December 10, 2015 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced the adoption of a Final Rule that will improve roadway safety by employing technology to strengthen commercial truck and bus drivers’ compliance with hours-of-service regulations that prevent fatigue. “Since 1938, complex, on-duty/off-duty logs for truck and bus…
For over a decade this group representing 4,500 trucking companies says it has been lobbying the Canadian governments to introduce regulations that would force all trucks where the driver is now required to produce a paper log book in order to monitor compliance with the hours of service (HOS) regulations to be equipped with an…
As a primer for some more in-depth reporting on FMCSA’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program set to be published on CCJ later this month, here’s a look at the 10 states with the most hours-of-service violations. All 10 states highlighted on the map above have enforcement programs that hit hours violations well above the 10 percent…
The trucking industry doesn’t get a “do over” when attention-grabbing accidents such as the Wal-Mart crash that seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan occur, according to American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves. Graves highlighted the June 2014 accident on the New Jersey Turnpike to stress the importance of safety among carriers during his keynote speech to…
PHILADELPHIA — For the third year in a row, a survey of carriers and drivers has found that Hours of Service rules stand out as the biggest concern facing trucking in the U.S. and Canada. That’s per the American Transportation Research Institute’s annual list of trucking’s top-ten critical issues, presented here at the American Trucking…
Philadelphia – Hours-of-service rules are the biggest concern facing the trucking industry, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute. The survey results were released Oct. 18 during the 2015 Management Conference and Exhibition of the American Trucking Associations meeting. This marks the third consecutive year HOS has topped the survey’s…
The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed the rule to force drivers to switch from paper to digital travel logs in an effort to reduce trucking accidents, including those caused by fatigued drivers. The department says the rule would simplify the monitoring of time truckers spend on the road and the reprimanding of those who log…
New rules for commercial trucking set to be published later this month take aim at two factors that have long haunted the industry: driver fatigue and excess speed. Driver fatigue was cited as a major factor in the high-profile June 2014 accident in which comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured, along with two other passengers….