The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has sued the California Air Resources Board over the agency’s requirement that 2006 year-model and older trucks be retrofitted with a particulate matter filter to run in the state, alleging the regulation is unfairly costly, not beneficial and unconstitutional.
On August 23, 2013, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued its final rule establishing the Unified Registration System (URS), which replaces certain existing registration and information requirements with a single, online federal system. Under the URS, regulated entities will be required to register with the FMCSA and provide biennial update information via its […]
In the next decade, the trucking industry must add 239,000 drivers, per year, to keep up with freight demand and replace the 37 percent today’s drivers that will retire. A panel of fleet executives discussed solutions to this pending crisis, Dec. 4, at the CCJ Fall Symposium in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Trucking faces the largest concentration of regulatory changes in its history beginning next year, economist Eric Starks said Wednesday.
Next month, the first elements of the Affordable Care Act — also known as “ObamaCare†or ACA — will take effect in the United States. And even though certain elements of the new healthcare law have been delayed until 2015 or even 2016, fleets still need to be preparing now for changes that will occur […]
BMW’s only North American factory, located in Greer, South Carolina close to Spartanburg, has become one of its most important production centres anywhere in the world. Not only does it
European carmakers will be hoping that political tensions in Ukraine don’t jeopardise the proposed trade deal between that country and the European Union, which promises to all but remove duties on vehicle imports to the country as well as get rid of the controversial utilisation fee. The deal was to have been signed last Friday […]
General Motors last week announced it is recalling 18,941 Chevrolet Camaros for violating Federal Motor Safety Standard No. 208 – a statute that regulates Occupant Crash Protection. The problem? The air bag warning label on the cars’ sun visor may peel. Now, before I sat down to dash this little blog out, I took a […]
Are robo-trucks already taking drivers off the road? It’s a possibility, though an indirect one, suggests Fred Andersky, director of government and industry affairs for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems. And truck-driving jobs won’t be the only ones impacted by technological changes coming to the supply chain.
