Tag: Department of Transportation

Business

Fines for trucking regs violations increased

The DOT, in order to find the 2019 adjustment amount, had to multiply the penalty amount by the percentage change between the October 2018 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the October 2017 CPI-U, which this year was 1.02522.

July 30, 2019

Parking

DOT launches second Jason’s Law truck parking survey

The new version of the survey is meant to update the inventory of truck parking and identify improvements to truck parking availability since the first survey; evaluate truck travel by state to evaluate increases in truck parking demand; evaluate technologies being used to monitor availability and demand; and more.

November 27, 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 “catch-up” adjustment, followed by annual adjustments for inflation.

November 27, 2018

Business

Trucking rap sheet: Medical examiners charged, sentenced in fraud cases

Georgia doctor convicted and Alabama chiropractor pleads guilty to falsifying DOT medical exams, and California drug tester gets prison time for testing scheme.

July 25, 2018

Business

Truck lanes in Arizona, other highway projects get a boost from U.S. DOT

The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program will help fund the building of a new freeway in Nebraska, the widening of I-57 in Illinois, and the separation of trucks from other vehicles on Arizona State Route 189 in Nogales near the U.S.-Mexico border.

March 12, 2018

Business

Trucking rap sheet: N.Y. doctor sentenced in CDL med exam scheme, Arizona DOT seizes nearly $30k from truck

A former New York doctor has been sentenced for his role in a CDL medical examination scheme, and Arizona DOT officers seized $29,000 from a truck during an inspection.

August 7, 2017

Business

DOT: Growing population, freight volumes to challenge U.S. transportation systems

With the United States’ population expected to increase by 70 million people and freight volumes expected to grow by more than 40 percent in the next 30 years, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says these issues will create major challenges for the country’s transportation infrastructure.

January 17, 2017

Business

Analysis: Foxx needs to lead, not do more of the same

What should Anthony Foxx’s No. 1 priority be as new Secretary of Transportation? Leading the U.S. to modern transportation infrastructure funding solutions, writes Kevin Jones.

July 26, 2013

Overdrive Extra

I-40 lanes back open in Arkansas

“Interstate truckers need a good federal highway system. The price we pay is regulation. Want the feds out of your business? Get used to sitting around in local traffic.”

July 4, 2013

Channel 19

Boaters ‘flashing truckers’ prompt new restrictions in N.C.

New NCDOT buoys around the I-77 causeway over Lake Norman attempt to remove the exhibitionist temptation.

March 14, 2013

Channel 19

Hawk to DOT: “Point me to the nearest roadkill?”

What happens when a bird of prey tries to communicate with a DOT traffic camera? It makes for good humor on Twitter.

November 6, 2012

Business

Voie named Champion of Change

Ellen Voie is being honored as a Champion of Change for her effort to develop an innovative way to grow and expand the transportation industry to women.

August 11, 2012