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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 ...
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