This Editorial appears in the Jan. 13 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Washington, D.C., is often the butt of jokes for its year-after-year inaction. But this week - one filled with transportation events - ...
MD Now Urgent Care – the largest and fastest growing provider of urgent care and occupational medicine services in South Florida announces its availability today as a certified source for screening and testing of Obstructive Sleep ...
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With another year coming to a close, we look back with some relief that freight demand showed steady growth despite endless obstacles coming from Washington, D.C. As we detail throughout this issue, most economic indicators remained ...
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Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has received renewal of a two-year regulatory exemption for its lane-departure warning system from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The Elyria, Ohio, company’s AutoVue LDW system ...
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Trucking companies no longer will be required to file quarterly financial reports to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration,the agency announced in the Federal Register. Motor carriers that haul property or household goods now ...
A newly launched Athena service uses the tagline "Fall in love. With what big data can do for you and your company." No, it's not a dating site and no, big data isn't always very loveable. However, the new service, provided by Vigillo, ...
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is unreliable and does not effectively evaluate trucking companies' safety, the American Trucking Associations said in a white paper. ...
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As of last month, U.S. carriers and freight brokers are subject to newly changed regulations under MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act), which also applies to Canadian carriers. Or it would apply to Canadian carriers, ...
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Noel Perry of FTR Associates is holding up four fingers and one thumb. He had asked a room full of Ontario trucking executives, rhetorically, “how many dry van carriers or reefer carriers have the capability to bid - in a big way - on ...
Today, leaders ofAmerican Trucking Associations again called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and ccc to swiftly address the mounting problems caused by changes to the hours-of-service rules. "From the outset, ATA was ...
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A survey of more than 4,000 truck drivers in the US has provided further evidence that the new US hours-of-service rules are costing the industry financially, and could even be negatively impacting road safety. The Owner-Operator ...
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Drivers are more tired. They’re making less money. The carriers they drive for are less productive and they need more drivers to haul the same amount of freight. That, according to a new survey, is all a result of the changes to the ...
A bill has been introduced to U.S. Congress that, if approved, would stop any further enforcement of the restart provision in the current hours-of-service (HOS) rules until an independent review is conducted. "When the Federal Motor ...
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A bill has been introduced to U.S. Congress that, if approved, would stop any further enforcement of the restart provision in the current hours-of-service (HOS) rules until an independent review is conducted. "When the Federal Motor ...
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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is applauding a proposed bill that would put the brakes on the new hours-of-service restart provision that was implemented in July. "When the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration went ahead ...
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