Driver shutdown afoot? Facebook groups stir controversy over calls to turn...
With some groups of truckers coalesced around a "Truckers Stand as One" moniker and calling for an April 12 "industry-wide shutdown" -- and an attendant media blitz in the run-up to that date Feb. 21...
View ArticleAs per diem benefit sunsets for company drivers, carriers find a work-around...
Swept away with new tax code enacted in late 2017 was the allowance for company drivers to take the per diem income deduction. Carriers are altering pay packages to help account for the change, while...
View ArticleLawmakers float bills to add unique hours of service regs for livestock/ag...
Renewing efforts that began last Congress, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation that, if passed, would facilitate creation of special hours of service regs for drivers...
View ArticleHouse’s transportation bill would return CSA scores to public view
Scores were pulled from public view in December 2015 by the FAST Act highway bill, due to concerns about the data's efficacy and whether the system accurately portrayed carriers' safety performance and...
View ArticleSenate bill would force DOT to institute speed limiter mandate, set 65 mph limit
Due to Executive Orders signed by President Trump in his first days in office, DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration tabled a rulemaking that sought to institute a speed limiter mandate....
View ArticleSpeed limiters: Senate bill to mandate a 65 mph setting a ‘terrible idea’
Voices on the Senate bill from a Georgia Republican that would mandate a 65 mph speed setting for trucks capable of it. And more on the 'careful what you wish for' dynamics in regulatory change.
View ArticleA Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business
Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of...
View ArticleCongress eyes trucking insurance changes, mandating automatic emergency braking
Two trucking-focused bills were introduced in the House this week. One aims to boost the required liability insurance coverage required of trucking companies, and the other would mandate that new...
View ArticleTrucking groups write Congress to oppose mandates for speed limiters, auto...
A coalition of 31 trucking industry groups penned a letter to Congress in opposition of legislation that would mandate underride guards, speed limiters and automatic emergency braking systems on...
View ArticleImpeach Trump? No way, say 8 in 10 readers
In the wake of the September announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that an inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Trump was under way in several House committees, just 5% of readers...
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