Safety
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.
Wren Family Sells LTL Firm Lakeville Motor Express
Less-than-truckload carrier Lakeville Motor Express has been sold by the Wren family that founded the Minnesota company in 1921 to Roger Wilsey Sr., an LME vice president, and his wife, Shari.
January 4, 2010Letters: A Good Deed, Spot Freight, Costly Dirt, Democratized Data, Dear Mr. President, EOBRs Redux, Size & Weight
I wanted to write to thank you or your Digest item “Wal-Mart Donates 35 Trucks to Food Banks” in the Nov. 16 issue, p. 33. In this economy, it is refreshing to read a positive, goodwill article. I contacted Wal-Mart to tell them and their CEO what a great job they did. Without trucks, all the goodness of America wouldn’t be delivered.
January 4, 2010In Pursuit of Accurate Safety Ratings
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has taken a step in the right direction with its Comprehensive Safety Analysis, a new way of evaluating trucking safety. Now, some serious tweaking is in order.
January 4, 2010FMCSA Agrees to Delay Chassis Rule Six Months to Set Up Database System
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it was delaying some intermodal chassis safety requirements for six months to give operators of that equipment more time to create a database to track the condition of each chassis.
January 4, 2010Trucking Hopes to Thrive in Economic Recovery, Overcome Anticipated U.S. Regulatory Onslaught
With the worst of the steepest economic downturn in decades apparently in the rearview mirror, trucking executives are shifting their focus to the recovery in 2010, while also bracing for what could be an onslaught of new safety and environmental regulations.
January 4, 2010Technology May Help Solve Congestion for Trucking
A recent study by one of the world’s largest makers of Global Positioning System navigation devices has concluded that Seattle is the most traffic-clogged city in the United States.
January 4, 2010Fleet Execs Wary of CSA 2010
Some freight executives say they are concerned that the Department of Transportation’s new Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 program — which is intended to boost carrier and driver safety — could be undermined by inaccurate data, flawed methodology and unintended commercial consequences when it begins in July.
January 4, 2010Truckload Drivers Staying Put
Driver turnover at large truckload carriers fell in the third quarter to 43% a year, the lowest level since American Trucking Associations began tracking the data in 1995.
January 4, 2010Manufacturers to Discuss Changing Industry at Heavy Duty Dialogue, Aftermarket Week
Manufacturers and distributors of truck parts and systems are scheduled to discuss the changes coming to the industry during the next decade as they gather in Las Vegas Jan. 18-21 for a pair of heavy-duty events.
January 4, 2010ATA Says It Will Seek a Summary Judgment in Dispute With L.A. Port at Jan. 11 Hearing
Lawyers for American Trucking Associations said they will ask a federal judge on Jan. 11 to forgo a trial in ATA’s clean trucks lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles and instead to issue a summary judgment in their favor.
January 4, 2010