The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced that the American Concrete Pumping Association has applied for an exemption from the requirement that short-haul drivers using the records of duty status (RODS) exception of the hours-of-service rule return to their normal work-reporting location within 12 hours of coming on duty.
All Truck Transportation signed a five-year agreement to implement the Lytx DriveCam safety program to protect the drivers who operate the company's fleet of more than 350 trucks.
Uber, ATA, Daimler, Toyota, and others have formed a new partnership to study the potential impacts of self-driving vehicles on American workers and the economy.
Help Inc., which offers PrePass weigh station bypass and toll payment services, has debuted a new podcast series emphasizing truck safety and compliance.
Heineken International established a road safety improvement program that is designed to measure, report, and verify driver behavior habits.
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Is truck platooning only technically feasible or is it also commercially viable? In this video, we look at Daimler Trucks' recent demonstration of its platooning technology with a pair of loaded big rigs.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has announced that this year’s Brake Safety Week inspection event is set for Sept. 16-22.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued an interim final rule that delays several provisions of its Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration final rule from taking effect for three full years, from June 22, 2018 to June 22, 2021.
There's yet another in this spring’s bumper crop of bills proposed on Capitol Hill to benefit livestock (and insect) haulers by relaxing the electronic logging device rule and also, in some cases, easing the hours of service rules specifically for this class of truckers.
The Trucking Alliance is urging every member of Congress to oppose passage of a bill proposed in the Senate that aims to rewrite the federal hours of service regulations for a very specific group of truck drivers: those hauling livestock or insects.
A public listening session will be held for the government to get information on issues related to the design, development, testing, and integration of automated commercial vehicles on the nation's highways.
BlackBerry has partnered with DMC Insurance to develop insurance solutions that use vehicle data to help trucking companies improve operations, increase safety, and manage the cost of risk.
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Bosch demonstrated its E-Mirror camera mirror system that it hopes will one day replace conventional mirrors all together.
Daimler Vans USA, LLC is recalling approximately 7,433 2015 to 2017 Mercedes-Benz Metris midsize vans because the transmission support may not have been properly tightened to the vehicle body during production.
The experts at FTR crunch the spot freight numbers to analyze the effect this year's inspection blitz focusing on hours of service affected trucking capacity.
The 2017 Fleet Safety Conference opened Tuesday with a keynote from the National Safety Council's Deborah Hersman, who also spoke on Monday at an NTSB-NSC roundtable about advanced driver assistance systems. Safety awards were given at a luncheon. The second day of the conference featured a session from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - TSA regarding security threats against transportation fleets. The conference closed with a presentation from Shell's Karen Spring about the company's mission to eliminate fleet fatalities. Read more here. Photos by Andy Lundin and Jim Park.
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