The excitement in Kate Dell’s voice is infectious. The 27-year-old Washington State native is wrapping up her education at WyoTech’s campus in Laramie, Wyo. In just a few weeks, she’ll start a new job as an entry-level diesel technician at a Mack Trucks dealership in Denver.
The general public may not be as open to autonomous or “driverless†trucks as fleets may be, if a recent survey is any indication.  Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the survey fromSoftwareAdvice.com said they’d feel either “much less safe†or “less safe†sharing the road with “driverless semi-trucks.â€
The average loss value per cargo theft incident in the third quarter of 2014 jumped 100 percent from 2013’s third quarter $321,521, while the number of thefts fell, according to the quarterly cargo theft trends report from FreightWatch International.
Two advisory committees to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have recommended that the agency require that primary care or other treating physicians of drivers fill out a questionnaire when use of Schedule II drugs by drivers is known or suspected.
Members of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee spent the morning of their second day of meetings this week debating the agency’s work in raising the minimum amount of liability insurance that carriers must hold to operate.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has started the process of registering FMCSA-approved electronic logging devices in preparation for its upcoming ELD mandate, which likely will begin sometime in 2017.
As a follow up to a report issued earlier this year highlighting state-to-state enforcement disparities around the U.S., the American Transportation Research Institute announced Oct. 22 its Top 10 High-Performance States for Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement.
How does your fleet’s pay stack up against others in your segment?  American Trucking Associations will offer a benchmarking tool to let carriers knew exactly where they stand with the upcoming release of the 2014 Driver Compensation Study.
The “Cleaning Guysâ€Â have a new line item to add to their list of hauled contaminants: The Ebola virus.  The Texas-based hazmat haulers and clean-up response service was on the front lines of the clean-up efforts in Dallas, where three Ebola patients have been treated.
