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Wal-Mart’s White Captures National Truck Driving Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — At a practice session about a week before veteran Wal-Mart Transportation driver Charles “Mike” White hopped into a 3-axle truck to negotiate the nerve-wracking National Truck Driving...
View ArticleWell-Documented Safety Programs Help Fleets
Documenting what you have done is a regular part of the trucking industry. At least it should be.
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Advisers Offer Sleep Apnea Guidelines as FMCSA Considers Health Proposal
Top medical advisers to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have recommended a slate of sleep apnea guidelines that would require truck drivers to participate in costly diagnostic sleep...
View ArticleEditorial: CDL or Bust
For the last week, our collective eyes here at Transport Topics have been fixated on a school outside Louisville, Kentucky.
View ArticleEditorial: A Welcome Proposal
After 10 years of deliberation, two agencies of the Department of Transportation have finally published a proposal that would limit the maximum speed of the largest commercial vehicles to a rate yet to...
View ArticleOpinion: Jake Brakes Keep Drivers Safe on Steep Roads
You can’t work in the trucking industry for long without realizing the interconnectedness of the trucking world — goods with communities, roads with ports, airports and railways, regulations across...
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Roundtable Participants Voice a Variety of Concerns to House Panel
Truckers and other transportation stakeholders last week voiced a variety of regulatory, infrastructure and funding concerns to the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee.House Transportation Committee
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Trucking Airs Concerns to House Panel; HOS Restart, Highway Funding Top List
Truckers and other transportation stakeholders last week voiced a variety of regulatory, infrastructure and funding concerns to the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee.House Transportation Committee
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Safety Tech, Cameras Can Help Fleets Prevent Claims, Insurance Brokers Say
Fleets that invest in safety technologies — from onboard cameras and telematics to active safety systems — are likely to see their investments pay off by helping to reduce or eliminate catastrophic...
View ArticleEditorial: Fascinating Future, Difficult Present
In putting this issue together, we didn’t know whether to oooh and ahhh like children watching a Harry Potter movie or reach for antacids like baby boomers with heartburn. Engineers are weaving...
View ArticleSafety Benefits of Speed Limiters Outweigh Crash Fears, Study Says
Although many drivers say that governing the speed of heavy trucks would create dangers on the highway, recent and past research studies dating to the 1970s generally have concluded that the overall...
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ATA Safety Management Council Honors Top Driver, Safety Director
American Trucking Associations’ Safety Management Council saluted its National Truck Driver of the Year and National Safety Director of the Year on Oct. 26 at its Security and Human Resources National...
View ArticleSenate Panel to Examine Truck Safety March 14
Truck safety concerns will be the focus of a Senate subcommittee hearing March 14.
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Panelists Push for Better Crash Data at Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Truck...
Improving truck crash data and monitoring high-risk carriers are a couple of key factors that will lead to improved heavy-truck safety, a panel of truck experts told a Senate Commerce subcommittee...
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XPO Says Thanks a Million to Drivers Safely Reaching Milestone
XPO Logistics celebrated drivers with at least 1 million accident-free miles at a two-day celebration in Ann Arbor, Mich., in mid-June, including a question-and-answer session hosted by company CEO...
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Wal-Mart’s White Captures National Truck Driving Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — At a practice session about a week before veteran Wal-Mart Transportation driver Charles “Mike” White hopped into a 3-axle truck to negotiate the nerve-wracking National Truck Driving...
View ArticleWell-Documented Safety Programs Help Fleets
Documenting what you have done is a regular part of the trucking industry. At least it should be.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Advisers Offer Sleep Apnea Guidelines as FMCSA Considers Health Proposal
Top medical advisers to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have recommended a slate of sleep apnea guidelines that would require truck drivers to participate in costly diagnostic sleep...
View ArticleEditorial: CDL or Bust
For the last week, our collective eyes here at Transport Topics have been fixated on a school outside Louisville, Kentucky.
View ArticleEditorial: A Welcome Proposal
After 10 years of deliberation, two agencies of the Department of Transportation have finally published a proposal that would limit the maximum speed of the largest commercial vehicles to a rate yet to...
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