America is facing a trucker crisis. As it readies for the busy holiday delivery season, the industry is expecting to be short about 73,000 long-distance drivers, more than three times the shortage of 2005, and that could lead to delivery delays and higher shipping costs.
U.S. House Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., is urging the Department of Transportation to consider further regulation of freight trains carrying crude oil. Beutler earlier this week sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Federal Railroad Administrator Sara Feinberg and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator Marie Therese Dominguez asking DOT to study […]
Recognizing the importance of labor stability in the face of growing competition from Canadian and East Coast ports, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will call delegates to San Francisco Aug. 10 to 12 to consider a vote on launching early talks with West Coast employers to extend the current coastwide contract beyond its July […]
The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General has initiated an audit of commercial motor vehicle loading and unloading delays in response to provisions of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act highway bill, which became law late last year.
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) said today it is calling on Congress to take action on maintaining the current motor carrier hours-of-service (HOS) restart rule, which it said provided truck drivers with the flexibility and opportunity to take extended off-duty periods without restriction.
The U.S. is not the only place struggling with a shortage of truck drivers, one which is forecast to only get worse as the years pass and current drivers retire or quit and fewer young drivers enter the profession. A neighbor to the north has the same concern, and so do folks down under. Same […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to make it easier for military veterans to transition into civilian careers in the truck and bus industry by simplifying the process of getting a Commercial Learner’s Permit or Commercial Driver’s License.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the public comment period for its proposed rule on safety fitness determinations for motor carriers. The deadline for the submission of initial comments is now May 23, 2016. Reply comments will be due on or before June 23, 2016. FMCSA said that stakeholder requests led to the […]
Two top members of a United States Senate subcommittee for antitrust matters have sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general’s office voicing concerns over Canadian Pacific Railway’s proposed takeover of Norfolk Southern Corp. CP last week sent a petition to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) asking for a declaratory order confirming the viability […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a new “High Risk” motor carrier definition along with investigative procedural changes aimed at enabling investigators “to take more immediate action against carriers with the highest crash risk.”
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