Hurricane Harvey and the damage it is inflicting in southeast Texas will crimp trucking industry capacity, alter the country’s freight flow and likely push rates upward in the coming weeks and months, said pricing and supply chain experts Mark Montague and Eileen Hart of loadboard and data firm DAT Solutions.
With the Dec. 18 deadline for electronic logging devicecompliance approaching, federal officials and Texas state inspectors were on hand at the Great American Trucking Show to answer questions surrounding the rule, including its pre-2000 exemption, cases of ELD malfunctions and edits and more.
North American truck and bus inspectors placed more than 12,000 vehicles out-of-service during their 72-hour Roadcheck enforcement blitz held June 6-8. Another nearly 3,000 drivers were placed out-of-service during the week-long event.
With Tropical Storm Harvey expected to continue dumping unprecedented amounts of rain over southeast Texas through the rest of the week, transportation officials in the state are discouraging travel in the region due to historic flooding on highways and roads. The Texas Department of Transportation is reporting nearly 350 road locations currently affected by high […]
Nearly 2,000 trucks were placed out-of-service in Texas during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Roadcheck, held June 6-8. In total, the Texas Department of Public Safety inspected 8,182 commercial vehicles during the blitz, placing 1,938 of those (or 23.6 percent) out-of-service. The department says issues with brakes and defective vehicle lighting were among the most […]
Insulin-dependent diabetic truckers may no longer have to request a formal exemption from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, should a new federal rule go into effect. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Monday it is seeking public comments on a revised 2015 rule eliminating the exemption requirement for insulin-dependent diabetic drivers. Instead, the rule […]
Stay Metrics, provider of an evidence-based driver engagement, research and analytics platform that enables motor carriers to retain more of their best drivers, announces its Scientific Advisory Board along with new, original research projects in the trucking industry. Members of the Scientific Advisory Board are some of the worlds leading researchers in areas critical to […]
Pegasus TransTech announced that Pilot Flying J, the largest operator of travel centers in North America, has implemented the Transflo cloud-based mobile document imaging application across its fleet of tanker trucks.
Per-mile spot market rates in van and reefer segments continued their recent hot streak in July, with both segments climbing to their highest point in two years, according to monthly rate data from Truckstop.com. Flatbed rates dipped a few cents in the month, but the segments per-mile rate average remains at one of its strongest […]
