Trucking Industry Safety News

MINNEAPOLIS — A top executive from the National Transportation Safety Board cited fatigue, impairment and distraction as key contributing factors to highway fatalities, and stressed to a group of trucking safety executives that the agency’s goal is to work with all stakeholders to make roads safer.

The likelihood of Congress advancing parking-centric legislation meant to assist truck drivers in the country is increasing.

MINNEAPOLIS — The next generation of truck drivers could help fill some of the driver shortage, but recruiting and retaining younger drivers won’t be easy.

Walmart Inc. is betting on greater supply chain automation and hinting that a recent investment binge might lift profit beyond the retailer’s stated long-term goals.

Suhash Harwani of Quest Diagnostics writes: the emerging evidence propels an argument that employers — particularly in the transportation sector — should stay vigilant on drug testing.

OMAHA, Neb. — A group of CSX conductors will soon become the first train crew employees at one of the major U.S. freight railroads to have paid sick time.

DETROIT — Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years, with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise.

New Mexico lawmakers recently enacted legislation requiring federal Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse results be used before granting commercial driver licenses.

Drivers are being reminded to travel with care through work zones on the Ohio Turnpike as $226 million in construction projects begin this month along the 241-mile toll road.

Iowa is making it easier for people to enter trucking careers with a new law expanding third-party testers for commercial driver licenses.