Eight States Receive $3 Million in Job-Training Grants From DOT
Eight states will receive $3 million in grants to advance job-training programs in the transportation sector for underrepresented job candidates, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced June 14.
June 15, 2016FMCSA Advisory Committee Begins Review of Outdated Guidance Documents
A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration advisory committee on June 14 began a review of the agency’s plain language “guidance documents” aimed at helping carriers, drivers and inspectors interpret a slate of 700 regulations.
June 14, 2016Port Manatee Looks to Turn Bigger Panama Canal Into Bigger Business
When the Panama Canal reopens its wider, deeper locks and channel on June 26, Port Manatee officials will be looking to turn that greater capacity into more cargo traffic.
June 14, 2016Kentucky Puts Future Construction Projects on Hold
Not long after Greg Thomas became deputy secretary of Kentucky’s Transportation Cabinet in February, the organization’s leadership gathered for a meeting.
June 14, 2016Senate Clears Pipeline Safety Bill
The Senate on June 13 cleared a bill that would direct federal regulators to implement a series of pipeline safety mandates.
June 14, 2016Capitol Agenda for the Week of June 14: Patience, Darling
Here's the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Apparently it won't include a confirmation hearing for Scott Darling, nominated as administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
June 14, 2016Border Rail Line to Connect US, Mexico
A new company will take over repairs and eventual operations of the beleaguered Desert Line railroad, clearing the way for work to begin this summer and for trains to move goods made in Mexico into the United States in 2018.
June 13, 2016Opinion: Safety Is About Big Understanding, Not Big Data
Many years ago, when I was new to transportation safety, our team crafted five tenets for safety success:
June 13, 2016ATA's Bob Costello: Economy to Stay Weak
Trucking should expect a generally weak economy in 2016, though the long-standing inventory glut should ease in a few months to make the freight market feel better than today’s uninspiring conditions, American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello said.
June 13, 2016DUI Case Exposes Gaps in Safety Screening
On a late afternoon in March, state troopers found truck driver Yakov Zaverukha lying on his back in a mud puddle beside his big rig that was stuck in a ditch just off Interstate 57 in central Illinois.
June 13, 2016