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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is making it easier and less expensive for truck drivers to upgrade their commercial driver’s license from a Class B to Class A through a change to its entry-level driver training regulations.
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Ray Martinez, administrator of the FMCSA, asked attendees at Omnitracs’s user conference to “please prepare” for the December transition from AOBRDs to ELDs “now, if you have not done so.”
Read More →California has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asking it to overturn the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s recent decree that the state can’t enforce its rest break and meal rules against truck drivers.
Read More →The Teamsters union has filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s decision to preempt California’s meal and rest break rules for truck drivers.
Read More →The American Transportation Research Institute has published an update to its free compendium of state and local idling regulations.
Read More →Reporting on the trucking industry was eventful in 2018, and it looks to get even more exciting in 2019. HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge shares her predictions for where we're going with drivers, regulations, technology and more.
Read More →The FMCSA announced that it is granting petitions to preempt California’s meal and rest break rules for truck drivers, which differ from current federal hours-of-service regulations.
Read More →Thoughts on how ELD data may help reshape HOS and what else trucking may see next year, per the crystal ball of TCA's resident sage. Blog commentary by Executive Editor David Cullen
Read More →The 2019 outlook is generally rosy for motor carriers that haul machinery, as trucking will continue to see the effects of the ELD mandate and drivers and owner-operators will continue to be in demand. That was what The Machinery Haulers Association heard at the group’s winter meeting.
Read More →A pipeline contractor in Ohio operates a specialty trailer that is exempt from rear impact guard regulations. Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg found them parked off a highway.
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