Letter writer: ‘Ban tractor-trailers’ on N.J. residential streets

Broker bond increase challenge gets new backer

Overdrive repored on efforts to raise the broker minimum surety requirements in June 2012. Read that story here. For subsequent reporting on the bond increase, visit this page. Joining the Association of Independent Property Brokers ...

Cuts may not include most trucking safety programs

While budget cuts loom and federal officials make contingency plans, motor carrier safety programs remain exempt from significant reductions. On Feb. 5, President Obama asked Congress to approve a smaller package of spending decreases and tax ...

New Transportation Committee chair takes reins

Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) was named the chairman of the House's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Wednesday, succeeding Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) after Mica's tenure ended due to Republican-enforced term limits. Shuster's term will start in January ...

Transportation Committee chair steps aside

Rep. John Mica has decided to step aside and end his push to remain the House's Transportation Committee chairman for the 113th Congress. He was a ranking member of the committee in the 110th ...

Members of military can get CDL away from home

Members of the U.S. military can now receive training for and obtain a commercial driver's license in states other than their home state. President Barack Obama signed Friday, Oct. 19, the Military Commercial Driver's License ...

Congress passes Military CDL Act of 2012

The U.S. House and Senate passed Oct. 1 the Military Commercial Drivers License Act of 2012, a bill intended to ease the transition of recent veterans into jobs as commercial truck drivers. The bill, sponsored ...