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Delays experienced by truck drivers at customer facilities have increased in both frequency and time over the past four years-- and fleets increasingly feel that shippers and receivers don't care enough about the problem to fix it, according to the American Transportation Research Institute.
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After pummeling the Bahamas for a few days, Hurricane Dorian has begun to move toward the Atlantic coast, prompting the FMCSA to issue a regional emergency declaration in 10 states that suspends certain trucking regulations.
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Heavy Duty Trucking magazine is hosting a free webinar on Sept.19 to help fleets better understand the enforcement of the electronic logging device mandate and provide best practices for compliance.
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ELDs could be rendered non-compliant by an innocuous technical detail or a hole big enough to drive a truck through. It’s up to the buyer to determine if a device meets all the requirements.
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Whether your fleet is already running ELDs or waiting till closer to the December deadline, there are important things your drivers need to know to make roadside inspections go as smoothly and as quickly as possible — and avoid citations.
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A recent study has found a strong link between fleets that invest in advanced safety technologies and emphasize company-wide safety culture and greatly improved safety performance outcomes.
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The stigma around recreational marijuana usage is increasingly fading away and it is even being touted for its medicinal uses. How will a safety-focused trucking industry deal with this new cultural norm? Part 2 of HDT's Trucking Under the Influence series.
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You'd think someone at DOT could spend a couple days checking out the ELD device list. That's exactly what HDT Editor-in-Chief Deborah Lockridge did and what she found was less than encouraging.
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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has urged Congress to fund a new commercial vehicle crash causation study to be conducted by the FMCSA, updating the last study that was conducted in 2001.
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More than 1,600 commercial vehicles were placed out of service for brake-related violations during an unannounced inspection blitz conducted by the CVSA's law enforcement members in the U.S. and Canada.
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