SmartDrive Systems announced thatKnight Transportation, one of North America’s largest truckload transportation companies, is deploying SmartDrive’s video-based safety program across its fleet.
SmartDrive Systems announced thatKnight Transportation, one of North America’s largest truckload transportation companies, is deploying SmartDrive’s video-based safety program across its fleet.
The Department of Labor has ordered a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based trucking company to pay one of its former drivers $276,000 in back wages and damages after the carrier fired the truck operator for refusing to deliver a load due to concerns of violating hours of service regulations, according to the DOL’s Occupational Health and Safety […]
When the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration launched its Compliance Safety Accountability program in December 2010, it was the dawn of a new era for fleet maintenance managers.
New analysis published recently indicates that the agency’s January-published proposal to revamp the way it determines carriers’ fitness to operate could be plagued by the same “crash flaw†issue that’s plaguedÂ
Beginning Monday, June 6, truckers will need an appointment to pick up imported containers at Port of Oakland’s largest marine terminal. Oakland International Container Terminal will mandate appointments for most containerized import pickups to shorten truck waits and speed up delivery.
A report released last month by shipper-carrier connection platform LaneAxis concludes roughly 40 percent of freight contracted to the country’s largest carriers is subcontracted to smaller carriers. Freight being outsourced to smaller carriers from their larger counterparts isn’t news to the industry
The number of cargo thefts in the United States in 2016’s first quarter was up 8 percent, but the average value of the thefts was down 56 percent when compared to the first quarter in 2015, according to FreightWatch International’s quarterly report, released this week. FreightWatch recorded a total of 221 thefts in the quarter with […]
A regulation-driven capacity crisis will slam trucking sometime in mid-2017 to as late as 2018, John Larkin, managing director, Stifel Financial Corporation, told fleet executivesÂ
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a transportation funding bill Thursday, May 19, that could change hours of service rules for truck operators, should the House also pass the bill and the president sign it.Â