Tag: truck safety

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No breaks for brakes: Virginia State Police lead the nation in brake violation focus
The latest in Overdrive's CSA's Data Trail series shows a no-frills approach to inspections also puts Virginia near the top for maintenance violations overall.
October 30, 2015
State enforcement personnel rank in the top five for violations per inspection and just out of the top 10 for percentage of clean inspections. Virginia also leads all states in brake violations as a percentage of its total issued violations in 2014, a measure of the state’s focus that has seen a 22 percent rise since calendar year 2011. Source: Unless otherwise noted, all numbers based on 2014 federal data analyzed by RigDig Business Intelligence (rigdig.com/bi)
Hours of Service
FMCSA’s Ferro, trucking groups square off in Senate over hours, agency priorities
At a Senate hearing this week, regulators and trucking groups offered testimony to lawmakers about what could be done to improve truck safety in the U.S. Here are some highlights.
July 31, 2014
FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro touted to Congress her agency’s proposed rule mandating use of electronic logging devices as bolstering on-highway safety. She also defended the 2013 hours-of-service rule as a crash-preventer, along with other agency rulemakings. Trucking groups like OOIDA and ATA, however, told lawmakers in this week’s truck safety hearing that the agency needs to realign its priorities.
Overdrive Extra
Poster art for truck safety
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne Ferro yesterday announced the two winners of this year’s “Be Ready, Be Buckled” Safety Belt Student Art Contest. Regular readers of the Channel 19 blog will remember this post about last year’s contest. Second grader Sophia Chen from Edison, N.J., and fifth grader Richard He from Parsippany in the […]
May 8, 2012
Safety Belts Save Lives Art Contest
Business
FMCSA awards $5M in grants to Kansas
Federal grants for Kansas are aimed to improve truck and bus safety across the state.
October 3, 2011
Business
Researcher rejects hours studies
Former head of FMCSA research says recent studies contain many problems and shouldn’t be relied on to support the agency’s proposed changes.
June 10, 2011
Trucker Tim0200 Od
Business
NTSB sets truck safety forum
Hours of service and electronic onboard recorders are among topics listed for the National Transportation Safety Board’s public forum on truck safety.
April 7, 2011
Business
Safety award deadline July 22
The award recognizes individuals, states and agencies with creative programs that improved truck safety.
July 2, 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
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