The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Southern and Western Service Centers issued a Regional Emergency Declaration, suspending certain requirements of Part 395 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for certain carriers in six states affected by Hurricane Ida, which made landfall around midday Sunday along the southeastern Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm. […]
Mathias Carlbaum has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of Navistar International Corporation effective Sept. 1, succeeding Persio Lisboa, who has held the position since July 2020. The move marks the first significant management shake up since Navistar’s merger with Traton SE, Volkswagen’s heavy truck division, was approved last month. Carlbaum most recently had been leading the post-merger management […]
Ron Round, a Maine-based truck driver for Pottle’s Transportation, was crowned the winner of the Bendix-sponsored American Trucking Associations 2021 National Battle of the States: Virtual Truck Driving Championships. Round, who has 2.7 million accident-free driving miles in his career, has been a professional driver for 33 years. For the last 22 years, he has […]
TA Services, a third-party logistics provider and division of PS Logistics, has completed the acquisition of Toronto, Canada-based broker Scout Logistics Corporation, which specializes in refrigerated perishable freight. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Since 2007, PS Logistics has acquired 23 trucking and brokerage operations. The acquisition represents TA Services’ expansion into the cold-chain […]
The American Transportation Research Institute is calling on truck drivers to provide information on what drives them to be owner-operators, independent contractors or company drivers. The research was identified by ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee as a top research priority in 2020. Drivers are asked to provide input through an online data collection form that will measure what […]
Werner Enterprises (CCJ Top 250, No. 11) has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a waiver to allow commercial learner’s permit holders who have successfully passed the CDL skills test to essentially be able to drive in team operations. The request asks that the pre-CDL drivers be able to drive a truck without having […]
Given the growing concerns around a COVID-19 resurgence, FTR has decided to cancel its 2021 FTR Transportation Conference to ensure the continued health and safety of all those who had planned to be in attendance. This was to be the 17th annual conference and was originally scheduled for September 13-17 in Indianapolis. Registered attendees are being […]
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an administrative complaint against FleetCor and its CEO, Ronald Clarke, for charging customers “hundreds of millions of dollars in mystery fees associated with fuel cards.” FleetCor is the parent company for several fuel card service and payment solution providers. According to FTC, FleetCor, marketing under the “Fuelman” brand name and through […]
Walking the tightrope between cost-cutting and safety/operational efficiency is part of life as a fleet manager, but with the pandemic wreaking havoc on revenues through lost working days and supply chain disruptions, reducing operational costs has assumed critical significance. There are numerous overheads in this line of work. The most prominent ones that spring to […]
