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Highway robbery: Ask the tough questions during negotiations to root out the crooks
There’s plenty truckers can do to avoid getting involved with the crooks among brokerages.
March 7, 2018
Business
ATRI to release report on CSA and crash accountability
The American Transportation Research Institute is looking for carrier and driver input for an upcoming report on crash accountability.
November 6, 2015
Channel 19
‘Zero highway deaths’ goal needs general public target
Regulators’ ultimate goal pondered, in light of the laundry list of highway-bill recommendations the MCSAC delivered to Congress two weeks back.
February 24, 2014
Overdrive Extra
CSA’s sloppy accident accounting
FMCSA needs to go further with crash accountability, providing an appeal process and ensuring that it doesn’t penalize innocent truckers.
July 12, 2012
Channel 19
CSA: Compliance plus or safety politics?
Below, a new vid below from my reporting on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program. But first, a note about the storms that ripped through the Southeast yesterday, with a particularly large tornado moving straight through the southern part of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the town where Overdrive and Truckers News offices are located. I’m based off-site in […]
April 28, 2011
Business
Tuesday webinar: CSA – What it means to you
The Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is finally under way. Major Mark Savage will explain how it affects your day-to-day operations in a March 22 webinar.
March 17, 2011
Overdrive Extra
Reports confirm strong freight demand
Three positive reports came in today about the state of trucking (or the economy) at the end of last year. These agree with recent earnings statements from publicly traded truckload carriers, most of which made strong profits in the fourth quarter.
February 1, 2011
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Obama budget eyes employee-contractor issue
In recent years, governmental agencies and courts have tried to decide if workers are employees or independent contractors. Now a provision in President Obama’s 2011 federal budget request targets the issue.  Obama wants $25 million for the Department of Labor to add 100 enforcement employees and competitive grants to boost states’ ability to address misclassification. […]
March 2, 2010
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