The Safety Management Council’s 3rd Annual Safety Conference is fast approaching. If you haven’t already signed up please take a moment to complete the registration form and join us on March 17th at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel in Camp Hill, PA for what will be an outstanding opportunity to hear our speakers discuss a […]
Our friends at Great West provided this comprehensive guide to preventing lane change crashes, one of the Big 3. And I am not talking about LeBron, Kyrie and Kevin Love, the Big 3 accident types that make up the majority of loss cost (rear end collision, side-swipe and intersection). Click here for more information.
Freight slump drags driver pay down – will it last? A freight slowdown seen in the fourth quarter of 2015 caused driver pay growth to subside, at least temporarily, according to a recent report by the Transport Capitol Partners. Carriers expect driver wages to grow in 2016, TCP says, with 70 percent expecting trucker pay […]
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the State of Ohio is the first to require human trafficking training for truckers and officers. Channel 3’s Hilary Golston sat in on a trucking class conducted by State Highway Patrol in Medina. Click here for more information.
FWI, in its annual report, recorded 204 thefts in 2015’s first quarter, 187 in the second quarter, 174 in the third quarter and 189 in the fourth quarter of the year. The numbers represent a 6 percent drop in volume and a 21 percent decrease in value from 2014. Click here for more information.
In November, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published the final “driver coercion” rule designed to protect commercial truck drivers from being pressured or coerced to violate the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. Click here for more information.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced it is reducing the number of random drug tests required for carriers to conduct in 2016. FMCSA said it will lower the rate for random controlled substances testing from the current rate of 50 percent of the average number of driver positions to 25 percent, effecting Jan. […]
Ohio enacts HB 71, which prohibits motor carrier transportation contacts from indemnifying, defending, or holding harmless the promisee from or against any liability for loss or damage resulting from the negligence or intentional acts or omissions of the promissee. HB 71 was signed by the governor on December 22, 2015 and is effective on or […]
ATRI recently released the latest findings of its annual truck bottleneck listing. The 2015 Congestion Impact Analysis of Freight-Significant Highway Locations, which assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 250 locations on the national highway system, uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a […]
The hours-of-service restart rules for truck drivers likely will remain suspended through February, a few months longer than expected. An update by trucking regulators on the status of a congressionally mandated study of the restart rules indicated that the completed study likely will reach Congress by mid-February, instead of next month. Click here for more […]