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By James Jaillet, CCJ News, October 22, 2015 The House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Oct. 22 pushed to the full House a six-year highway bill that would, if law, require FMCSA to remove carrier rankings in the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program and require the agency to …Read More

By Matt Cole, CCJ News, October 20, 2015 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration re-issued Oct. 20 its Unified Registration System rule to delay the compliance dates set in the original 2013-issued rule, citing technical delays in implementing the system as its reason. The new compliance dat…Read More

By David Cullen, HDT Truckinginfo.com, October 19, 2015 PHILADELPHIA – The Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee laid out the long and winding road ahead for passage of a multi-year highway bill by both chambers of Congress in his address here on Oct. 19 to the American…Read More

By CCJ Staff, CCJ News, October 13, 2015 The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will hold its annual Operation Safe Driver Week during the week of Oct. 18-24. Law enforcement agencies across North America will engage in heightened traffic safety enforcement and education aimed at unsafe driving by b…Read More

By Kevin Jones, American Trucker, October 12, 2015 Nice try, but the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) report to Congress on federal truck size and weight limits could have come up with something other than that the data was insufficient to give lawmakers a substantial recommendation, says a n…Read More

By The Trucker News Services, October 6, 2015 ARLINGTON, Va. — According to a new analysis by the American Trucking Associations, the shortage of truck drivers has grown to nearly 48,000 and could expand further because of industry growth and a retiring workforce.   “The ability to find enough…Read More

By James Jaillet, CCJ News, September 30, 2015 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has concluded the data gathering portion of the Congressionally required study on 2013’s hours of service rule and has began the data analyzing phase, said the Truckload Carriers Association’s David He…Read More

By James Jaillet, CCJ News, September 30, 2015 Climbing driver pay and new truck orders more than offset lower fuel prices in 2014, according to the annual Operational Costs of Trucking report issued Sept. 28 by the American Transportation Research Institute. The average marginal cost-per-mile for c…Read More

By James Jaillet, CCJ News, September 21, 2015 The current stay of enforcement of the 2013-implemented rules governing truckers’ use of a 34-hour hours-of-service restart could be removed as soon as Sept. 30, 2015, according to the text of the law that temporarily suspended the rules. If the stay …Read More

By Kevin Jones, American Trucker, September 24, 2015 Recently introduced legislation to allow heavier trucks on federal interstate highways is facing opposition from influential trucking groups and highway safety advocates, each of which has written Congress to make point-by-point objections to a 91…Read More