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The funding for safety groups, the salaries of their chiefs
Funding levels in some recent years for Parents Against Tired Truckers, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH), somewhat-related group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and others among the âsafety advocacyâ community â truckingâs loudest critics.
September 8, 2016
Business
MCSAC policy panelâs long shift toward safety advocates
How it happened: When the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee began meeting in 2007, it had four members with direct involvement in trucking. Today, there are three direct trucking members. Over the same period, representatives of safety-advocacy groups more than doubled from two to five.
September 7, 2016
Business
The biggest little voice in trucking
How self-styled safety-advocacy groups won over the federal government, and some trucking interests themselves, to influence trucking regulation.
September 6, 2016
Channel 19
Roundup: Strange bedfellows, scale-house burger, Android barker
Legislation can make for odd bedfellows among supporters, Wendy Parker orders a cheeseburger â at the wrong drive-through, and Mack Trucksâ Bulldog magazine gets new digital distribution.
May 9, 2013
Voices
Readers on the crash-fault âshell gameâ
In denying the possibility of fault determination, advocacy groups ignore the majority of car-truck crashes.
March 17, 2013
Channel 19
Elephants in the room: MCSAC snapshot
There were two of them in the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting room at the Hilton Old Town in Alexandria, Va., yesterday. At a certain point in the committeeâs discussion yesterday, Feb. 7, about the issue of electronic logs and harassment, as the discussion ranged seemingly away from the task at hand â discussion [âŚ]
February 8, 2012
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