Breaking, News
New Jersey offers clarification on minimum insurance law
A New Jersey law that requires motor carriers in the state to carry at least $1.5 million in liability insurance takes effect in July.
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Podcast: Bill would mandate drivers in autonomous trucks
A California bill mandating drivers in autonomous trucks is making another run at passage in California – despite a veto last year.
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Fuel prices, News
Diesel prices continue to rise across the U.S.
If your Spidey sense is telling you diesel prices are up across the country, there are two fuel price indexes saying to trust your intuition. The average price of a gallon of on-highway diesel went up 1.6 cents per gallon from the week before, to $3.086 per gallon, for the week ending Monday, Feb. 5, […]
News
OOIDA asks President Trump to meet ‘real’ truckers
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is calling on President Donald Trump to meet with the real men and women behind the wheels of America’s trucks to discuss the mandate for electronic logging devices. In a Feb. 5 letter to the White House, OOIDA’s acting president Todd Spencer urged Trump to meet with “Americans who actually drive […]
News
Employment in trucking subsector kicks off 2018 with more jobs
For the 12th consecutive month, transportation jobs overall scored gains in January. The transport sector netted 11,100 jobs to the economy. Trucking jobs also went up after a small decrease in December. The truck transportation subsector experienced an increase of 2,200 jobs in January after the industry lost 600 in December and gained 1,800 in […]
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Dozens of lawmakers tell FMCSA, ‘We support OOIDA’s ELD exemption request’
A group of 25 Congressional lawmakers has thrown its support behind a proposal that would exempt small motor carriers with exemplary safety records from the mandate requiring electronic logging devices to record hours of service. Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, who has introduced a bill that would have delayed the mandate by two years, issued a […]
News, Tolls
Utah bill paves way for greater use of toll roads
A bill moving forward at the Utah statehouse would expand the state’s authority to collect tolls on highways around the state. Utah law already permits the use of tolls to cover state expenses. The Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee voted unanimously to advance a bill that is intended to “modernize” toll collection. […]
News
Website outage leads to estimated backlog of 500,000 DOT exams
The backlog of Department of Transportation exams unable to be uploaded because of a two-month outage of an FMCSA website could be more than half a million, a certified medical examiner estimates. “There were about 3.5 million exams performed last year,” said Mike Megehee, a doctor of chiropractic and president of Pendleton, Ore.-based Team CME. […]
Features
Truckers drive Super Bowl Sunday
On Sunday, friends and families will join together and huddle around a television while munching on a smorgasbord of chips, dip, pizza, chicken wings and popcorn and washing it down with a cold beer or soda. This can only mean one thing: Super Bowl Sunday! Even if their team didn’t reach the championship game, millions […]
News, Safety & Security
DOT report shows detention time results in more crashes, lost earnings
Electronic loggings devices and hours of service regulations are causing a variety of issues for truckers, and driver detention just exacerbates those problems. A recently released study by the U.S. Department of Transportation quantifies the consequences of delays occurring before loading and unloading. Long story short: Driver detention creates a safety issue and is costing […]
Opinion
It’s the Same Old Idea: Slap a Toll On the Trucks
Here we go again. Governments and toll agencies want to charge you extra to go where you have to go, just because you drive a truck. The latest proposal is to cordon off the bottom half of Manhattan and charge a fee to enter. The idea from a New York State advisory panel is to […]
Fuel prices, News
Koch brothers groups confirms opposition to diesel tax as well as gasoline tax
Last week, political advocacy groups Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to oppose any increase in the federal “gas tax.” It was unclear whether or not that included diesel. Land Line has confirmed that the two groups oppose any federal fuel tax increase, including diesel. Earlier this week, Land […]
