Trucking Industry Safety News

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Transportation businesses face a host of dynamic risk issues that can significantly impact their financial and operational health. The news in this category focuses on the latest safety and security initiatives, resources and regulations and addresses topics that include fleet safety, claims administration, driver hiring and retention, risk management and compliance.

Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Michelin Introduces Agilis CrossClimate Tire for Light Trucks, Commercial Delivery Vans

ATLANTA — Michelin North America Inc. introduced an all-season, heavy-duty tire for light trucks and delivery vans geared to small business owners and commercial fleets.

Fran Matso Lysiak | Features Editor
March 18, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Trimble, Decisiv Partner to Connect Fleets With Repair Data From Service Providers

ATLANTA — Trimble Transportation has partnered with Decisiv to streamline communications and data sharing between fleet maintenance shops and their third-party service providers.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
March 18, 2019
Business, Safety, Fuel

NACFE’s Second ‘Run on Less’ Competition to Focus on Regional Drivers

ATLANTA — The North American Council for Freight Efficiency has started to accept applications for its second “Run on Less” competition, focusing on the technologies and vehicle specifications for improving fuel efficiency in trucking.

Dan Ronan | Senior Reporter
March 17, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

TMC, FleetNet America Unveil Findings From Benchmarking Program

ATLANTA — One truckload fleet averaged more than 75,000 miles between roadside breakdowns in the fourth quarter last year, about seven times the vertical average of other carriers participating in a benchmarking program being run by American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council and FleetNet America.

Joe Howard | Executive Editor
March 17, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

TMC, PIT Group to Explore Electromagnetic Braking

ATLANTA — American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council and PIT Group will expand their research partner to study electromagnetic braking systems.

Eleanor Lamb | Staff Reporter
March 17, 2019
Business, Safety, Fuel

Senators Introduce Diesel Emissions Bill

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Carper led his colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation that would reauthorize the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act through fiscal 2024.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
March 15, 2019
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics

North Dakota Interstates Closed; Heavy Rain Causes Flooding in Midwest

BISMARCK, N.D. — Heavy rain falling atop deeply frozen ground has prompted evacuations along swollen rivers in Wisconsin, Nebraska and other Midwestern states, while powerful wind and snow has closed hundreds of miles of interstates in North Dakota.

Blake Nicholson | Associated Press
March 15, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Fuel, Logistics

TMC Annual Meeting Goes ‘Beyond the Frontier of Maintenance’

The evolution of trucks and truck maintenance is apparent in key highlights on the agenda for the upcoming annual meeting of the Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations.

Fran Matso Lysiak | Features Editor
March 14, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Editorial: Keeping Trucks on the Road Starts Here

This is a time for talking about truck maintenance, as the March 18 issue of Transport Topics coincides with and will be distributed at the 2019 annual meeting of the Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations.

March 14, 2019
Business, Safety, Logistics

‘Bomb Cyclone’ Wreaks Havoc on Roads, Barrels Toward Midwest

LONGMONT, Colo. — National Guard troops used specialized vehicles with tank-like treads to rescue stranded drivers in Colorado in the wake of a massive late-winter storm that unleashed heavy rain and snow on parts of the Midwest early March 14.

March 14, 2019