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Editorial: Mea Culpa
Our government is broken and, honesty forces me to admit, I have done precious little to help fix it, beyond voting for the right people on occasion.
December 28, 1998Justin Olsen, maintenance director at TCW, breaks down the hidden impact of poor trailer management on operations, compliance and safety.Â
Opinion: Time for a Motor Carrier Administration
Throughout 1997 and the first half of 1998, motor carrier safety enforcement and industry alike faced a critical period in the reauthorization of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program in the highway bill. It was a remarkable time.
December 28, 1998Truck Stops Join the Battle for Driver Retention
Folks used to say if you wanted to find a good place to eat on the road, you looked for a place with trucks parked in front of it.
December 28, 1998'Botts Dots' Make a Friendly Bump in the Night
It’s a dark night, it’s drizzling and you’re approaching a foreboding curve with various looming undulations of landscape on both sides of the road. Your eyes focus on the brightly shining reflectors running along the centerline of the narrow highway. If the reflectors weren’t there to catch your headlight beams, if they weren’t evenly spaced to mark the coming route like stitches on the planet’s crust, you’d probably feel uneasy. Without them to point the way, you could find yourself hurtling off the dark asphalt.
December 28, 1998Fine-Tuned Drug Testing Requested
American Trucking Associations is seeking the support of the head of the nation’s anti-drug program for changes in truck driver drug-testing laws.
December 28, 1998Truck Safety a Top Priority
Improving surface transportation safety ranks just behind aviation safety as a priority of the Department of Transportation, according to a new report by the department’s inspector general.
December 28, 1998Expect More Flexibility in Rules
The federal government recognizes that it takes more than good vision to make a good truck driver.
December 28, 1998EPA Refutes Engine Makers' Claims
The Environmental Protection Agency flatly denied claims by the nation’s largest diesel engine manufacturers that they had warned the agency in 1994 that its pollution tests were flawed and didn’t properly measure engine emissions.
December 23, 1998EPA's Letter to Transport Topics
The full text of a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to Transport Topics.
December 23, 1998Fuel Tanks Must Be Up to Specs
Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.
December 23, 1998