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.
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There are some good safety points that should be considered, including a “graduated” commercial driver license, but it makes no sense for new CDL drivers to be transporting hazardous materials, oversize loads or double and triple trailers until they have accumulated 100,000 or more accident-free miles driving a commercial vehicle.
June 29, 2009Reauthorization’s Rocky Road
We need to be leery of the battle involving the Obama administration, the Senate and the House of Representatives over the direction of federal transportation policy out of concern that political bickering could delay necessary decisions and infrastructure projects.
June 29, 2009Drayage Truckers Worry About Procedures Required by Federal Chassis Regulations
Drayage truckers are struggling with complex record-keeping requirements in the new federal intermodal chassis maintenance rules that have begun to take effect, industry experts said.
June 29, 2009Brokers, 3PLs Gaining Share as Recession Spurs Competition
Freight brokers and other third-party logistics providers say their non-asset-based models are helping them to steadily gain market share during the ongoing recession.
June 29, 2009YRC, Teamsters Set Talks on Cost-Cutting
YRC Worldwide Inc. and the Teamsters union planned to return to the bargaining table June 29 to pursue additional cost-cutting steps that would help the less-than-truckload carrier cope with current financial difficulties.
June 29, 2009Experts at Michigan Conference Urge Push for Longer, Heavier Trucks
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The U.S. trucking industry is falling behind its international counterparts in switching to higher-productivity vehicles
June 29, 2009Maersk to Charge Lease Fee for Intermodal Chassis
The world’s largest ocean container shipping company, Maersk Line, said it will begin charging leasing fees to local truckers who use their intermodal chassis, which traditionally have been free.
June 29, 2009House Panel Leaders Resist Bid to Stall Highway Funding Bill
WASHINGTON — House transportation leaders appeared isolated last week, as several prominent senators endorsed a bid by the Obama administration to postpone working on a major surface transportation-funding bill until 2010.
June 29, 2009’07 Engines Run Cleaner Than Federal Standards
Over-the-highway trucks and buses with 2007 engine technology ran nearly 90% cleaner than required by federal emission standards for diesel particulate matter, the key pollutant targeted that year, a recent study has found.
June 29, 2009Panel OKs Draft Funding Bill That Includes EOBR Mandate
WASHINGTON — A key House subcommittee last week approved the framework for a new six-year surface transportation plan proposed by transportation committee leaders.
June 29, 2009