Myth:Â It takes too long to refuel natural gas trucks and tractors. Fact:Â While this statement may be true for trucks that run on compressed natural gas, trucks powered by liquefied natural gas actually
Myth:Â It takes too long to refuel natural gas trucks and tractors. Fact:Â 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
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.
Are You Prepared for the New Rules/Regulations Coming on 10/01/2013? October 1st is fast approaching and with it, the implementation and enforcement of specific MAP-21 provisions which have serious implications to almost every transportation company. So, are you prepared? If the answer is “No”, or worse yet, “What are you talking about?” then you absolutely need to […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced the agency has added two violations to the Safety Measurement System, one based on the new hours-of-service regulations, while the other
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wasted no time in making an adjustment to the enforcement on the 30-minute mandated breaks following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s ruling on Aug. 2.
Several years ago on a clear Sunday evening in July, a driver for Paul’s Hauling stopped for coffee after a delivery. After resuming the route, he came to an intersection. He turned right. That lone decision proved fatal for a bicyclist