When the Department of Transportation (DOT) in early October asked for the public’s help with identifying regulations that should be repealed, replaced or suspended, it didn’t expect to be inundated by “bots.” Federal agencies are used to receiving large numbers of comments from people who are part of well-organized, grassroots write-in campaigns, but this time […]
Little evidence exists that truckers are leaving the industry ahead of the Dec. 18 deadline for adopting electronic logging devices, according to a just-released comprehensive survey of carriers and owner-operators.
Having decided to grant part of a United Parcel Service request for a limited 5-year exemption from some provisions of the electronic logging device mandate, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will now allow all motor carriers – not just UPS – and drivers to make use of two new temporary exemptions from the ELD […]
Law enforcement agencies throughout North America will engage in heightened traffic safety enforcement and educational outreach as part of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week, Oct. 15-21, 2017. Throughout the week, enforcement personnel will identify and issue warnings and/or citations to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and passenger-vehicle drivers exhibiting unsafe […]
The rail industry needs to repair track defects, upgrade tank-car design and increase training of emergency responders in order to improve safe transportation of crude oil and ethanol, says a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
A major trucking-related organization is banding together with 29 other organizations and one business to continue its assault on the mandated installation of electronic logging devices. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Wednesday announced the formation of a coalition to back a two-year delay of the Dec. 18 ELD mandate compliance deadline. The coalition supports a […]
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says the central bank shouldn’t wait for 2 percent inflation to continue raising rates, suggesting another rate hike by the end of the year is extremely likely. Financial markets demonstrated very little reaction to Yellen’s comments to the National Association for Business Economics on Tuesday as investors seem to see […]
On Sept. 13, Senator John Thune of South Dakota (R), will convene a Senate Commerce Committee hearing to examine the potential benefits and impacts of automated commercial vehicles. Titled “Transportation Innovation: Automated Trucks and Our Nation’s Highways,” the hearing will look at the benefits of automated truck safety technology as well as the potential impacts […]
Inspectors will, at their discretion, begin issuing citations for non-compliance with the federal electronic logging device mandate on the Dec. 18 deadline for adoption, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced Monday. However, the 10-hour out-of-service order associated with non-compliance with the mandate will not begin until April 1, 2018, according to the CVSA, which is […]
The fee that terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach charge for moving cargo during daytime hours Monday through Friday is about to go up. On Aug. 1, the Traffic Mitigation Fee (TMF) at the adjoining Southern California ports is increasing by 2.3 percent, according to the West Coast MTO Agreement, which […]
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