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DOT wants zero traffic deaths within next 30 years, announces ‘Road to Zero’ coalition

Road to Zero partners hope to accelerate the development of advanced vehicle technologies, the DOT says, along with addressing infrastructure challenges of both today and the coming decades.

October 5, 2016

“Our vision is simple – zero fatalities on our roads,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.

Notes on being attached

“Be safe out there – and keep an eye out for marauding fathers saving Mousies and blankets. (Like you need one more thing to watch out for…)”…

September 4, 2016

Overdrive Extra

A look at truckers’ highway tax bill from 2014

The trucking industry in 2014 raked in $726.4 billion in freight revenue, according to a recent report from ATA. Here’s how much of that went to highway use taxes.

August 17, 2016

At — and out of — risk in Illinois

Could an abundance of risk be a good thing? If IL state lawmakers and the guv don’t reach a budget deal today, $2 billion worth of construction projects could halt. But if the state can’t pay for the construction, who’s to say whether it’ll pay to remove all the barrels …

June 30, 2016

Buchs at his eponymous TravelCenters of America location in Bloomington — he lives in nearby Colfax, Ill. Buchs was one of the drivers honored in TA’s Citizen Driver Awards program in 2015. Part of the recognition includes each winning driver’s selection of a TA or Petro location to be renamed in their honor.

DOT looking to ban trucks from Kentucky highway due to frequency of truck crashes

FHWA says the predominant crash type seen on KY 151 involves trucks veering off the road where the road and shoulders are too narrow for trucks.

June 16, 2016

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Arizona DOT to close Twin Arrows bridge over I-40 for construction June 14

The bridge will be closed from midnight to 10 a.m. for crews to apply asphalt overlay on the bridge.

June 13, 2016

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Overdrive Radio

Audio mailbag: Mandating speed limiters is ‘unsafe, period’, readers say

Requiring speed limiters for nearly all on-highway trucks would be a detriment to highway safety, readers say in this mailbag podcast near universally. And, as one reader noted, regulators “will never find out” unless “they get out on the road with us” to see for themselves.

May 23, 2016

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An upward trend in truck-occupant crash deaths

In the years following FMCSA’s 2003 publication of the hours of service rule that first included the 14-hour on-duty window, the percentage of truck-occupant crash deaths among all truck-involved fatalities is on an upward trend.

April 21, 2016

Traffic cost trucking industry nearly $50B in 2014, ATRI says

ATRI found congestion caused delays totaling more than 738 million hours of lost productivity, which equates to 264,500 truck drivers sitting idle for an entire working year.

April 20, 2016

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I-75 in Tenn. fully open after slide; delays on I-40 in Roane County

Two I-75 lanes NB/SB were finally reported open last week, April 13, following the rock slide in Campbell County, TN; I-40 reduced to one lane in both directions between MM 350 and 352 through late May.

April 19, 2016

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W.V. Supreme Court sides with truckers, strikes down truck ban in Morgantown

Truck drivers earned a victory in court last week when the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia upheld a lower court decision that struck down an ordinance from the city of Morgantown that banned trucks from using a certain portion of State Route 7 that passes through the city.

April 12, 2016

Bad roads hasten one owner-operator’s retirement — and more infrastructure voices

What stretch of North American highway in your experience would warrant the nomination for the No. 1 ‘Worst Road’ all around?

March 30, 2016

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