LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Anne Ferro and other Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials listened to the public on knowledge testing for new transportation companies, but also heard from truck drivers on the new electronic logging device rule.
March 28, 2014Special CoverageGovernment
FMCSA Confident Medical Examiner Corps Will Be Adequate
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remains confident that there will be an adequate number of certified medical examiners as of May 21, when the U.S. government certification supplants individual state approaches to truck drivers’ physical exams, an agency official said.
March 28, 2014GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipment
FMCSA Publishes E-Log Rule
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has formally published its proposal that will require all interstate truck drivers to use electronic logging devices.
March 28, 2014GovernmentBusinessFuel
ATA Pressing Congress on Renewing Natural-Gas Tax Credit
American Trucking Associations is pressing Congress to renew the tax credit for natural gas and propane, saying the credit encouraged people and businesses to switch to the alternative fuels.
March 27, 2014GovernmentBusiness
Ohio Upholds Law Preventing Municipal Taxes for Carriers
The Ohio Supreme Court has held that a state statute does not allow municipalities to tax the income of motor carriers.
March 27, 2014GovernmentBusiness
Nafta Trade Value Decreases 0.2% in January
U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico in January decreased by 0.2% from 2013, the first year-to-year decline since June 2013, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported March 27.
March 27, 2014Government
US Economy Expands More Than Previously Estimated in Fourth Quarter
The U.S. economy grew more rapidly in the fourth quarter than previously estimated, as consumer spending climbed by the most in three years, showing the expansion had momentum heading into this year’s harsh winter.
March 27, 2014Government
NITL Asks Surface Transportation Board For New Rail Shipping Standards
The National Industrial Transportation League has asked the Surface Transportation Board to establish new standards that would allow shippers who are captive to a single Class I rail carrier to qualify for competitive switching of their freight to a second carrier if certain criteria are met.
March 27, 2014Government
Mark Seymour Selected as Chairman of Canadian Trucking Alliance
Mark Seymour, CEO of truckload carrier Kriska Transportation in Prescott, Ontario, was named to a two-year term as chairman of the Canadian Trucking Alliance on March 26.
March 26, 2014Government
California Drought Has Salmon Hitching Rides in Trucks
California will begin hauling 30 million young Chinook salmon hundreds of miles toward the Pacific Ocean in tanker trucks to save the fishing industry after a record drought left rivers too low for migration.
March 25, 2014