Even though Hurricane Irma has been downgraded to a tropical depression, the storm is still bringing high winds and plenty of rain to the Southeast and Ohio Valley regions. In light of that, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Monday expanded its existing emergency declaration to cover six more states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio. […]
SMS methodology should be abandoned as a basis for a possible safety fitness determination and should be replaced with a simple effective way to issue a safety rating to all carriers…
Leading cloud technology specialist Car Delivery Network (CDN) has announced the launch of FleetConnect, a new ELD (Electronic Logging Device) app developed to enable trucking companies to comply with the Hours of Service (HOS) mandate, compulsory legislation shortly to come into force in the United States aimed at monitoring driving time and saving lives on […]
Hurricane Harvey and the damage it is inflicting in southeast Texas will crimp trucking industry capacity, alter the country’s freight flow and likely push rates upward in the coming weeks and months, said pricing and supply chain experts Mark Montague and Eileen Hart of loadboard and data firm DAT Solutions.
With the Dec. 18 deadline for electronic logging devicecompliance approaching, federal officials and Texas state inspectors were on hand at the Great American Trucking Show to answer questions surrounding the rule, including its pre-2000 exemption, cases of ELD malfunctions and edits and more.
North American truck and bus inspectors placed more than 12,000 vehicles out-of-service during their 72-hour Roadcheck enforcement blitz held June 6-8. Another nearly 3,000 drivers were placed out-of-service during the week-long event.
With Tropical Storm Harvey expected to continue dumping unprecedented amounts of rain over southeast Texas through the rest of the week, transportation officials in the state are discouraging travel in the region due to historic flooding on highways and roads. The Texas Department of Transportation is reporting nearly 350 road locations currently affected by high […]
