Latest News Updates From Margaret Gordetsky

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At Top of Career, Florida Trucker Opts to Teach Art of Driving

Although the wave of change for women in the 1970s was slow to hit trucking, one Florida woman rolled in early and is still riding high.

July 19, 2000

Drug Law Could Impact International Trucking

Trucking companies that don’t watch who they do business with internationally could be setting themselves up for stiff penalties under a new federal anti-narcotics law that took effect in December.

July 19, 2000

Mexican Trucking Tells Fox of Nafta Concerns

Mexico’s largest trucking association, Canacar, has seized the moment to present its complaints on North American Free Trade Agreement trucking issues to the country’s incoming president, Vicente Fox Quesada.

July 17, 2000

At Top of Career, Female Trucker Becomes an Instructor

Although the wave of change for women in the 1970s was slow to hit trucking, one Florida woman rolled in early and is still riding high as director of a driver training program.

July 17, 2000

House Panel Approves Customs Funding

The House Treasury and Postal Subcommittee on July 11 approved the long-awaited appropriations bill that includes funding for the U.S. Customs Service’s Automated Commercial Environment.

July 14, 2000

FHWA Report Hails European Trucking Practices

Trucking in Europe can provide valuable guidance to its U.S. counterparts, according to a study commissioned by the Office of International Programs at the Federal Highway Administration.

July 13, 2000
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Federal Report Urges U.S. Truckers To Adopt European Industry Practices

Trucking in Europe can provide valuable guidance to its U.S. counterparts, according to a study commissioned by the Office of International Programs at the Federal Highway Administration.

July 12, 2000
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A Marriage Made at D.M. Bowman Inc.

D.M. Bowman has developed a unique benefit for its male drivers — a wife. If drivers already have a spouse at home, they get an extra caretaker at work.

July 5, 2000

Canadians Put the Squeeze on Diesel Sulfur

Changes in Canadian environmental clean air policy that would affect the trucking industry have met with cautious support from the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

June 29, 2000
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Officials Remove 26% of Trucks Following Safety Inspections

Safety officials in the United States and Canada placed 26% of the 42,826 trucks and drivers they inspected out of service as part of International Road Check 2000.

June 28, 2000