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A truck driver involved in a deadly Florida Turnpike crash held a valid CDL despite failing an English proficiency test and being in the U.S. illegally. FMCSA has launched an investigation into the driver and his carrier, sparking fresh debate over driver licensing, training, and more.
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A Stoughton intermodal chassis is the first of its kind to qualify for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Toughguard award for underride protection.
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Can manufacturers be held liable in a crash even though the equipment involved met federal safety standards at the time it was made? A $462 million verdict against Wabash National raises questions about rear underride guard standards.
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NHTSA is mulling a side-underride guard mandate for semi-trailers, but more than a dozen cities now demand companies bidding on contracts use them.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published the results of its research on costs and benefits of mandated side underride guards for truck trailers. But in the advance notice of proposed rulemaking, the agency acknowledged that it lacks information on a large number of factors that could affect those calculations.
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The first step in creating a federal rule requiring side underride guards for trailers is under review at the White House.
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A new underride-guard rule years in the making is still not good enough, say safety groups petitioning for it to be reconsidered.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has completed a final rule upgrading requirements for rear underride guards and is turning its attention to side underride guards.
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The reintroduced Stop Underrides Act would require underride guards on the sides and front of all new trucks, and would update outdated standards, according to supporters.
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Utility Trailer Manufacturing announced that its dry vans, refrigerated vans, and flatbeds produced after 2002 can be retrofitted with Utility’s standard 7-inch-deep horizontal rear underride guard.
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