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When sharing the road with large commercial trucks, drivers need to remember to give truck drivers plenty of room to complete right turns.
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Industry players are pushing for changes to the 34-hour restart provision from the 2013 hours of service rule, while the U.S. House and Senate are expected to resume debate on the topic in November.
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Here is some advice from Driver Solutions and American Trucking Associations on how to share the road with big trucks.
Read More →A growing number of fleets contend that Compliance, Safety & Accountability (CSA) program is in need of substantial improvement. Currently, a fleet’s score in the CSA safety monitoring system is based on all fleet-involved crashes, including those that the company’s driver did not cause and could not reasonably have prevented. This scoring criteria is contrary to accepted industry standards and, in the long run, will undermine the validity of the CSA program in the eyes of covered fleets.
Read More →Share the Road is a highway safety program operated by the American Trucking Associations. Here is some advice from the group on how to safely share the road with heavy-duty commercial trucks.
Read More →The paper-based logbook system used to track hours of service (HOS) by commercial truck fleets is prone to driver manipulation and falsification. Even the FMCSA has stated that falsification of logbooks is widespread. By all accounts, the current system of manually recorded logbooks is a joke. Yet, despite this “elephant in the room,” the federal government remains unable to mandate onboard devices to improve HOS enforcement. Why can it work in Europe, but not here?
Read More →WASHINGTON - A coalition of companies and industry groups -- including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, AAA and American Trucking Associations -- is urging Congress to fund an advanced drunk driving detection research program.
Read More →FT. WORTH, TX - The American Trucking Associations (ATA) this week brought the group's "Share the Road" highway safety program to the Ft. Worth, Texas, area to educate teen drivers on how to safely share the road with tractor-trailers.
Read More →ROGERS, AR - American Trucking Associations' Safety Management Council announced its 2010 award recipients on Sept. 29. Winners included ABF Freight System Inc. of Fort Smith, Ark. (large fleet category), Dupré Logistics LLC of Lafayette, La. (mid-size fleet category), and TCW/Tennessee Express of Nashville, Tenn. (small fleet category).
Read More →MEMPHIS, TN - One hundred and fourteen drivers representing the FedEx Corp. operating companies will compete in the National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC) in Columbus, Ohio, held Aug. 3-7.
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