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
Time is almost finally up: All motor carriers and truck drivers subject to the electronic logging device rule must use an electronic logging device starting on Dec. 17. Don't expect any "soft enforcement."
December 3, 2019
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
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing a partial compliance delay for certain requirements of its final rule establishing a federal Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse.
September 6, 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
A coalition of 10 trucking-related stakeholders is petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to conduct a rulemaking if the agency intends to change how it analyzes and publishes data on motor carrier crashes.
June 20, 2019
One might wonder what impact all that heavy metal stuck out in front of the highly aerodynamic profiles honed by truck makers can have on cheating the wind.
May 29, 2019
A bill that would raise the federal cap on private activity bonds for surface-transportation and freight-improvement projects has been rolled out to the House of Representatives by a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
May 8, 2019
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has slated publication of its notice of proposed rulemaking on changes to the Hours of Service rule for June 7.
May 3, 2019
The Democratic leaders of Capitol Hill emerged from a “good will” meeting to report that a bipartisan agreement had been reached to introduce to Congress a $2 trillion plan to modernize the nation's infrastructure.
April 30, 2019
DOT said the self-initiated audit was prompted by a spate of fraudulent activity, pointing out that since August 2014, its own criminal investigations have resulted in eight indictments and six convictions resulting from fraud in the medical certification process.
February 21, 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
President Trump signed into law on Oct. 24 legislation that contains provisions on hair testing for illegal drug use that have been long sought by trucking lobbies.
October 24, 2018
It’s a bumpy ride in the city – and getting bumpier, according to a new report on the deteriorating state of America’s urban roads.
October 22, 2018