The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will launch a study of factors that contribute to highway crashes involving large trucks. Driving the study is concern over the rising number of fatalities incurred in truck crashes.
January 15, 2020
Lisa Gonnerman, vice president of safety and security for Transport America, detailed what the transition from AOBRDs to ELDs entailed for the Eagan, Minnesota-based carrier.
October 8, 2019
Recommendations have been issued on how to help prevent vertical-clearance “bridge hits,” like the one by a truck that caused the Skagit River bridge collapse in Washington State back in 2013.
October 3, 2019
A bipartisan bill would require all new Class 7 and Class 8 trucks to be equipped with speed-limiting devices that must be set to a maximum speed of 65 mph and be used whenever in operation.
June 28, 2019
Cathy Gautreaux, deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, is one of nine Department of Transportation officials who are either switching to a new sub-agency position or leaving DOT altogether.
January 10, 2019
The Alliance for Driver Safety & Security, also known as the Trucking Alliance, is calling for all state legislatures to require electronic logging devices in commercial trucks that only operate within their state (intrastate).
July 20, 2018
The global autonomous vehicle market revenue is expected to grow at a compound average growth rate of 39.6% over the next 10 years - resulting in a $126.8 billion market by 2027, according to Infoholic Research.
July 11, 2017