A study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found that trucks operated with electronic hours-of-service recorders (EHSRs) had an 11.7 percent lower crash rate than those not so equipped and 5.1 percent lower crash rates for preventable crashes. The study, conducted by VTTI’s Center for…
In a trend that signals a continued economic recovery, U.S. trucking companies are ordering big rigs at an eight-year high, boosting trucking stocks and raising pay for drivers who are in short supply. “Freight is up, availability of trucking assets is tight,” said Sandy Cutler, chief executive officer of Eaton Corp., whose products include truck transmissions….
The driver shortage facing the trucking industry will not go away soon, according to results from a survey conducted by HireRight. HireRight’s survey showed that 79 percent of fleets are looking to add to the workforce but drivers are leaving the industry for more money or a better quality of life. The industry currently faces…
If the nation’s Highway Trust Fund goes belly up this summer most states and dozens of metropolitan areas will lose the majority of highway dollars needed to maintain and upgrade the transportation network, according to a report recently released by Transportation for America (T4A), a Washington, D.C.-based alliance of elected, business and civic leaders from…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the availability of $9 million in grant funding for clean diesel projects to reduce diesel pollution and emissions exposure from the nation’s existing fleet of diesel engines. The funding comes from EPA’s Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA) and will target the most cost-effective projects and fleets operating in…
Peloton Technology of Menlo Park, California recently demonstrated its Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications and driver assistance technology designed to solve the two biggest challenges facing the $650 billion trucking industry: Crashes and fuel economy. Using a stretch of Interstate 80 east of Reno, Nevada, the company demonstrated with a two-truck platoon. Nevada DOT (NDOT), Nevada Department…
Across the United States, flashing your headlights at another vehicle can mean different things. For some it is a way to tell an oncoming driver that they have their high beams on. Truckers often flash high beams to let a driver know they have reached a safe distance to complete a passing movement. However, the…
When the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently decided to give smaller truck fleets more time to comply with its Truck and Bus Rule it received a strong pushback from fleet owners who are in compliance. CARB’s late April decision prompted a number of carriers to argue that fleets not in compliance now have a…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has sent a four-year surface transportation reauthorization bill to Congress that would pump $302 billion into fortifying the country’s transportation infrastructure. The Grow America Act (Generating Renewal, Opportunity and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America) includes $199 billion in earmarks for highway system…
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) recently released the findings of its independent evaluation of FMCSA’s HOS study and the ATRI report is heavily critical of the federal document. ATRI’s Technical Memorandum cites the following issues with FMCSA’s report: The field study report purports to have measured differences between restarts with one and two nighttime…
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