Tag: trucking: Page 53

Business

Arizona to work on I-40

Roadwork between the Winona and Walnut Canyon interchanges (milepost 205 to 209) will start on June 7.

May 28, 2010

Business

FMCSA sets procedure for routine rules

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration established rulemaking procedures for use on routine or noncontroversial rules.

May 28, 2010

Business

Agency offers revised CSA 2010 schedule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has developed a revised schedule for the rollout of the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010.

May 28, 2010

Overdrive Extra

CSA 2010 – your bittersweet change agent

I’ve yet to speak to anyone in trucking who’s overjoyed about Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010. After all, a much more meticulous safety mindset will be required to avoid getting caught on the radar of this huge data-crunching machine when it cranks up in December.             Some carriers in CSA 2010 test states have been to […]

May 27, 2010

Business

FedEx Ground sets new contractor rules

FedEx Ground has issued new standards for its owner-operators, include requiring independent contractors to be incorporated.

May 26, 2010

Business

Distracted driving meeting set

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration committee will meet June 8-10 to focus on distracted driving.

May 26, 2010

Channel 19

Latest in distractions: One word, three letters, rhymes with ‘text’

Earlier this week, as Kansas became the 26th state to enact a behind-the-wheel anti-texting law applicable to all drivers, the folks at hands-free headset-maker Jabra released results of a survey/study conducted in April that threw a little wrench (and more!) into all the late discussion of worrisome activities drivers engage behind the wheel of fast-moving vehicles. While 28 percent […]

May 26, 2010

Business

Report: Fleets challenged to hire

For fleets needing additional drivers, the constraint will be in their ability to hire and train prospects, FTR Associates said.

May 26, 2010

Business

Bills would retain truck lengths, weights

Senate, House measures would freeze truck lengths and weights on the National Highway System.

May 26, 2010

Channel 19

Trucks on Pakistan’s Grand Trunk Road

If you missed National Public Radio’s recent reporting along the Grand Trunk Road, an historic connection between far eastern and western sections of the Indian subcontinent, from Bengal to Peshawar in Pakistan, you probably missed this report by John Poole from a truckstop outside Islamabad. The stop, a rather informal spot on the Grand Trunk Road […]

May 25, 2010

Business

Kansas enacts anti-texting law

Kansas becomes the 26th state to pass a texting ban.

May 25, 2010

Business

I-25 in Denver to be closed

Both directions of I-25 near Alameda Avenue in Denver will be closed May 23-27.

May 23, 2010