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Winter roadway “pileups” aren’t one crash — they’re a chain reaction. Here’s what triggers them, how truck drivers can spot the danger early, and what to do if you're suddenly trapped in the mess.
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Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced climate change legislation Wednesday, drawing mixed results from the trucking and construction industries
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Under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, or CSA 2010, the FMCSA is going to be looking at five times the amount of data as under the SafeStat system. In addition, carriers are going to be measured by the seven Behavior Analysis & Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs), which are complex measurements of safety performance. For carriers to survive under the new system, they need to understand their CSA 2010 scores
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Over the years there have been some hard words and even harder feelings between the trucking industry and safety advocacy groups, but last night something new happened. Last night the Truck Safety Coalition, a partnership between Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways and Parents Against Tired Truckers, presented a Distinguished Safety Leadership award to a trucking executive
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is now offering trucking companies access to a safety database they can use to screen applicants for driver jobs
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Julie Sutton-Hayes understands that roadside inspections will be an important part of CSA 2010. The president of California-based Logistics International Inc., like many carriers, wants to see enforcement officers issue written reports not only for bad inspections, but also for "clean" inspections. So far she's pretty frustrated
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Last week, the Illinois Senate unanimously voted to amend the Illinois Vehicle Code, providing trucks up to 65 feet in length access to local roads to points of delivery or for food, fuel, rest and repai
Read More →Connecticut legislators have approved a law punishing drivers for not removing snow and ice from their vehicles
Read More →A Kentucky State Police report has found that trucker Kenneth Laymon, who was involved in a March 26 crash killing 10 people and himself, was taking and receiving cell phone calls up to the crash and could have also been speedin
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By all accounts, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have made great strides toward reducing air pollution caused by the trucks that serve their container facilities. At a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit yesterday, witnesses on all sides of the issue agreed that the ports' efforts to replace old, polluting trucks with cleaner ones have so far been remarkably successful
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Small businesses are not too pleased with a provision of President's Obama's health care reform bill, which requires businesses to submit a 1099 tax form to the IRS for purchases over $600
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