs in the next decade
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The U.S. plan to equip Mexican trucks with electronic recorders for driver logs would be a limited, temporary program undertaken because it's the only way the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration can ensure that the Mexican trucks will be monitored, said FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro
Read More →In a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), expressed concern of U.S. DOT funding or EOBRs for Mexican carriers participating in the pilot program
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