New Car Ratings Include How They Make Drivers Stay Alert
DETROIT — Two organizations that influence many Americans’ automobile-buying decisions will begin rating vehicles on how well they track behavior of motorists who use partially automated driver-assist systems.
January 21, 2022Washington Lawmakers Propose Parking, Restroom Bills
Legislative efforts that would provide more parking for commercial truck drivers and offer increased access to restrooms are under consideration in separate bills in the current 60-day legislative session in Washington state.
January 20, 2022Vaccine Mandate Likely Defeated Following Supreme Court Stay
While the U.S. Supreme Court has remanded the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test law for large businesses back to a lower court, trucking industry experts said the high court’s action likely spells defeat for the proposal.
January 20, 2022Union Pacific Steps Up Security to Curb L.A. Train Thefts
Union Pacific Corp. is erecting physical barriers and increasing its own policing of an area in Los Angeles where people have been stealing goods from its trains.
January 20, 2022ATA Selects 22 Drivers as New Road Team Class
An immigrant from India, a former Marine and a grandmother joined an elite team of 22 professional truck drivers to make up the 2022-23 America’s Road Team Captains.
January 19, 2022Army Corps of Engineers Gets $14 Billion to Help Ease Supply Chains
The Biden administration on Jan. 19 announced the release of $14 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers to fund 500 projects, with a focus on easing supply chain problems and addressing climate change.
January 19, 2022New Vaccine Rules Take Effect at Canadian Border
As of Jan. 15 new, tougher COVID-19 vaccine requirements took place for people to cross from the U.S. into Canada. That applies to truck drivers and other essential workers.
January 18, 2022NTSB’s Homendy Calls DOT’s Serious Crash Stat Misleading
WASHINGTON — With traffic fatalities spiking higher, the nation’s top safety investigator says a widely cited government statistic that 94% of serious crashes are solely due to driver error is misleading and that the Transportation Department should stop using it.
January 18, 2022USPS Site Begins Taking COVID Test Requests
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Jan. 18 quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online.
January 18, 2022Felony Charges Are First in a Fatal Crash Involving Tesla’s Autopilot
DETROIT — California prosecutors have filed two counts of vehicular manslaughter against the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot who ran a red light, slammed into another car and killed two people in 2019.
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