Some truck drivers in Michigan are alarmed by a new road-funding proposal that would significantly hike registration costs for commercial transportation firms.
Read More »Michigan Lawmakers Propose Higher Truck Registration Fees
Should truckers be allowed to carry firearms in their commercial vehicles from state to state? The mother of a trucker slain in Detroit believes so.
In June 2014 the body of Mike Boeglin, a 30-year-old resident of Ferdinand Indiana, was found in the burned out shell of his truck. Boeglin, who was preparing to become a father for the first time, had been shot several times before his commercial vehicle was set on fire. Boeglin was in Detroit delivering aluminum coils to a ThyssenKrupp steel plant. He called his wife shortly before midnight and thereafter parked at an abandoned sports complex not far from his destination.
Read More »Proposed Law Would Allow Truckers to Carry Guns State to State
The United States Senate has rolled back several controversial hours-of-service rules. According to reports, the government has suspended a requirement which limited drivers to 70 driving hours each week.
Read More »Senate Rolls Back Driving Time Limits for Truckers
Truckers know it as well as anyone: young drivers are often aggressive, easily distracted, and too frequently pose a threat to commercial vehicle operators. But now there’s some good news: a new strategy, called usage-based insurance, could make highways safer for everyone.
Usage-based insurance (UBI) is becoming a more and more popular concept. Essentially, it involves using wireless technology to track a driver’s behavior — from how fast they accelerate to how rapid they brake and corner — to determine how much they should pay for car insurance.
Read More »Usage-Based Insurance: Could it Make the Highway Safer?
New research shows that the switch to telematics-based systems is improving the efficiency of many commercial transportation companies.
Telematics systems involve placing a wireless device — usually a little black box — inside a vehicle (typically, it connects to the diagnostic port). The device can then transmit information about the vehicle and the way it’s being driven to a carrier, insurance company, or other party.
Read More »Telematics Improving Productivity, Saving Carriers Money
It’s no secret: the United States is facing a crippling shortage of truck drivers. Now, the American Trucking Associations think they’ve got a (partial) solution to that problem: hiring 100,000 military veterans over a two-year period.
Read More »How to Deal with Trucker Shortage? Hire Veterans, ATA Says
Trucking companies that have piled up safety violations shouldn’t be able to avoid those penalties by changing their name, says U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, says it’s time to do away with “chameleon carriers” who pose a threat to everyone on the road.
In a statement released last week, Schumer says he wants the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to impose regulations that will prevent transportation companies with sketchy safety records from operating under a different name. But Schumer also wants the FMCSA to get tough with companies that hire drivers with lousy safety records.
Read More »US Senator Wants FMCSA to Get Tough with ‘Chameleon Carriers’
Truckers who helped save people from a fiery highway crash in northern Alberta are being hailed as heroes. The truckers jumped into action after falling logs struck a pickup trick.
The accident took place on the morning of Saturday, November 29. Alvin Brockman, a trucker who arrived on the scene shortly after the incident took place, says he was alarmed by mountains of black smoke on the horizon.
Read More »Truckers Save Drivers From Fiery Crash in Northern Alberta
The resurgent U.S. dollar and the growing popularity of online shopping is presenting financial strain for bus lines that depend on a steady flow of cross-border shoppers.
Read More »Bus Service Company Adapting to Rising U.S. Dollar
