Updated: 12/29/2010 11:00:00 AM Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has issued an executive order temporarily lifting hours-of-service rules for truck drivers to deal with severe weather in the state, television station KIMT reported. The order,… Read More »Minnesota Temporarily Waives HOS Rules
An announcement to consider speed limiting heavy trucks to 68 mph has small business truckers wondering why this unproven science is moving forward while minimum training standards for drivers are still not on the books.… Read More »OOIDA Wonders Why Speed Limiters Get the Green Light While Driver Training Standards Languish
Updated: 12/29/2010 3:00:00 PM The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published its proposed hours-of-service rule in Wednesday’s Federal Register, outlining the details of the proposal it first released last week. FMCSA, part of the U.S.… Read More »FMCSA Posts Proposed Hours-of-Service Rule
By Glen Sokolis, Sokolis Group The good news about diesel fuel prices is they are only $3.294 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy’s weekly report. Prices could be $4.854, like they were the… Read More »Happy New Year, Diesel Fuel Prices!
Updated: 12/29/2010 11:30:00 AM By Dan Leone, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. As the most stringent emission rules yet took… Read More »Manufacturers Reply to Stringent Rules with Technology, as Truck Sales Rise
A court ruling has bolstered FedEx Ground’s use of independent contractors. Drivers or employees? Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled in favor of FedEx in a number of lawsuits that alleged the company improperly… Read More »Meet some FedEx Ground Entrepreneurs
Updated: 12/22/2010 11:40:00 AM By Dan Leone, Staff Reporter This story appears in the Dec. 20 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. A total of 22,902 medium-duty trucks were sold… Read More »Medium-Duty Truck Purchases Rose 30.4% in November
Truckers who work at night might as well kiss the 34-hour restart goodbye. “On the Road” blog by Jim Park, Equipment Editor For all the fretting and hand-wringing, and for the hundreds of thousands of… Read More »And They Wonder Why We're Cynical
Updated: 12/22/2010 11:45:00 AM The U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.6% annual rate in the third quarter, higher than previous estimates, the Commerce Department said Wednesday in its final revision. Commerce last month… Read More »Third-Quarter GDP Revised Upward Again to 2.6%
A New York Supreme Court judge recently blocked a Department of Environmental Conservation mandate requiring the owners of heavy-duty diesel vehicles to retrofit their fleets with costly new equipment. The plaintiffs said the agency mistakenly… Read More »NY Judge Blocks Diesel-retrofit Mandate
Updated: 12/23/2010 9:00:00 AM Durable goods orders climed 2.6% in November after a decrease the month before, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Excluding transportation, orders grew 2.4%. Orders for non-military goods excluding aircraft orders gained… Read More »Durables Orders Increase in November
ATA says the new HOS proposal disregards the negative safety impacts the proposed changes will have. By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing seven changes in the current… Read More »FMCSA Proposes Seven Changes in Hours Rule