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Business
DOT establishes council to address self-driving vehicles, other emerging tech
The NETT Council will be a point of access for developers seeking approval to deploy new transportation tech, DOT says. Itâs intended to ensure that deployment of new tech isnât impeded and to streamline the process for obtaining safety authorizations, permits and funding.
March 14, 2019
Business
Teamsters, California file lawsuit challenging FMCSAâs ruling on California breaks
The lawsuits were filed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- the same court that ruled that carriers must comply with California's break laws. Read details.
February 11, 2019
Business
House clears DOT funding bill that maintains ELD waiver for livestock haulers
Livestock and bee haulers have been allowed to run on paper logs and without an ELD since the mandate took effect in December 2017. However, the bill faces strong headwinds in ultimately becoming law, as lawmakers and President Trump square off over funding for a wall along the southern border.
January 11, 2019
Parking
National truck-parking coalition releases working-group resource materials
Regardless of just where parking needs are greatest, in the wake of Jasonâs Law and ongoing organization around the nation to address them, âtodayâs shortage of truck parking capacity is a national safety concernâ â new resources from coalition working groups offer tools to current and would-be advocates, governments, planners and more.
December 11, 2018
Business
DOT asking for crash examples to review for crash preventability program within CSA
The intention of the program is to test the feasibility of reviewing crashes in which truck drivers are not at fault and to remove them from carriersâ and operatorsâ Compliance, Safety, Accountability scores if they are deemed non-preventable.
December 4, 2018
Business
DOT raises fines for violating trucking regs
A final rule that published in the Federal Register today, Nov. 27, makes the new fine amounts effective immediately. The 2015 Act required FMCSA and other DOT agencies to issue an initial âcatch-upâ adjustment, followed by annual adjustments for inflation.
November 27, 2018
Business
Dem lawmakers ask DOT to reject ATAâs petition for reprieve from Calif. break laws
ATA in early October petitioned the DOT to intervene into the ongoing conflict over the stateâs stringent laws, which a federal court in 2014 ruled apply to trucking companies and their drivers. A group of 19 Democrats in the House and Senate, however, asked the DOT to reject the petition, saying it requires a Congressional statute.
November 8, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Redefining âdriverâ puts âself-drivingâ into sharper focus
With a sobering awareness of driverless truck challenges, the road to Level 5 autonomous trucking should be a very long one.
October 24, 2018
Business
In fresh autonomous policy, DOT no longer assumes truck driver is human
The key point from updated guidance on policies for development and deployment of autonomous vehicles: A loosened definition of what constitutes a truck driver, acknowledging that a driver may not always be human.
October 8, 2018
Business
Senate omits ELD reprieve for livestock haulers, driver breaks provision in DOT spending bill
The Senate's 2019 U.S. DOT appropriations bill, unlike the House's bill, lacks policy reforms for ELD compliance for livestock haulers & state enforced breaks.
June 8, 2018
Parking
DOT plans to survey truck stops, states and enforcers about parking shortage
Following up on a 2014 survey of truck drivers about the challenges they face in finding secure parking, the U.S. DOTâs Federal Highway Administration announced last week it plans to survey truck stop operators, state DOT officials and enforcement personnel about inadequacies in available truck parking.
May 3, 2018
Business
Trucking rap sheet: Driver sentenced after fatal crash, illegal hazmat transport, med cert fraud, more
Action in four trucking-related crimes has recently been reported, including drug testing fraud, illegal transport of hazardous materials, a driver imprisoned following a fatal crash and a former DOT employee sentenced for bank fraud.
February 8, 2018
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