EOBR debated over driver harassment
The harassment issue may be the key consideration for the FMCSA, which aims to devise a rule that mandates electronic logging devices.02.08.12
| FMCSA ordered U & D Service to immediately shut down after discovering the company was using drivers who did not possess valid ...
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| Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks were using the same brake component that affected production of Navistar and Volvo Group trucks. 02.07.12
| The reopened lane of I-40 West is near the Tennessee-North Carolina border. 02.07.12
| The Peterbilt 587 SmartWay conventional tractor won in the heavy-duty division. truck drivers
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Language of MCSAC / Medical Review Board recommended apnea guidelines — more from D.C.
February 6, 2012
Contrasting viewpoints coming together -- or not -- made for an interesting day today at the first of four days' worth of meetings of the FMCSA's Motor Carrier Safety Advisory ...
The most cost-effective approach to changing oil
February 6, 2012
The best way to know when to change oil is to have an oil sample analyzed. Kevin Rutherford’s February Dollars & Sense column covers the next key step.
Are fuel-injector-cleaning diesel additives worth it?; Apnea update
February 6, 2012
I'm at the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee's joint meeting with the Medical Review Board today -- watch my Twitter feed for updates from the meeting, where committee members ...
What’s happening with onboard recorders
February 2, 2012
Review an Overdrive webinar to learn more about electronic onboard recorder regulations and how use of the devices is spreading.
What you may not know about the EOBR bill
January 31, 2012
Since I reported on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's attempts to gain new regulatory authority over interstate drivers relative to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program's now-internal Driver Safety ...
‘Courtesy not necessarily contagious’: UPS driver after 50 accident-free years
January 30, 2012
Ohio resident and UPS driver Ron "Big Dog" Sowder (pictured) started his career with UPS in 1962 after serving in the Navy and answering an employment ad. On January 25, ...
Operator to train in CNN’s Fit Nation program this year
January 28, 2012
“I was on my way back to Texas and didn’t have a webcam," says Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller about the circumstances in which he filmed what has become ...
Trucking fruit in Obama’s energy, manufacturing messages
January 25, 2012
If you missed last night's State of the Union address, the President followed in predecessors' footsteps by detailing a veritable laundry list of election-year policy initiatives with no small measure ...
Divine intervention at its best: A truck accident in Guam
January 23, 2012
What happens when a loaded straight dump loses its brakes on a downhill run and collides head-on with a tanker truck loaded with jet fuel? Not what you might expect. ...
New blog from Women in Trucking
January 22, 2012
The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) recently launched an online forum at womenintruckingblog.com, to add a more interactive blog to their long-extant online presence at womenintrucking.org.
“Drivers are some of the ...

