We are all familiar with the hazards of driving in the snow, sleet, rain and fog. However there is another condition equally as hazardous that may be surprising. Driving into the sun is also dangerous. Whether it is sunrise or sunset the beautiful the sun can cause dangerous situations. This is important to keep in […]
As public concern over a second U.S. health care worker’s contraction of Ebola grows and media coverage intensifies, the Department of Transportation has issued guidance on the transport of Ebola-tainted waste.
Navistar-International has filed a motion requesting consolidation of the more than two dozen lawsuits brought against it over alleged problems with its EGR-only engine line, along with the 21 other similar lawsuits the company is expecting to come.
A major revision of the way the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rates trucking companies has hit the “front office†for a final round of review by the agency’s top leadership, FMCSA Chief Safety Officer Jack Van Steenburg told industry
FedEx Freight drivers in Croydon, Pa. have become the first U.S. FedEx drivers to join the Teamsters union, by a 26-18 vote on Oct. 14.  FedEx’s less-than-truckload segment said it is considering an appeal and other options following the outcome. Last week, city and road drivers at its Cinnaminson, N.J., service center voted against joining […]
The annual Operation Safe Driver program of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance in collaboration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and industry kicks off Sunday, Oct. 19, nationwide.  The program, created to “help to combat the number of deaths resulting from crashes involving large trucks, buses and cars,†was first held in the year […]
The freight sector was relatively flat in
 September, with a drop in North American shipment 
volume and a slight increase in total freight
 expenditures, or payments, according to the latest Cass Freight Index.  Other freight indicators have shown that shipment weights have been rising steadily, so a decrease in the actual number of shipments does not
I was very pleased this morning to see that the American Trucking Association, at its fall conference in San Diego this week, is addressing traffic congestion.  Trucking has many problems that have to be addressed today: Rising equipment costs, driver shortages, regulatory issues and a technician shortage. And I think any objective overview of industry issues […]
Daimler Trucks North America announced its intentions to launch two medium-duty engines — the DD5 and DD8 — beginning in 2016. The announcement came during a press roundtable at the 2014 American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in San Diego.
