“Establishing sound safety management practices and ensuring regulatory compliance is essential in everything we do in the trucking industry,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. “We’re excited to welcome National Fleet Services as part of our ATA Featured Product program and look forward to them helping our members with…
The cargo theft threat stems from several factors, FreigthtWatch says, including haste that will come from carriers and shippers trying to clear the port backlog and an influx of carriers and drivers untrained on the dangers of port-related cargo theft aiding in clearance of the cargo backlog. And West Coast…
The Alliance’s Chairman, Steve Williams, met with FMCSA Acting Administrator Scott Darling, senior members of the House’s Transportation Committee and Senator John Boozman to update them on his group’s 2015 objectives, the Alliance announced this week. Williams is the chairman and CEO of the Little Rock, Ark.-based Maverick USA. The…
For rescuing an unconscious man from a burning car the Truckload Carriers Association named Joe Bearce a Highway Angel. Bearce is an escort driver for stone Trucking Co., of Kiefer Oklahoma. Bearce was traveling on Highway 259 in Nacogdoches, Texas when a sedan traveling the opposite direction came into his lane…
In the opening of Steven Spielberg’s 1971 film Duel, an impatient salesman gets stuck behind a rattling, soot-belching tractor-trailer on a lonely stretch of California highway. Just before the truck’s driver is revealed to be a homicidal maniac, the salesman has time to gripe about the vehicle’s billowing emissions. “Talk…
Take the initial significance that self-driving trucks might have on the road: Based on the most recent data (pdf) from the Department of Transportation, there were an estimated 10.7 million trucks operating in the US in 2013, many of which belong to the more than 33,000 commercial fleets on American highways. While…
Four trucking safety organizations filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday, asking for rulemaking to require forward collision avoidance and mitigation braking (F-CAM) systems on all new large trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,000 pounds or more. The petition…
A new construction industry start-up from Pennsylvania has launched a dump-truck-specific load board as an online service, accessible from both desktop and mobile browsers, that enables members to find trucks or loads. Dump truck owners can receive real-time load notifications via e-mail and text message from DumpTruckLoads.com, allowing them to work with…
Silver Eagle Manufacturing introduced the latest concept in converter dollies at the American Trucking Associations’ Technology and Maintenance Council annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. At a February 15 press conference, the company unveiled its new “T-Dolly.” The device is designed to “close the gap” between the two trailers in a…
The Meritor booth at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s 2015 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition has been humming this week with word of a new inflation system for tractors. The MTIS Tire Inflation System for trucks automatically monitors tire pressure while the vehicle is in motion and will inflate…
