Vigillo will be hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, May 22, at 1 p.m. Eastern time to detail how upcoming changes within the CSA safety program will affect carriers. Changes such as the new hazardous materials BASIC, eliminating the cargo-related BASIC, and adjustments to violations and severity weights, will be discussed.
The board of directors of the American Trucking Assns. (ATA) has called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to make changes to its Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) safety-monitoring system.
The board said the agency has been “unresponsive” to motor carriers’ concerns about the unreliability of scores and suggestions from truckers on how to improve the program....More
For the fifth straight year, Trucks & Parts of Tampa received the Occupational Health & Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program [SHARP] award, signifying that the company “cultivates a culture of safety awareness” in conjunction with OSHA's consultation arm, headquartered at the University of South Florida<...More
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Georgia-based Judson Mobley Logging, Inc. to immediately cease all transportation services, declaring the truck company an imminent hazard to public safety. The agency also order BM&L Trucking of Alabama to shut down because of serious safety issues....More
Vigillo will be hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, May 22, at 1 p.m. Eastern time to detail how upcoming changes within the CSA safety program will affect carriers. Changes such as the new hazardous materials BASIC, eliminating the cargo-related BASIC, and adjustments to violations and severity weights, will be discussed....More
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has presented a 2012-2016 Strategic Plan that will focus the agency’s resources on three core principals: raising the bar to enter the motor carrier industry; maintaining high safety standards to remain in the industry; and removing high-risk carriers, drivers, and service providers from operation....More
Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a new federal motor vehicle safety standard that would require electronic stability control (ESC) systems on large commercial trucks, motorcoaches and other large buses for the first time. According to NHTSA, its research indicates such systems could prevent up to 56% of rollover crashes annually as well as cut loss-of-control crashes by 14%....More
As Congress continues to debate a variety of surface transportation funding bills – most notably the two-year Senate sponsored Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) – several groups believe such federal-directed efforts are almost becoming moot as highway funding issues are increasingly “devolving” to the states....More
The debate over using EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) vs. SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technologies on diesel engines to meet federal emission limits is far from over and indeed has just heated up considerably in court filings.
Responding in a legal brief to a lawsuit filed against it by Volvo Group North America, Daimler AG and Cummins Inc....More
Responding to the decision handed down by the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in August 2011, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has formally rescinded its final rule published on April 5, 2010, requiring electronic onboard recorders for carriers with significant hours-of-service compliance issues....More
Congress has chosen to kick the can down the road one more time, passing a 90-day extension of federal highway funding rather than hashing out a real multi-year transportation bill. This is the ninth temporary extension, and if it runs out in June we will have gone 1,000 days without a reauthorization bill.
While the last-minute extension allows the government to continue collecting fuel taxes and disbursing funds for projects...More
