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Business
Who’s keeping score: CSA ranking tool for drivers
The Vigillo Roadside Resume tool is marketed directly to drivers and approximates driver CSA BASIC rankings. Learn how to access the system, as well as get a handle on its limitations, in this story.
February 13, 2013
Voices
FMCSA to host MATS driver-training listening session
The session will take place Friday, March 22, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room C101 at the Louisville convention center. No registration is required. Webcast details are forthcoming.
February 11, 2013
Business
Who’s keeping score: PSP is driver-info ‘gold standard’
FMCSA’s Pre-employment Screening Program is the only place to find full driver-specific detail of the information contained in the Motor Carrier Management Information System database that underpins CSA.
February 11, 2013
Hours of Service
Hours rules suspended in states struck by winter storm
Several states hit by winter storm “Nemo” this weekend have suspended hours of service rules for drivers carrying emergency supplies.
February 11, 2013
Business
Industry, safety advocates split on CSA ‘work in progress’
The Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s 10-member CSA subcommittee issued recommendations with no small amount of dissent on the issues of crash fault and CSA scores’ public display.
February 7, 2013
Business
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.
February 6, 2013
Channel 19
CSA’s batting average: MCSAC snapshot
The program has hit one out of the park in getting carriers’ attention, but MCSAC CSA Subcommittee members point to more strikeouts than base hits.
February 6, 2013
Business
Panel highlights CSA data-quality issues
The Feb.5, 2013, meeting of the FMCSA’s CSA Subcommitte to the MCSAC advisory board revealed data quality is a top stakeholder concern with the enforcement regime.
February 5, 2013
Business
Leading candidate emerges for DOT secretary spot
Deborah Hersman — the director of the National Transportation Safety Board — is the leading candidate to replace LaHood, say sources close to the situation.
February 4, 2013
Business
Board says FMCSA should gather driver employment history, give to carriers
In what would essentially be another roadblock for drivers looking at finding a new driving job, the NTSB has recommended FMCSA to gather driver employment history and require carriers to use it.
February 4, 2013
Parking
DOT studying truck parking, size and weight limits
The U.S. Department of Transportation is researching truck size and weights and will soon begin studying availability of truck parking by state.
February 4, 2013
Hours of Service
FMCSA publishes hours of service guidance
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has posted two new guides regarding upcoming changes in hours of service rules on its website.
January 31, 2013
Hours of Service
Hours rules suspended for propane haulers
Seven states have suspended hours-of-service rules for truckers transporting propane to mitigate current supply shortages.
January 30, 2013
Hours of Service
Group asks DOT to push back hours of service date
In a letter sent to FMCSA last week, ATA asked the agency to reschedule the date that the new hours of service rule goes into effect.
January 29, 2013
Business
LaHood bowing out as Transportation Secretary
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced he will not be staying in his cabinet position for the second term of President Barack Obama.
January 29, 2013
Business
Hours of service, CSA top targets for House transportation committee
The transportation committee in the U.S. House said it intends to target hours of service rules, CSA and state tolls in the upcoming term.
January 25, 2013
Business
More states working on APU weight exemptions
On Jan. 23, Missouri and New Hampshire legislatures held hearings on bills that would allow the auxiliary power unit weight exemption permitted on trucks to be increased.
January 24, 2013
Business
California group continues court battle over emissions regs
The California Construction Trucking Association has appealed a December 2012 ruling that CCTA says was a non-decision in its nearly two-year-long case with CARB’s truck regulations.
January 23, 2013
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