Does your company have a positive safety culture? Do you talk to your employees about safety on a regular basis? Does your company hold regularly scheduled safety meetings? Would any of your employees be able to tell you when your company’s last safety meeting was or what was covered during the meeting? If you don’t […]
General Motors’ chief executive has agreed to give testimony about the automaker’s handling of vehicle safety issues including an ignition-switch failure that resulted in several deaths after airbags failed to deploy. Mary Barra, a company veteran who took over as CEO in mid-January, will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee at 11 a.m. East Coast time […]
How can fleets attract and retain good drivers? Communication and respect go hand in hand and are quite effective, said successful fleet executives during a panel at the annual meeting of the Truckload Carriers Association near Dallas. At Pottle’s Transportation, drivers are guaranteed pay that’s the equivalent of 500 miles per day (with qualifications) if […]
On Tuesday, March 25, a fleet executive panel at the Truckload Carriers Association Annual Convention responded to the possibility of electronic logging devices (ELDs) being a Trojan horse to reform driver pay. Plaintiff attorneys and state agencies want to use hours-of-service data collected from ELDs to make minimum wage calculations, said panelist Josh England, president […]
The final rule aims to provide an easy way to determine if a driver of this particular configuration must have a Commercial Driver’s License. It comes in response to a petition from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, which represents enforcement officers who have found it difficult to determine the status of these rigs.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced March 12 a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to mandate electronic logging devices.
“Gross combination weight rating†has been redefined to clarify when CDL and other federal safety regulations apply to certain single-unit trucks towing trailers. The amended definition is to provide a uniform means of determining if a combination vehicle driver is subject to federal safety requirements when GCWR information is not on the vehicle manufacturer’s certification […]
The weather, regulations and the economy don’t have drivers down, according to a report released this week from retention firm Stay Metrics, who has been surveying “driver attitudes†since the middle of 2012. “Given ongoing turbulent economic times, and renewed economic and regulatory pressures on the trucking industry, one might wonder whether driver job satisfaction […]
The $75,000 Bond is No Cure-All Henry E. Seaton, Esq. MAP-21 requires any party which arranges for origin to destination shipments to hold either broker or freight forwarder authority and to post a $75,000 bond. The new Act does not apply to exempt traffic, to shipments moving in intrastate commerce, or to joint line service […]
