Industry News

A Department of Transportation agency this week said it has begun work to determine whether it will pursue a federal rule to require new trucks to be equipped with crash avoidance systems that automatically brake without driver input. 

The new MX-11 was, like its big-brother MX-13,  designed by Paccar’s DAF subsidiary in The Netherlands where it underwent extensive testing on the European continent since its debut there in 2013, eventually logging 250 million miles there, with another 2 million logged here in North America. 

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced it will reopen the comment period for an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will, if made final, require single-unit trucks 

A new analysis from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reiterates the agency’s position that its Safety Measurement System utilizes enough data to issue rankings (also known as “CSA scoresâ€) to prioritize carriers for intervention.  

The Celadon Group announced its subsidiary Celadon Trucking has purchased certain equipment-based assets of truckload carrier Tango Transport .

Carrier spending on fleet equipment upgrades and increases in driver pay more than offset lower fuel prices in 2014, according to the annual Operational Costs of Trucking report issued Sept. 28 by the American Transportation Research Institute.

British Columbia’s first container tucking commissioner has resigned after audits revealed Port Metro Vancouver truckers were shorted pay. 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Oct. 1 it has concluded the data collection phase of the Congressionally required study on 2013’s 34-hour restart rules.

Global equipment giant Caterpillar announced Sept. 24 it could be cutting about 10,000 jobs in the coming years as part of across-the-board cost-cutting measures intended to save the company $1.5 billion a year once implemented.