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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, Safety, Autonomous

TT Archives: ATA on the Move

The opening of new offices for American Trucking Associations in Alexandria, Virginia, is recorded in the Jan. 28, 1985 edition of Transport Topics with a ribbon cutting featuring ATA President Thomas J. Donohue, Gov. Charles Robb and DOT Deputy Secretary James Burnley IV.

March 2, 2015
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Bendix to Move to New Ohio Headquarters

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems said it will build new headquarters in Northeast Ohio, near its current Elyria location.

February 27, 2015
Government, Business, Safety

Inhofe: EPW Focused on Highway Bill Reauthorization, Not Extension

WASHINGTON — A Senate transportation panel will unveil a multiyear highway bill before there is a need to approve a short-term extension of funding authority for highway programs, which expires in late spring, the panel’s chairman told Transport Topics on Feb. 25.

Eugene Mulero | Senior Reporter
February 25, 2015
Government, Business, Fuel, Safety

Mileage Tax Builds Momentum as Alternative to Gas Tax

WASHINGTON — It is only a matter of time before the gas tax will have to be phased out and replaced with a tax on miles traveled to support the nation’s roads, said a room full of transportation policy officials and their congressional allies who met here Feb. 24.

Michele Fuetsch | Staff Reporter
February 24, 2015
Government, Business, Safety, Equipment, Logistics, Technology, Autonomous

Safety Groups Petition NHTSA for Collision Avoidance Systems

Several nonprofit safety groups have asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to mandate collision avoidance and mitigation braking systems for new heavy trucks and buses.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
February 23, 2015
Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous

Recruiting, Retention Strategies Must Change to Attract New Drivers, ATRI’s Brewster Says

Trucking must change its recruiting and retention practices to attract  women and younger Americans to the industry and keep them employed there, to counter the trend of aging driver demographics, a top industry researcher said.

February 23, 2015
Government, Business, Safety, Autonomous

TT Archives: TMC

Founded in 1956 as the Maintenance Committee of the Regular Common Carrier Conference, this 1979 edition of Transport Topics marked the beginning of full council status within American Trucking Associations for what is now the Technology & Maintenance Council.

February 23, 2015
Business, Government, Safety

Food Industry Confronts Tight Capacity, New Regulations as Global Demand Grows

Food producers and shippers are adjusting to changes in their transportation needs just as increasing demand for products and supplies is running up against forthcoming rules that will regulate the condition of the industry’s goods and shipping equipment.

February 23, 2015
Business, Government, Safety

House Panel to Begin Highway Bill Work; Anthony Foxx to Testify on Transportation Funding

A House appropriations subcommittee will embark this week on the ambitious task of stitching together a fiscal 2016 highway and transit funding bill that can win support in both chambers of Congress before the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

February 23, 2015
Business, Safety, Technology, Equipment, Autonomous

Ryder to Train Maintenance Workforce on Nat Gas Tech

Ryder System Inc. said it has begun an online natural gas truck training program for its 6,000 North American maintenance employees.

February 20, 2015