Boaters ‘flashing truckers’ prompt new restrictions in N.C.
Restrictions on boating, that is, and if North Carolina DOT is right, the changes will at least partially correct some serial summer-season traffic tie-ups on the I-77 causeway over Lake Norman north of Charlotte. NCDOT installed ...
Hawk to DOT: “Point me to the nearest roadkill?”
We noticed an interesting on-highway bedfellow among the exemplars of effective writing in this month's Wylie's Writing Tips newsletter. Near the bottom of the letter, the writers urged us all to "tweet like WADOT... "The Washington ...
Voie named Champion of Change
Ellen Voie is being honored as a Champion of Change for her effort to develop an innovative way to grow and expand the transportation industry to women. Voie, president, CEO and founder of the Women In ...
National registry site goes live
The National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, a list of health-care professionals certified to perform medical examinations for interstate truck and bus drivers, went live in mid-May, the Department of Transportation announced Friday, July 20. The ...
Freight index unchanged in May, year-to-year up 4.3%
The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry was unchanged in May from April after a one-month rise, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Freight Transportation Services Index ...
ATA seeks action on national clearinghouse
The American Trucking Associations on Tuesday, July 3, called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and U.S. Department of Transportation to continue making progress toward a national clearinghouse for drug and alcohol test results ...
ATA urges FMCSA to remain committed to CSA goal
In a white paper released Wednesday, June 20, the American Trucking Associations urged the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remain committed to the goal of its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program: to reduce commercial motor ...
Truckers to DOT: ‘Smartphones are winning’
Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on Overdrive’s Facebook page, in response to last week's news ...
CSA'S DATA TRAIL
What this year’s MCSAP awards say about national enforcement priorities
MCSAP award winners' violation priorities profiles suggest the federal government views a high level of on-highway traffic enforcement (versus vehicle inspections) as preferable enforcement behavior.
Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking
Inconsistent enforcement: Insist on inspection, not citation
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