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According to recent studies, forecasts on the impact the new hours of service rule will have on the industry may have been overstated and cell phones may not be the crash-causers most believe them to be.

A Georgia motor carrier, the latest of more than 20 trucking companies to file fuel-rebate fraud lawsuits against Pilot Flying J, is seeking to depose Pilot CEO Jimmy Haslam in October. Cedar Creek Trucking, Dalton, Ga., filed a lawsuit

Myth: It takes too long to refuel natural gas trucks and tractors. Fact: While this statement may be true for trucks that run on compressed natural gas, trucks powered by liquefied natural gas actually  

The for-hire transportation industry in June carried 0.2 percent less freight in June than in May, according to the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, driven mostly by drops in rail carloads and pipeline shipments, DOT says.

Is your fleet getting dinged for inoperative lamp violations on lights that aren’t actually required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program? It’s a problem that happens fairly frequently — and unfairly  

United Auto Workers Union 1112 posted on its website that General Motors will be producing Chevrolet Cruze sedans at the Lordstown, Ohio, plant during what had been a week of scheduled downtime.

Two new violations have been coded into carrier profiles on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability site — safer.fmcsa.dot.gov — one of which reflects violations of the new hours-of-service rule that went into effect July 1.

Recent studies suggest that the conventional wisdom could be wrong about a couple of items that are very important to trucking: the impact of changes to the hours-of-service rules and the risks of using a cell phone while driving.