Crime & Courts, Federal, News
Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, stripping power from federal agencies
The Supreme Court dismantled the Chevron doctrine, a devastating blow to federal agencies’ ability to interpret laws when establishing rules.
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Podcast: Supreme Court decision might upend ability of feds to regulate
Supreme Court action that overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine could impair agencies like FMCSA as they regulate various industries.
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Features, OOIDA Member, Truck Shows
ATHS Golden Achievement Award goes to OOIDA Life Member John Taylor
One of OOIDA’s first members received ATHS’s Golden Achievement Award for over 66 years and 7 million safe miles in trucking.
Features, OOIDA Member
Hat’s off to you, Mouse
Robert “Mouse” Fernald, an OOIDA Life Member, is one of the 2015 TA Petro Citizen Driver honorees for his distinguished trucking career.
News, Opinion
From the cab: Freightliner’s autonomous truck
The Freightliner Inspiration truck drove itself down the winding road and across the historic concrete arch-gravity Hoover Dam on the evening of May 5. At that moment, the term “AV” was probably jumped 10 places on the industry’s list of buzzwords. Just remember, autonomous vehicle doesn’t mean driverless. The driver is responsible for the safe […]
Opinion
‘Semi terrified’? How about ‘Hell on Four Wheels’ instead…
An Ashville, N.C. columnist and aspiring novelist wrote a story about a “terrifying” late-night encounter with a trucker on a lonely stretch of highway, which sounds awfully familiar to a certain Steven Spielberg movie…
Features
Reporter’s notebook: The story behind the story of OOIDA’s beginnings
There’s an old saw in the journalism business that every story you write is really three stories: The story you think you’re going to write, the story you end up writing, and the story that you wish you’d written but couldn’t quite get. It’s that last story we want to share with you.
Analysis
Failing the grade
Railroads put the blame squarely on truckers for crashes involving trucks and trains, but a railroad expert and investigator says truckers have more rights than they are led to believe. They just need to know where to look.
News
Arrow Trucking drivers wake to nightmare before Christmas
Tulsa-based Arrow Trucking abruptly went out of business just days before Christmas, stranding more than 1,400 drivers across the nation.
Analysis, News
DAT SOLUTIONS: Spot rates edge upward to start May
Load posts on DAT MembersEdge were up another 1 percent last week, though there was a much bigger jump in reefer load posts now that we’re in produce season. Truck posts fell 1 percent, which pushed load-to-truck ratios higher for each trailer type. Rates for all three equipment types responded, too, moving higher compared to […]
Elections, News, State
Maine, Florida, Oregon voters decide on tax increases, issuing bonds
Voters in Florida and Oregon decided this week whether to make it more difficult for state legislators to enact tax increases. Elsewhere, Maine voters decided whether to tap bonds for road and bridge work. Maine Question 3 Voters in Maine gave the go-ahead this week once again to tap millions in bonds for transportation uses. […]
