Responding to a request from statehouse leaders, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation has provided a list of the locations under consideration for placing toll gantries, should Ocean State lawmakers approve a controversial plan proposed last year by Gov. Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) to begin truck-only tolling to fund bridge repairs, according to an article…
Truck maker Navistar is negotiating a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a January 2015 legal action against the company. Navistar said the agency’s staff recommended acceptance of its settlement offer, but it released no details, noting that the offer hasn’t been formally approved by the SEC. The Lisle, Ill., company’s offer…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in December that focuses on upgrading the federal motor vehicle safety standards that address underride protection in light-vehicle crashes into the rear of trailer and semitrailers. The proposed rulemaking continues the agency’s initiative to upgrade the standards for truck and trailer rear…
Last month, he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched a new, simplified, online registration process that truck and bus companies, freight forwarders, brokers, intermodal equipment providers, and cargo tank manufacturing, inspection and repair facilities use as new applicants for USDOT registration. The first phase of the Unified Registration System (URS) combines multiple “legacy” reporting…
Truck-driver teams are emerging as the shipping heroes of the holidays, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Retailers and parcel carriers have been turning this season more than ever to teams, in which drivers pair up to keep trucks rolling for hundreds of miles over 20 or more hours a day. They…
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) filed a lawsuit over a new regulation announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) requiring electronic logbooks, known as ELDs. “This rule has the potential to have the single largest, most negative impact on the industry than anything else done by FMCSA,” said Jim Johnston, OOIDA president…
For his entire career in truck driving, Bryan Spoon has tried to move toward being his own boss. A third-generation trucker, he started driving in the military, which lasted ten years. After leaving the service, he bought his own truck in 2004, and leased it to one company for a while. Then he became independent,…
The year began with the city of Long Beach in the middle of what was shaping up to be a national crisis — labor strife at West Coast ports and its resultant slowdown of shipping activity, according to a year-end review article in the Long Beach Press Telegram. Container ships stretched for miles down the…
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) recently released the latest findings of its annual truck bottleneck analysis and the Tom Moreland Interchange at the intersection of I-285 and I-85 in Atlanta topped the list. The 2015 Congestion Impact Analysis of Freight-Significant Highway Locations, which assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 250 locations on the…
Just in time of the recent holiday season, Amazon ventured into the trucking industry, unwrapping thousands of new trailers to help speed up US deliveries and give customers a bigger window to place orders for same day or two-day delivery. Amazon rolled out the new trailers in early December. The company is using third party…
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