WASHINGTON Concerns over the ongoing plight to park trucks safely is prompting a group of national and regional stakeholders to plan ways to improve parking availability, given a new Department of Transportation survey that found dire shortages in metropolitan areas.
August 31, 2015BusinessGovernment
Fleets Still Rely on Higher Pay to Retain, Attract TL Drivers
The amount of truckload driver pay increases continued to move upward this summer, as fleets seeking to keep or attract operators more than doubled wage increases over the second quarter of last year.
August 31, 2015BusinessGovernmentSafetyTechnology
PeopleNet to Roll Out New Platform, Adding Android Devices, Driver Apps
PHOENIX PeopleNet will launch the next evolution of its fleet-management platform next month, incorporating its latest mobile technology and adding Android-based devices to its product line, the company said here at its annual user conference.
August 31, 2015BusinessSafetyGovernment
TT Archives: Hurricane Katrina
Beyond the human death toll of nearly 2,000 people, high winds and flooding from Hurricane Katrina severely damaged roads and rail lines and would disrupt transportation across a wide swath of the U.S. Gulf Coast, as reflected in this Sept. 5, 2005 edition of Transport Topics.
August 30, 2015Government
Stephen Keppler Leaving CVSA for IANA
Stephen Keppler, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, is leaving the commercial enforcement group after 15 years to become senior vice president of the Intermodal Association of North America.
August 27, 2015GovernmentBusiness
Trucking Sees Nafta Gains in June
Trucking was the only mode that saw a rise in the value of U.S.-Nafta freight carried in June compared with the year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported Aug. 27.
August 27, 2015GovernmentBusiness
Transportation Group Comes Out With Radio Ad Campaign Targeting Highway Funding
A group representing key transportation stakeholders has launched a radio ad campaign to press federal lawmakers to advance a long-term highway bill this fall.
August 27, 2015BusinessTechnologyGovernment
Economy Grows More Than Forecast in Second Quarter
The economy grew more than previously estimated in the second quarter on bigger gains in consumer and business spending that show the U.S. expansion got back on track.
August 27, 2015Government
ATA, Two Lobbying Groups Ask Appeals Court to Side With FedEx Over NLRB
American Trucking Associations and two major business lobbying groups filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking a three-judge panel to find in favor of a FedEx Corp. subsidiary and against the National Labor Relations Board.
August 26, 2015Government
Fracking Operations Prompt Environmental Groups to Threaten to Sue EPA
Several environmental groups on Aug. 26 called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit oil and gas firms from dumping hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, chemicals in ways that could prove harmful to the public and communities.
August 26, 2015