LAS VEGAS The Truckload Carriers Association has changed its truck weight policy, breaking with American Trucking Associations on the issue and putting the groups at loggerheads for the second time in several months.
March 14, 2016BusinessGovernmentSafetyLogisticsAutonomous
Study Finds Additional Research Needed to Better Understand Driver Fatigue
While there is some evidence that fatigue among truck drivers increases the risk of crashes, questions remain about effective ways to minimize that risk, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
March 14, 2016Letters to the EditorBusinessSafetyGovernmentTechnology
Letters: On Platooning, Exemption Fatigue
While platooning of heavy vehicles appears to have some viability, Googles vaunted, autonomous car recorded its first at-fault accident only last month. The reality is, platooning cannot control the actions of other motorists.
March 14, 2016EditorialBusinessGovernmentSafetyAutonomous
Editorial: This Week, It's Driver Rules
Truck drivers get almost as much attention as Donald Trump, even though drivers generally have a sense of decorum and dont crave the limelight.
March 14, 2016BusinessGovernment
Meal, Rest Break Measure Not Included in Senate Panel's Aviation Reform Bill
WASHINGTON A trucking-related provision hotly debated in the House has not been included in an aviation reform bill a Senate panel will take up March 16.
March 14, 2016BusinessGovernmentSafety
FMCSA Revises Process to Speed Up Investigations of High簫-Risk Carriers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has revamped its carrier prioritization process to enable safety investigators to take more immediate action against carriers with the highest crash risk.
March 14, 2016BusinessGovernmentSafety
Feds Propose Training Rule
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published its negotiated proposed entry-level driver training rule that would revise standards for a commercial driver license to be obtained by new interstate and intrastate commercial vehicle operators.
March 14, 2016GovernmentBusiness
House T&I Staff Director, Enos Davis Talk Infrastructure at IBTTA March 14-15
The role tolls play in funding infrastructure projects around the country will head the discussions at the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Associations policy summit in Washington, D.C., March 14-15.
March 11, 2016Government
Surface Transportation Board Sets New Timetable to Review Large Rate Cases
The Surface Transportation Board published new rules intended to speed up the consideration and resolution of large rate cases, implementing one of the requirements contained in the STB Reauthorization Act that became law last year.
March 11, 2016GovernmentBusiness
DOT Offers $1.4 Billion in TIFIA Credit Assistance for Infrastructure Projects
The Department of Transportation on March 11 announced the availability of $1.4 billion in credit assistance over the next five years for critical infrastructure projects nationwide, using Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act funding.
March 11, 2016