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

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

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

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

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