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A.M. Executive Briefing - Oct. 7
in the news this morning: Calif. plan calls for cleaner diesel trucks; Overnite sues Teamsters for defamation; and Penn. State Police snare speeding truckers, motorists in I-78 crackdown.
October 7, 1999
TT's Seth Clevenger, Michael Freeze and Keiron Greenhalgh break down what ACT Expo revealed about trucking's road to sustainability.Â
Momentum Builds to Create Truck Safety Administration
As support snowballs for a separate motor carrier safety administration, the Federal Highway Administration continued to take body blows for its failure to adequately enforce safety regulations and for its sluggishness in issuing a final rule on hours-of-service regulations.
October 6, 1999STB Suspends Truck Rate Increases
Amid shipper protests, the Surface Transportation Board voted to suspend truck freight rate increases proposed by four motor carrier rate bureaus while the board investigates the hikes.
October 6, 1999DOT Rejects Request to Publish Hours-of-Service Data
The Department of Transportation says it will not release the scientific basis of new hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers before a proposal is unveiled.
October 6, 1999EPA Considers Further Cut In Truck Emission Limits
The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly planning to cut truck tailpipe emissions up to 90% more than the already strict new levels that diesel engine makers have agreed to meet by 2002.
October 6, 1999RPS Charts Independent Course
About 6:30 every morning, Urbano Petrizza arrives at the RPS Inc. terminal here dressed in an RPS uniform and picks up his RPS van. But he's not an employee: He's an independent contractor.
October 6, 1999ATA Litigation Center Gears Up To Counter Threat of Huge Suits
Reflecting a changing business and legal environment, the ATA Litigation Center is taking a new direction and focus, the American Trucking Associations president told 150 lawyers attending a conference on highway accident litigation in Beaver Creek, Colo., last week.
October 6, 1999Florida Begins Highway Watch
On Sept. 29, a select group of Florida truckers set out to become the extra eyes and ears watching and guarding the highways.
October 6, 1999Poll Finds Strong Support for Truck Safety Measures
The public overwhelmingly favors an overhaul of federal motor vehicle safety standards, stepped-up attention to intersection safety and more frequent license testing for the nation’s youngest and oldest drivers, according to a Louis Harris poll released Sept. 27.
October 6, 1999Overnite Calls Teamsters’ Hand
Overnite Transportation Co. Chairman Leo Suggs challenged the Teamsters union to a winner-take-all national vote by company workers on whether they want to join the union.
October 6, 1999