A study conducted for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that trucks operated with electronic hours-of-service recorders (EHSRs) had a 11.7% lower crash rate than those not so equipped and a 5.1%...
Collegedale, TN-based McKee Foods Transportation LLC has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for an exemption from hours-of-service rules to allow team drivers to split their mandatory 10 hours of...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is clarifying the display requirements for automatic onboard recording devices (AOBRDs) that have electronic displays and is reminding motor carriers and law enforcement...
Groups representing motor carrier employers and the law enforcement community have asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to expand its proposed drug and alcohol testing clearinghouse to require that...
An organization representing state law enforcement agencies has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to extend for 30 days the comment period on the proposed regulations governing electronic logging...
The American Trucking Associations said that Christopher Spear had been named vice president and chief of legislative affairs, responsible for advancing ATA’s policy priorities in Congress. He will report to Dave O...
The Field Administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Midwestern Service Center has petitioned FMCSA Assistant Administrator John Van Steenburg to overturn a Dept. of Transportation...
Clear Lake, IA-based Absolute Waste Removal has been ordered to pay $123,203 in back pay, attorney’s fees and compensatory and punitive damages to a driver that the Occupational Health & Safety...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is expected to soon issue proposed regulations prohibiting carriers, shippers, receivers or intermediaries from coercing truck drivers to violate federal safety...
Aside from a controversial proposal to mandate detention pay for truck drivers, the Dept. of Transportation’s (DOT) surface-transportation funding proposal, the Grow America Act, contains little in the way of...
